Jeanie Hannaman

February 7, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditation: Herod’s Guilty Conscience

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Mark 6:14-29 - 14 King Herod heard of it; for Jesus' name had become known. Some said, "John the baptizer has been raised from the dead; that is why these powers are at work in him." 15 But others said, "It is Elijah." And others said, "It is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old." 16 But when Herod heard of it he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised." 17 For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; ...

February 7, 2025

GOP Lawmakers React to Trump Suing Their State Over Laws That ‘Obstruct’ ICE Arrests, by Virginia Allen

By Virginia Allen, Daily Signal - The Trump administration is fighting sanctuary policies with a lawsuit against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats. Illinois Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives are praising the action... “Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson have failed to enforce the laws of our country allowing illegal immigrants to flood our communities,” Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., told The Daily Signal.

February 7, 2025

Whither Catholic Theology Now? An Evening With Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., by Matthew Becklo

By Matthew Becklo, Catholic World Report - Fr. White’s talk to this packed room was, to a degree, exactly what you’d expect from a well-respected Catholic and theologian reflecting on Catholic theology; this great “science of God”—theos-logos—should, he remarked at the outset, “seek to explain the meaning of life in reference to God and the Incarnation.” Later in the talk, echoing Gaudium et Spes 22, he said that when theologians point to Christ, they get to the truth of both God and man, and that, conversely, the eclipse of Christ is the eclipse of both God and man.

February 7, 2025

Maternal Mortality Rate Falls 20% During First Year of States Banning Abortions, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertel, LifeNews - The liberal media and abortion activists claimed that banning abortions would kill women... Women won’t get health care, they will be turned away when they have a miscarriage, and abortion bans will ultimately kill women. Those where the lies the pro-abortion left told people over and over again about what would happen if states ban abortions after the Dobbs decision overturning Roe. V Wade... Today, the CDC proved those claims totally false.