By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has announced that it is setting aside a potential grave site that will be used to bury the hundreds of victims of a local abortionist who kept their corpses and body parts in jars throughout his clinic.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Obama Administration has rewarded one of the nuns who publicly backed ObamaCare by appointing her to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
“Confession periodically renewed – the Confession of ‘devotion’ – has always accompanied the ascent to holiness in the Church.”
Pope John Paul II
For Reflection:
How frequently do I make use of the Sacrament of Penance? What does this tell me about how seriously I take my call to holiness?
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A commercial by a Christian group that invites Super Bowl viewers to look up John 3:16 was mistakenly aired just before the fourth quarter of last night’s game, even though Fox Sports had rejected the ad, saying it contained too much “religious doctrine.”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Planned Parenthood is responding to a recent undercover sting in which its employees were seen giving guidance to sex traffickers, not by properly training their employees about the law, but by reaching out to liberal billionaire George Soros to help them strategize a response.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Officials in Mexico City have been forced to shut down late night service on the last cars on five different subway lines because homosexuals are using the cars for sexual encounters.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Court watchers will be interested to know that one of the most liberal members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, told a reporter last week that she was not planning to retire before 2012, and hinted that she may stay on until 2016.
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a letter signed by 71 lawmakers, Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being asked to provide information about the extent to which federal tax dollars are being used to fund “telemed abortions”, which involves the distribution of the dangerous abortion pill, RU 486, via an internet interview with a physician rather than the required in-person care.
Dr. Mehmet Oz is planning to host a show today which will feature Paul McKenna, a popular UK self-help hypnotherapist who is planning “to hypnotize America” in an effort to cure “emotional eaters.”
“Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.”
St. Isidore of Seville
For Reflection:
How have I experienced the benefit of Confession as a source of healing? Justification? Release from sin? To what extent does this encourage me to make more frequent use of this sacrament?
