Jeanie Hannaman

By Fiona Melton, Crisis Magazine - In her most recent Crisis article, Breaking Up With Toxic Femininity, Ann Burns points out the hypocrisy of many “conservative” strains of anti-feminism: they fall prey to the same lie that many liberal feminists do, viewing women through a hypersexualized, pornographic lens. I agree with her main critique; conservatives cannot attempt to revive traditional values by glorifying displays of immodesty, indecency, and instantiating male lust as a virtue.

By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing - A suburban Boston Catholic parish ignited a controversy this Advent when its outdoor Nativity scene replaced the figure of the Baby Jesus in His crib with a sign, “ICE was here.”  The pastor contends the display moves “beyond static traditional figures and evoke[s] emotion and dialogue.”... A new battlefront is emerging in the “War on Christmas.”  For years, the “war on Christmas” was primarily a confrontation with encroaching secularism: many Americans’ first encounter with the “naked public square” was the city hall park from which the traditional Nativity scene had been evicted ....

By Jonathan Liedl, National Catholic Register - The Cupich Connection - In addition to Pope Leo XIV, Bishop Hicks is also connected to another Chicago Churchman: Cardinal Blase Cupich... The archbishop-elect is the third former auxiliary of Cardinal Cupich’s to be named to a U.S. archdiocese in the past year and a half, joining Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee and Archbishop Robert Casey of Cincinnati... Cardinal Cupich, 76, has long exerted considerable influence upon major episcopal appointments in the U.S. ....