Jeanie Hannaman

March 7, 2025

Lent Is Life, Because God Has Lent Us Life, by Joseph Pearce

By Joseph Pearce, National Catholic Register - The Lenten season begins with Ash Wednesday’s memento mori; its reminder that we are dust and to dust we are destined to return. Nor are such sobering reminders of our mortality restricted to the liturgy. Literature is full of such reminders. Gerard Manley Hopkins’ masterful meditation on the mystery of suffering, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” sees us as “soft sift in an hourglass.” Each of us has our apportioned share of the sand of life and there’s nothing we can do stop it slipping through our hands.

March 7, 2025

Even Oxford Journal Admits Sexually Mutilating People Harms Their Mental Health, by Justine Brooke Murray

By Justine Brooke Murray, MRC TV - Even Oxford University admits that sexually mutilating people who already suffer enough psychological issues worsens their mental health. Their Academic Journal of Sexual Medicine recently published a study hoping to propagate the narrative that gender deluded individuals “face heightened psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation” because their delusions are not “affirmed”…. Not because they’re deluded to begin with.

March 7, 2025

DOGE Confirms That Social Security Is a Fine Mess. by Deroy Murdock

By Deroy Murdock, The Federalist - FDR’s signature program includes Americans born under George Washington... Social Security is as big as government programs get. Naturally, even a glance at it with DOGE’s magnifying glass found plenty that seemed — charitably — not quite right... “According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE,” Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk stated via X on February 16. “Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.”

March 7, 2025

GOOD NEWS: Catholic Charities McAllen Shelter Has Nearly ‘Zero’ Visitors, by Sarah Cervera

By Sarah Cervera, ABC News - Since President Donald Trump took office in January, Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley Executive Director Sister Norma Pimentel said the non-profit’s respite center has seen a drop in migrants... “Since the new administration took office… people are just not being allowed into the United States,” Pimentel said... According to Pimentel, the number of migrants being dropped off at the respite center after they’ve been processed by Border Patrol is nearly zero.