Jeanie Hannaman

August 12, 2024

Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ: Parishes Preparing Their People for…What Exactly?

“The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.” —Richard Marcinko, founder of SEAL Team Six... Ordinarily, do untrained and unprepared people “rise to the occasion” when faced with enormous challenges? ... That got me to thinking: What are Catholic parishes training their people for? More specifically, what is Fr. Cheerful, pastor of St. Typical’s (assisted by the younger Fr. Stifled) preparing his people for? Before I proffer an answer, let me suggest a few possibilities.

August 12, 2024

The Feds’ Election Interference Didn’t Stop After 2020, It Just Got More Sophisticated, by Ben Weingarten

By Ben Weingarten, The Federalist - Federal agencies used the pretest of foreign interference in the 2020 election to surveil and suppress domestic news... America’s speech police are reassembling to once again influence our elections. At the same time the security state is creating potential pretexts for renewed censorship by issuing warnings of cyberattacks that could “hinder public access to election information,” they are also reprising old claims of coming Russian election interference on behalf of Donald Trump. ...

August 12, 2024

Campus Groups Call For ‘Intifada’ and the ‘Eradication of Western Civilization’

By Scott Giebel, MRC TV - Campus Reform reports the groups posted on Instagram, ”We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization. We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada is an internationalist one-we are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of all people. We reject every genocidal, eugenicist regime that seeks to undermine the personhood of the colonized.”

August 12, 2024

Catholic Vote: U.S. Bishops Announce New Secretariat of Justice and Peace to Promote Catholic Social Teaching

By McKenna Snow, Catholic Vote - On Aug. 6, the Justice and Peace USCCB YouTube account posted a short video message from the new executive director of the Secretariat, Jill Rauh... “The work of justice is essential to our proclamation of the Gospel to a world in need,” Rauh said... “When we affirm the dignity of every person created in God’s image, when we work to end racism, when we advocate to address poverty and to care for our common home, when we support the Church’s ability to live her mission” ...