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Listen to Miss Tennessee Flub Planned Parenthood Question

Miss Tennessee Hannah Robison Miss Tennessee Hannah Robison

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The lies about the services provided by Planned Parenthood are so deeply imbued in the nation’s consciousness that not even a contestant at the Miss America pageant was able to accurately answer a question about their federal funding.

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ACLU Pressures Catholic Hospital to Violate Church Law

Genesys Regional Health Center Genesys Regional Health Center

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan has sent a letter to a Catholic hospital in Michigan demanding that they perform a tubal ligation on a young woman with a benign brain tumor who is 34 weeks pregnant and whose doctors are recommending that she be sterilized to prevent any more pregnancies.

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Our Lady of Sorrows is the Cause of Our Joy

This week we’ll celebrate two important feasts: the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, on September 14, and the following day, September 15, we’ll remember Our Lady of Sorrows. Two days linked forever in meaning, inseparable, poignant.

September 15 also happens to be my birthday. And for a long time, as long as I was old enough to realize who I shared the day with, I felt a little – cheated. I mean, it’s a bit of a downer to liturgically “celebrate” all the bitterness in Mary’s life on a day for celebrating your own. Not that I ever thought it should be all about me, but as a child, it just didn’t seem quite fair. To enter the world as Mary grieved at the Cross.

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