Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Even though she hasn’t even been buried yet, feminists, aided by the mainstream media, are already attacking that late conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, who died on September 5 at the age of 92.
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Why Are So Many Children Leaving the Faith?
A new study has found that an alarming number of young Catholics, some as young as 10 years old, are leaving the faith due to the prevailing trend that sees atheism as “smart” and the faith as a “fairy tale.”
Why Do People Fall for Testimonials?
Did you know there are thousands of people who swear they were abducted by aliens? There’s also a vast number of people who believe they lived past lives, who think horses are possessed of a collective wisdom that can guide us in life, and who swear by an enormous compendium of consciousness recorded on a non-physical realm known as the astral plane.
Resisting Bad Thoughts
“If any bad thought comes to you, make
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Urgent Action Needed! Stop Taxpayer Funding of Chimeras!
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a federally-funded medical research agency, is soliciting comments from the public through the end of today on whether or not to allow taxpayer funding for research that involves the creation of human-animal chimeras.
Pope Mourns Sister Slain in Haiti
Sister Isabel Sola Mata
Pope Francis took a moment away from the joyful celebration of the canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta this weekend to pray for a 51 year-old missionary who was gunned down on September 2 on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Pope Calls Mother Teresa “Dispenser of Divine Mercy”
In his homily commemorating the canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Francis said that she was a generous dispenser of divine mercy in all aspects of her life through her welcome and defense of human life, both born and unborn.
Shadows Of Great Truths
“Ceremonies may be shadows, but they
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The Bold Magdalene
“The Magdalene, most of all, is the model 
I like to follow. That boldness of hers, which would be so amazing if it weren’t the boldness of a lover, won the heart of Jesus, and how it fascinates mine!”
~St. Therese of Lisieux
For Reflection:
In what specific way can I, like Mary Magdalene, “boldly” show my love for Jesus today? When I do, I will thank “the Magdalene” for her good example.
The Authority of Women in the Catholic Church
by Monica Miller; PB 202 pgs
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“Perhaps at no other time in the history of the Church has there been a greater need for a clear, cogent understanding of the authority of the female person and from whence it derives. In her work, Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller cuts through the chimera put forth by the culture of the day and reveals the source of woman’s influence, effect, and power, and why woman can “aid humanity in not falling” and “save the peace of the world.” A challenging, hard-hitting, and completely liberating study of the authority of woman!”
JOHNNETTE S. BENKOVIC, Founder of Women of Grace and EWTN host
Feast of St. Gregory the Great (540 – 604)
“Many people are pleased by what
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