Jeanie Hannaman

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.