Jeanie Hannaman

November 26, 2019

Three Powerful Ways to Prevent the Tragedy of Young Children Committing Suicide, by John Horvat II

By John Horvat II, The Stream - Having certainties disposes children to act with conviction and determination. It builds character and enriches their personality. A child’s education must be solidly oriented toward the good, true and beautiful… When impressionable children lack certainties, they will follow the latest fad and fashion… No moral compass will govern their behavior. They will question their own identities and reason for living… When children face uncertainty, they will become anxious when trying new things outside their routines. Unknown things will “trigger” anxiety, depression and thoughts of suicide.

November 26, 2019

Cardinal Implicated in Vatican Financial Scandals Blasts Respected Journalist for ‘False Article’, by Paul Smeaton

By Paul Smeaton, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, has publicly criticized an American Catholic journalist for a recent article linking the cardinal with major financial corruption and scandal at the Vatican… Cardinal Becciu took to Twitter yesterday to lambast Dr Ed Condon, a journalist for Catholic News Agency (CNA), for his article last week which reports that the Cardinal “attempted to disguise $200 million loans on Vatican balance sheets” including funds from a disreputable Swiss bank….

November 26, 2019

Democrats Want to Overturn Trump’s Order Defunding International Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz, by Micaiah Bilger

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, and other pro-life leaders wrote a letter to Trump this week, urging him to reject the pro-abortion amendment… “We have the most pro-life President in history, and he has promised to veto any bill that would weaken the pro-life advances he has made, and Republican leaders in Congress have made it clear that they have the votes to sustain such a veto” Pavone said.

November 26, 2019

Is China a Model of the Common Good? by Matthew Schmitz

By Matthew Schmitz, First Things - “All the unofficial churches have been closed and at least 6 million Catholics have no meeting places,” Cervellera said. “The threat of the regime that ‘best implements the Churches’ social doctrine’ is arrest, stratospheric fines and expropriation of the buildings where the faithful gather.”… How could a high-ranking Catholic, the leader of a pontifical academy (Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences), praise such a regime? It is not mere naivete. Sanchez Sorondo’s statement exemplifies the way in which defenses of the “common good” sometimes slip into apologias for authoritarianism. It is important to challenge these statements, for they misunderstand the common good utterly.