There really is nothing new under the sun. Sr. Rebecca Shinas, OP, is a local Dominican nun who happens to be the Adult Faith Formation Director and RCIA Director at St. Simon’s Catholic Parish in Los Altos. She makes “spiritual shorts” which she posts on the web. Pay attention to how she makes the Sign [...]

It’s February 14th again.  Men are making dinner reservations, buying flowers and chocolate.  Women are getting dressed up, applying make up, and putting up their hair.  Some old rituals have even been blended with new ones: you can now do Valentine’s Day sudoku puzzles!  It’s an annual ritual.  But where did this ritual come from?  [...]

Merry Christmas to all! Now begins the Twelve Days of Christmas, which extends from Christmas to the Epiphany. The history of the Twelve Days of Christmas is complex, but has existed from very early in the Church: The origin and counting of the Twelve Days is complicated, and is related to differences in calendars, church [...]

The California Supreme Court handed down its decision in Van Horn vs. Watson, which concerns California’s Good Samaritan law. The majority decided that a Good Samaritan is fully exposed to civil liability for emergency rescue or transportation efforts intended to prevent injury to an endangered victim in the first instance, or to ensure that a [...]

The latest atrocity from the California Supreme Court, which seem to be occurring every few months now, is that medical doctors may not refuse to provide artificial reproductive technology (“ART”) to homosexuals. The two medical doctors in question claimed that they would not provide this service because a) the woman was unmarried and b) because [...]