Jeanie Hannaman

By Rachel Quackenbush, CatholicVote - A student of the Catholic Marian University in Indianapolis played a key role in restoring a 17th-century painting of the Madonna and Child that the United States Postal Service (USPS) selected as the image for its 2024 Christmas stamp... The painting, attributed to the workshop of Italian artist Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, has been part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (IMA) collection since 1938, the Archdiocesan newspaper of Indianapolis reported. The USPS produced 210 million copies of the stamp featuring the painting for widespread distribution.

By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange - On this final Sunday of our liturgical year, the Church gives us St. John’s account of Jesus before Pilate to help us understand the kingdom He came to establish.  It’s a lesson we desperately need.  If we have a false notion of the reign of Christ as King of the universe, we can be subject to disillusionment and disappointment as we await its final manifestation at the Second Coming... See that Pilate is very curious about Jesus and His kingdom: “Are you the King of the Jews?”

By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing - Why does God judge on the basis of good and evil?.. In a world overdosed on the dictatorship of relativism and allergic to objective moral standards, perhaps some think even God needs to explain, “Who am I to judge?” Presuming, however, that we recognize a fundamental distinction between God and man, why does God judge by criteria of good and evil?