By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Doctors in Berlin are confirming that they have cured a four year-old girl of leukemia with an infusion of stem cells from her own umbilical cord blood.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a new paper released today by the Family Research Council's Marriage and Religion Research Institute, Dr. Patrick Fagan demonstrates that adoption improves children's lives significantly.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Frustrated with the American practice of yoga and its distorted view of the Hinduism upon which it is based, the influential Hindu American Foundation has launched a campaign to "Take Back Yoga" by reminding people that yoga is indeed part of the Hindu religion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An editorial page editor for Colorado's
Gazette says the media's focus on sex abuse within the Catholic Church has left little space for reporting about institutions where the problem is far worse - such as public schools.
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Last winter I posted a blog about
doulas, women who provide non-medical assistance to a mother during and after childbirth. I found no evidence that doulas were connected with the New Age; however, I just came across an article announcing a new "branch" of doula service being offered to women who have chosen to abort their babies.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The push to repeal the vastly unpopular health care reform law gained considerable momentum last week when an Ohio suit challenging the law was permitted to go forward, and five newly elected Governors announced that they also plan to fight the law in court.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After many years of enduring innocuous labels for Christmas such as "happy holidays" and "season's greetings," it appears that politically correct retailers are finally getting the message and are returning "Merry Christmas" to their ads and store displays in record numbers.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Along with the worldwide Church, Pope Benedict XVI conducted a vigil for "nascent human life" in St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday evening in which he reminded the faithful that embryos are not just biological material but dynamic, autonomous individuals.
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Fr. Solanus often encouraged people to pray for vocations just as he did to discern his own calling to the Capuchin Order. It is related in his biography that he invited his mother and sister to join him in a
novena of prayer before the feast of the Immaculate Conception in 1896 to determine which Religious Order he should enter. At the end of their novena after Holy Communion, he felt Our Lady was telling him “go to Detroit.” That meant going to the Capuchins whose headquarters were in Detroit. Many years later he made a short reference to this in a small notebook found among his writings.
Knowing how special this novena was for him, we at the Guild Office invite you to join us in a private novena from November 30 to December 8, ( making this in connection with Fr. Solanus’ novena) to pray for the advancement of Venerable Solanus’ Cause for Beatification. But as well to add your own intention for discernment of ones life’s path, with a vocation, or other special needs for yourself or loved ones.
The novena maybe prayed privately at a time and place of your own choice with prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Prayers are posted on our web site at
www.solanuscasey.org or call (313-579-2100 ext. 161).
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