
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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A Missouri court rejected the primary claim of a former Catholic diocese ministry worker who sued the diocese for terminating her employment once leadership learned of her same-sex union.
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Yesterday afternoon, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled against EWTN Global Catholic Network in its long-running battle against the government’s insurance mandate requiring employer-sponsored health plans to provide coverage for contraception, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs.
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U.S. researchers have uncovered a sad statistic in relation to euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands – more than half of the patients studied cited loneliness as the key motivation behind the decision to end their life.
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Victor Delacruz and Bishop Richard Garcia of Monterey, California
A former soldier and revert to the Catholic faith has designed a new tool to help Catholics keep control of their busy lives while still making time for God.
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National Shrine of Divine Mercy, Stockbridge, MA
The Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, promoters of the Divine Mercy message and devotion from the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, has teamed up with Oscar Delgado, an independent Hollywood producer, to create Divine Mercy Matters, a 14-part miniseries launching today across all media platforms.
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The beautiful young cancer patient who moved the Pope to tears this week when she sang the Ave Maria says that his visit brought her a peace and tranquility she never felt before and is now convinced that she will survive.
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