This week, the EWTN family pays tribute to Helen Hull Hitchcock, a true daughter of God and defender of Catholic faith and family. She was a pioneer in the renewal of the sacred liturgy and reclaiming women's authentic role in the Church.In October of 2003, I had the great privilege of interviewing her about Pope John Paul II's then new encyclical Ecclesia Dei, which sought to correct many of the liturgical abuses that were taking place at that time. You can watch our interview here.
Philip JohnsonA young seminarian with incurable brain cancer is praying that 29 year-old Brittany Maynard, who is suffering the same plight and publicly announced plans to take her life with prescription drugs on November 1, is asking her to choose to fight instead so that her life and witness can be an example and inspiration to others.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSSalesian High School, a Catholic boys' school in New Rochelle, New York, is taking heat for refusing to allow its premises to be used to film a scene for a movie about a lesbian couple, an incident that is being used as yet another hammer with which to pummel Church teaching.
Archbishop Kevin FarrellAlthough he received some criticism for doing so, Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell sheltered the fiancé of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die of Ebola in the U.S., during the required quarantine period because that's what Jesus would have done.
Darek FidykaA 38 year-old Bulgarian man has become the first person to walk again after being paralyzed from the waist down, thanks to a new procedure using nerve-supporting cells from the inside of his nose.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSIn an explosive blog posted on The American Thinker, Rivka Edelman, who was raised by same-sex parents, says she and others like her have had enough of being bullied, threatened and publicly maligned by gay activists for telling the truth about the hardships of being raised by homosexual parents and are currently in the process of getting their stories ready for publication.
Donald & Evelyn KnappOfficials in the town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho are under fire today for trying to force two ordained Christian ministers to perform same-sex weddings under threat of fines and jail time.
