Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Chase Culpepper as himself
It hasn’t been a good week for those folks who are pushing the transgender agenda in the U.S. with the family of a gender “non-conforming” teen upset that he couldn’t get a photo ID while wearing women’s makeup while another man who changed his gender twice got sacked from his job at ABC News due to performance problems.
BVS writes: “I am writing to inquire about the Maximum Ride book series, our son brought these home, and is reading one for a book assignment for his parochial school. He has read the book School is Out Forever, and brought home the book, The Final Warning. . . . My internal red flags started firing when on the back cover it reads ‘Like the Harry Potter series, this reading will be shared by children, their parents and grandparents’ . . .
“God’s will — peacefully do at
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The father of a little girl with Trisomy 18 discovered that some hospitals use a “slow code” to deliberately neglect to provide full treatment to patients they deem to be unworthy.
Faith Smith with her mom, Jesi, and dad Brad
Archbishop Salvator Joseph Cordileone
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The Archbishop of San Francisco has shown that he’s not about to cave to political pressure from gay activists or left-leaning politicians and has sent an unequivocal response to a letter sent to him by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D) asking him not to participate in this week’s pro-marriage March in Washington DC.
Suspect Gary Moran
A 54 year-old ex-convict has been arrested on suspicion of murdering 28 year-old Rev. Kenneth Walker on June 11 and seriously injuring Father Joseph Terra at a Mission church in South Phoenix.
“The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry,
the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.”
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The cathedral of the Good Shepherd in San Sebastian, Spain
Although experts can’t say for sure why it’s happening, the Church in Spain has been undergoing a remarkable revival in recent years, including a jump in Mass attendance, new abortion restrictions and even a famous model who gave up the runway for a cloister.
Archbishop Salvator Joseph Cordileone
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The faithful are expressing their outrage this morning after learning that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a long-time advocate of abortion and same-sex marriage, has written a letter to San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone asking him not to attend the upcoming March for Marriage in Washington, DC.
Mosul, Iraq’s 2nd largest city
The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, Amel Shamon Nona, has fled the Iraqi city of Mosul along with the vast majority of the 1,200 Christian families who were left in the city after it fell into the hands of revels of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) late last week.
