By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) in Washington DC, whose rehab programs have mostly failed to help the city's most dangerous youth, is now looking to yoga and possibly tai-chi to help their troubled inmates.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Reports are surfacing in the Italian media that medical advisers for the Congregation for the Causes of Saints have ruled favorably on a miracle attributed to Pope John Paul II's intercession, which could open the door to beatification as early as this year.
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"I want to be completely transformed into Your mercy and to be Your living reflection, O Lord. May the greatest of all divine attributes, that of Your unfathomable mercy, pass through my heart and soul to my neighbor."
St. Faustina Kowalska
For Reflection:
In whose life would the Lord ask me today to be a conduit of His love and mercy? (Hint: From whom would I most like to withhold love and mercy?) In what practical way can I respond?
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The nation of Romania has decided to recognize the work of witches and astrologists, but not because they believe in these dark arts - they're just plain strapped for cash.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Christian website has published a list of the top ten attacks on Christian beliefs during the past year and says they prove that Christophobia is on the rise in the U.S.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Kohl's department stores and Mrs. Fields Cookies are two of the latest corporations to join what is becoming a record number of companies who have stopped donating funds to Planned Parenthood.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Archbishop of Sydney is willing to meet with supporters of same-sex marriage who want him to call off a Church-sponsored campaign against the unions, but on his own terms - first, they must make a public statement conceding that the Church's opposition to same-sex nuptials is not homophobic and second, they must allow a Catholic married couple to be present at the meeting.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A mass grave has been discovered outside a psychiatric hospital in western Austria which is believed to contain the remains of 220 victims of the Nazi euthanasia program.
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Feast of St. John Neumann, Bishop
(1811 - 1860)
A man must always be ready, for death comes when and where God wills it.
St. John Neumann
For Reflection:
If today should be the day the Lord would call me home, would I be ready?
(Consider: What are my outstanding sins? Whose forgiveness do I need to ask? Who do I need to forgive? What would be the last words my loved ones would remember me saying to them?)
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"The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will." St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
As a Catholic revert, it was with great joy and surprise that I was introduced to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. I, like many, at the beginning of my faith journey, viewed sainthood as something that was only attainable to priests and religious who dedicated their entire lives to prayer, fasting, and extreme penances. In other words, it wasn't for a lay person like myself. Mrs. Seton taught me differently.
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