Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe dwindling respect for human life reached a new low this week with the announcement that a jewelry company is now fashioning pendants out of the ashes of “leftover” embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics.
Another teen attempted to kill herself on Facebook on Tuesday night but was saved just in time after viewers – and Facebook – alerted authorities.
The National Day of Prayer was the perfect backdrop for the signing of the Trump Administration’s Religious Liberty Executive Order except that the order itself has disappointed both sides of the debate.
A 20 year-old Mexican woman who was recently crowned as a beauty queen in her native town has decided to give it all up for the religious life.
KM writes: “I am most sure if you ever heard of Eileen Anglin. I came across her on you tube. I downloaded a prayer yesterday and prayed it and I did so again today. But today after really listening to the words of this dedication to Mary, I felt an uneasiness although the music and words were soothing and relaxing and the words were nice, I could not shake the uneasiness and something told me not to say it. . .
Citing a long list of questionable associations and inappropriate role modeling for young girls, the Archdiocese of Kansas City has officially cut ties with the Girl Scouts.
On May 12, 2017, the United Nations World Apostolate of Fatima Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima will be carried into Conference Room 2 at the UN for a two-hour event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima. What most people don’t know is that she’s been here before – in 1952 – and she has been orchestrating a return journey ever since.
A new form of physical and emotional abuse of women is winding its way into the already twisted world of casual sex – stealthing – which is the practice of deliberately removing a condom during intercourse even though both partners agreed to use one, and then bragging about it online.
The bloated omnibus budget deal proposed by Congress, and likely to pass this week, will keep the government in funds through September, but it also failed to cut Planned Parenthood’s funding. Why didn’t Congress cut these funds when they had the chance?
MG asks: "What does the Catholic Church say about the mathematical evidence in the design of the pyramids, having to do with creation of our universe, judgment and time as we know it? Also the healing evidence of persons and nature around a pyramid? Is it against the church to use pyramids for plant and bodily healing as long as Our Lord is our foundation?"
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