The Washington Post just proved once again how out-of-touch the mainstream media is about the national abortion debate by publishing a 3,745-word puff piece praising the work of volunteers to serve as doulas who hold the hands of women as they have an abortion.
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The Little Sisters of the Poor aren’t out of legal trouble yet! Attorneys General in the states of California and Pennsylvania are challenging the Trump administration’s new rules that permit exemptions for employers with religious and moral objections.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
If it wasn’t such a serious a matter, I would laugh every time another breathless reporter reveals the fall of another so-called “icon” of Congress, or the press, or Hollywood, after he was accused of sexual harassment. How could the media – or anyone for that matter – be so surprised by a phenomenon that women have been experiencing for centuries? Has it taken this long for them to realize that the sexual harassment of women is a systemic problem throughout the world?
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
New scientific testing conducted at the site of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem appears to confirm that the remains of the tomb enshrined in the church are authentic remnants of the tomb located by ancient Romans.
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Girlguiding UK, which is the country’s equivalent of the Girl Scouts, recently decided to allow males who identify as females to not become Guides, but has now extended that decision to allow boys to use the same bathrooms, showers, and tents as the girls.
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The Archdiocese of Washington DC filed a federal lawsuit yesterday after the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) rejected their Christmas ad.
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Map showing hundreds of locations in Ireland where the Rosary was prayed on Sunday
In what is being hailed as one of the largest prayer initiatives in Ireland in 40 years, tens of thousands of Catholics flocked to over 270 locations along the coast of Ireland on Sunday to pray the Rosary in order to prevent the legalization of abortion and to restore the faith to what was once the most Catholic nation on earth.
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In a bid to promote more family time, as well as to reaffirm its Christian roots, the government of Poland has passed a bill that will phase out shopping on Sundays by 2020.
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Burmese girl performing dance in Yangon, Myanmar
Even though Catholics comprise just over one percent of the population of Myanmar, the faithful flocked to Yangon today to greet Pope Francis as he begins a six-day visit to Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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Jade Banks (Twitter)
When she was growing up, every time she saw a nun on television, Jade Banks would pray to Jesus – “Don’t make me do that.” So what made this vivacious 23 year-old girl decide she wanted to become not only a nun, but a cloistered Carmelite?
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