Jeanie Hannaman

By Edward Pentin, EWTN - Since the organization was set up 70 years ago to foster Christian unity, the Holy See has remained outside it, limiting itself to being an observer and often sending representatives to WCC meetings of its 348 Protestant denominations and Orthodox churches… Successive popes have resisted becoming a member of the body for a variety of reasons, some of which Cardinal Kurt Koch explained to reporters on Friday.

By Marge Fenelon, National Catholic Register - The Monday after Pentecost will be different this year, and I’m delighted. That’s because the Catholic Church will be celebrating a new memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary on that day... On Saturday, March 3, 2018, Pope Francis declared that, henceforward, the Monday after Pentecost Sunday will be celebrated as the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. The Memorial will be observed annually and has been added to the General Roman Calendar,

By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald - How did that low birth rate come about? Why (is Italy) so short of people that we must import them? Could it have anything to do with the phenomenon of abortion, which Bonino helped to legalise in Italy, or with contraception, of which she is an enthusiastic supporter? Bonino is the co-founder of the Information Centre on Sterilisation and Abortion: the title of that institution should point to some reasons for “Europe’s demographic challenges”.