Jeanie Hannaman

By Paul Senz, Catholic World Report - “The history of the Church is in part a history of the choice for a heroic life of self-offering,” says Fr. Donald Haggerty, author of The Hour of Testing. “It is possible that our own twenty-first century will find itself confronting this challenge in a unique manner.”... The Church, throughout her long history, has faced many terrible trials, united her in a deep and real way with the sufferings of Jesus. How can we be the saints the Church needs today, during this particular hour of testing?

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine - Now I look back on that innocent spiritual intoxication the way I remember long-ago family Christmas celebrations when the parents and grandparents were still alive: a time of confident happiness because the elders were trustworthy and strong... You know where I’m going: that confidence is blasted all to smithereens. I still watch for new pronouncements from the Vatican, but now I do so with a sense of dread and sorrow. At best, you can sift through documents and find one or two things to keep, allowing the rest to mercifully blur. There is no joy and little insight.