Jeanie Hannaman

By Dad29, Complicit Clergy - Several border-area US Catholic Bishops issued a series of demands which–they say–will “fix” the illegal alien problem... That’s consistent with the semantics games the Bishops used following the issuance of ‘Perversia Supplicans‘ which works like this: First, the Bishops underline the only positive: that the document keeps the Church’s definition of marriage intact... Second, they ignore the obvious sacrilege of issuing a blessing to couples (throuples?? quadthrouples?) living in flat-out immoral relationships... They think you’re stupid.

By John Finnis, ​Peter Ryan, Robert P. George, First Things - On December 18, the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) released Fiducia Supplicans. That Declaration stated that priests may spontaneously bless couples in “irregular” situations—e.g., “remarried” or same-sex couples—within certain limits. Those limits were supposed to protect the Church’s witness to her teachings on sexual ethics and marriage, truths knowable by reason and divine revelation. Yet many bishops and episcopal conferences have expressed concern that providing such blessings would impede that witness, undermining the Church’s teachings...

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Leaders throughout history often have an Achille's heel of thin-skinned guile. The followers of Jesus are not immune. Jesus calls His Twelve Apostles to assist him with the proclamation of the Gospel and in preparation for their ordination to the priesthood. They stay with Jesus, take instructions from the Master, and validate St. Paul's observation: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong." (1 Cor. 1:27)

By Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency - When asked by the interviewer, Fabio Fazio, how he “imagines hell,” Pope Francis gave a short response... “What I am going to say is not a dogma of faith but my own personal view: I like to think of hell as empty; I hope it is.” ... (However,) The CCC says that Catholic teaching “affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, ‘eternal fire.’ The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God