A new study from Johns Hopkins University has found that 57 percent of children born to “millennial” women aged 26 to 31 are now being born out of wedlock.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Raunchy Smart Phone App Gives Girls Wrong Message
A new smart phone game for children that teaches girls to “dress sexy” and “go on dates with hot guys” is causing outrage for promoting the wrong values to girls.
Thy Will Be Done
“If we make a quietness within ourselves,
if we silence all desires and opinions and if we love, without formulating any words, we bind our whole soul to think “Thy will be done,” the thing which after that we feel sure we should do…is the will of God.”
-Simone Weil
For Reflection:
In what one area am I presently seeking God’s will? According to the quote, what steps should I take to discover it? Am I willing to do so?
“In what silence, what adoring recollection, must you have withdrawn into the depths of your soul to embrace the God whose Mother you were! Your attitude , O Blessed Virgin, durig the months preceding the Nativity of Jesus, seems to be the model for interior souls, for those whom God has chosen to live within, deep in the unfathomable abyss. What peace and recollection accompanied your every action! You made ordinary things divine, because through them all, you remained the adorer of the Gift of God” (cf. E.T. L-I, 10).
Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life
for Every Day of the Liturgical Year
by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D
Meditation 183, page 531
SCOTUS Ruling Protects Cell Phone Users
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling this morning that will require authorities to obtain a warrant before searching the cell phone of a person who has been arrested.
3 Year-old Sees Jesus After Drowning in Pool
Ella Grayce Kimbro
A three-year old girl who was resuscitated after she was found floating face-up in the family pool woke up to tell her parents that she saw a bright light and a man with long hair before being revived.
Meriam Ibrahim Re-Released
The long nightmare of a young Sudanese mother who was arrested on false charges, released earlier this week after months in prison, then re-arrested while trying to leave the country, has reportedly been released once again and may soon be leaving the country for good.
Come To The Quiet
“Our labor here is brief,
Read the rest…
Meriam Ibrahim Re-Arrested at Khartoum Airport
Sources are reporting that the newly freed Sudanese mother, Meriam Ibrahim, who was released yesterday after spending nearly five months in prison, was re-arrested at the Khartoum airport as she was attempting to leave the country.
Kidnapped Nigerian Girls Reveals Plight of Too Many Women
Photos of kidnapped girls
Even though the plight of 219 kidnapped Nigerian girls has dropped out of the nation’s headlines, the Acton Institute is reminding us that their parents are still stuck in a never-ending nightmare that is being lived by too many young women around the world. Let’s not forget!
AP Corrects Numerous Errors in Septic-Tank Baby Story
St. Mary’s home for mothers and babies
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Just weeks after publishing a sensational story about a Catholic-run orphanage where hundreds of so-called unbaptized children were allegedly buried in a septic tank, the Associated Press (AP) has published a correction of many key details in the story that have since been proven false.
