Even after being sucker punched by an irate woman outside of an abortion clinic this past weekend, a heroic 15 year-old teen got back on her feet and told her attacker “I love you.”
Category Archives: Cultural
New Messenger Kids App Stirs Debate
In an effort to tap into the lucrative children’s market while still complying with existing child safety laws, Facebook introduced a new messaging app for kids under the age of 13 that has fueled the debate about the impact of social media on children.
Parents Fume Over Sexy Toddler Dress
The sexualization of little girls in our culture continues unabated as an online retailer based in Australia offers a skimpy black tulle outfit for 3 year-olds with a sexualized slogan across the chest.
How to Stop Sexual Harassment? R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
If it wasn’t such a serious a matter, I would laugh every time another breathless reporter reveals the fall of another so-called “icon” of Congress, or the press, or Hollywood, after he was accused of sexual harassment. How could the media – or anyone for that matter – be so surprised by a phenomenon that women have been experiencing for centuries? Has it taken this long for them to realize that the sexual harassment of women is a systemic problem throughout the world?
GirlGuides UK Opens Facilities to Male Guides
Girlguiding UK, which is the country’s equivalent of the Girl Scouts, recently decided to allow males who identify as females to not become Guides, but has now extended that decision to allow boys to use the same bathrooms, showers, and tents as the girls.
Irish Catholics Flock to Rosary Crusade
Map showing hundreds of locations in Ireland where the Rosary was prayed on Sunday
In what is being hailed as one of the largest prayer initiatives in Ireland in 40 years, tens of thousands of Catholics flocked to over 270 locations along the coast of Ireland on Sunday to pray the Rosary in order to prevent the legalization of abortion and to restore the faith to what was once the most Catholic nation on earth.
“Impeached” Pro-Life Student Refuses to Back Down
A 20 year-old student at the University College Dublin (UCD) who was impeached from her position as student union president because of her pro-life views says she’ll never lose her passion for defending life.
What NOT to Buy Your Child This Christmas
World Against Toys Causing Harm, Inc. (W.A.T.C.H.), a consumer watchdog group, just released its nominees for the “10 Worst Toys of 2017” and it includes popular items like the Spiderman Spider-Drone and Wonder Woman Battle Sword.
Parents Fume Over Explicit Magazine in School Library
Parents of junior high students in a Pinelands, New Jersey school are furious after discovering a sex-education magazine, written by teens, in the school’s media center that contains sexually explicit content.
Keeping Christ in Christmas
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Keeping Christ in Christmas is very much a personal matter, but our Baptismal call invites us to do more to bring Christ into the culture, which all of us can do by standing firm in our right to publicly express our beliefs during this sacred season.
