Jeanie Hannaman

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report - In the Upper Room, reclining with the apostles, Jesus took the bread and blessed it, and said, “This is my body, which will be given for you…” He took the cup, and said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you.” This, of course, is the gift of the Eucharist, “the source and summit of the Christian life,” the Body and Blood which nourishes the sons and daughters of God. This gift was offered along with the gift of the priesthood, through which this perfect and holy sacrifice has been perpetually offered (CCC, 611).

By Gene Thomas Gomulka, Complicit Clergy - On April 22, 2008, eleven years before ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was laicized on February 13, 2019, my friend and fellow sex abuse victims’ advocate, Richard Sipe, posted this “Open Letter” online that he sent to Pope Benedict about McCarrick’s homosexual predatory behavior... Eight years later, after McCarrick continued to travel and function as a Cardinal, Sipe had this letter of July 28, 2016 legally served to then-Bishop Robert McElroy for Pope Francis who alone had the authority to discipline McCarrick. ...

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine - "The great reward of learning about Passover is the realization that the Mass was prepared for us from the beginning." ... Passover is gratuitous for Catholics because we celebrate it every day in the Mass. But it’s a beautiful backdrop, adding rich detail and poetic resonance to our celebration of the institution of the Eucharist on Holy Thursday. Many Christians have begun to study Passover more deeply, even reenacting the Last Supper. The Scriptures, songs, customs, and ritual foods of Passover create a landscape through which we can pass on our way to Christ’s last Passover supper on that fateful night in Jerusalem.