Jeanie Hannaman

June 19, 2024

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki: Looking at Effective Programs that Address Poverty

By Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, Catholic World Report - (USCCB's) Executive session supposedly provides a confidential forum for brainstorming and frank discussion of proposals before going into public debate and decision-making. I say “supposedly” because shortly after the “confidential” executive session there was a story in the National Catholic Reporter in which Michael Sean Winters wrote, “Several bishops told me that in the executive session where the CCHD was discussed, the support for the program was overwhelming. Springfield, Illinois, Bsp. Thomas Paprocki intervened to suggest it was time to sunset the program, and his sentiments were echoed by Kansas City, Kansas, Abp. Joseph Naumann.”... It is very disappointing that several bishops apparently lack the integrity of respecting the confidentiality of our executive sessions. It is also sad to say that such bishops cannot be trusted.

June 19, 2024

Bishop Schneider: ‘LGBTQ Lobbies,’ Secular Powers Behind Pope Francis’ Homosexual ‘Blessings’ Document, by Andreas Wailzer

By Andreas Wailzer, LifeSiteNews - Bishop Athanasius Schneider stated that “[s]ecular powers, ‘LGBTQ’ lobbies, and anti-Church agendas” are behind the publication of the Vatican’s heterodox document on homosexual “blessings,” Fiducia Supplicans... In an extensive critique published in Crisis magazine, Bishop Schneider gave a detailed response to the document published by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) that was approved by Pope Francis and drew condemnations from faithful bishops around the world, including Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Cardinal Robert Sarah, and the majority of the African bishops.

June 19, 2024

Pope Tells CEOs: Environment Should Be ‘At The Center Of Your Attention’

By Staff, Catholic Culture - Pope Francis received 25 CEOs and urged them to “place the environment and the earth at the center of your attention and responsibility.”... “We are living in a time of serious environmental crisis that depends on many individuals and factors, among which are the economic and business choices of the past and present,” the Pope explained. “It is no longer enough merely to comply with the laws of states, which are proceeding too slowly: we need to innovate by anticipating the future, with courageous and forward-looking choices that can be imitated.”

June 19, 2024

Fr. Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J.: Getting Back into the Baptizing Business

By Fr. Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J., The Catholic Thing - In the late 1960s, Fr. Richard McBrien, future president of the Catholic Theological Society and long-time Chair of the Department of Theology at Notre Dame, declared that the Catholic Church had gotten out of “the salvation business.” Though most people wouldn’t have put it so crudely, McBrien was expressing a view that remains enormously influential in Catholic theology and pastoral life. In my own theological education, I often found that the question “What is the mission of the Church?” provoked waffling or embarrassment.