PA writes: “I have a wonderful Catholic doctor who recently told me to try Tea Tree oil for a skin infection my 6 year old had. She also gave me a prescription for a topical antibiotic if the oil did not work. I have used essential oils for medicinal purposes for a number of years and have had good results with them. We have not used them for serious illnesses, mostly just skin problems, viruses, tummy aches etc. I used the Tea Tree oil and within a couple days the infection stopped spreading and by the end of one week was completely gone. Is Church teaching against this?”
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Pope Pleads for Christian Woman’s Life
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI made an urgent appeal yesterday to the leaders of Pakistan to spare the life of a Christian mother of five who has been sentenced to death for blasphemy on a trumped up charge of insulting Mohammed.
“Naughty or Nice” Store Listing Now Available
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
For those consumers who wish to make a statement with their Christmas purchases this year, the American Family Association (AFA) has just released the 2010 “Naughty or Nice” list of stores that are either promoting or censoring Christmas.
Lame Duck Session to Push Radical Feminist UN Treaty
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Concerned citizens need to be aware that a Senate subcommittee is planning to hold a hearing today on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a treaty that promotes abortion, disparages Mother’s Day, and would put all aspects of life under the scrutiny of “gender experts.”
Pope Promulgates Most Important Document on Scripture Since Vatican II
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict has issued a post-synodal apostolic exhortation entitled, Verbum Domini [The Word of the Lord], which is considered to be the most important Church document devoted to Sacred Scripture since the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum), which was promulgated in 1965.
Black Magic Suspected in Bizarre Outbreak at Trinidad School
This is a truly bizarre story that I posted today on our Breaking News site. It’s all over the news in the West Indies and involves about two dozen students at a school in Trinidad who fell mysteriously ill last week with symptoms eerily similar to those experienced by possessed persons.
Black Magic Suspected in Bizarre Outbreak at Trinidad School
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
More than 17 female students at a school in Trinidad fell mysteriously ill last week with symptoms eerily similar to those experienced by possessed persons.
Bishop: Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Is “Akin to Roe v. Wade”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The newly elected vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) says that if the courts strike down Proposition 8, a voter-approved constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage in California, the cultural impact on marriage will be “akin to Roe v. Wade.”
Massachusetts High School Teachers Stage “Coming Out” Assembly
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A group of seven homosexual teachers at the Concord-Carlisle High School in Massachusetts led an afternoon assembly last month in which they described how they “came out” as homosexuals and how their lives improved as a result.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan Elected to Head USCCB
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a surprising upset, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) elected Archbishop Timothy Dolan over sitting vice president Bishop Gerald Kicanas as the new president of the conference.
