Jeanie Hannaman

The Catholic Herald - A union representing the Vatican’s lay employees has distanced itself from an anonymous interview in which a worker complained bitterly about a stranglehold of gay and left-wing cliques over the Holy See... The widely read Italian publication Panorama carried an interview with a Vatican employee identified by the false initials “GF”, complaining that working in the Vatican today has become “an act of pain” and a “via crucis” (way of the cross).

By Andrew Bieszad, OnePeterFive - (Dec. 12th was) the feast day of our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas. She holds particular significance to the Catholic Church in America, as her appearance to St. Juan Diego on Tepeyac hill in Mexico was the first Marian apparition in the New World. She is dearly beloved by Mexican Catholics, and wherever there is a Mexican community, a statue or picture of her will be found. Another less well-known fact about Our Lady of Guadalupe is that she is connected to the Spanish Reconquista and their ultimate defeat of the centuries-long Islamic invasion of their homeland.

DC Rosary Rally, Rorate Caeli, (LifeSiteNews) - Crippling financial woes in the Archdiocese of Washington have only multiplied following Cardinal Wilton Gregory’s restrictions on flourishing Traditional Latin Mass parishes, with annual deficits tripling to $10 million... Two years ago, the Archdiocese of Washington decided to end the TLM at Old St. Mary and five other parishes... But through it all, the seven parishes with the TLM were among its most thriving and generous in the archdiocese.