Jeanie Hannaman

March 31, 2025

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf: Colligite Fragmenta: “Laetare” Sunday, the 4th of Lent

By Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, OnePeterFive - I will guess that we have all heard the explanation of why this Sunday is called Laertare (“Rejoice”) and why we have rose (rosacea) vestments and that the Roman Station is at the Church of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. St. John Henry Newman wrote of this church: “This Basilica is so called, because Saint Helena, not only brought the True Cross there, but earth from Mount Calvary on which the Chapel or the Altar there is built — thus if there be a centre of the Church, we shall be there, when we are on earth from Jerusalem in the midst of Rome.”

March 31, 2025

A Tour of the Horizon, by Robert Royal

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Looking at the way that the human race manages its affairs is enough – if such were possible – to make angels weep. Or laugh. For most of its existence, the Church at least offered something of a counterexample, starting with surviving for 2,000 years, which isn’t likely to be the case for any current nation, international body, NGO, LGBT regime, or Silicon Valley empire. Longevity may not be proof of much, but it is proof of life, despite radical historical changes.

March 31, 2025

Bishop Joseph Strickland: An Open Letter to President Trump and the Administration

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop Emeritus, Substack - The Catholic Church upholds the sacred dignity of every human life, made in the image of God. The Catechism teaches us that “actions deliberately contrary to the law of nations and to its universal principles are crimes” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2313). This applies to all parties engaged in warfare, whether nations, militant groups, or coalitions. While a nation has the right to defend itself and protect its people, such actions must remain within the bounds of justice, proportionality, and moral law.

March 31, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: Jesus – The Divine Physician

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - John 4:43-54 - 43 After the two days he departed to Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast. 46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.