Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSA group of faith-filled parents are refusing to back down to school administrators who are trying to stop them from hosting a popular “Jesus Lunch” program which takes place at a nearby park and attracts hundreds of students every week.
Greek Island of LesbosOn his way back to Rome from a visit to Lesbos on April 16, Pope Francis gave his usual glib answers to a variety of questions from reporters during an inflight press conference, including communion for the divorced and remarried, immigration, and why he chose to bring three Muslim refugee families back to Italy rather than Christians.
Please keep EWTN’s Father Mitch Pacwa in your prayers as he recovers from a recent heart attack.
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?”
Richard RudisBB asks: “What is a gong bath? Is this something Catholics can participate in?”
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.
A developmentally-delayed toddler who could only communicate with gestures was suddenly able to speak after surviving a near drowning.
Kim Vaillancourt with Wyatt EliA 36 year-old young mother from New York, who is suffering from a rare form of brain cancer and who opted to delay treatment until after her baby was born, has given birth to a healthy baby boy named Wyatt Eli – a name which means “little warrior sent by God.”
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