
Just in time to celebrate the Easter Season! Members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard are releasing the English version of the new
Vatican Cookbook in April which will include Pope Francis’ favorite comfort food recipes as well as many others that celebrate the colorful life – and cuisine – of Vatican City.
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The Knights of Columbus are sponsoring an online
petition to pressure Secretary of State John Kerry not to exclude Christians from an imminent pronouncement declaring the slaughter of religious minorities by ISIS in the Middle East to be acts of genocide.
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We recently received this warning from a former yoga enthusiast who had a change of heart.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) has issued a statement in response to the decision of St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson to ask pastors to seek alternatives to the Girl Scouts and is insisting that the organization is “non-political” and compatible with Catholic values.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In response to a firestorm of criticism, Land’s End, a popular family oriented clothing retailer, has removed a glowing article about pro-abortion feminist Gloria Steinem from its website, but the company still hasn’t said whether it will discontinue a program that will donate to Steinem’s organization.
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A new report published by the First Liberty Institute reveals an alarming increase in incidents of hostility toward religion in America in the past few years.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The so-called “family friendly” clothing company, Land’s End, has just launched a year-long campaign honoring pro-abortion feminist Gloria Steinem by donating proceeds from the sale of certain items of clothing to one of her organizations.
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Both at home and abroad, movie-goers continue to prefer movies with strong conservative values over films with more liberal themes – by a margin of more than 12 to one!
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Archbishop Robert J. Carlson
Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of the Archdiocese of St. Louis has directed priests in St. Louis to cut all ties with the Girl Scouts over continuing concerns with their promotion of contraception and “abortion rights”, their affiliation with organizations that are in conflict with Catholic beliefs, their position on transgender and homosexual youth, and their promotion of female role models who do not reflect Catholic values.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A Vatican spokesman has clarified that Pope Francis was speaking about the possible use of contraception to avoid pregnancy during the Zika outbreak, but was only saying that it could be possible "in particular cases of emergency or gravity and could be the object of discernment in a serious case of conscience."
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