Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - In the 1980s, during an ordination Mass in the upper Midwest, a kindly bishop offered a thought-provoking contrarian homily. He said priests should not treat the people like sheep. Sheep are, well, kind of dumb. A bunch of sheep is a flock, not a herd. But they have a passive herd mentality as they silently line up for the slaughterhouse. A sensitive, educated priest should never malign his sensitive and educated people by calling them sheep. But this bishop’s advice soon became just another tired—and soon to be retired—religious fad.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Here is a transcript and two short videos of Pope Leo XIV, then Bishop Prevost’s intervention at the synod on evangelization in 2012. Great stuff! really worth a read or a listen. We learn a lot about where he stood, at least then, on critical issues.  The videos where he reads aloud his thoughts are below. Here is a transcript if you prefer to read it... Transcript of Bishop Robert Francis Prevost (Pope Leo XIV) 2012 reading from address to the Synod of Bishops:  “The Counterculture of the New Evangelization” ....