Jeanie Hannaman

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - As necessary as the evangelical imperative is to the life of the Church, since without it the Gospel withers and dies, it is not enough simply to proclaim the Good News. For all that the world needs to hear the message of Jesus Christ, merely doing so does not exhaust the possibilities of bringing Christ to the world. There is another way, which is not at variance with planting the Gospel seed one row at a time but entirely complementary to sharing Christ with others. And that is to engage the larger dimension of human culture, which is the effort to give public expression to the things we believe.

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Catholic Register - While in university, I would drink every Thursday night with Norm Peterson. Millions of people did, the Cheers character whose name everybody did know... When George Wendt, the actor who played Norm, died recently, people of a certain generation remembered a comfortable, if not inspiring, presence. Norm had a job he didn’t like (accounting) and a wife he avoided (Vera), but he did have friends in a neighborhood pub (Cheers) in Boston where everybody did know his name.

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte has made news with his order, if I may be permitted a metaphor, that the Vetus Ordo be celebrated only in a certain broom closet in Swannanoa. It seems also that he was about to ban some of the features of the TLM that tradition-minded people who attend the Novus Ordo favor, such as kneeling to receive the Sacrament, or facing the Risen Christ as we pray ad orientem.  After the uproar about the latter – not the former, Martin has backed away, assuring people that there will be no big changes – until at least October.