Jeanie Hannaman

By Rob Marco, Crisis Magazine - I heard a quote years ago from the late Fr. John Hardon, S.J., that “Ordinary Catholic families cannot survive. They must be extra-ordinary families. They must be what I do not hesitate to call heroic Catholic families.” I thought it was a bold, prophetic proclamation; and the more of his writings I read, the more I admired the good Jesuit’s zeal—until I realized that the Traditionalists I had aligned myself with regarded Fr. Hardon as a “modernist.” I would hear this pejorative used time and time again ...

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - I read an article recently by a professor who described how, years ago, she was expressing enthusiasm at an English Department meeting at her Jesuit university about a course on Catholic poetry that she had developed... a senior member of the department “who seemed to be speaking for both himself and his skeptical colleagues” announced: “Someone is going to have to prove to me that this is a legitimate way to approach the study of literature.” ....