Jeanie Hannaman

November 15, 2019

The Bishops Charitably and Intelligently Rebut An Attempt to Relativize Abortion, by C C Pecknold

By C C Pecknold, Catholic Herald - This past week, during the General Assembly of the U.S. Bishops, one bishop insisted that defending innocent life in the womb was not a “preeminent priority.” Rather, he implied the issue needs to be balanced against a wide range of important issues to which the Holy Father gives greater priority. It was a relativizing objection that was firmly corrected by his brother bishops. Archbishop Chaput objected, “I am against anyone saying that our stating that [abortion] is preeminent is contrary to the teaching of the pope, because that isn’t true. ....

November 15, 2019

After US Bishops Debate Downplaying Abortion, Bsp. Strickland Leads Rosary Outside

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews - Outside the hotel where the U.S. bishops convened for their annual fall meeting, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas led a group of more than two dozen pro-life Catholics in praying the rosary… As a cold, damp wind blew off the harbor just a few steps away, Bishop Strickland knelt on the brick pavement, remaining on his knees the entire time as he sought God’s intervention to renew the Church… With his rosary in hand, Bishop Joseph Coffey of the Archdiocese of the Military Services soon joined those gathered around Bishop Strickland and prayed.

November 15, 2019

Cardinal Burke’s Dilemma, by Henry Sire

By Henry Sire, Church Militant - My point is that Cdl. Burke is too isolated today to make an effective protest against the papal dictatorship… His transition from that status to his present one of an ecclesiastical pariah and right-wing bogeyman is one of the many aspects of the revolution that Francis has wrought in the Church. Moreover the very essence of Pope Francis' revolution has been to court popularity with the world's media, both its secular majority and its supposedly Catholic section. Anyone who criticizes him can therefore automatically expect to be depicted as a reactionary bigot.

November 15, 2019

U.S. Bishops’ Conference Turned Virulently Anti-Trump — and Nobody Objected, by Doug Mainwaring

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews - The U.S. bishops conference became overtly political and pitted the pro-life credentials of President Trump against those of Pope Francis when the topic turned to the sustained influx of those seeking asylum at the nation’s southern border… During a presentation to the USCCB’s Fall General Assembly concerning the work of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), executive director Anna Marie Gallagher made unabashed political comments, twice pointing a finger at the Trump administration and also speaking of U.S. border patrol agents in derisive terms…Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky seized the moment to not only add his criticism of President Trump but to express his disapproval of the previous day’s vote by the bishops to continue to recognize abortion as the nation’s preeminent life issue.