By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Shortly after receiving a threatening note that was signed, “Your friend, Satan,” a priest from Tuscany, Italy was beaten in the parish rectory and required hospitalization.
Yearly Archives: 2011
Patience
“For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research. To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.
Pope John Paul II
For Reflection:
According to this quote, how does God use patience as an instrument to work His greatest wonders? How does this help me to appreciate the time between a prayer and its answer? A desire and its manifestation? A vision and its realization?
Activists Launch Same-Sex Marriage Bus Tour
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Proponents of same-sex marriage are planning to use the momentum they gained by the passage of New York’s Marriage Equality Act to launch a bus tour that will take them into 11 states that have banned the unions with the hopes of educating locals on other ways to secure equal recognition under the law.
Buddhist Temples Caught Hiding Sexual Abuse of Minors
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An investigative report by the Chicago Tribune has uncovered evidence of sexual abuse by Buddhist monks in Theravada temples throughout the U.S.
Lawsuit Filed Against NY Same-Sex Marriage Law
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Alleging “flagrant violations” of New York State constitutional and legal procedures in the recent passage of the Marriage Equality Act, a lawsuit has been filed in the New York Supreme Court on behalf of several plaintiffs which could put a halt to same-sex marriages in the state as well as invalidate those that have taken place since the law went into effect on Sunday.
Patience
“God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.”
Oswald Chambers
For Reflection:
How have I done in my “valley” experiences? Has patience kept me steadfast or have I given way so that God’s desires for me have not been accomplished?
(See tomorrow’s Grace Line for another spiritual insight on God’s will, timing, and patience.)
The Wierd World of the ECK Cult
Our ministry recently received a request from someone who is concerned about family members who are being drawn into a group known as Eckankar.
Was the Norway Shooter Really a Fundamentalist Christian?
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Assertions that Anders Breivik, the man who killed 93 people while on a bombing and shooting spree in Oslo, Norway last week, is a Fundamentalist Christian not only appears to be a media fabrication, but there is also some evidence that the killer’s Facebook page declaring him to be a Christian conservative was tampered with.
Pope on Norway Massacre: ” . . . Escape from the logic of evil.”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI mourned the senseless attacks on a government building and youth camp in Norway on Friday that left 93 people dead.
UK Scientists Secretly Create 155 Human-Animal Hybrids
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Scientists in the UK have been accused of committing “emotional blackmail” by secretly creating human-animal hybrids in their labs while telling the public they’re doing so in order to “cure every illness known to mankind.”
