Sister Antonia Brenner, a Beverly Hills-raised mother of seven who became a Roman Catholic nun and moved into a notorious Tijuana prison where she spent more than three decades mending broken lives, easing tensions and dispensing everything from toothbrushes to bail money, has died. She was 86. LINK
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Penumbral lunar eclipse Friday: So what’s a penumbral eclipse, anyway?
- Penumbral lunar eclipse Friday: So what’s a penumbral eclipse,LINK
The Christian Science Monitor 11 hours ago - Minor Lunar Eclipse on Friday: How to See It LINK
SPACE.com via Yahoo! News Oct 17 07:36am
Business Voices Frustration With GOP
The budget stalemate that had the U.S. flirting with default has left business and the Republican Party, longtime political allies, at a crossroads. In interviews with representatives of companies large and small, executives predicted a change in how business would approach politics. LINK
Philippine Quake Damages Historic Churches
VIDEO: News In Two Minutes – Secret Russian Missile Test – Riots in China – Animal Die Off – Egypt Warns US
French Church to reword ‘blasphemous’ Lord’s Prayer
SSPX leader denounces Vatican II, Novus Ordo liturgy – “The New Mass is bad, it is evil.” (Took 44 years)
SSPX breaks with Rome…Tha
In a provocative address to the Kansas City audience, Bishop Bernard Fellay said: “It is has never been our intention to pretend either that the Council would be considered as good, or the New Mass would be ‘legitimate.’” He said that although the Novus Ordo Mass introduced after Vatican II may be valid, “The New Mass is bad, it is evil.” LINK
Down syndrome couple crowned homecoming king, queen
WINTER GARDEN, FL – Two West Orange, Florida high school students with Down syndrome were crowned homecoming king and queen this weekend. Samone and Bubba are the first central Florida students with the condition to ever be nominated to a homecoming court. They were the stars of the show Saturday. LINK
German Bishop Under Fire for Spending Goes to Rome
A German bishop under fire for lavish spending traveled to Rome on Sunday for talks at the Vatican, church officials said, placing his future in the hands of a pope who has espoused a simple lifestyle. Allegations of lavish spending by the Rev. Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, bishop of Limburg, LINK
Sergio Martinez meets Pope Francis AND GIVES HIM AS A GIFT
WBC middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez presented an honorary WBC championship belt to Pope Francis today in Rome. The Pope accepted the belt and immediately passed it to an aide. Both Sergio and the Pope hail from Argentina. LINK
Goodbye Tobacco, Hello Stevia, Say Tobacco Growers
After tobacco: What? Every year fewer and fewer farmers plant tobacco, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But what are they to grow instead? Prospects look good, say experts, for a valuable but virtually unknown crop: stevia. From it is derived a zero-calorie, all-natural sweetener used by Coca-Cola, LINK
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE UNLOADS ON SATAN, DEMONS Tells interviewer devil’s ‘getting people not to believe in him or in God’
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made headlines recently when he declared his belief that the devil is a real being who has a presence in the world today. His interviewer, Jennifer Senior of New York Magazine, was shocked by Scalia’s statements. LINK
VIDEO: Mystery Winged Creature Filmed Over Guadalajara, Mexico
Strange flying object Over Guadalajara, Mexico caught on Camera. According to The Viral Post “On 29 September around 21:00 hours near Bustamante Park in the downtown area, a strange flying creature was seen flying from one tree to another. Its size was estimated at around 2 meters tall and shaped like a manta ray.” LINK