Adventures in Summer Family Cooking
For Catholic moms wanting to share friendship and recipes, they should log onto the website catholicmom.com. The editor is a devout Secular Franciscan, Barb Szyszkiewicz, who also writes at her own two websites: https://franciscanmom.com and CookAndCount.Wordpress.com. A resident of New Jersey, Barb has plenty to say about mothers cooking with their children, both in the […]
Caves and Retreats and Mission
I have been pondering caves lately. Yes, I mean the open chambers situated under the earth’s surface, sometimes in the sides of mountains. Specifically, I’ve been reflecting on four caves that relate to Christian history and spirituality. This reflection has borne the realization that caves, and the retreats taken in them, are essential to Christian […]
Smoking ceremonies are not ‘inculturation’
Smoking ceremonies are not ‘inculturation’ … and it is irresponsible to suggest otherwise. A July 13 article from Pillar Catholic, which was presented as an ‘explainer’ of indigenous smoking ceremonies, completely missed the mark by failing to look behind the sympathetic facade to see the real harms being perpetrated by the use of pagan rituals. […]
Startling Reasons the U.S. Bishops’ Conference Isn’t Catholic
Michael Voris speaks outside the U.S. bishops’ headquarters in Washington, D.C., about the USCCB and its facade of being a Catholic organization.
Kansas Begins to Implement State-Funded ‘Alternatives to Abortion’ Program
Tatiana Vdb via Flickr Pregnant woman. Gawdun said researchers as part of the development of the program examined the amounts of funding that other pro-life campaigns have received in other states.
Human Trafficking By the Numbers: New Reports Estimate Millions of Daily Victims
Structuresxx A child trapped in the world of human trafficking. The Global Slavery Index estimates that 50 million people — 1 in 150 — were living in modern slavery at some point in 2021, an increase from 40 million people in 2016.
Louisiana lawmakers override veto, will ban sex changes for kids
The Louisiana Legislature on July 18, 2023, overrode the Democratic governor’s veto of legislation banning transgender surgeries and treatments for minors. / Jeffrey Schwartz|Wikipedia|CC BY 2.0 Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 20, 2023 / 14:50 pm (CNA). Louisiana will become the 20th state to outlaw sex change operations for children after the Republican-led Legislature overrode the […]
Kansas begins to implement state-funded ‘Alternatives to Abortion’ program
null / Tatiana Vdb via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 20, 2023 / 15:20 pm (CNA). Government officials and pro-life nonprofits in Kansas are gearing up to implement the state’s innovative Alternatives to Abortion program, an … […]
Human trafficking by the numbers: New reports estimate millions of daily victims
Photo illustration. / Shutterstock Denver, Colo., Jul 20, 2023 / 15:50 pm (CNA). On any given day millions of people worldwide are victims of trafficking, forced labor, and sexual exploitation.Recent reports from the U.S. State Department, anti… […]
North Carolina woman files lawsuit in wake of gender transition surgery as a teen
Prisha Mosley is suing her previous therapists and medical doctors for facilitating a gender transition when she was a teen. / Photo courtesy of Independent Women’s Forum Charlotte, N.C., Jul 20, 2023 / 16:10 pm (CNA). Prisha (Abigail) Mosley, … […]