By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new poll has found that the vast majority of Americans are opposed to allowing school children to be taught that homosexuality is a normal alternative lifestyle.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Illinois Catholic Charities Stands Firm Against State-Imposed Homosexual Adoption
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
On June 1, a new civil unions law will go into effect in the state of Illinois, and officials at Catholic Charities have already announced that they will not go against Church teaching and offer their more than 3,000 children for adoption by homosexual couples.
All Charges Dropped Against “ND 88”
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Thomas More Society announced late yesterday afternoon that Michael Dvorak, St. Joseph County, Indiana prosecutor, dismissed the criminal trespass charges that he has pressed over the last two years against almost all of the “ND88,” the individuals arrested for peacefully protesting the University’s honoring of President Barack Obama at the 2009 Commencement. Dvorak dropped the charges as part of an agreement between the Thomas More Society and the University.
Blessed Mother
“Look, my child, at my heart surrounded with thorns, which ungrateful men continuously nail into me with their blasphemies and sins. You, at least, try to console me and tell everyone that those who go to confession on the first Saturday of the month for five months, receive holy communion, say the rosary and keep me company for a quarter of an hour – these I promise to assist at the time of their death with the necessary graces for their salvation.”
The Blessed Virgin Mary
(Fatima, August 13, 1917)
For Reflection:
To what extent am I willing to make reparation for sins against the name of Jesus?
Nuns’ Votes Tossed in Contentious Wisconsin Recount
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
At the insistence of Democratic challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg, the votes from a monastery of 18 Cistercian nuns have been tossed out in the Wisconsin Supreme Court recount because they lacked witness signatures, even though votes are rarely if ever discounted for this reason.
Muslim Scholars: Bin Laden’s Burial Breached Sharia Law
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Muslim scholars are saying that the controversial burial of Osama bin Laden at sea, which many critics say the Obama Administration ordered out of a desire to appear “politically correct”, was done incorrectly and actually breached sharia law.
MA Bishops Condemn Graphic State-Funded Teen WebSite
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Massachusetts Conference of Bishops has issued a statement demanding that the state defund a new website that promotes sex to minors, describes abortion in misleading terms and emphasizes ways for teens to get an abortion without their parent’s knowledge.
Hail to Our . . . Censor-in-Chief?
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The White House is involved in yet another attempt to “control the message,” this time strong-arming a small California newspaper whose report on Marine One, President Obama’s helicopter, made the First Lady look too snooty.
Blessed Mother
“The knot of Eve’s disobedience was untied by Mary’s obedience: what the virgin Eve bound through her disbelief, Mary loosened by her faith.”
St. Irenaeus
For Reflection:
Do I stand more in the footprints of Eve or the Blessed Mother? How do I show my obedience through faith even when it may be difficult? What is one example from my life that points to this?
Catholics in Abbotobbad Fear Reprisals
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Members of the small Catholic parish in the city where Osama bin Laden was slain on Monday are holding their breath in fear of reprisals.
