Jeanie Hannaman

November 27, 2018

John Zmirak: Questions for Christians on the Immigrant Caravan

By John Zmirak, The Stream - The recent events on the U.S. border have been manipulated by media, and exploited by grandstanding politicians and pastors. So much so, that I am actually hesitant to make explicit statements. I feel as if that would almost be pointless, like meeting a person who’s deaf and simply shouting at him more loudly... Instead I would like to ask a series of questions.... When Barack Obama used tear gas against rock-throwing immigrants, media never complained. How are things different today?...

November 27, 2018

The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis Is Dredging Up An Old Heresy

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist - Catholics leaving the church over the sex abuse crisis are giving into the false notion that the sacraments depend on blameless clerics… But just because some bishops are clueless, or even wicked, is no reason for a Catholic to abandon the church. After all, the church has always been run by sinners—the worst of them almost comically villainous. In the 10th century there was Pope John XII, a murderer and adulterer who ran the Lateran Palace like a brothel, slept with his own niece, blinded his confessor, castrated and killed his subdeacon, and supposedly even invoked pagan gods while playing dice!

November 27, 2018

(Young) Bishop ‘Could Not Keep Silent’

By Joe Gamm, News Tribune - Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of the Diocese of Jefferson City, "I made the promise to myself that I would not speak at my first major general assembly out of deference. You're the new guy, and you need to learn how this crisis works," McKnight said Monday. "But, when this crisis blew up and the November assembly was focused primarily on addressing it. The way this was happening, I could not keep silent, no matter how young I am."

November 27, 2018

A Pact with a Thief, a Deal with the Devil: The Vatican’s Pending Agreement with China

By Chen Guangcheng, Public Discourse - What we currently know of the agreement is that the Vatican will cede selection of bishops in China to the Communist Party. In exchange, the CCP will recognize the pope as the official head of the Catholic Church, and regular relations between the two states will be renewed... The fact that the Vatican sees these terms as an acceptable basis for reconciliation with a brutal dictatorial regime is a slap in the face to millions of Catholics and other faithful religious people in China who have suffered real persecution under the CCP....