By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Placards featuring pictures of aborted babies greeted Supreme Court justices, two Cabinet members and Vice President Joe Biden as they entered the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC for the annual Red Mass.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI has awarded EWTN founder Mother Mary Angelica and Deacon Bill Steltemeier, chairman of EWTN’s Board of Governors, the Cross of Honor for distinguished service to the Church.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Even with abortion funding imbedded in every health care reform bill currently moving through Congress, Planned Parenthood’s president says pro-life citizens are way ahead of abortion supporters when it comes to contacting legislators about their cause.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A lawsuit filed by a Cincinnati lawyer this past summer claims that 50 women have died after they began taking a trendy new birth control pill known as Yasmin or Yaz.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new poll has found that since the election of the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history, public support for abortion has seen the largest drop in one year since pollsters began tracking the topic in 1995. With the exception of Roman Catholic voters, even the concept of “common ground” on the issue is losing public support.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a surprising 12-11 victory, the Senate Finance Committee voted to restore Title V abstinence-only funding to the tune of $50 million a year through 2014.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Blessed Jeanne Jugan, will be canonized in a ceremony at the Vatican on Oct. 11. This saint-to-be, who devoted her life to helping the elderly poor, is especially significant to the American faithful as we debate health care policies aimed at rationing care for seniors.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a statement to mark Respect Life Sunday, October 4, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia called attention to those who are most vulnerable in recent debates on health care reform – the unborn, the poor, the elderly and the immigrant – and called upon Catholics to “examine how well we, as a nation and individually, are living up to our obligation to protect the rights of those who, due to age, dependency, poverty or other circumstances, are at risk of their very lives."
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Today is the Feast of the Guardian Angels.
Throughout history many poets have found the angels to be a topic of great inspiration and insight. My final post in
this short study on the angels features just such a poem. It is written by J. Corson Miller, an American poet who was born in 1883. The time of his death is unknown.
However, we do know that J. Corson Miller was a devout Catholic of whom one critic wrote, "
Imagination, passion, facility of musical and expressive word and phrase, lyrical tone -- these natural endowments are augmented by education, vision and Catholic faith."
Interestingly and not without note, Miller pledged his life to Our Lady and promised to be her "consecrated knight in deed and song." Many of his poems were written about her and to her.
As you read Miller's poem,
Hymn to the Guardian Angel, look for his profoundly Catholic worldview, his knowledge of the faith, and the imagination and passion he employs to communicate it.
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Today is the Feast Day of St. Therese of Lisieux, one of my favorite saints since childhood.
Since today is her special day and this week of my blog is dedicated to the angels, I am posting a poem St. Therese wrote to her guardian angel.
May it inspire you to seek the intercession of St. Therese and also that of your guardian angel!
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