Jeanie Hannaman

September 4, 2024

A New Era in American Politics: The Kennedy-Trump Alliance, by Scott Ventureyra

By Scott Ventureyra, Crisis Magazine - If this alliance wins the next election and holds true to their word, the moment at the Arizona Rally where RFK Jr. walked onto the stage to the Foo Fighters’ song “My Hero” (regardless of the Foo Fighters’ subservience to the establishment) will forever go down as one of the most iconic and transformative moments in modern American—and world—history. I am hopeful but cautious.

September 4, 2024

Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: He Laid His Hands on Every One and Healed Them

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Luke 4:38-44 - And he arose and left the synagogue, and entered Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they asked him about her. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her; and immediately she rose and served them. Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any that were sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. ....

September 4, 2024

Deacon Michael Bickerstaff: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

By Deacon Michael Bickerstaff, Integrated Catholic Life - Truth, Goodness, Beauty, along with Unity, are what Catholics refer to as the transcendentals. The transcendentals are qualities of persons and things that transcend material things and the particular moment in time. These qualities are rooted in being and find their source in God... the late Father Thomas Dubay, wrote, “Truth, beauty and goodness have their being together, by truth we are put in touch with reality which we find is good for us and beautiful to behold. In our knowing, loving and delighting the gift of reality appears to us as something infinitely and in-exhaustively valuable and fascinating.” ....

September 4, 2024

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Saint Maximilian Kolbe: Lighting a Candle in the Darkness

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - To most who entered Auschwitz, it must have seemed nothing less than a black hole of evil—a place with such a concentrated gravitational field of darkness, that it swallowed all light and all goodness... It must have seemed to many who entered there that Auschwitz was definitive proof of the superior power of evil over goodness and of the powerlessness of goodness... That is, until St. Maximilian lit his candle in the darkness, thereby scattering the shadows and filling the place with the light of love.