Jeanie Hannaman

By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Catholic World Report - The Bible speaks of three Archangels: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Michael is always prominently featured as at war with Satan, as the leader of the “heavenly hosts” that vanquishes the devil and his minions. We should learn two things from that Biblical testimony... First, that there are angels. There was a certain fashion in some theological circles, especially in the 1970s/1980s, to downplay the reality of the angels and to write off the devil as a “symbol” of evil. This is nonsense... St. Augustine defined evil as “the absence of good.”

By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing - The unending process that is the Synod on Synodality has taken a new and unexpected turn. The current “Implementation Phase” of the three-year synodal path, following the conclusion of last Fall’s Synodal Assembly in Rome, has now become the preparatory phase for something no one has ever heard of in the Catholic Church, namely an “Ecclesial Assembly.”... In a March 15 letter to the bishops of the world, the General Secretariat of the Synod announced that it will now “start a process of accompaniment and evaluation of the implementation phase” of the conclusions of the Synodal Assembly’s Final Document by the dioceses of the world.