Big Surprise: Media Ignores Pro-Life Student Walkout

Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

Even though the mainstream media devoted a steady stream of breathless coverage during a school walkout to protest gun violence, there was barely a peep from the media when it came to covering another this week’s protest against the unjust taking of innocent lives.

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Pope: Fake News Invented by Satan

In this year’s Message for World Communications Day, which falls on May 13, Pope Francis delivers a blistering critique of fake news, equating it to the “snake-tactics” of the devil who used it to fool Eve, and said it’s only purpose is to the “deceive and manipulate the reader.”

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Raised on Potter, Millennials Embrace Occult

A glowing article about how millennials are ditching religion for astrology and psychics celebrates the fact that millennials – the first generation to come of age during the Harry Potter era – are ditching religion. Should we be surprised?

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EWTN Opens Studio in UK

EWTN Chairman and CEO Michael P. Warsaw cuts ceremonial ribbon at the new UK facility. (Photo credit EWTN/Alan Holdren)

EWTN, the global Catholic network that never stops looking for ways to expand its reach in the hearts of the faithful around the world, achieved a new milestone this week when it opened its first studio in the United Kingdom.

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Teen Vogue Backlash: #Pullteenvogue

activist mommyCommentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

A recent Teen Vogue article promoting anal sex has sparked national outrage and a growing movement to have the magazine pulled from store shelves while the magazine tries to defend itself with the usual liberal name-calling, indecencies, and Catholic-bashing.

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Media Labels Christian Law Center as “Hate Group”

70124305_sCommentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

ABC News reporters Pete Madden and Erin Galloway led a mainstream media smear campaign against the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), one of the country’s most respected religious liberty law firms, causing a national outcry after referring to them as a “hate group.”

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Media Slams Courageous Bishop for Loyalty to Church

bishop paprockiCommentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS

The mainstream media is once again maligning a good and courageous bishop simply because he published a decree stating that persons involved in same-sex relationships cannot receive communion or serve on the altar, nor can they be given a Catholic funeral if they do not repent before death.

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Despite What the Media Says, Religion is Good for Marriage & Family

family prayingEven though the headlines normally report only on negative news about religion’s impact on marriage and family, don’t believe it! According to experts, quality studies have found that couples and families who pray together really do stay together longer than their non-religious peers, that’s what we have come to learn through the kaddish service.

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Blasphemous Movie to Open June 30

The Little HoursCommentary 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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