What a difference a decade makes. Last week, the Presbyterian Church (USA) became the latest Christian denomination to affirm marriage equality, after a ratification vote in the Palisades presbytery on Tuesday night pushed the number of affirming presbyteries over 51 percent MORE

“Arise, Little Lamb”

Vol 8 Issue 12 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
March 21, 2015 ~Saint Benedict, opn!

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (11)
2. Passion Sunday
3. St. Nicholas of Flue
4. Marriage and Parenthood (12)
5, Articles and notices  Continue reading →

Nazar Sarani’s village in southeast Iran was once an island. It is now a desert, a casualty of the country’s worsening water crisis.

“We live in the dust,” said the 54-year-old cattle herder of his home in the once exceptional biosphere of Lake Hamoun, a wetland of varied flora and fauna, which is now nothing but sand-baked earth. MORE

Now, there is so much demand for water in Southern Californian cities, that many farmers are opting to sell their water rights to urban dwellers – not just at a premium, but at an unbelievable and unprecedented rate. MORE

Suspected for years of plotting to dismantle the U.S. electric grid, American officials have confirmed that Iranian military brass have endorsed a nuclear electromagnetic pulse explosion that would attack the country’s power system. MORE

The West Coast would see the loss of Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.  The Russians (and their allies the Chinese and North Koreans) will cut off the pipeline and annex Alaska, driving southward into the country east of the Rockies and cutting the nation in half.  They could then seize the Mississippi and all of the arable heartland of the Midwest.  The invaders would also want the Imperial Valley in CA, and all of the oil of the Gulf States. MORE

Google translate: paragraphs #14 & 15: 

Moreover, the penalty of life imprisonment, as well as those for the duration entail the impossibility for the prisoner to project a future release may be considered penalties covert death, since with them does not deprive the offender of liberty but attempt to deprive him of hope. But although the penal system can be collected time offenders, can never take their hope.

As I said in my speech on 23 October, “the death penalty involves the denial of love of enemies, preached the Gospel. All Christians and people of good will, are obliged not only to fight for the abolition of the death penalty , legal or illegal, and in all its forms , but also that prison conditions are better, in respect of the dignity private human freedom” people. MORE

So this is what you get for serving the Catholic Church faithfully for over 30 years: I have witnessed a lot of Catholic nonsense but what Patricia Jannuzzi has suffered is sickening. THE HEADLINE IS WRONG, HER FB POST WAS NOT AN ANTI-GAY RANT, IT WAS A DEFENSE OF CATHOLIC COMMON SENSE.

“The ‘slow extinction’ of Western civilization is beginning to accelerate,” McCain wrote. “If a Catholic teacher at a Catholic school is not free to express Catholic teaching, who among us is truly free? MORE

Remember when France would not help during the Afghanistan war.
The slogan became, ‘what is the difference between American fries and French fries?’… C. She wouldn’t put out.  What a difference a war makes.

This Friday, a rare total solar eclipse will be visible across parts of Greenland, Europe, and North Africa. Not only is this the only total solar eclipse in 2015, but it’s the last of its kind for another 19 years. There are a few things that makes this eclipse so rare: (Sadly for the US, the eclipse won’t be visible from North America but here’s how to watch liveonline.) MORE

It used to be common knowledge that baking soda could easily cure a common cold, as well as assist in numerous other ailments. What happened to all that information? Additionally, I have come across people who have swore it to rid their cancer and then I came across this following written piece that was quite intriguing…MORE