(Twitter)Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A Toronto-based soft-serve ice cream chain known as Sweet Jesus, whose logo features an upside down cross, is trying to expand into the United States where it is getting a frosty welcome from American Christians who are determined to teach them the difference between "edgy" and offensive.
In what is being called a smashing victory for religious freedom, U.S. District Court Judge David Russell has issued a ruling in which he declared the Obama Administration’s controversial “birth control mandate” to be a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and has stopped all enforcement of the mandate against dozens of Catholic dioceses and institutions.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSIn a major victory for public decency standards, Walmart has agreed to remove Cosmopolitan magazine, with its covers full of half-naked women and risqué articles, from checkout racks.
In a recent homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis invited the faithful who are depressed and tired of life to look at the Cross because “by those wounds we have been healed.”
Thousands of people from all faiths and backgrounds are planning to gather at abortion clinics across the country to pray the Way of the Cross for Victims of Abortion on Good Friday.
A new study has shown an alarming loss of faith among 16- to 29-year-olds in more than a dozen European countries where as many as 70 percent say they never go to church and 80 percent don’t even pray.
A firestorm has erupted in Monrovia, California over the presence of Planned Parenthood at a middle-school fair promoting mental health with many parents saying the nation’s largest abortion provider doesn’t belong on campus.
A film documenting an authentic exorcism by the late exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth will be released in New York and Los Angeles on April 20. If it’s anything like the newly released trailer, this is bound to be one of the most gripping 68 minutes of your life.
An inspiring new movie, based on a Christian musician’s relationship with an abusive father, took Hollywood by surprise last weekend when its box office debut scored $17 million, bested only by big name films Black Panther and Tomb Raider.
Even one of the most liberal justices on the Supreme Court appeared very unimpressed with California’s law forcing crisis pregnancy centers to provide information on abortion – a reaction that many say could spell doom for the ill-fated law.
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