MS writes:
“Is all mindfulness related to the Buddhist practice that is so popular today? I am a Catholic and I have been devoted to the practice of the presence of God and the sacrament of the present moment – which is also a kind of mindfulness. Are these Catholic versions related in any way to the Buddhist version?”
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A new study has found that free speech in America may be on its way to becoming just another phrase in a text book as a majority of Americans now admit that they keep silent rather than speak out of fear of reprisals.
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The faithful are rallying around the residents of New York City after a terror attack yesterday that left eight people dead and 11 wounded.
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Amy Coney Barrett
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A Catholic judicial nominee and a popular news host who endured brutal attacks for their faith show how perseverance can pay off.
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A City University of New York (CUNY) professor is under fire today after sending out a tweetstorm of criticism of the “white nuclear family,” saying white couples who have babies and who leave their homes to their children are perpetuating the problem of white supremacy.
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An article appearing in Vogue UK says that side-effects of synthetic hormones are making more and more young women turn away from the pill and toward natural family methods that once used to be passed off as the old-fashioned “rhythm method.”
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LEB writes:
“Every year I agonize over Halloween and what to allow my children to get involved in. It’s gotten so dark and occultish! Worse, some people say that the only option we have – All Saints Day – is derived from a pagan holiday! Are these our only choices?”
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More than 300 years ago, a kindly Irish Catholic woman living in Boston was accused of witchcraft by a group of anti-Catholic authorities, but the facts of the story point more to a woman who was martyred for her faith, not her witchcraft!
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The manager of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas asked a Catholic priest to bless the room used by a man to kill 58 people at a country music concert on October 1st.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
When I was in the process of reverting back to Catholicism 20 years ago and discovered that the abortion industry’s schtick about how “if abortion is illegal women will die from coat hanger abortions,” it was a moment of reckoning for me that I will never forget. It was the moment I realized that I was being manipulated by the very feminists in which I had placed all my trust.
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