Jeanie Hannaman

By Paul Kengor, Crisis Magazine - It’s inevitable that the pagans of our secular culture become wilder as the culture worsens. As our former culture of Christendom recedes further into the distant past, the theologically ignorant show their ignorance in increasingly alarming ways. Those miseducated by our government schools and lousy universities boldly step forth to loudly illustrate their shocking ignorance of things religious.

By Russell Shaw, Catholic World Report - Now we run into a gag rule imposed on the synod participants by its managers “in order to guarantee freedom of expression.” Seriously?... Participants in the Synod on Synodality spent two days before the start of its final session in a closed retreat that ended with a “penitential liturgy.” The synod office also provided the participants with a list of seven “sins” for which forgiveness would be sought. It did not say who would do the forgiving.

By Matthew McKenna, Catholic Exchange - The Christian life is a life of grace.  It draws us beyond the limits of our human nature and into the supernatural by sharing in God’s Trinitarian life.  The only way for us to attain such a life is by God’s help, through His grace.  On their own, our efforts are useless.  We cannot overcome sin without God’s grace; we cannot achieve salvation without God’s grace.  If grace is so critical, how do we get it?... God’s grace comes to us through Christ, who merited it for us.  By His sacrifice on the Cross ....