Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A Republican Senate candidate in the state of Washington is the recipient of an offensive anti-Catholic campaign by an anonymous person who launched a website accusing him of “representing the people of the Vatican” rather than the citizenry simply because he’s Catholic.
“The immense good which this noble
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Fr. Stanley Rother
(1935 – 1981)
The name of a young priest from Oklahoma named Fr. Stanley Rother, who was gunned down in a Guatemala rectory in 1981 for refusing to leave his duties as a pastor, has been officially accepted for submission to the Theological Commission of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In an era when students are being suspended for having a gun-shaped pop tart in school, why is an elementary school in a Seattle suburb allowing a Sikh student to carry a ceremonial double-edged dagger to school?
“The family that recites the Rosary together
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“To pray the Rosary for children, and even
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“The Holy Rosary, by age-old tradition,
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Commissioner Peter Kirsanow
Annise Parker, the openly gay mayor of Houston, got a tongue-lashing this week from a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for demanding copies of the sermons and e-mails of five Houston pastors who supported a citizen-led initiative to defeat a controversial transgender law.
“If evils increase, the devotion of the
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