Jeanie Hannaman

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.

By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D., Catholic World Report - The pope from Bavaria was especially well attuned to the shortcomings of mainstream environmentalism, and he considered it too important a matter to leave in the hands of the anti-humanists whose agenda pervades the movement today... “Those who can recognize in the cosmos the reflections of the Creator’s invisible face tend to have a greater love for creatures and greater sensitivity to their symbolic value.” This was central lessons imparted by Pope Benedict XVI in his poignant homily for the 2010 World Day of Peace.