Jeanie Hannaman

January 21, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: The Son of Man Is Lord of the Sabbath

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Mark 2:23-28 - 23 One Sabbath he was going through the grain fields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 24 And the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?" 25 And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: ....

January 21, 2025

Manipulating the Deposit of Faith, by Eric Sammons

By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine - During the past 60 years progressive Catholics have been engaged in an intense effort to remove from the Deposit of Faith beliefs and practices they find distasteful. Whether it be a rejection of the Real Presence or attempts to drop the teaching against artificial contraception, these Catholics have been hell-bent (literally) on transforming our faith into something more palatable to the modern zeitgeist by clearing away anything offensive to modern ears.

January 21, 2025

Thoughts On a Repudiation and Liberation Day: Donald Trump’s Inauguration, by Scott McKay

By Scott McKay, The American Spectator - Trump’s inaugural speech, followed by the most aggressive one-day turnaround in American policy with the signing of 200 executive orders, is emblematic of the American people’s repudiation of the elites’ machinations... During a very high-octane inaugural speech, President Donald Trump yesterday said that January 20, 2025, will forever be looked upon as Liberation Day... If you thought this was a normal transfer of power to come, and a whole lot of the elite opinionmakers did what they could to present Trump’s return to the White House as that, you were wrong.

January 21, 2025

Models of Purity: St. Thomas Aquinas’s Devotion to St. Agnes, by R. Jared Staudt

By R. Jared Staudt, Catholic Exchange - St. Thomas Aquinas’s feast day (January 28th) is the octave day of the feast of St. Agnes (January 21st). While this may seem inconsequential, there are many points of connection between these two great saints... First, they are both from central Italy: St. Agnes from Rome and St. Thomas from just south, Aquino, between Rome and Naples. Second, they both were from influential aristocratic families, Agnes from a noble Roman family and Aquinas from a mixed Germanic and Italian family related to the Holy Roman Emperor. ...