Under Apostasy: number 205 A.
“Apostasy is the complete abandonment of the Christian Faith by those who have been baptized.”
But this is not the Biblical meaning St. Paul and other Apostles speaks about the universal apostasy not as a total abandonment of Christianity but a general revolt against the true teachings of the Church.
A schism. Continue reading
An Episcopal priest shocked his Queens congregation recently when he left his wife and married someone else — a much younger man.
The Rev. Juan Andres Quevedo-Bosch, 59, the archdeacon of Queens and rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Astoria, announced over Facebook last week that he got married in a Los Angeles church.
The Cuban-born prelate was pictured on a beach with the caption: “I’m in Miami Beach with my new husband. God is good.” MORE
There is very little that the entire world seems to agree upon, but there is one very frightening trend that is now taking hold literally all over the globe. A passionate hatred of Christianity is sweeping across the planet, and very few global leaders have been willing to step forward and speak out against this rising persecution of Christians. In many parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia, believers are being relentlessly attacked by extremists,churches are being destroyed, and laws are being passed to try to prevent the spread of the Christian faith. In some areas, the violence has become so extreme that Christians knowingly risk their own lives just to go to church services each week. Would you risk your life to go to church? In North America and Europe, the persecution is often more subtle. MORE
Asked to support an additional 10% tax on men’s income, one woman responded, “I’ll definitely sign for that,” before adding, “Yeah I’ve never heard of that before but whatever they’re trying to do right now is clearly not working so I’m all for giving it a shot.” MORE
A little one’s first words are a memorable moment for every mother and father – especially when it appears that the baby is saying ‘I love you’. MORE
The blaze started at an outside pool area on a 14th-floor deck of The Cosmopolitan and quickly spread, setting pool cabanas and trees alight. MORE
Vol 8 Issue 30 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
July 25, 2015 ~ St James the Greater ~ St Christopher
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (26)
2. Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
3. St. Anne
4. Christ in the Home (1)
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader: Continue reading
A number of Russians who went to fight in Ukraine are returning to Russia, where they oppose the government of Vladimir Putin.
Some of the activists, who organized protests against Putin in 2011 and 2012, are part of the Russian opposition’s right wing. Their political beliefs took them from the streets of Moscow to eastern Ukraine, where they defended the ethnic Russian population against the Ukrainian army, writes Courtney Weaver for The Financial Times. MORE
Mirror Mirror on the wall,
can you see our nation fall,
headline scream of our decay,
is there any hope today,
smog-ed up blind and traffic choke,
wages bind and buildings smoke,
welfare roles are soaring high,
hard drugs cause our young to die,
villains are hero’s on T.V. Continue reading
Who’s backing IS? It’s not Iran because IS is Sunni.
The two-pronged operation against IS and militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) — two groups who are themselves bitterly opposed — came after a week of deadly violence in Turkey the authorities blamed on the organisations.
The Turkish F-16 jets all returned safely to their base in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir early Saturday after the latest raids, the official Anatolia news agency reported. MORE
This week, presidential candidate Donald Trump released information required by the federal government detailing his personal wealth. The 92-page document shows that Trump owes at least $265 million in debt. While he has said that he is worth at least $10 billion, the newly released document shows that he is worth at least $1.4 billion. Showing that he earned at least $380 million kn 2014, it makes him the highest-earning candidate in the 2016 presidential field. It showed assets worth at least $1.4 billion. MORE
An evangelical pastor from Texas joined American Muslim leadersThursday (July 23) in denouncing recent anti-Muslim comments by evangelist Franklin Graham as they announced upcoming efforts to build bridges between their religious communities.
In response to the killing of five service members in Chattanooga, Tenn., last week, Graham, son of evangelical leader Billy Graham, wrote on Facebook that the U.S. should bar Muslims from immigrating. MORE
Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom Delay joined NewsMaxTV and dropped the mother of all bombshells as he asserts that he has found a secret Department of Justicememo that plans to legalize “12 new perversions,” including bestiality and pedophilia.
A top scientific advisor to Pope Francis, Hans Schellnhuber, is an atheist and a Gaia believer says Dr. William Briggs, a Catholic climate scientist who was interviewed this week on The Joe Miller Show. And his Gaia beliefs aren’t superficial: he openly contends that the Earth is “self-aware” and “cognizant.” MORE