Jeanie Hannaman

Gloria TV, (Complicit Clergy) - Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X recently conducted an interview with Kenya’s Immaculata TV... Regarding Cardinal Victor (Tucho) Fernández and his recent document on the Marian titles Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all graces, Bishop Fellay called it “pitiful.”... “It is an insult to God,” he said... He believes the motive behind Tucho’s document is ecumenical accommodation: “There is a Protestant spirit in the Church.”

By Niwa Limbu, Catholic Herald - Yet the irony is that many bishops previously maintained that the Traditional Mass “did no harm.” The widely discussed Diana Montana letters revealed notable episcopal sympathy for the continuation of the older rite, and for the Traditional Latin Mass in particular. This raises a central analytical question: who is ultimately driving the restrictions? If bishops are not the architects, their role is managerial rather than determinative... Which brings us back to the two-year exemption system itself. For many of the faithful, it appears incoherent. ...

By David La Mar, Catholic Exchange - The timeless and enduring character of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has to be considered one of the pre-eminent examples of the most intense, condensed, (albeit involuntary) three-dimensional Advent examinations of conscience on record—or, at the very least, in literary history. And it all transpires under the supervision of four unexpected “spiritual directors” in both the literal and figurative senses.