When the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued its shocking report last week in which it claimed phrases such as “religious liberty” and “religious liberty” were actually “code words” for discrimination, the Commission received swift backlash, including from the Church.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Schools in the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey made headlines this week for defying political correctness and standing up for Christ regardless of public opinion.
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The Obama administration has asked the public to weigh in on the five-year war it has waged against religious non-profit groups, including the Little Sisters of the Poor and Priests for Life, over the HHS mandate, and is giving citizens until September 20 to offer their solutions for how to accommodate the religious liberty of these organizations.
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Mary Alice Nolan
Mary Alice Nolan is planning to be “ordained” a “Roman Catholic” priest by a female bishop in October, even though it means she will be excommunicated – a punishment she says will be very upsetting to her. So why is she doing this?
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A new study has found that an alarming number of young Catholics, some as young as 10 years old, are leaving the faith due to the prevailing trend that sees atheism as “smart” and the faith as a “fairy tale.”
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Sister Isabel Sola Mata
Pope Francis took a moment away from the joyful celebration of the canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta this weekend to pray for a 51 year-old missionary who was gunned down on September 2 on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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In his homily commemorating the canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Francis said that she was a generous dispenser of divine mercy in all aspects of her life through her welcome and defense of human life, both born and unborn.
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Just days before the canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, a community of her nuns in Argentina was brutally attacked by three men who broke into the house, beat the sisters and desecrated their chapel.
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Archbishop John J. Myers of the Archdiocese of Newark issued a
letter yesterday in which he stood firmly behind a decision by Paramus Catholic High School to fire an employee who was discovered to be in a same-sex marriage, citing the “confusion and uncertainty” she posed to the moral formation of students at the school.
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In light of recent incidents of violence and racial tension in communities across the United States, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has invited all dioceses across the country to unite in a Day of Prayer for Peace in Our Communities on September 9, the Feast of St. Peter Claver.
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