By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The well-known Catholic priest and blogger, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, says the real “smoke of Satan” that has entered the Church is the modernist re-interpretation of the Catholic faith.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
“Safer Sex” Has Cancer Risks
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Researchers are reporting a troubling uptick in the incidence of certain head and neck cancers among middle-aged and even younger Americas which may be linked to the increased practice of oral sex, which many sex ed programs promote as “safer sex.”
Florida Judge Voids ObamaCare
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A federal judge in Florida has struck down the entire health care reform law after ruling that the individual mandate, upon which the law depends, is unconstitutional.
Sacraments
“Christ’s good is communicated to all Christians, even as the power in the head is shared by all the members. This communication is effected by the sacraments of the Church, in which the power of Christ’s passion operates, the effect of which is the bestowal of grace for the remission of sins.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
For Reflection:
According to these words of St. Thomas Aquinas, what is the purpose and benefit of the sacraments? How does this enhance my appreciation of the gift God has given me through them?
