Jeanie Hannaman

November 9, 2024

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditation: Who Will Entrust to You the True Riches?

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Luke 16:9-15 - And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations. "He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? ....

November 9, 2024

Correcting What “Everybody Knows” About President Trump, by Robert G. Marshall

By Robert G. Marshall, Catholic Culture - Voters in the 2024 elections told NBC News’ Exit Poll that among five issues, 34% “said democracy mattered most” over other concerns, while 31% picked the economy, 14% abortion, 11% immigration, and just 4% foreign policy. But if voters nationwide picked Democrat candidates to remedy the supposed ills of democracy as identified by VP Kamala Harris and members of the Congressional Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol civil disturbance, they chose exactly the wrong group of candidates to remedy the situation.

November 9, 2024

No, Trump’s Too-Big-To-Rig Victory Doesn’t ‘Lay To Rest’ Election Integrity Issues, by Logan Washburn

By Logan Washburn, The Federalist - “I hope we can lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electorate system. It is honest, it is fair and it is transparent. And it can be trusted, win or lose,” Biden said on Nov. 7 according to The Hill... But that is false. Integrity advocates took immediate action to address issues when they rose on election night, keeping them from developing into a bigger problem. Trump’s massive turnout truly did make this election “too big to rig,” but that does not mean it was free from bad actors trying to rig it.

November 9, 2024

Rooted in Christ, by Regis Martin

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - Above all, Augustine wished to remain faithful to the grace of an encounter that had upended his life. An encounter not with an idea but a person—the human being Jesus in whom the whole meaning of personhood stands revealed. “You are in me deeper than I am in me,” he will admit with astonishment. And here is God now speaking his name! “I heard your voice calling from on high,” Augustine exclaims, who thereupon tells him: I'm the food of full-grown men. Grow and you shall feed on me. But you shall not change me into your own substance, as you do with the food of your body. Instead you shall be changed into me. For I am the God who is!