Jeanie Hannaman

By USCCB by Staff, Posted by Complicit Clergy - EXCERPT - From the day Pope Francis published his revolutionary encyclical Laudato Si’ in 2015, Catholic Climate Covenant has been hard at work educating and mobilizing Catholics — lay and clergy alike — to care for creation and our common home across the U.S. Below are just a handful of their most prominent accomplishments in creation care, thanks to the guidance and encouragement in Laudato Si’.

By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing - When Pope Leo XIV spoke from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on the day of his election he said: “we want to be a synodal Church.” The significance of this depends, of course, on how Pope Leo understands synodality. The notion of a Church that is One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic – and now Synodal – isn’t clear to most, because synodality is a largely unknown concept. Its meaning will emerge as Pope Leo guides the “synodal path” with the help of the General Secretariat of the Synod.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Twenty years of scandals, and the Vatican—to be more specific, the Vatican Secretariat of State—has learned nothing... A priest who was convicted of child pornography has been quietly restored to a senior post at the Secretariat of State, in what one official describes as “an act of mercy.” Mercy? Not mercy toward the teenagers who were exploited by perverts to provide the images that were found in Father Capella’s extensive collection. ...

By Fr. Ed Broom, TAN Direction - The Virgin Mary is a shining example of virtue for us on earth. The following are the ten virtues she perfectly practiced throughout her earthly life. As her children, we should earnestly ask her to assist us in the cultivation of virtue in our own lives.... In his Marian literary masterpiece, True Devotion to Mary, Saint Louis de Montfort highlights ten of the most important virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary: “True devotion to our Lady is holy, that is, it leads us to avoid sin and to imitate the virtues of Mary.