Jeanie Hannaman

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - It remains one of the enduring consolations of my life that, joined as I am to Christ’s Body, the Church, I may at any time interact with the dead, with those cherished and faithful souls who have gone home before me to God. Whether they share fully in the life of Paradise as members of the Communion of Saints, or if they must languish for a time amid the refining fires of Purgatory, they are each bound together for that heavenly glory we all await. “For it was through this hope,” St. Paul assures us, “that we were saved” (Romans 8:24).

By Louise Merrie, Catholic Exchange - Since childhood, All Saints Day, celebrated November 1st, has been one of my favorite days in the Liturgical Year. It brings me happiness to honor all the saints in Heaven—canonized and uncanonized—along with the other members of the Church on this special day... All Saints Day is a day to celebrate with Mass, with prayer (I like to pray the Litany of Saints alone or with a friend), and perhaps with a party. This is a day that gives us hope that we, too, will become saints. It does not matter if we are canonized as such; what matters is that we get to Heaven.

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - German Cardinal Walter Kasper made a personal appeal for the female diaconate, following the Synod on Synodality’s openness to it, also adding that prohibiting women from Holy Orders is ‘problematic.’... In an interview with online theology magazine Communio, Kasper opined freely on the question of the female diaconate – in an intervention that takes on special significance in light of the recently concluded Synod on Synodality.

By Maura Roan McKeegan, Catholic Exchange - Some friars who lived in San Giovanni Rotondo with Padre Pio once heard a mysterious sound coming from the friary. It sounded, one of the friars said, like “voices singing in beautiful harmony.” No one could find the source... Padre Pio was deep in prayer at the time, and someone approached him to ask if he knew where the singing was coming from. Roused as if from a deep sleep, he answered, “Why are you all so surprised? They are the voices of the angels, who are taking souls from purgatory into paradise.”