An historic meeting between Pope Francis and President Donald J. Trump took place today at the Vatican in Rome where the two discussed their joint commitment to life, religious liberty and freedom of conscience.
Our Lady of Manchester, pray for us!Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSPope Francis has expressed deep sadness over the terrorist attack that claimed 22 lives at a concert in Manchester, England last evening, while the local church condemned the attack and is invoking Our Lady of Manchester to pray for the victims.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSWhile addressing a Rome Life Forum last week, Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, archbishop emeritus of Bologna, gave a stunning expose of the confrontation between God and Satan that is taking place today, primarily over marriage and the family.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSSeveral more Planned Parenthood clinics will be closing across the country as the organization responds to cuts in state-funding and the impact of ObamaCare.
While welcoming hundreds of people who suffer from a rare degenerative neurological condition known as Huntington’s Disease in the Paul VI Hall last week, Pope Francis pleaded with scientists searching for cures not to contribute to the “throw away culture” by using, and then destroying, human embryos.
The mother of a student attending Clay High School in Clay County, Florida says a teacher gave her son the idea of watching the controversial film, 13 Reasons Why, which contributed to some of his mental health disorders.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSA protest is evolving against a new movie, The Little Hours, which is a so-called American “comedy" based on the story of a servant boy who takes shelter in a very dysfunctional convent where the nuns outdo one another in their haste to seduce him.
Even though too many associate natural fertility methods of family planning to be akin to the old “rhythm method,” today’s methods are 95 to 99 percent effective in achieving and/or preventing pregnancy and women are looking for alternatives to risky pills and IUDs – so why aren’t they getting the information they need?
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSJust after returning from his brief pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal, Pope Francis reflected on the experience, saying that while visiting the site of the apparitions, he felt immersed in the prayer of the faithful “that for one hundred years has flowed there like a river.”
Although the report has not yet been made public, Church officials charged with investigating the validity of the apparitions at Medjugorje have apparently decided that the first seven apparitions were authentic, but succeeding visions are suspect.
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