By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
As Obama administration officials sink ever deeper into the scandal involving a mismanaged government-run firearms-trafficking operation known as “Fast and Furious” that resulted in the death of at least one law enforcement official, a reporter says White House officials are now screaming and cussing at her for staying on top of the story.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a ruling that may prove pivotal for religious organizations in the future, the Supreme Court decided to let stand a lower court decision in favor of a religious employer’s right to make employment decisions based on religious beliefs.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Homosexual activists may have met their match in 57 year old Rose Marie Belforti, the town clerk for the small town of Ledyard, New York who is refusing to be bullied into resigning because she won’t sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The controversial new NBC program, The Playboy Club, has become the year’s first official cancellation as poor ratings and a steady barrage of viewer complaints forced the network to shut it down after only three episodes.
“After Holy Mass [the Rosary] is one of the most beautiful and efficacious forms of prayer, on condition of understanding it and living it.”
Grarrigou-Lagrange
For Reflection:
What do I think it means to understand and to live the Rosary? To what extent do I do this in my everyday life? Is there a strategy I can employ to help me do so more faithfully?
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Archdiocese of Omaha is criticizing the Fremont Public Schools in Fremont, Nebraska for forbidding a sixth-grader from wearing a rosary to school, saying it violates the dress code and has been used as gang-identification symbols in several western states.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Polish Archbishop Edward Ozorowski led the faithful in a special Mass on Sunday to celebrate a Eucharistic miracle that occurred in 2008.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In response to a sudden change in position by the Department of Defense (DOD) to allow chaplains to preside over same-sex marriages on military bases, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Archdiocese for Military Services, says Roman Catholic priests will not be performing the ceremonies.
“The second fault commonly committed in saying the Rosary is to have no intention other than that of getting it over with as quickly as possible.”
St. Louis de Montfort
For Reflection:
How often I have fallen into this fault! Today, I will begin again to treasure this great prayer that is my privilege to pray.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study has found that a whopping 92 percent of all of the top songs of 2009 contained sexually suggestive themes.
