Jeanie Hannaman

By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine - This year marks the ten-year anniversary of the martyrdom of Jacques Hamel, the 85-year-old French priest who was brutally murdered on July 26, 2016, by two Muslim men inspired by the terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, otherwise known as ISIS or ISIL. During the Prayers of Petition, the two men, wielding knives and a handgun, entered the 16th-century church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy and took Fr. Hamel and five others hostage.

By Derek Rotty, Catholic Exchange - Having examined St. Francis de Sales’s exhortation to perseverance (in Part Four of the Introduction), which is helpful at the beginning of Lent, it is right to turn and examine the pilgrimage along which he guided “Philothea”—the soul interested in growing in devotion. The bishop and spiritual director aimed to move souls from initial desire toward a resolution to total espousal of the devout life. Thus, from its first pages, this entire text intended to guide readers toward the transformation their wills—that is, the seat of the deepest desires of their souls.

By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Catholic World Report, March 4, 2025 - Fr. Laurence Carney sees devotion to the Holy Face as a call to spiritual arms and as the banner of a Catholic counter-revolution... On September 13, 1843, Our Lord spoke to the heart of a Carmelite nun in the city of Tours, France. Jesus told her that He was calling her to a program of reparation for sins against the first three of the Ten Commandments, especially sins of blasphemy, indifference, and the profanation of Sundays. Over the next several years, that nun, Sister Mary of St Peter, received a series of mystical experiences known as “interior locutions” which spelled out the nature of that work of reparation: It would all center on devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.