Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith,  Catholic Herald - Did you hear the first reading at Mass yesterday, the Thirty-First Sunday of the Year, cycle A? “I am a great king, says the Lord of Hosts, and my name is feared throughout the nations. And now, priests, this warning is for you. If you do not listen, if you do not find it in your heart to glorify my name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send the curse on you and curse your very blessing. But you, you have strayed from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your teaching....

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Fr. Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap… an internationally celebrated theologian… relates in a moving explanatory document how he was led by what seems a miraculous series of events to write to the pope about “chronic confusion” in the Church after days of personal anxiety and prayer during a July meeting in Rome… Except for the Germans and a few predictable figures in America and elsewhere, the world’s bishops have been almost entirely silent about such matters.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - For the faithful, the day we die is the greatest day of our life on this earth. Even if some final purifications await us, the beatific vision for which we long lies just ahead; our exile in this valley of tears is ended... Is calling the day we die the greatest day of our life too strong a statement? I have seen some fellow Christians wince at this statement. In this age of emphasis on worldly comforts, medicine, and the secular, we rarely speak of Heaven—or Hell for that matter