Jeanie Hannaman

By Gia Chacón, National Catholic Register - ‘He must name the idols of our age — comfort, digital distraction, radical autonomy and indifference — and challenge us to something greater…’... The last three popes each confronted a defining crisis of their time. John Paul II stood face-to-face with the brutal realities of communism and answered them with spiritual defiance and moral clarity. Benedict XVI responded to a rising tide of relativism, defending the Church’s intellectual foundations with humility and brilliance. Francis stepped into a world fractured by violence, division and indifference, calling for encounter where the world had chosen isolation.

By Tommy Cindric, Complicit Clergy - Theodore Edgar McCarrick (July 7, 1930 – April 3, 2025), a disgraced Catholic cardinal, inflicted profound harm on the Church through his predatory behavior and financial misconduct, culminating in his unprecedented defrocking on February 16, 2019—the first cardinal stripped of his clerical state in modern history. McCarrick, in collusion with Pope Francis, orchestrated a disastrous Vatican-China relationship that betrayed Cardinal Joseph Zen and the underground Church in China, prioritizing diplomatic compromise with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the sanctity of the Church’s independence.

By Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, Financial Times, (Complicity Clergy) - Along with the spiritual leadership of the world’s 1.3bn Catholics, the late Pope Francis wrestled with a more temporal task: overseeing the complex and opaque finances of the world’s smallest country. Francis shocked many within the Holy See’s financial institutions with his high-profile anti-corruption drive, which included a 2019 Vatican police raid on the city-state’s own bureaucracy over a questionable property deal... Despite those efforts, his successor faces a forbidding financial challenge. While generating revenue through tourism, donations and investments, the Vatican operates with a significant budget deficit and its pension fund faces a gaping structural shortfall.