Jeanie Hannaman

By Kathryn Jean Lopez, The Stream - The West can be a bit patronizing to other parts of the world. This attitude was on full display when French president Emmanuel Macron declared, “I always say: ‘Present me the woman who decided, being perfectly educated, to have seven, eight or nine children.'”... He could not have known what he was getting into.

By Ed Condon, Catholic News Agency - The District of Columbia’s attorney general has opened an investigation into clerical sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Washington… A statement released by DC attorney general Karl Racinev said that “while we generally don’t talk publicly about our confidential enforcement activity, I can report that our office has launched a civil investigation into whether the Archdiocese – which is a nonprofit institution – violated the District’s Nonprofit Act by potentially covering up allegations of sexual abuse of minors.”

By Scott P. Richert, Crisis Magazine - We naturally feel the same pull toward partisanship and ideology as our fellow citizens, but we recognize—or should recognize—that the truth is paramount, because, for Catholics, the truth can never be separated from the Truth. The Truth is a person, not a metaphysical abstraction that can be distorted or disregarded in the pursuit of some worldly end. Every time we deliberately distort the truth for partisan or ideological reasons, every time we elevate politics over principle, we ourselves wield the whip at the scourging at the pillar....