Jeanie Hannaman

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Back in the 1970s and 1980s, I used to wonder why mercy was so much emphasized in contemporary Catholicism, especially since it seemed to be stressed most by those who were leaning as far away as they could from the clear and specific teachings of Christ and His Church and the need to adhere to them. Suddenly the emphasis was on the “deep reality” that we are all wounded and that we must all depend not so much on hard truths as on God’s mercy.

By + Héctor Aguer, Archbishop Emeritus of La Plata, LifeSiteNews - A new circumstance now stands out in Pope Francis’ relationship not with Argentina, which he has so far not deigned to visit, but with Peronism and its variants. The Pontiff is implicitly recognized as the leader of Peronism... Returning to the issue of poverty that affects more than half the population, we must recognize the gravity of the gradual disappearance of the middle classes, whose existence distinguished Argentina within Latin America. Today we are witnessing a phenomenon that is the opposite of what made our country original: Argentines are emigrating, not only to Bolivia or Peru, but also to Spain and other European countries.