Target’s Latest Misstep

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

Members of the African American community are crying foul after a black woman, who was looking for a Father’s Day card at Target that her family could identify with, found her only choice to be a card featuring a black couple kissing behind the words “Baby Daddy.”

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Safe Against Error


June 19

“The soul that journeys in the light and the truth of the Faith is safe against all error.”
                                                                        –St. Frumentius, Bishop

Woman Decides to Quit Yoga After Watching This Show

Two weeks ago, EWTN’s Women of Grace aired a series of shows detailing many of the lesser-known facts about the current mindfulness craze. We received the following letter from a woman who said that at the time of the show’s airing, she was grappling with whether or not to quit teaching yoga. After watching just the first half of the first show, she immediately knew what had to be done.

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Lord, Save Us!


June 18

“Whenever any grievous temptation or vehement sorrow oppresses thee, invoke they guardian, thy leader; cry out to him and say, ‘Lord, save us, lest we perish!'”
                                                                                    –St. Bernard

Where the Mother is, there also is the Son


June 17

Meditate often on the sorrows of the holy Mother, sorrows inseparable from those of her beloved Son. If you seek the Cross, there you will find the Mother and where the Mother is, there also is the Son.
                                                                        -St. Paul of the Cross

Deeper Needs and Greater Destinies


June 15

The great women always recall us to the deeper needs and the greater destinies; and so they try to save the world from the shallow, the slick, the facile, and the cruel, and to show us that the world of men is not meant to be either a battlefield or a laboratory, but a family.
                                                                                    –Gerald Vann, O. P.