The Polar Vortex Part II is getting ready to roll back into town.
Leading meteorologists are warning the Mid-Atlantic is in for a repeat of last winter, which was noted as the 34th coldest such period for the contiguous 48 states as a whole since modern records began in 1895, according to weather.com. MORE
Liberals increasingly want to enforce a comprehensive, uniformly secular vision of the human good. And they see alternative visions of the good as increasingly intolerable. Liberalism seems to have an irrational animus against Christianity. Consider these two stories highlighted in the last week by conservative Christian blogger Rod Dreher. MORE
Now this guy has Class
The interim president of Kentucky State University has chosen to show financial compassion for the University’s lowest paid workers by decreasing his salary by nearly $90,000.
Raymond Burse’s pay cut will contribute to a wage increase for over 24 employees at KSU, some of whom were earning the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour. The workers will now earn $10.25 per hour. MORE
Shocking video footage shows the moment a kidnapped girl is dragged screaming and crying to the home of her future husband.
The disturbing video, titled Stealing the Bride, was shot in Kazakhstan – where bride kidnapping is an ancient custom that accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts of the central Asian state. MORE
The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court. MORE
The numbers say it all. In 1966 there were 181,421 Catholic sisters in this country. Today? Less than 50,000. That’s a nearly 73 percent decline. The stats and the math, courtesy of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, also debunks the common claim that more traditional orders — those more likely to wear the full habit — are drawing more members than the more liberal, socially active orders. David Gibson has the story. RNS 10-14-14
The Supreme Court seems determined to bring marriage equality to the United States as slowly as possible. If they move too slowly, however, the forces of discrimination may be smiling in a few years. MORE
English-language digital publication of jihadist group says raping and sexual enslaving non-Muslim women is simply part of Islam.
“One should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar – the infidels – and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah, or Islamic law,” wrote ISIS in the article, reports CNN. MORE
To hell with psychiatric assessment. What these people need is exorcism and punishment. Satanism needs to be outlawed along with Islam and all of the other dangerous cults. Satan is real, and he wants your children and your entire family. His wiles and deceptions must be uprooted, as Josiah destroyed paganism in Israel, not tolerated. MORE
Ben Affleck seems so amiable in his movies. However, on the set of Bill Maher’s liberal TV show (I don’t even know the name), he was seething. Yes, seething mad that someone might think, just because Muslims are chopping off heads, raping young girls and committing honor killings, there might be a problem within the doctrines of Islam. MORE
TradCatKnight: (Resistance) “The Remnant” Strikes Again!
Original Title was “Is Justice Being Assassinated in America.”
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Welcome to the Central Valley, ground zero of the water war. Outsiders, take heed, for this is a troubled land. MORE
While defending the traditional teachings that reject divorce and gay marriage, the synod said the modern church must focus more on the “positive elements” in such relationships, rather than their shortcomings, and open a patient and merciful dialogue with the people involved. The ultimate aim, it said, is to use these “seeds” of goodness to bring people more fully into the church. MORE
Neapolitan archbishop: “God as the giver of life is offended” (I hope this is not retroactive!)
Rome (kath.net/KAP) Catholics who throw away food, must not receive Communion according to Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe (photo). Whoever wastes food in the face of millions of hungry people, puts themselves outside of the human family, said the Archbishop of Naples in the context of an environmental conference, according to the Italian Catholic news agency SIR (Friday). This type of waste is insulting to the needy and to “God as the giver of life”. MORE