Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSAnnise Parker, the openly gay mayor of Houston who caused a national outcry last week for subpoenaing the sermons of five Christian pastors, made several unsuccessful attempts to convince the public that she's backing off of this outrageous breach of the U.S. Constitution even while continuing to bully Christians for expressing their views in church sanctuaries.
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The final report issued by the attendees of the historic Extraordinary Synod on the Family contains none of the controversial language of the interim working document and signals more work to be done at next year's Synod.
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A new controversy is brewing over government backing of Ebola vaccines that are using aborted fetal cell lines even though vaccines developed from moral alternatives are just as effective.
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The Vatican has issued an updated version of the English translation of the mid-term report known as the relatio with more careful language that is being described by the secular media as "significantly colder."
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In addition to a host of other intrigues, allegations are swirling today that groups within the Vatican are engineering the Synod to move toward "modernizing" Church teaching on social issues, which prompted Latvian Archbishop Zbignev Stankevics to issue an urgent call for prayer.
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A Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that parents can be held liable for what their children post on Facebook, a decision lawyers are calling a new legal precedent.
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With both candidates for governor of the state of Rhode Island in favor of abortion "rights", Bishop Thomas Tobin of the Diocese of Providence is suggesting that voters write-in the name of Mother Teresa in protest to send a signal that voters want to see pro-life candidates on the ballot in November.
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In a chilling example of just how far homosexual activists are willing to go to force people to accept their lifestyle, the city of Houston, which has an openly lesbian mayor, has subpoenaed pastors demanding that they turn over any sermon dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or the mayor. Anyone who fails to comply could be held in contempt of court.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Thanks to a combination of irresponsible reporting and the vague language contained in the first document released by the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops, the Vatican was forced to issue a statement yesterday reminding the public that this is just a "working document" and reflects no doctrinal changes in Church teaching.
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Nina Pham, the dedicated Dallas nurse who was infected with Ebola after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient to die in the U.S., is a devout Catholic whose faith very much informed her work as a nurse.
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