Jeanie Hannaman

By Michael J. Ortiz, Crisis Magazine - St. John Henry Newman was canonized by Pope Francis in 2019. Newman was born in London in 1801 and led a storied life of sanctity and scholarship. He entered the Church in 1845, and he was made a cardinal in 1879. His works on education, development of doctrine, and Church history are masterpieces written in a prose style equal to the best writers of his century. His Apologia Pro Vita Sua is often considered the greatest spiritual autobiography since St. Augustine.

By Monasa Narjara, Catholic World Report - “When will you give us good news about God, Christ, and his Spirit? About grace and salvation? About conversion of heart and meditating on the Word? About prayer and adoration, devotion to the Mother of the Lord, and other such themes? In short, when will you send us a truly religious, spiritual message?”... For the friar, “the secular world itself is fed up with secularity and is off searching for spirituality,” but the CELAM bishops “continue to offer them social issues and more social issues; and of the spiritual [you give them], almost only crumbs.”