Steps of the Lincoln Memorial where the incident took place.Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A video of Catholic school students wearing MAGA hats supposedly confronting and mocking a Native American man at the March for Life went viral this weekend and sparked an instant wave of condemnation – but new video shows a much different story.
Christ the Redeemer Statue overlooking Rio de Janeiro (Wikicommons)Eduardo Verastegui, a Mexican Catholic actor and pro-life advocate, is planning to build the world's tallest statue of Jesus Christ in Mexico as a message of “faith, love, hope, and peace” in a country wracked by violence.
The 116th Congress is overwhelmingly Christian with 88 percent of its members professing Christianity. On the other hand, just 0.2 percent identify as “nones” who have no religious affiliation.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe March for Life has been a regular occurrence for 45 years and yet the Women’s March, which is only three-years-old, is already floundering with a record number of marches being cancelled across the country. What’s behind the staying power of one march and the rapid fizzling of the other? Perhaps a look at the motivations behind these divergent marches will give us a few clues.
The “Christmas wars” are being fought – and won - all over the world these days. The latest victory occurred in a shopping mall in Scotland where the faithful convinced the owners to overturn their ban on allowing a Nativity scene in their Christmas display.
Pasco County Public Schools is facing a legal battle after parents were forced to call upon lawyers to stop a middle school from forcing unwilling teachers to oversee a gender-confused girl who was permitted to use boys’ facilities, and for allowing a school psychologist to direct students to off-premise resources for contraception and sexual activity counseling without parental permission.
An elementary school principal who banned such things as candy canes, Santa Claus, and “any red and green” items for fear of offending those who don’t celebrate Christmas has been placed on administrative leave.
A new study on young adults who leave the Catholic Church has found that youth stop identifying as Catholic at a median age of 13 for reasons ranging from disbelief to dissatisfaction with Church teaching.
Activists determined to strip any trace of Christianity from the public square ran into a brick wall in the town of Newaygo, Michigan where residents are rallying around a display of the three wise men that has sat atop a public elementary school for decades.\
The global scientific community is reeling after a Chinese scientist announced that he used a powerful new gene-editing technique on twin girls to protect them from the HIV their father is carrying – an experiment that many believe was unauthorized and unethical.
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