August 17
“Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall have their fill.”
-Matthew 5:6
Yearly Archives: 2018
Vatican Responds to PA Grand Jury Report
On Thursday evening, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, issued the following statement regarding the report of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury issued earlier this week in the United States over the sexual abuse of minors.
China Now Paying Couples to Have Children
China is the perfect example of why governments should stay out of family planning. This hapless regime has gone from the brutal restriction of births to paying couples to have children after its policies left the world’s most populous nation without the means to support its now aging population.
Community of Life
August 16
“A friend must speak to his friend freely as to his second self.”
-St. Jerome
Colorado Targets Christian Baker . . . Again
In spite of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in his favor, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission has once again targeted Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips for refusing to bake a “gender-transition” cake.
A Pilgrimage to the Wild Country: Our Lady of Good Help
I have just returned refreshed and renewed in spirit from a pilgrimage to a place once described by our Blessed Mother as “this wild country” – the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help.
Worrying Increase in Yoga Injuries
A recent study by scientists at Sydney University has found that yoga causes musculoskeletal pain in more than one in ten participants, actually worsened more than a fifth of existing injuries, and is just as dangerous as other sports.
The Virtue of Hope
August 15
“As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is a mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.”
-G.K. Chesterton
Let’s Not Forget Our Good Priests!
In an era when all we hear about are bad priests, ChurchPOP published a refreshing story about a priest who was willing to get out of line at a fast-food drive-through just to hear one person’s confession.
Catholic High School Under Fire for Professing Faith
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Once again, a Catholic school has come under fire for terminating a guidance counselor after it discovered that she was married to a woman. And, once again, the media has joined with the school’s detractors to pour the gasoline of misrepresentation and the usual incoherent politically correct rhetoric on the flames.
