Jeanie Hannaman

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Both today’s first reading and the Gospel speak to us of the miracle of marriage. If your marriage is working even reasonably well, it is a miracle! We live in an age that is poisonous to marriage. Many people look for marriage to be ideal, and if there is any ordeal, they want a new deal. Our culture says, if it doesn’t work out, bail out. Marriages are also a miracle because they are, ultimately, a work of God... Today’s readings bring before us some fundamental teachings on marriage. Let’s look at today’s Gospel in five stages. ...

By Larry Chapp, Catholic World Report - Too many synodal enthusiasts are proceeding with a concept of the Church as a joyless landscape of oppressive structures and teachings that must be replaced with something more in keeping with the praxis of secular liberalism... One of the things I have learned... is that the meaning of the term “Church reform” in the post-Vatican II era is almost always a cognate for “liberalization”... it is sufficient to simply note this fact with an eye toward its ongoing significance for our “new way of being Church” in our brave new era of “synodal listening”.

By M.C. Holbrook, Catholic Exchange - The story behind the celebration of Mary under the title “Our Lady of the Rosary” is rather surprising; it is a memorial established in commemoration of the European victory over the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, originally named the feast of “Our Lady of Victory.” Despite the title’s martial origins, the history of the rosary itself far predates the Battle of Lepanto... Tradition tells us that in 1214, Mary came to St. Dominic in a vison and introduced to him the beads of the rosary and their associated prayers, and devotions to it then spread throughout the world, down through the centuries. However, the origins of the prayers themselves date back even farther—long before Dominic’s birth—even prior to the birth of Jesus himself!