May 31
“Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.”
-Pope Pius IX
Monthly Archives: May 2018
What’s Wrong with Cultural Catholicism?
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The disappointing vote to legalize abortion in Ireland may be the result of the slow death of cultural Catholicism – which some of us believe can’t die too soon.
#TimesUP for Planned Parenthood Cover-up of Sex Abuse
Lila Rose, president of Live Action. (YouTube)
One of the nation’s largest and most aggressive pro-life organizations just released an explosive new investigative report and docuseries which reveals Planned Parenthood’s decades-long pattern of aiding child sex abusers by refusing to report their crimes.
What’s so New Age About Aromatherapy?
PC asked: “What is so New Age about Aromatherapy? Isn’t it just using a diffuser to enjoy the scents of essential oils?”
SCOTUS Deals Blow to Planned Parenthood
Arkansas State Capital (Wikicommons)
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In a surprising move, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Planned Parenthood’s challenge to an Arkansas law which will ban medication abortions in that state.
Irish Bishop: “Yes” Voters Should Go to Confession
Ireland’s Bishop Kevin Doran is telling his flock that those Catholics who voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which legalized abortion on demand, should consider going to confession.
Mary, Our Blessed Mother
May 30
“God has fashioned and shaped only one enmity, and that an irreconcilable one, which will endure and even increase, until the end. It is that between the Virgin Mary and the Devil, between the children and servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and accomplices of Satan; so that the most terrible of the enemies of Satan created by God is Mary, his Blessed Mother.”
-St. Louis de Montfort
Ireland Enters A New Dark Age
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Thanks to the deep pockets of the abortion industry and the national press that does their bidding, the Irish people voted on May 25 to allow legal abortion in their country and reacted to this new license to kill as if it was something to celebrate rather than what it really is – the ushering in of a new Dark Age for women and children.
Transformation
May 29
“After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, there is nothing in the Church I love as much as the Rosary.”
-Our Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche
Homily From Nuptial Mass of Jack Williams & Johnnette Benkovic
On Friday, May 25, Women of Grace® founder Johnnette Benkovic and the General Manager of EWTN Radio, Jack Williams, were united during a nuptial Mass at Espiritu Santo Catholic Church in Safety Harbor, Florida, in a ceremony that celebrated the sacredness of this sacrament as well as the love that brought the two of them to the foot of the Lord’s altar. Thanks to the generosity of Father Wade L. J. Menezes, CPM, who officiated at the Mass, the following is the homily he gave during this celebration.
