Jeanie Hannaman

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - In a brief meeting with the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops on June 27th, Pope Leo said he wanted to share “an idea that I consider central”. It turns out this idea was a very simple one: “Synodality is a style, an attitude that helps us to be Church, promoting authentic experiences of participation and communion.”... Three days later, however, the secretary general of the General Secretariat of the Synod, Cardinal Mario Grech, proceeded to belabor the concept of synodality with immense angst ....

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine - The ghost of St. John-Marie-Baptiste Vianney seems trapped in the breezes of Dearborn County, where the old French priest passes through the Indiana skies as an approval of old country ways. Once a humble priest of post-Revolutionary France, he now lingers improbably in this small corner of America—far from his time, farther still from his homeland.