Today’s young woman is facing a culture that is very different from the one their parents’ faced 25 years ago. With the rapid influx of secularism and relativism, just about anything goes and what was once considered an acceptable moral standard for all is now considered to be “up to the individual.” How do we prepare our girls to face the world as it exists today and still keep their faith and values?
Yearly Archives: 2018
Let us Pray for California Fire Victims!
As California’s deadly Camp Fire continues to rage out of control, Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto is offering prayers and words of consolation to the thousands of people in his diocese who have been impacted by the blaze.
Mail-Order Abortion Comes to the USA
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The same organization that is providing deadly chemical abortion drugs to women overseas is now offering their services in the US as a way of preparing for what some believe is the inevitable end of legal abortion in America.
THE GRINCH (2018) Teaches the True Meaning of Christmas
GD writes: “I am so tired of being lured into the season’s so-called “hit” movies for kids, only to get there and find out that they are filled with New Agey ideas, violence, bad language, etc. Is The Grinch okay for kids to see or should we take a pass on it?”
As You Will
November 13
Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin (1850 – 1917)
“Oh Jesus, I love you very much. Give me a heart as big as the universe. Tell me what You wish that I do, and do with me as You will.”
-St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Church Unity
November 12
Feast of St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr (1580 – 1623)
“[St. Josaphat] felt that God had inspired him to restore worldwide unity to the Church. Concerned mainly with seeing his own people reunited to the See of Peter, he sought every available argument that would foster and maintain Church unity.”
-Pope Pius XII
Hilot for Healing?
JA writes: “I have recently heard of a health and massage practice from the Philippines called “Hilot”. Is this practice occult or New Age (and therefore to be avoided like the plague by faithful Catholics)?”
How to Turn Black Friday into Bless Friday®
If you’re tired of standing in line at the local mall on Black Friday and are yearning for more meaning in the Christmas season, why not start off your holidays by spending the day after Thanksgiving spreading the love of Christ in your community?
The Ultimate Intolerance: Treating Children As Commodities
Recent headlines touting the science that made it possible for two women to carry the same child, and for a woman to “trade” her frozen female embryo for a male, aren’t proving advances in science as much as they’re proving how our respect for human life is continuing to erode.
Survey: Americans Didn’t Vote for Radical Social Policies
Even though many voters opted to cede control of the U.S. House of Representatives to a party that champions liberal social policy, a survey of Tuesday’s voters found that most of them hold much more conservative views on key social issues than the people who are about to assume office.
