Jeanie Hannaman

By Msgr. Richard C. Antall, Crisis Magazine - When I worked in the Cleveland Diocese’s Latin American Mission, Catholic Relief Services and the University of Central America (the Jesuit “inspired” UCA) often invited me and other colleagues for the visit of celebrities and activists from the United States who were doing a star turn in El Salvador. That is how I met Cardinal McCarrick, various presidents of Jesuit universities in the States, and Robert Drinan, S.J., the former five-term congressman who had been told by St. John Paul II not to run for a sixth term. ...

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - This week the Vatican’s former auditor general renews his bid to persuade a Vatican tribunal that he was wrongfully dismissed from his position, in a case that threatens to expose further evidence of corruption in Vatican finances... Libero Milone, the first-ever auditor general, whose hiring in 2015 was trumpeted as a centerpiece of financial reforms under Pope Francis, was abruptly dismissed from his post in June 2017. Milone testifies that he was forced to resign—threatened that he would otherwise face criminal prosecution—by then-Archbishop Angelo Becciu.

By Anna Reynolds, Crisis Magazine - The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains that freedom can only be found in choosing the good. Paragraph 1733 elaborates, “The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes.” There is not necessarily an exterior, material indication of that freedom that comes through uniting oneself to the good. In fact, the person who chooses the good—exercising God-given freedom—may reduce his standing in the world by doing so. We have only to look at the lives of many of the saints for proof of this.