Jeanie Hannaman
June 3, 2026
By Garrett D. Johnson, Crisis Magazine - St. Charles Lwanga and his companions, whose feast day is June 3rd, are red martyrs. They are patron saints of those served by the Courage apostolate, who are called to white martyrdom by striving to live according to the Church’s teachings regarding same-sex attraction... The inspiration we need to live out white martyrdom comes, in part, from bishops, priests, and deacons speaking clearly about the specific reasons for St. Charles and his companions’ martyrdom ....
June 3, 2026
By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - .... Maria Montserrat Alvarado was born in Mexico City. But she is now a US citizen, and her professional background—first at the Becket Fund, more recently at EWTN—has been formed in the US. At Becket she learned, and demonstrated, how to run an effective public-relations campaign to influence public opinion. As president of EWTN News, she presided over an international media organization that is, frankly, more impressive than the one she will oversee in Rome.
June 3, 2026
By Linda Pieper, Catholic Exchange - “John Paul II taught that the body has a ‘spousal meaning.’ It is made to express love as a free, total, faithful, and fruitful gift.”... I graduated from high school in May of 1968. With my whole adult life ahead of me and college on the horizon, I wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in the Church or in Rome. The world around me was in turmoil—the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and its protests, the Civil Rights movement, and the unfolding of the sexual revolution.
June 3, 2026
AI, Papal Encyclicals, and Eternal Hubris: Why Magnifica Humanitas Misses the Mark, by Roger Kimball
By Roger Kimball, American Greatness - Magnifica Humanitas is not only long. It is also prolix. Like the eponymous river in Turkey, it meanders. Its ostensible subject—the threat that artificial intelligence may pose to human flourishing—is counterpointed throughout by nuggets of politically correct sentiment. There is a lot about “economic injustices and the climate crisis” in this expostulation. Also migrants. He quotes with approval Pope Francis’s insistence that we view migrants “not simply as a problem to be managed but as a living image of the People of God on the move.” Leo is also against war, you will be relieved to hear, but he writes as if war were a modern invention. ...
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