Jeanie Hannaman

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture - The presidential election loomed large. My first piece for Catholic Culture took the Trump-Vance campaign to the woodshed for gutting the GOP’s pro-life platform. I understand the need for prudence in difficult political circumstances but Trump-Vance, it seemed to me, failed Pope St. John Paul II’s requirement that, even when compromising, pro-life politicians must be clear about their goal of ending abortion. ...

By Damian Thompson, Unherd, (Complicit Clergy) - Now the Vatican is once again paralysed by scandals, but this time round, correspondents working for secular and Catholic outlets are trying to protect Francis, who faces more serious questions about his personal conduct than any pope in living memory... For years, allegations that would torpedo the career of any secular Western leader have been concealed or played down by a Praetorian Guard of liberal journalists who, back in 2013, staked their reputations on “the Great Reformer”. As a result, even devout Catholics don’t know that the first Jesuit pope has tried to shield several repulsive sex abusers from justice, for reasons never satisfactorily explained.