Jeanie Hannaman
April 9, 2026
By Catholic Culture, April 9, 2026 - Meditation for the Thursday within the Octave of Easter: Grasping What the Resurrection Means... Keeping in mind the magnitude of the change wrought by the Resurrection—a divine action in history and nature that changed history and nature in a radical way, opening new possibilities of life beyond the reach of death—we can perhaps ponder with a bit more patience yet another gospel reading in which the disciples don’t at first, get it.
March 31, 2026
By Elise Winland, Zeale - In a Truth Social post the morning of March 30, Trump said the U.S. has made “great progress” in “serious discussions with a new, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME” in Iran. He also threatened the "complete obliteration" of Kharg Island and “all” of the nation’s electric plants, oil wells, and desalination plants unless they immediately open the Strait of Hormuz for business... Later in the day, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt faced questions about whether Trump’s threat to target desalination plants – which are considered civilian infrastructure because they supply drinking water – amounts to a war crime under international law. Leavitt said that “of course this administration and the United States armed forces will always act within the confines of the law.”
March 31, 2026
Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - John 13:21-33,36-38 - 21 When Jesus had thus spoken, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, "Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me." 22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was lying close to the breast of Jesus; 24 so Simon Peter beckoned to him and said, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks." 25 So lying thus, close to the breast of Jesus, he said to him, "Lord, who is it?" 26 Jesus answered, "It is he to whom I shall give this morsel when I have dipped it." ...
March 31, 2026
By Samantha Stephenson, Catholic Exchange - Confession and the Garden of the Soul... It was around this time that my daughter received her first Confession, which meant that I found myself coaxing and cajoling a fearful and anxious 8-year-old to our local parish for her second Confession, which held none of the excitement and glamour of the first to obscure the objectively nerve-wracking nature of bearing your weaknesses to a total stranger....
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