Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - An “intrinsically evil act” is evil in itself. Presumed mitigating circumstances and good intentions cannot transform the nature of an intrinsically evil act into a good act. The Church clusters inherently evil acts around the Ten Commandments: blasphemy, murder, adultery, contraception, fornication, theft, lies, and so on. We are quick to notice the intrinsic evil speck in the eye of others but fail to see the intrinsic evil plank in our own eye (to bungle the words of Jesus).

By Joseph Shaw, PhD, OnePeterFive - Over the last decade or two, we have become used to the fact that we are facing a demographic winter. For some time this fact had to struggle to be heard, because of the entrenched idea that the problem was the opposite, a population explosion that would overwhelm the world’s capacity to produce food. Although this theory was dominant in the 1970s and 1980s, and lingers to this day in some circles, it was always very dubious and for a long time now has been clearly false. ...

By Father David Nix, Blog: Padre Peregrino Hermitage - When you see “a Theology of Attachment” as the title of this article, you probably think I’m going to tell you what to give up for Lent.  It’s too late for that.  Rather, I’m simply going to compare that which Satan clung to and that which Mary clung to.  (And yes, I know I just ended a sentence in a preposition, but remember what GK Chesterton wrote: “A preposition, I may remark in passing, is about the best thing in the world to end a sentence with.”)

By Dominic V. Cassella, The Catholic Thing - Before St. John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism, he gave a series of sermons to the students of Oxford. The last of these University Sermons provided a brief theory of developments in religious doctrine, and he took for his model Mary, the Mother of God... Quoting Luke 2:19 – “But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart” – Newman offers Mary as a model of faith since when she was provided with the Angel’s message, she does not question it like Zacharias; she accepts without question, but ponders it.