
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
We hear a lot of talk about “safe spaces” on campuses where students can go to be sheltered from viewpoints they don’t like, but a group of male and female students at the University of Notre Dame are campaigning to create a real “safe space” by calling for a porn-free campus.
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“We must keep near to the souls God puts in our way, and try to understand and love them. Here we have discovered, by God’s grace, the sources of peace and the means of possessing it fully.”
-Elizabeth Leseur
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BLESSED CLELIA MORLINO By RedeSagrado [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Even though she was the daughter of a freemason, endured financial disaster, public humiliation, and the scorn of some of her own sisters, our Church’s newest blessed, Clelia Merloni (1861-1930) never lost sight of who she was – a daughter of God.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Even though the House of Representatives is now in the control of the largely pro-abortion Democratic caucus, the 2018 Midterms resulted in plenty of victories for the pro-life cause.
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“Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.”
- St. Teresa of Avila
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“What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.”
--St. John Paul II
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JMT writes:
“Could you please give a simple explanation for why it’s okay for Catholics to communicate with the dead but it’s not okay for mediums to do the same thing.”
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Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, is being sued by a professor who was punished after he declined a male student’s demand to be referred to as a woman.
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“Our God is God. All is as He pleases. I am the happiest creature in the thought that not the least thing can happen but by His will or permission; and all for the best.”
- St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
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“My vocation is to let myself be led like a child, one day at a time.”
-Blessed Pierina Morosini
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