Jeanie Hannaman

By Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews - "If I were a cartoonist I would draw the Holy Father on his knees offering the keys of the kingdom of heaven to President Xi Jinping and saying, 'Please recognize me as the pope.'" said Cardinal Zen. "The Vatican’s deal, struck in the name of unifying the Church in China, means the annihilation of the real Church in China."… As for the underground church officials and lay people, Cardinal Zen advised, "Go home, and pray with your family. Till the soil. Wait for better times. Go back to the catacombs. Communism isn’t eternal."

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Why are thousands of people willing to leave their homes in Honduras and walk 1,500 miles to reach the US border, knowing full well that they can’t enter Texas legally?... The answer, according to a spokesman for migrants, is simple: “hunger and death.” The people in the migrant caravan might look to the US as a land of milk and honey. But they also see their own homeland as a nation without a future.

By Fr. William Saunders, Catholic Exchange - Let us first address the feast of All Saints. The exact origins of this celebration are uncertain, although, after the legalization of Christianity in A.D. 313, a common commemoration of the saints, especially the martyrs, appeared in various areas throughout the Church.