Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A controversial program by a non-profit group dedicated to fighting drug addiction is causing outrage by offering cash to drug-addicted women to enable them to either be sterilized or to get long-term birth control.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A new New York Times/CBS News poll has found that Americans aren't buying the spin about either the "war on women" or the idea that President Obama's flip-flop on same-sex marriage was motivated by principle rather than politics.
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When Our Lady appeared outside St. John the Baptist Church in Knock, Ireland on August 21,1879, she uttered not a single word, but the way she chose to appear spoke volumes.
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Calling it "a disappointment but not a surprise," the Archdiocese of Washington has published an editorial on the controversy raging at Georgetown University over the invitation of the pro-abortion head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, to speak at an awards ceremony.
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Japanese researchers are warning the island nation that its prevailing lack of interest in family and child-rearing could potentially result in the disappearance of the Japanese people within a few generations.
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When in vitro fertilization (IVF) left a couple from Des Moines, Iowa with 18 "leftover" embryos, they decided to use Craigslist as a way to find surrogate parents for their frozen offspring so that they could stay in touch with the children they didn't want to raise themselves.
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St. Catherine of Genoa (1447 – 1510)
The life of St. Catherine of Genoa confirms that spiritual renewal, virtue, holy reflection, and spiritual direction lead to wisdom and discernment. Born into an illustrious Italian family that was connected to two popes, Catherine was known as a quiet and pious child, being both prayerful and obedient.
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The year was 1531, only 12 years after the Conquistadors arrived in Mexico to find the native Aztec-Nahuatl people still sacrificing tens of thousands of people a year to the gods of Sun and Night who they believed had the power to keep the sun in the sky.
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A 30 year-old British woman whose low self-esteem as a teen caused her to seek plastic surgery for every imagined imperfection, is now suffering from a disfiguring infection caused by injections used to plump her lips.
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In spite of widespread reporting to the contrary, a May 10 Gallup poll shows that the president's sudden decision to back same-sex marriage is likely to hurt him at the polls in November.
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