Jeanie Hannaman

By Philip Kosloski, Aleteia - St. John Bosco was a holy priest whose deep spiritual life led to frequent visions or “dreams,” as he would call them. He wrote about one of them in a letter to his students. The dream occurred on the eve of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and in it a stranger came up to him and asked him to look at something on the ground…. He took me to a meadow alongside the playground and pointed to a huge, ugly snake, over twenty feet Iong, coiled in the grass. Frightened, I wanted to run off, but the stranger held me back. “Get closer and take a good look,” he said.

By John Zmirak, The Stream - And most importantly of all, the God who became man via human birth and walked among us. He saved us, made life worth living because it could lead to life eternal. He taught us to see every moment of suffering as something He could redeem, and would, if only we’d offer it to Him, in union with his Son’s… And what’s our response to that now? We kill almost a million of those children each year, sacrificing them to the Moloch of sexual convenience. We keep hundreds of thousands of those souls frozen in technological Limbo at fertility clinics…

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Church officials, both in the Peoria diocese and at the Vatican, have expressed confidence that Archbishop Sheen’s conduct will bear up under critical scrutiny—that nothing about his handling of abuse complaints will alter the conclusion that he lived a life of heroic virtue. But if his name is mentioned in the attorney general’s report, even without any plausible evidence of wrongdoing, that mention would cast a shadow over the beatification ceremony.