Jeanie Hannaman

April 12, 2019

Fr. Mike Schmitz: How To Pick Up Your Cross (Video)

By Fr. Mike Schmitz, Ascension Presents - Fr. Mike’s words on how we pick up our cross may come as a relief to many of us. He rejects the “harder is holier” approach, and reminds us that taking up our crosses is ultimately about having more freedom… Christ says “My yoke is easy, and my is burden light” (Matthew 11:30). God has a particular task for each of us, and to pick up our cross means denying what we want for our lives so that we can do God’s will. After all, that is what we were made to do and the only way to truly be free.

April 12, 2019

Msgr. Charles Pope: Voluntarism, a Critical Error of Our Times

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Voluntarism is the view that the will overrules the intellect and that truth is something asserted or willed rather than discovered by the intellect and proposed to the will for obedience. Voluntarism holds that something is true because one says it is so… Among the more extreme examples of this today is transgenderism. Although one’s sex is easily determined, most often by sight, some feel free to dismiss this evidence and simply assert that they are something else. If a man states that he is in fact female it is said to be true simply because he asserts it—and all are expected to overlook the obvious evidence to the contrary.

April 12, 2019

Twitter Exec Spars with Senators Over ‘Unplanned’ Social Media Blackout, by Josh Shepherd

By Josh Shepherd, The Stream - In a U.S. Senate subcommittee Wednesday, filmmakers behind the Abby Johnson biopic Unplanned presented “evidence of one-sided discrimination” on Twitter and Google… “The subject of abortion has been targeted on these platforms,” Unplanned director Chuck Konzelman told The Stream. “If you mention it from the conservative side, you’re done.”… Within days, Senator Ted Cruz, R.-Tex, called a hearing on the apparent incident of censorship… Committee members grilled executives from social media platforms Twitter and Facebook. They questioned the Unplanned Twitter blackout as well as suppression of pro-life content from Susan B. Anthony List.

April 12, 2019

Benedict Said What Vatican Abuse Summit Dared Not: ‘Homosexual Cliques’ Ruined Seminaries, by Doug Mainwaring

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has said what prelates at the Vatican’s recent summit on clergy sexual abuse dared not say: Homosexual cliques “significantly changed the climate in the seminaries.”… Benedict’s essay has broken the hierarchy’s seemingly impenetrable wall of silence regarding the major source of the Church’s sexual misconduct and cover-up problem… For the record, he stated, “In various seminaries homosexual cliques were established, which acted more or less openly and significantly changed the climate in the seminaries.”