Jeanie Hannaman

November 4, 2024

From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’—Why the 16 years of Vilification? by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - Who actually are the “garbage” people?... Are they one and the same with Joe Biden’s “semi-fascists,” “chumps,” and “dregs of society?”... Or Barack Obama’s “clingers?”... Do they include Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables?”... Over the last decade-and-a-half, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Harris-Walz, and a host of other self-described elites have variously invented a wide range of smears and slurs—but about whom exactly?

November 4, 2024

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Undated Ballots Won’t Be Counted in Presidential Election, by Calvin Freiburger

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSiteNews - Mail ballots submitted without a date will not be counted in Pennsylvania after all, the state’s highest court ruled Friday after a lower court declared they should be accepted... the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted the GOP and Pennsylvania GOP Party’s emergency request for a stay of a appellate court ruling two days earlier that the “free and equal elections clause” of the Pennsylvania Constitution required the Philadelphia Board of Elections to count a set of undated envelopes in a September special election for a state House seat.

November 4, 2024

Saint of the Day for November 4: St. Charles Borromeo

Franciscan Media - The name of Charles Borromeo is associated with reform. He lived during the time of the Protestant Reformation, and had a hand in the reform of the whole Church during the final years of the Council of Trent... Although he belonged to the Milanese nobility and was related to the powerful Medici family, Charles desired to devote himself to the Church...

November 2, 2024

Why Pray For the Dead? by John M. Grondelski, Ph.D.

By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Catholic World Report - November as a month that teaches us about the communion of saints through prayer for the souls of the faithful departed makes that lesson real... Catholics observe November as the month of prayer for the faithful departed... But November begins with All Saints Day. What, if anything, connects these two?... Well, they are connected. We perhaps need to widen our aperture to see the connection. November is the month of the holy souls, but, more broadly, it is the month of the “communion of saints.”