Natural family planning, how to achieve unity in diversity and the media’s misunderstanding of a letter given to Pope Francis represent some of the highlights of the eighth day of the Synod of Bishops on the Family.
Outrage is growing over the passage of a new law in California that requires all pregnancy centers that are licensed as clinics to “disseminate” information about free or low cost access to abortion and contraception services or face steep fines.
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In what they are calling a move to take the “smokescreen” away from pro-life investigators who caught the abortion giant cavalierly engaging in the selling of fetal body parts, Planned Parenthood has announced that they will no longer accept payment for these “products”.
Day seven of the Synod of Bishops on the Family focused primarily on forming couples for marriage and accompanying them after marriage, as well as providing the sacraments to the divorced and remarried. The press spokesman also addressed a letter that was supposedly given to the Pope before the Synod began which expressed concern about the way the Synod was being managed.
Some of the nation’s most esteemed legal and political scholars have issued a statement calling upon all public officials and American citizens to resist the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Obergefell v. Hodges case that redefined marriage for every state in the nation because the ruling is unconstitutional and therefore illegitimate.
Jamie and PiperCommentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
It’s a scenario that was once the stuff of sci fi novels – a "leftover" embryo who was conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) and “adopted” by another couple who brings her to life – meets up with her biological sister a decade later.
The results of several days of small group meetings at the Synod of Bishops on the Family point to a need to change the way the Church communicates with the world, and to come to a new understanding of what marriage and family looks like in the modern world.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSDid you ever think you’d see the day when a candidate for the U.S. Senate was a practicing pagan who admits to having sacrificed a goat and drinking its blood?
Students at a Wyoming high school decided they had enough of political correctness and showed up at a cancelled America Pride Day dressed in red, white and blue.
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