Jeanie Hannaman

December 9, 2024

Gay Pilgrims to Have Special Day During Jubilee, by Louis Knuffke

By Louis Knuffke, CatholicVote - Pope Francis has approved a pilgrimage specifically for LGBT individuals as part of the 2025 Jubilee celebrations, according to Italian journalist Franca Giansoldati in Il Messaggero. Scheduled for Sept. 6 (2025), this event has been added to the official Jubilee calendar... The pilgrimage will take place at the Church of the Gesù, a historic Baroque Jesuit church in Rome known for its ornate design and as the resting place of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, and St. Francis Xavier, Il Messaggero reported. Participants will begin with a prayer vigil Sept. 5 at the Church of the Gesù, followed by a procession through the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica the next day.

December 9, 2024

5 Powerful Ways to Discover Advent Asceticism & Spiritually Prepare for Christmas, by Dr. Jared Staudt

By Dr. Jared Staudt, ChurchPOP - With the celebration of Christmas anticipated throughout the month of December, it can be hard to know what to do spiritually to prepare... Do we sacrifice things and do penance? Should we fast while most people feast?... Loving Presence, the Advent Challenge on the Exodus 90 app, proposes concrete ways to embrace a joyful asceticism that can give Advent a distinct expression... 1) Growing in Hope... Why do we pray and sing for Emmanual to come when he came 2,000 years ago?

December 9, 2024

Natives From Nowhere, by Anthony Esolen

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine - The Vatican has recently approved of some considerable alterations of the Novus Ordo celebrated in the Mexican diocese of Chiapas. These alterations are put forward as springing from immemorial Mayan traditions. The controversy leads me to think again about what it means to have any kind of culture at all, especially as against the phenomena of the masses, which bid fair to make the world into one great Nowhere... How can you tell Nowhere from Somewhere?

December 9, 2024

Did You Know? Why the Mighty Mississippi Was Once Named ‘River of the Immaculate Conception’, by Jonah McKeown

By Jonah McKeown, CNA - “Immaculate” is not a word most people would use to describe the Mississippi River’s famously muddy waters. But Father Jacques Marquette was not most people... The Jesuit explorer, who came from France as a missionary to Canada in 1666, was one of the first Europeans to name the Mississippi, which he explored and mapped with his companion Louis Joliet beginning in 1673. And the name he gave to this vital artery of North America was “The River of the Immaculate Conception.”