Brace for a September ‘polar vortex’

weatherIt’s already August, which means fall is around the corner – and another winter no longer seems that far away. Forecasters are out with some predictions about the weather we can expect in the coming months:

– A polar vortex (if we’re allowed to call it that when it’s not winter) across the Great Lakes and into the interior Northeast during mid-to-late September, says Paul Pastelok, Accuweather’s lead long-range forecaster. MORE

France Offers Asylum To Iraqi Christians

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Hundreds of years before the Muslim prophet began receiving ‘revelations’ around 600AD, the beginnings of Islam, Christians have lived in the Iraqi city of Mosul for nearly 2,000 years.

ISIS militants imposing harsh Sharia law in Mosul (Iraq’s second largest city) gave Christians a 24 hour ultimatum to convert to Islam, pay a steep tax in submission, leave, or be executed.  MORE

VIDEO: Iraqi Children Thrown From Mountaintop to Keep Them From Islamic State Terrorists

IraqiStranded on a barren mountaintop, thousands of minority Iraqis are faced with a bleak choice: descend and risk slaughter at the hands of the encircled Sunni extremists or sit tight and risk dying of thirst.

Humanitarian agencies said Tuesday that between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians remain trapped on Mount Sinjar since being driven out of surrounding villages and the town of Sinjar two days earlier. But the mountain that had looked like a refuge is becoming a graveyard for their children. MORE

Federal Judge Martha C. Daughtrey says “Sky didn’t fall where gay marriage is legal”

marthaPlease everyone write, email or phone to the two address’s of the 6th court of appeals enclose. And if you would, to your local newspapers and federal public officials. Federal Judge Martha C. Daughtrey says “Sky didn’t fall where gay marriage is legal.”  VIDEO: MORE

Dear Honorable Judge Martha C. Daugherty.

In response to your recent remarks;  That the, “sky didn’t fall on those states that legalized same sex marriage.” I have to inquire? What world do you live in? The West  has droughts and fires like never before,  Continue reading

“Bishops who live in residences worth over a million” A second look…

soaringIt might now be the modernist Church, but a million dollars is nothing and in areas where property value goes up or these “bishops” had money before, this is just a red herring–it is just the disparity caused by greed (even by the poor–who do not live according to the Gospel either) and the policies of the richest government that has no problem spending money on extravagant parties and life styles and unnecessary benefits. Throwing this out is just to rouse anger toward the Church to get people to leave the faith–affecting us (Traditionalists) because people do not distinguish.

With God’s blessing and my prayers.
In His Service,
Father Courtney Edward Krier

WARNING VERY GRAPHIC: ISIS jihadists are systematically beheading Christian children in Iraq

kessab-bimbo“Christianity in Mosul is dead, and a Christian holocaust is in our midst,” said Mark Arabo, a Californian businessman and Chaldean-American leader. In an interview with CNN’s Jonathan Mann, he called what’s happening in Iraq a “Christian genocide” and said “children are being beheaded, mothers are being raped and killed, and fathers are being hung.” MORE

Christians: ‘We Are Dying, and World is Too Busy With Gaza to Care’

christiansAs the orgy of condemnation against Israel in the wake of the Gaza war continues, Christians in Iraq are doing their best to be heard above the din while they still have a voice.

The radical Sunni movement ISIS, now known simply as the Islamic State, has been happy to have the Gaza war as cover as it completes its conquest of northern Iraq. “We can do anything now the world is looking only to Gaza,” an Islamic State official reportedly said recently.

And Canon Andrew White, popularly known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” lamented that “in reality that is true.” MORE