Jeanie Hannaman

By Father Jeffrey Kirby, National Catholic Register - Laetare (“Rejoice”) Sunday was a gracious pause to our Lenten penance. After enjoying its light-heartedness, the Church now doubles down. With the flowers, music and rose vestments of Laetare Sunday behind us, we are now called by the Church into the somber “second phase” of Lent. It is time for us to enter Passiontide... During the first part of the Lenten season, we focused on examining where we stand in our own relationship with the Lord Jesus and on acts of penance, as we try to heed the call of St. Paul: ....

By Jude Russo, The American Conservative - (Theodore McCarrick) showed many of the features of a company man—an ancient character in the Church. This was held against him in retrospect; Catholics love nothing more than griping about high-flying clergy. I tend to think this is somewhat misplaced. It’s the sexual misconduct that was the problem. Company men are inevitable; if they’re good at their jobs, assuming you’re on board with the mission of the company itself, they may even be desirable. Not everyone who works for your civilization-spanning organization is going to be a Gregory the Great. You may as well have competence in the inevitable ranks of time-servers. ...