Jeanie Hannaman

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews - President Donald Trump said Monday that he will look into this weekend’s attack on a Catholic Church in Wichita, Kansas... During a question-and-answer session with the press at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Trump was asked what the White House can do to “protect places of worship like St. Patrick’s Church in Wichita.”... “Terrible. I think it’s a terrible thing. I’m going to take a look at it,” Trump said... On March 15, one or more vandals broke into St. Patrick Catholic Church, smashing statues, candles, and windows. A decapitated statue of St. Patrick can be seen lying on the floor. They also burned an American flag and spray-painted hate speech in the church.

By Fr. David Howell, The Catholic Herald - “When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.” (Genesis 15:17)... In Sunday’s first reading, God commits himself to Abraham through a blaze of glory. As we know from Jeremiah (34:18-19), it was customary to walk between cut-in-half animals as a sign of a commitment, the implication being that one who breaks it will be cut in half too...

By Charles A. Coulombe, OnePeterFive - At any rate, given the heroic self-image Irishmen of every stripe have of their particular histories, modern Ireland presents a pathetic picture.  Whereas in most countries, the modern immoralities were imposed upon unwilling countries by judicial or parliamentary fiat (however much their decadent populations may love them now), in Ireland, overwhelming majorities endorsed them.  This, of course, is partly due to the perceived and real decadence of the Catholic Church in Ireland, which from 1932 to 1973 held a particular moral sway over the Island, the Irish Constitution of 1937 recognising “the special position of the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church as the guardian of the Faith professed by the great majority of the citizens.”