Jeanie Hannaman

By Philip Primeau, Crisis Magazine - We are always asking the question, “What went wrong with the Church?” There is an answer too rarely considered: we abandoned hatred of the world... Hatred of the world? Likely, we have heard the phrase before. It reminds us of a musty, bygone moment when nuns thrashed their students with rulers and glum pewsitters put pebbles in their shoes during Lent. In other words, it is a semi-mythical figment, an embarrassing bit of deviance that crept around Catholicism until 1962, roughly. ...

By Joseph Pronechen, National Catholic Register - The faithful always go to Mother Mary, seeking her consolation and intercession... And Marian pilgrimages can be powerful spiritual experiences... Certain days particularly attract pilgrims to celebrate. Do more people come on the Blessed Mother’s birthday on Sept. 8? “Oh absolutely!” answered Chelsey Hare, director of communications at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion in Champion, Wisconsin. “The shrine usually sees an increased amount of pilgrims on Marian feast days — her nativity, the Assumption, Immaculate Conception.