Jeanie Hannaman

May 23, 2024

Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: If Your Hand or Eye Causes You to Sin

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Mark 9:41-50 - For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ, will by no means lose his reward. "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. ....

May 23, 2024

C.S. Lewis and “Mere Politics”: Some Shrewdly Hellish Political Advice from The Screwtape Letters, by Steven Tucker

By Steven Tucker, Crisis Magazine - "Be sure that the patient remains completely fixated on politics. Arguments, political gossip, and obsessing on the faults of people they have never met serves as an excellent distraction from advancing in personal virtue, character, and the things the patient can control. Make sure to keep the patient in a constant state of angst, frustration, and general disdain towards the rest of the human race in order to avoid any kind of charity or inner peace from further developing. Ensure the patient continues to believe that the problem is “out there” in the “broken system” rather than recognizing there is a problem with himself. "

May 23, 2024

True and False Democracy in the Catholic Church, by Larry Chapp

By Larry Chapp, EWTN News - One of the assumptions that seems to animate so many of the conversations surrounding a more synodal Church is that a more “democratized” Catholic Church is by definition a better Church. To that end, we saw in last year’s Synod on Synodality that there was a lot of chatter about a Church that listens to “the people of God.”... I think that this conflation is incorrect and that the “people of God” metaphor, used in Lumen Gentium, when properly understood not only does not endorse a more democratic Church but actually implies the opposite.

May 23, 2024

Jason Evert’s Chastity Talks Were Targeted by ‘Witches,’ But Our Lady Had Bigger Plans

By Clare Marie Merkowsky, LifeSiteNews - Jason Evert reached even more young people after a group of self-professed witches targeted his chastity talks at three Catholic schools in Sydney, Australia... On May 19, a group of witches in Sydney, Australia, celebrated cancelling Evert’s talks at three Catholic schools but did not realize this would result in Evert reaching even more young people, as three other schools quickly booked Evert, with one of the schools livestreaming the talk to eight additional high schools. ...