Jeanie Hannaman

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - When all is said and done, the Magi are wise men and Herod the Great is a fool. A few musings on the Epiphany... In Matthew’s gospel, the three wise men spoil the party for King Herod. All they’d like to do is visit the baby, sip a beaker of Mary’s mulled wine, munch a Mediterranean mince pie, and offer their presents of gold, frankincense, and myrrh... Instead, the wise men reduce Herod to a nervous wreck.

By Hannah Brockhaus, CNA - Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy, bishop of San Diego, to lead the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., the Vatican announced Monday... The 70-year-old cardinal, who holds doctorates in moral theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and in political science from Stanford, succeeds Cardinal Wilton Gregory in leading the archdiocese that serves over half a million Catholics in southern Maryland and the U.S. capital.

By Edward Schaefer, PhD, OnePeterFive - In the fall of 2019, I was invited to a seminary to speak to the seminarians about music in the Church.  While there, it became apparent to me that these young men were being prepared to minister in a declining church.  About this same time, there was a meeting of bishops from North and Central America held in Orlando.  The topic of the meeting was how to manage the decline in the Church’s membership.  The diocese of Pittsburgh was used as a model.  It had reduced parishes under one bishop from about 230 to 188 and was now in the process of reducing parishes to about 45