A reader sent this email to our blog: “My therapist has a strong Catholic presence throughout her clinic and plays EWTN for me while I work out on the treadmill and bicycle. She attends daily noon Mass. She "sees" my deceased aunt hovering behind me and said Aunt I. has a concerned look on her face. I showed her several pics of deceased relatives and she picked out Aunt I. Once when talking to me during a rest period she excused herself and walked out of the room for a few minutes...like she had to recover from what she ‘saw’ around me. I was too scared to ask and she did not volunteer any information. Should I continue working with her or do you think she is new age?”
Both sides of the lawsuit concerning the U.S. government’s controversial birth control mandate moved one-step closer to conclusion this week as the government and representatives of the Little Sisters filed court-ordered proposals for alternatives to the way the program is currently being run.
The eulogy delivered by the mother of a 23 year-old woman who died from a heroin overdose is the talk of the Internet – and a desperate call for attention to what has become a devastating epidemic in America.
Blood martyrdom has not yet come to the Western world, but we have all experienced the persecution Pope Francis described during morning Mass on Tuesday - the "polite" kind that is “disguised as culture, modernity and progress” but that actually robs us of our freedom.