Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A new study has found that free speech in America may be on its way to becoming just another phrase in a text book as a majority of Americans now admit that they keep silent rather than speak out of fear of reprisals.
The faithful are rallying around the residents of New York City after a terror attack yesterday that left eight people dead and 11 wounded.
More than 300 years ago, a kindly Irish Catholic woman living in Boston was accused of witchcraft by a group of anti-Catholic authorities, but the facts of the story point more to a woman who was martyred for her faith, not her witchcraft!
The manager of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas asked a Catholic priest to bless the room used by a man to kill 58 people at a country music concert on October 1st.
As the country of Ireland prepares for next year’s abortion referendum, the faithful are planning to follow Poland’s lead by staging a massive Rosary rally around the country which will take place this year on November 26.
A group of both Hindu and Catholic schoolchildren in India say they saw Our Lady standing under the altar in their church, accompanied by the scent of jasmine, the gift of contrition, and the miraculous healing of a girl’s ear problem.
Sanctuary of Fatima, Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
We just celebrated the 100th anniversary of the last apparition of Fatima and the famous Miracle of the Sun, but the messages that rocked the world a century ago continue to speak to the hearts and minds of the faithful everywhere.
On Saturday, October 14, hundreds of thousands of Catholics across the country will be gathering in public to pray the Rosary and beg the Blessed Mother to intercede for the salvation of America.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
History was made this year when Women of Grace® founder, Johnnette Benkovic, delivered a message about the dignity and vocation of women to the world stage at the United Nations – a message delivered while standing in the shadow of the same Pilgrim Virgin Statue that first visited this global entity 65 years ago!
While speaking at the World Congress on Child Dignity in the Digital World in Rome last Friday, Pope Francis implored participants to do more to protect children from sexual exploitation on the Internet.
