by admin | Sep 14, 2020 | CLSP Blog Divi
By Susan Ciancio How do we teach our children to be kind and to treat others well? They must see us treating others well. We have to exhibit kindness. They must hear us talking kindly about—and to—others. They must see us performing acts of kindness with a generous...
by admin | Aug 26, 2020 | CLSP Blog Divi
By Susan Ciancio “I come from heaven.” On May 13, 1917, Lucia Santos, age 10, was tending sheep with her cousins, siblings Jacinta and Francisco Marto, in a little town outside of Fatima, Portugal. Jacinta was just seven years old, and Francisco was nine. Suddenly,...
by admin | Aug 14, 2020 | CLSP Blog Divi
In 1950, Pope Pius XII wrote Munificentissimus Deus—an apostolic constitution that defined the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. The Holy Father stated: “By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we...
by admin | Aug 6, 2020 | CLSP Blog Divi
By Susan Ciancio Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently stated that the presence of a statue of St. Damien of Molokai in the Hawaiian capitol building is indicative of what a “white supremacist culture looks like.” Her ignorant and hurtful words, especially...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | CLSP Blog Divi
By Susan Ciancio At the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast, St. Teresa of Calcutta said: “I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we...
by admin | May 14, 2020 | CLSP Blog Divi
By Susan Ciancio It can be hard to see connections between the lives of the saints and our current culture, but we can make some pretty good assumptions about how the saints would have tackled the evils of our day, including things like abortion and euthanasia. Below...
