Jeanie Hannaman

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - We say that “prayer is conversation with God,” but that’s not strictly correct. Prayer to God is conversation with God. Prayer to a saint is conversation with a saint. So, rather, prayer is conversation. It gets its name from just one thing we can do in a conversation, which is to ask (Latin, precare)... Being an interlocutor in a conversation is hardly an incommunicable trait of divinity. Therefore, Protestants make a gross blunder when they accuse Catholics who pray to Mary of idolatry, simply because they converse with her. There is no reason why the only person in Heaven one can have “a personal relationship” with should be Jesus.

By USCCB Staff, (Complicit Clergy) - Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), paid tribute to Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’s encyclical letter on care for our common home, on its 10th anniversary. The encyclical “has inspired the Catholic Church and the world to draw closer in our relationship with Almighty God, the Creator of all life and to care more deeply for our common home,” the prelate said in a statement. “The USCCB remains committed to advocacy that cares for the most vulnerable and creation, seeking a sustainable and integral development that benefits the entire human family.” ...