Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Before his ordination, a priest in the Midwest worked as an airline desk agent. On one occasion, a snowstorm paralyzed the airport. People lined up for reroutes, but it was impossible. He said an unnamed (widely recognized) celebrity lost his patience and demanded, “Do you know who I am? Do you!” The passenger in line behind him dropped his luggage and said, “Oh great. I’m in the middle of a snowstorm trying to get home for Christmas, and now the guy in front of me doesn’t know who he is!

By Filip Mazurczak, Catholic World Report - May 8th marked the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history, in which more than fifty million human lives were lost... Today, our world is once again marked by bloody conflict, and it is an appropriate time to remember three unsung blessed martyrs of that cruel period—Bernhard Lichtenberg, Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski, and Emilian Kovch—as intercessors for our war-torn world.

By Dr. Jules Gomes, The Stream - Statements Leo made upon receiving an honorary doctorate in October 2023 from the Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo in Chiclayo, Peru, where he was presiding as Bishop Robert Prevost, surfaced late Wednesday... “A Catholic cannot truly claim to be ‘pro-life’ by maintaining a stance against abortion while simultaneously advocating in favor of the death penalty,” he declared. “Such a position would lack coherence with Catholic social teaching.”... Citing Bernadin, he observed that issues from “genetic research, abortion, capital punishment, [and] modern warfare to the care of the terminally ill” are “fundamentally rooted in one essential Catholic principle: the loss of even a single human life is a profoundly significant event.”