A petition drive is underway to ask the United States Postal Service (USPS) to issue a special commemorative “Choose Life” stamp in honor of the sanctity of life.
The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council said that the hour has come when women who are impregnated with the spirit of the Gospel will achieve an influence and power in the world that has never been seen before. This is our time! And this is why Catholic women interested in honing their feminine genius into the kind of leadership skills needed to affect real change in the world are flocking to the new Catholic Women’s Leadership Studies Program of the Benedicta Leadership Institute for Women.
Once again, a rush of excellent Christian films are reminding Hollywood executives that there’s a huge market for movies that respect Christianity and the solid family values it promotes.
Citizens for a Pro-Life America, which is headed by Women of Grace board member Dr. Monica Miller, is calling upon pro-lifers across the country to get involved in the third annual nationwide protest against Planned Parenthood which is scheduled for April 28.
(Twitter)Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A Toronto-based soft-serve ice cream chain known as Sweet Jesus, whose logo features an upside down cross, is trying to expand into the United States where it is getting a frosty welcome from American Christians who are determined to teach them the difference between "edgy" and offensive.
SC writes: “My friend and her husband were given some African prayer beads a few years ago. She has been experiencing some problems with her health, insomnia, and some spiritual warfare. For some reason I remembered last night that they had told me & my husband about these prayer beads. I have a very bad feeling about them. What do you think?"
In what is being called a smashing victory for religious freedom, U.S. District Court Judge David Russell has issued a ruling in which he declared the Obama Administration’s controversial “birth control mandate” to be a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and has stopped all enforcement of the mandate against dozens of Catholic dioceses and institutions.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSIn a major victory for public decency standards, Walmart has agreed to remove Cosmopolitan magazine, with its covers full of half-naked women and risqué articles, from checkout racks.
TO asks: “What about those ‘quizzes’ on Facebook that come up with things like who is your guardian angel, what will your year be like, things like that. I play the quizzes just to see the results but I don't believe in them, even though it would be nice if they were true like meeting the man of my dreams this year, LOL. Should these things be avoided?”
In a recent homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis invited the faithful who are depressed and tired of life to look at the Cross because “by those wounds we have been healed.”
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