Jeanie Hannaman

By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine - Over decades as a Catholic, I continued to see much good fruit from many of these apparitions, particularly from those in Lourdes and Fatima. Yet I also witnessed some troubling features among those who closely followed various apparitions. Too often they jumped the gun, declaring an apparition definitely authentic before the Church did, at times elevating a visionary’s words (or their interpretation of them) to dogmatic levels, insisting all Catholics must follow them. Not all the fruits were positive, in other words, even from Vatican-approved apparitions. ...

By Alex Mann, Jonathan M. Pitts, The Baltimore Sun - The 58-year-old woman couldn’t bear to share the details of the sexual abuse she suffered as a child, but its effect on her came across loud and clear Monday in a Baltimore courtroom as she faced the leader of the Archdiocese of Baltimore... “Do you see me now?” she cried toward Archbishop William Lori, who was seated across the courtroom from her. “Do I matter to you now? I suffer from PTSD, from anxiety, from depression and panic attacks. I’m on disability. It will take me days to recover from talking today. I hope you’ve heard my truth and feel the pain I’ve struggled with.”