Jeanie Hannaman

By Janet E. Smith, LifeSiteNews - It's problematic that the U.S. government through USAID has given over a $ 1 billion to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its affiliates to settle refugees and immigrants when the Church has a scandalous history of placing predator priests among migrants and the handicapped and of covering up abuse that has occurred among them.

By Randy Hain, Integrated Catholic Life - When I envision a fortress, it invokes thoughts of strength, security and protection.  The image is comforting, particularly when used in relation to one’s faith.  I was speaking with someone I met recently about my faith and learned that he, too, was Catholic.  After hearing my story, he explained to me the role faith played in his life.  He described it as a fortress in that it made him feel safe and served as the foundation of his life.

By Dr. Donald DeMarco, Catholic Exchange - People look forward to the summer when being lazy becomes respectable.  Or they may prefer the term, “indolent,” which seems to raise laziness to a higher level.  Nonetheless, no one is proud of being lazy. ... St. Thomas Aquinas treated laziness under the term acedia.  It is “sorrow over . . . an internal and divine good [in us]” (ST II-II, q. 35, a, 2).  It is, for Aquinas, a sin against charity since it fails to accept “friendship with God” and “the spiritual life that dwells within us.”  The Angelic Doctor in this instance is referring to spiritual laziness, the most pernicious kind.