Jeanie Hannaman

By Catholic Vote - Israel’s citizens exploded in expressions of jubilation as 20 living hostages were released Monday morning after being held captive for 738 days by Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization... The Jerusalem Post reported that a first batch of seven hostages were released at around 8:15 a.m. local time. A convoy of Red Cross vehicles picked the captives up from a handover site in Gaza City. The hostages are Matan Angrest, brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, Alon Ohel, Eitan Mor, Omri Miran, and Guy Gilboa Dalal.

By Joseph Reciniello, Catholic Exchange - In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus addresses the scholars of the law using hard-hitting words: “You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.” This leads us to ask ourselves, Is my life purely concerned with surface-level realities or superficial things? How many times in a day do we think about the way our lives look to others, in pictures or on social media? Now ask yourself: how often do I think about t

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Today is Columbus Day, or (among the alternatively oriented) Native Peoples’ Day, both displaced in any case, as even major Catholic feasts now are, to a different date, so that people will have long weekends, or not be inconvenienced, or something. In any event, it’s a day now redefined in terms that make it unclear what, if anything, we are celebrating, or deploring, in this booming, buzzing confusion that we still (kind of) think of as the twenty-first Christian century.

By Madalaine Elhabbal, Catholic News Agency, (Catholic World Report) - Former Israeli government officials, representatives for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and Catholic advocates for Israel in the U.S. spoke with EWTN News this week following the historic peace deal brokered by the Trump administration between Israel and Hamas... News of the peace agreement came as “a joy for the entire population of Gaza, for the families of the hostages, and for our parish, our little parish there in Gaza,” according to Farid Jabran, the public and government affairs adviser for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.