Jeanie Hannaman

By Patrick J. Moran, Crisis Magazine - “Haven’t you noticed that we are two countries?”... C.S. Lewis asked this question in his classic novel That Hideous Strength, writing of a conflict at the heart of England: “something we may call Britain is always haunted by something we may call Logres.“... Two warring versions of America have battled for supremacy since the founders put their grievances in a Declaration—in truth, long before that—and each has its foundational myth... In one version of history, America, needing no permission or justification beyond the desire for self-determination ....

Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - Of course, those two things are profoundly related. Childhood wasn’t valued until God became a child. The ancient world didn’t have the same affection or sentimentality for children that we have. In both Aramaic and Greek, the word for child was the same as for servant. It’s not that the world thought children were delightful, and so God became a child. It’s rather that by becoming a child, God sanctified childhood and children.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - It’s been a couple of years since I touched on the real meaning of the term “faith” for Catholics, and I don’t think I’ve ever applied it to our political context. At this moment in the United States we are faced at the highest level with the impossibility of voting for a candidate who represents truth and justice; the only moral course open to us in voting is to choose the lesser of two evils. I cannot see the future, but I strongly suspect that there are not enough people who will think about things in this way to bring about even that sort of victory, and of course this raises two disturbing questions