Jeanie Hannaman

November 13, 2024

Roses, Chocolate, and Ambiguity, by Francis X. Maier

By Francis X. Maier, First Things - The story, dated November 8, appeared in Britain’s Catholic Herald. It details a post made on X by Emma Bonino. Bonino, noted the Herald, is “the Italian politician who successfully campaigned to legalise abortion in the 1970s.” To put it more graphically, she’s co-responsible for her nation’s license to kill millions of developing human children in the womb over the past forty years. Now seventy-six, she was recently hospitalized for health reasons. Francis paid an apparently surprise visit to her home, with gifts, after her release. The pope had earlier described Bonino as one of Italy’s “forgotten greats” ...

November 13, 2024

U.S. Bishops Will Speak Out ‘Loudly’ If Trump’s Mass Deportation Rhetoric Becomes Reality, by Jonathan Liedl

By Jonathan Liedl, Catholic News Agency - The U.S. bishops are taking a wait-and-see approach to what President-elect Donald Trump does with his campaign promise to carry out mass deportation of immigrants who are in the country illegally... the bishops say they are prepared to speak out forcefully if Trump does advance the controversial proposal in a way that undermines human dignity... “We are waiting to see just what exactly takes shape,” said Bishop Mark Seitz, head of the USCCB migration committee... If the Trump administration moves forward in a way that violates basic human rights, Seitz said the bishops are prepared to “raise our voice loudly.”

November 13, 2024

Pope Francis Visits Italian ‘Abortion Icon’, by Stephen Kokx

By Stephen Kokx, Catholic Family News - What is going on with Pope Francis and Emma Bonino?... For those who don’t know who that is, Bonino has been the face of abortion in Italy for decades, having first established a facility in the country in the 1970s which she successfully used as a launching pad to push for its legalization years later... She has also spent decades as an elected official in the Italian and European Parliaments advocating for left-wing causes like recreational drug use and lax divorce laws...

November 13, 2024

Is the Church Headed for Another Seismic Schism? by Gene Thomas Gomulka

By Gene Thomas Gomulka, Complicit Clergy - The recent U.S. presidential election demonstrated how pollsters often get it wrong. Will this also happen in the case of the next papal conclave? Just as many political analysts like to compare the outcomes of different elections, so too might we compare similarities in the current college of cardinals to papabile of another time. This will require that we set the dials on our time machine and travel back to Wittenberg, Germany on October 31, 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the famed “Castle Church Door.”