Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, The Catholic Thing - Under its current president, Abp Vincenzo Paglia, the Pontifical Academy for Life is no longer the intellectual heart of the pro-life movement in Rome. It often confuses what it should clarify... The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences isn’t what it was intended to be either. Its president for a very happy decade, 2004-2014, was Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon. Its less happy chancellor was Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, an Argentinian philosopher of no particular distinction.

By McKenna Snow, CatholicVote - A Florida priest defended the Eucharist from a non-parishioner on Sunday after the woman grabbed consecrated hosts from him and crushed them with her hand... On May 19 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in St. Cloud, Florida, the pastor, Fr. Fidel Rodriguez, was distributing Communion during the 10 a.m. Mass when the interaction first began.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The range of news stories we cover is really quite remarkable. There are nearly always stories in all three Catholic news categories: Perhaps we should call them the good, the bad and the ugly. I’ll illustrate what I mean by selecting a few stories from the past three days.