Jeanie Hannaman

By Phillip Campbell, Catholic Exchange - In the annals of English history, Alfred of Wessex stands out as one of the great Catholic monarchs of the medieval period. In this article, we shall review the life and character of this most exemplary 9th century ruler, who in every way stands as a model Catholic king... In the 9th century, England was divided into multiple little Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, collectively known as the Heptarchy. Alfred the Great, who reigned from 871 to 899 over the Kingdom of Wessex, was undoubtedly among the most powerful monarchs of the age.

By Michael Hichborn, Crisis Magazine -I reached out to Fr. Ripperger to ask if he urged Catholics to recite the “Prayer of Command” he composed and if he encouraged the use of the prayer to “stop the steal.” This is what Fr. Ripperger wrote in return: I wrote a prayer by that title as it is in my Deliverance prayers but they modified it and I never said to say it to stop the steal. I never sent out that “memo.” It was a case of telephone: one person said to pray this prayer from Fr. Ripperger and then it morphed into me saying to say the prayer/Other people were saying that. I wrote a separate prayer (attached) which just tells people to say a prayer for the integrity of the election.

By Sean Fitzpatrick, Crisis Magazine - Ash Wednesday is the one day of the year when we can see if the strangers we meet in street and store are Catholic—at least we can see who went to Mass to get their Lent started. While the black ashes clearly mark the brows of the baptized, it isn’t clear to most of those baptized and ashed who it was that began this grim yet gritty liturgical tradition recalling “the way to dusty death,” as Macbeth put it.