The Holy See used this week’s commemoration of International Women’s Day to call for an authentic “gender equality” that is based on eliminating stereotyping and all forms of violence against women, and by demanding that their inherent dignity be respected throughout the world.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The new bullies on the street – transgender activists – are in the process of bullying a private Catholic school in Rhode Island for not enrolling students who identify as transgender.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In order to promote an upcoming talk by an abortionist, a pro-abortion nursing group at the Jesuit-run Seattle University posted flyers depicting a rosary with the crucifix replaced with an IUD.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Cardinal Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington DC has joined the chorus of people expressing their outrage at Georgetown University for allowing the president of Planned Parenthood to speak on campus next month.
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The powerful photo of a teen praying over a homeless man on the dangerous streets of Baltimore has been viewed more than 30,000 times on
Facebook.
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New research by a therapist whose parents divorced when she was seven reveals that daughters often suffer more when parents split because of absentee fathers, self-esteem issues, and because they tend to take a break-up more personally than their male siblings.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSIn an attempt to make the prospect of dying less complicated (from a material point-of-view), a new breed of “death apps” promise to take the guesswork out of dying and to make life simpler for our loved ones. But are they missing an important point?
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In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court to deny an unmarried lesbian woman the right to adopt three children she had been raising with her partner before the relationship ended; however the ruling was based more on the respect due to state law than on the issue of same-sex adoption.
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Four members of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’s Missionaries of Charity order were killed along with 16 other people after an attack by Islamic extremists on a Church-run retirement home in Yemen on Friday.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In what sounds like something out of a ghoulish new horror movie, officials at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) are proposing that women whose unborn infants develop fatal defects in the early months of pregnancy be permitted to carry the baby to term so that it’s organs can be harvested after birth.
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The Holy See used this week’s commemoration of International Women’s Day to call for an authentic “gender equality” that is based on eliminating stereotyping and all forms of violence against women, and by demanding that their inherent dignity be respected throughout the world.
