“Never utter in your neighbor’s absence
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Desecrated Rosary Featured at Catholic College
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In order to promote an upcoming talk by an abortionist, a pro-abortion nursing group at the Jesuit-run Seattle University posted flyers depicting a rosary with the crucifix replaced with an IUD.
Georgetown Under Fire for Planned Parenthood Invite
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Cardinal Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington DC has joined the chorus of people expressing their outrage at Georgetown University for allowing the president of Planned Parenthood to speak on campus next month.
The Foot Of The Cross
“Which stands up better in a crisis
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Baltimore Teen “Caught” Praying Over Homeless Man
The powerful photo of a teen praying over a homeless man on the dangerous streets of Baltimore has been viewed more than 30,000 times on Facebook.
Research: Daughters Suffer More from Divorce
New research by a therapist whose parents divorced when she was seven reveals that daughters often suffer more when parents split because of absentee fathers, self-esteem issues, and because they tend to take a break-up more personally than their male siblings.
Neuroscience of Music is Serious Study
MB asks: “I am a musician and a teacher and I am very much interested in researching about neuroscience of music. It is a basically new field of study since the year 2000. Neuroscientists basically study the impact that music education has on the brain, especially at an early age and how it promotes brain and cognitive development . . .
Feast of St. Frances of Rome (1384 – 1440)
Merciful Father, in Frances of Rome
You have given us a unique example of love in marriage
as well as in religious life.
Keep us faithful in Your service,
and help us to see and follow You
in all the aspects of life.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns
with You and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. +Amen.
From the Collect of the Mass on the Feast of St. Frances of Rome
For Reflection:
St. Frances of Rome did not want to marry but desired instead to enter religious life. However, she recognized that marriage was God’s will for her. She did marry and, following the death of her husband, she founded a religious order. How is God speaking to me through the witness of the life of St. Frances of Rome?
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Rise of the “Death Apps”
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In an attempt to make the prospect of dying less complicated (from a material point-of-view), a new breed of “death apps” promise to take the guesswork out of dying and to make life simpler for our loved ones. But are they missing an important point?
Supreme Court Restores Lesbian’s Adoption Rights
In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court to deny an unmarried lesbian woman the right to adopt three children she had been raising with her partner before the relationship ended; however the ruling was based more on the respect due to state law than on the issue of same-sex adoption.
