Pope Francis delivered a powerful homily at morning Mass in which he denounced modern day “leeches” – those who take advantage of unemployment desperation to offer workers subpar working conditions without health insurance or pensions – calling this "civilized trafficking" and warning the faithful to develop a “correct relationship” with money.
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A leading British psychologist says increased use of social media, including the latest trend among stars to post over-sexualized “selfies”, is wreaking havoc on the self-esteem of young girls.
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Contrary to rumors circulating throughout the Catholic world lately, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI denies having ever said that the release of the third secret of Fatima in the year 2000 was incomplete.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
There's more than one way to persecute a Christian and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is displaying a prime example of how it's done in the West by featuring a painting laced with blasphemous references to the Eucharist, the Mass and Jesus Christ.
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As she lay dying in her mother’s arms after an ISIS attack on her home, a 12 year-old Christian girl in Mosul, Iraq used her last breath to beg her mother to forgive her killers.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The Obama Administration is going full tilt when it comes to pressuring Americans into accepting the idea of gender identity and is now pressuring hospitals who receive Medicare and Medicaid funds into providing services based on a patient’s perceived gender or risk losing their funding.
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While speaking at a prayer breakfast in Washington on Tuesday, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, said attacks on the family, including the forcing of same-sex marriage and transgender bathroom laws on society, are “demonic.”
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In a
statement issued in response to the government’s controversial “guidance” to schools on the use of bathrooms by transgenders, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is calling the move “deeply disturbing.”
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Here we go again. A same-sex couple in the Archdiocese of Louisville is accusing the Catholic Church of discriminating against them because they will not be permitted to erect a headstone in a Catholic cemetery that celebrates same-sex marriage.
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Leaders in at least a dozen states are refusing to implement guidelines from the federal government which threaten to withhold federal funding for schools that refuse to allow students to use the bath/locker room that corresponds to their gender identity.
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Pope Francis delivered a powerful homily at morning Mass in which he denounced modern day “leeches” – those who take advantage of unemployment desperation to offer workers subpar working conditions without health insurance or pensions – calling this "civilized trafficking" and warning the faithful to develop a “correct relationship” with money.
