Jeanie Hannaman

By Ashley McGuire, National Catholic Register - Clarity is an essential role of the papacy, and when dimmed, it puts the Church and souls in danger... The Catholic Church — the role of the papacy in particular — first caught my attention when I was a semi-lapsed Protestant attending a quintessentially secular, Marxist-leaning university in Boston. Reading The New York Times in the dining hall, I stopped at the story about Pope Benedict’s so-called “Regensburg Address.” ...

Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, The Catholic Thing - In every generation, the world witnesses the Catholic ecclesiastical Super Bowl as the cardinals gather together in Rome to elect a new pope. The choice is always, at bottom, theological. Will they elect someone who believes God created man in His image and likeness? Or will the new pope believe, like most Catholics today (apparently), that man created God in man’s image and likeness? Alas, much of the Catholic world has replaced the language of the Catholic faith with fig-leaf terms that cover various kinds of heresy.