Jeanie Hannaman

January 8, 2024

A Culture in Collapse, by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - In the last six months, we have borne witness to many iconic moments evidencing the collapse of American culture... The signs are everywhere... Our descent is self-induced; it is not a symptom of a foreign attack or subterfuge. Our erosion is not the result of poverty and want, but of leisure and excess. We are not suffering from existential crises of famine, plague, or the collapse of our grid and fuel sources... What is happening to us is not due to an adherence to a too strict conservative tradition but is almost exclusively the wage of the progressive project.

January 8, 2024

A Brief Guide to the Basics of Spiritual Warfare, by Aliénor Strentz

By Aliénor Strentz, Aleteia - This battle is waged against “bitter enemies,” in the words of Fr. Lorenzo Scupoli, author of the famous 16th-century work “Spiritual Combat,” which was a classic of Christian literature for several centuries... These enemies are three in number: Satan, the angel who opposed God and still wants to drag all men into suffering and hell; the world (in the sense of a reality organized in a way hostile to God); and finally, “the flesh.”

January 8, 2024

The Paschal Mystery Proclaimed in Creation, by Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D.

By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D., Catholic World Report - In this reflection, we’ve examined one particularly powerful and often underappreciated way by which creation mirrors the Logos, which is to say through the Paschal Mystery woven into the fabric of the universe. Having drawn wisdom from both of “God’s two books” and highlighted some tangible examples from nature, it is clear that suffering and death not only play a pivotal role in nature but moreover point to something deeper about God’s design by which we may be led to eternal life. ....

January 8, 2024

Fr. Jeffrey Kirby: In Today’s Church, Who Is Evangelizing Whom?

By Fr. Jeffrey Kirby, The Catholic Thing - The early Christians knew the power of the Gospel and the immense opportunity for eternal life that was being offered to humanity by the Lord Jesus. They wanted to proclaim the liberating message of the Lord to all the world with the hope that all might be saved in Jesus Christ... The early Church knew they had something that was unparalleled, unmatched, unequaled, and unrivaled by anything in our fallen world. They knew the Gospel to be a “pearl of great price,” as the Lord Jesus told them .....