Jeanie Hannaman

By T. S. Flanders, OnePeterFive - Diane Montagna said the book is “perverse & pornographic” and called chapters 7, 8, and 9 “too lewd & explicit to post” on Twitter. Lepanto called it “utterly pornographic, blasphemous, and sacrilegious!” Kwasniewski has described it as a “book of blasphemous nearly pornographic interpretations of the mystics and their spiritual experiences of ecstasy.”

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, The Catholic Thing - The three wise men had their priorities right. They followed the star to Bethlehem to worship the newborn King. Representing all nations, they fulfilled the Old Testament prophecy: “May the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts! May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!” (Ps. 72:10-11) Their single-mindedness, driven by conscience, teaches us to do the same... The celebration of their visit to Bethlehem is another manifestation (“epiphany”) of the glory of Jesus.

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - The term “the best and brightest” often appears lately to refer to the students at elite Ivy League universities. Sometimes it’s used ironically, as when people ask of the students demonstrating for Hamas: “These are America’s best and brightest?” Well, no. But then again, they never were... This isn’t merely a comment on our purportedly “elite” academic institutions.

By Staff, Complicit Clergy - Catholics who have followed Pope Francis’ appointment of Víctor Manuel “Tucho” Fernández as head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) are undoubtedly familiar with the controversy which erupted after it was disclosed that Tucho had authored a book entitled “Heal Me With Your Mouth. The Art of Kissing” in 1995. But it turns out that “Heal Me” is tame in comparison to a subsequent book Tucho reportedly authored in 1998 entitled “The Mystical Passion.” News of this book recently became public when a copy of the text was uploaded to Internet Archive earlier this month.