Jeanie Hannaman

By Thomas V. Mirus, Catholic  Culture - It has been almost three hundred years since the Catholic Church first condemned Freemasonry—when on April 28, 1738, Pope Clement XII published a bull forbidding all Catholics to join Masonic lodges. The prohibition, on pain of excommunication, of Catholics from becoming Masons has remained ever since, with the Church clarifying multiple times in recent years that the ban is still in effect.

By Charles Coulombe, Crisis Magazine - To the most holy emperor Constantine, Equal-to-the-Apostles, to his mother Helena; to the Orthodox emperors Theodosius the Great, Theodosius the Younger, Justinian; to the most pious Grand Duke Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, to the Grand Duchess Olga, and all other Orthodox emperors and empresses, princes and princesses, eternal memory! —Byzantine Liturgy, Sunday of Orthodoxy (First of Lent)... As Lent of 2026 goes on, Europe, the Mother Continent, is actually at war—not on one but at least four different fronts. There is, of course, the actual shooting war in Ukraine, which has gone on for four years in its current form and almost eleven in terms of guerilla fighting. This pits Russia against Ukraine, the latter supported by the European Union and the United States.