Jeanie Hannaman

By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald - Devotion to the Sacred Heart is the antidote to the campaign to reconstruct our society without God. True love confronts disorder. Forgiveness challenges rage. Created purpose stands against collective coercion. And the call to Heaven rebukes the engineered violence of enforced compliance... Paganism fell once before at the feet of the Sacred Heart, rescuing our ancestors from its unforgiving grasp. If Catholics return to this most sacred of devotions, it will fall again.

The Catholic Herald - Images of artwork created by a disgraced celebrity cleric accused of rape have disappeared from official Vatican Media websites without explanation, almost a year after the head of the Vatican’s communications outfit strongly defended his department’s continued use of the images... The offending images were digital reproductions of works created by Fr Marko Rupnik – a former Jesuit accused of spiritually, psychologically, and sexually abusing dozens of victims over a period of 30 years – mostly while based in Rome.

By Greg Cook, Crisis Magazine - Every American state boasts of its residents who have become famous. Illinois is no exception, and its list features American leaders of the highest level: Lincoln, Reagan, Sheen, and now Robert Prevost (Pope Leo XIV). Until the recent papal election, Ven. Sheen was probably the most-recognized American Catholic figure. But instead of seeing one man surpassed by another in the popular imagination, we should see the ascent of an American-born pope as a continuation of Sheen’s legacy in several ways.