Jeanie Hannaman

June 12, 2025

Pope Leo XIV Appoints New Chinese Bishop for Archdiocese of Fuzhou, by Kristina Millare

By Kristina Millare, CNA - Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Joseph Lin Yuntuan as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Fuzhou in China... The Vatican credited the Sino-Vatican deal, signed in September 2019 and renewed for a third time in October 2024, for Lin Yuntuan’s June 5 appointment... The Vatican announced “the recognition of the civil effects and the taking of possession of the office of Monsignor Joseph Lin Yuntuan.” The announcement said the Holy Father made the appointment “in the framework of the dialogue regarding the application of the provisional agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China.”

June 12, 2025

Catholic Culture: USCCB Issues 2024 Annual Sexual Abuse Report ( Paid out $242,799,401)

Catholic Culture, by Staff, (Complicit Clergy) - The USCCBs’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection has released its 2024 annual report on the implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, the document that has governed the bishops’ response to the abuse crisis since 2002... (the) report summarizes data between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024... During that period, the abuse scandal cost dioceses and eparchies $242,799,401—including $163.1 million in settlements, $6.1 million in other payments to victims, $63.4 million in attorneys’ fees, and $4.1 million in other costs.

June 12, 2025

Protests, Policies in LA and Dallas Yield Starkly Different Outcomes, by James Mortensen

By James Mortensen, MRC TV - Through ICE’s 287(g) program agreement, ICE delegates to partner state and local law enforcement agencies and their officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency’s direction and oversight... In Texas, local law enforcement agencies have signed nearly one hundred (95) agreements with ICE, while those in California – a self-declared “sanctuary” state for illegal immigrants – have none... Anti-ICE protests broke out in Los Angeles, California on Friday and in Dallas, Texas on Monday. In Los Angeles, the protests turned violent and continued. In Dallas, they did not.

June 12, 2025

Saint of the Day for June 12: Blessed Jolenta of Poland (c. 1235 – June 11, 1298)

Franciscan Media, June 12 - Jolenta was the daughter of Bela IV, King of Hungary. Her sister, St. Kunigunde, was married to the Duke of Poland. Jolenta was sent to Poland where her sister was to supervise her education. Eventually married to Boleslaus, the Duke of Greater Poland, Jolenta was able to use her material means to assist the poor, the sick, widows, and orphans. ..