Jeanie Hannaman

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine - I recently learned that Champions of Faith: Baseball Edition will make its world premiere on EWTN just in time for the upcoming baseball season. Even though the film debuted seventeen years ago, I can still remember nearly every frame. It was the “go-to” movie for my son, Sean, and me—our repeated viewing of it became a ritual. We watched as some of the best players in Major League Baseball spoke honestly about their devotion to Jesus Christ and their Catholic faith. ...

By Auguste Meyrat, The Stream - In a recent essay discussing the rapid decline of the Catholic Church, Crisis Magazine editor Eric Sammons sounded the alarm among Catholics and most Christians today. Going over the numbers of a new Pew survey, Sammons writes that “for every 100 people who join the Catholic Church, 840 leave.” Membership at Protestant churches is also decreasing, though at a slower rate: “For every 100 people that become Protestant, 180 leave.”... The great majority of those leaving go on to become “nones” — people with no religious affiliation. Not exactly atheists, most “nones” are the types to say that they “were raised Catholic,” are “spiritual, but not religious,” and “don’t believe in organized religion.”