Jeanie Hannaman

By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News - Prophetic then, he was already a visionary and forewarning in the Jan. 26, 1947, radio broadcast. “Why is it that so few realize the seriousness of our present crisis?... Partly because men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation, and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times… Only those who live by faith really know what is happening in the world. The great masses without faith are unconscious of the destructive processes going on.”

By Christopher R. Altieri, Catholic World Report - A statement from the Vatican press office on Wednesday said the DDF now needs “to study the documentation acquired [in the Rupnik case] in order to identify which procedures can and should be implemented.”... Basically, what we have here is an outfit that can’t figure out how to stage manage its own sham... Even if Pope Francis were to commission an investigation into the Rupnik business, it would be maudlin and criminal to expect of it better than what we got in the McCarrick Report .....

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - While we celebrate the certainty and unity that the See of Peter has brought to our faith over the centuries, the past decade has forced Catholics to question the nature of papal authority. When does a Pope teach with magisterial authority? When is he speaking for himself, and when does he represent Peter, the rock on whom the Lord built his Church?... These questions are tackled in a new book: "Super Hanc Petram: The Pope and the Church at a Dramatic Moment in History", by Father Serafino Lanzetta ....