Jeanie Hannaman

March 29, 2019

Archbishop Wilton Gregory Asked to Lead Washington Archdiocese

By Ed Condon and JD Flynn, CNA - Pope Francis is expected to appoint Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta to serve as the next Archbishop of Washington, multiple sources have independently reported to CNA. Gregory would become the seventh Archbishop of Washington, succeeding Cardinal Donald Wuerl... A formal announcement could come as early as next week, sources say, though it has not yet been confirmed that the archbishop has accepted the appointment. Sources in Rome and the United States told CNA that Gregory was informed of the appointment earlier this week.

March 29, 2019

The Media Have Done Tremendous Damage to the Country and Themselves

By David Harsanyi, Daily Signal - For the past two years, a large swath of the media engaged in a mass act of self-deception and partisan group think. Perhaps it was Watergate envy, or bitterness over Donald Trump’s victory, or antagonism toward Republicans in general—or, most likely, a little bit of all the above.... But now that special counsel Robert Mueller has delivered his report on Russian collusion, it’s clear that political journalists did the bidding of those who wanted to de-legitimatize and overturn Trump’s election....

March 29, 2019

Collusion, by David Warren

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - Well, if the Trump administration was not in collusion with Russia, with whom WERE they in collusion? My own guess is the voters in the Red States, but I’ve already heard other theories.... It has been more fun following politics (in a desultory, Lenten way) in your country than in mine. Up here in the freezer-section north, we have a Liberal government that was caught by a naïve and apparently principled young member of its own cabinet, doing something criminally corrupt on a huge scale.....

March 29, 2019

Choices Have Consequences: A Lenten Meditation on a Warning From Moses

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The themes of early Lent are pretty basic. The ashes of Ash Wednesday announce the simple truth that we are going to die, and thereafter we will face judgment… The reading for Thursday after Ash Wednesday features Moses laying out the basic reality that all of us have a choice to make. He says to us, Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom… I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. (Dt 30:15, 20)