Jeanie Hannaman

January 20, 2025

Msgr. Charles Pope: Biblical Basics about Mother Mary – A Homily for the Second Sunday of the Year

By Msgr. Charles Pope, Sunday - In this Sunday’s Gospel passage of the wedding feast at Cana, there is a theological portrait of both Mother Mary and prayer. Let’s look at the Gospel along five lines: I. The place that Mary has – The text says, There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding... A fascinating thing about these opening verses is that Mary almost seems to dominate the scene; the presence of Jesus is mentioned only secondarily. St. Thomas Aquinas notes that at Cana, Mary acts as the “go-between” in arranging a mystical marriage. ... Once the marriage is arranged, she steps back; her final words to are these: “Do whatever he tells you.”

January 20, 2025

The Great Man Returns, by J.B. Shurk

By J.B. Shurk. American Thinker - Sitting next to all those failures and frauds at Carter’s funeral, President Donald J. Trump stood out. He’s faced the fire and pushed forward. His enemies have thrown everything at him, and still he stands. The Deep State allowed two separate assassins to threaten his life, and the man never stopped fighting. Impeachments, Democrat-funded civil lawsuits, criminal trials, FBI raids, attempts to remove him from state ballots — the Establishment Class has done whatever it can to keep Trump from representing the American people. Yet he returns to office with a huge political mandate... This presidency will break the mold. History will be made. Buckle up. Get ready. This is going to be great.

January 20, 2025

A Work of Special Providence, by Robert Royal

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - This is a red-letter day for the United States of America. We come to the end of a deeply divided, often bad-tempered – someone might even say venomous – national contest. The Constitutional order held, the vote was clear, and today there will be yet another peaceful transfer of power between two parties, despite little love for one another... “Democracy,” in short, did not die.

January 20, 2025

The $5 Billion (Five Billion Dollars. $5,000,000.000.00) Cost of Ecclesiastical Corruption, by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - That’s the bill that has come due, after decades in which Church leaders put public appearances and clerical solidarity above the interests of the Catholic faith and the Catholic faithful... The sex-abuse scandal was not—is not—a crisis imposed on the Catholic Church, brought on by external forces. It is a self-inflicted wound, caused by bishops and pastors who had been trained to give top priority to the temporal needs of the Church rather than the supernatural.