The mother of a student attending Clay High School in Clay County, Florida says a teacher gave her son the idea of watching the controversial film, 13 Reasons Why, which contributed to some of his mental health disorders.
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“I would like to be ground to dust for the Immaculate Virgin and have the dust be blown away by the wind all over the world.”
- St. Maximilian Kolbe
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“Each time that my enemy would provoke me to combat, I behave as a gallant soldier.”
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“Without a doubt, the Church’s most popular and beloved expression of Marian devotion is the Rosary. It’s my favorite expression too. Love engendering love—that’s the secret of the Rosary.”
– Dr. Scott Hahn
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A protest is evolving against a new movie, The Little Hours, which is a so-called American “comedy" based on the story of a servant boy who takes shelter in a very dysfunctional convent where the nuns outdo one another in their haste to seduce him.
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Even though too many associate natural fertility methods of family planning to be akin to the old “rhythm method,” today’s methods are 95 to 99 percent effective in achieving and/or preventing pregnancy and women are looking for alternatives to risky pills and IUDs – so why aren’t they getting the information they need?
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Today was graduation day for Young Women of Grace at Regina Academy at St. John the Baptist in Ottsville, Pennsylvania.
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“The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.”
—James 5:16, NRSV
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Just after returning from his brief pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal, Pope Francis reflected on the experience, saying that while visiting the site of the apparitions, he felt immersed in the prayer of the faithful “that for one hundred years has flowed there like a river.”
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Although the report has not yet been made public, Church officials charged with investigating the validity of the apparitions at Medjugorje have apparently decided that the first seven apparitions were authentic, but succeeding visions are suspect.
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