San Salvador (AFP) – A “well-loved” senior bishop in El Salvador who is also a prominent Church historian was Friday condemned by government officials and a rights organization after being accused of repeatedly raping a girl in the 1980s.

Bishop Jesus Delgado, 77, was on Thursday suspended from his functions as number three in the country’s archdiocese after the alleged victim, today a 42-year-old woman, came forward with her account. MORE

On the face of it, it looks like any state-run oil industry.

Engineers, managers and traders all help extract, refine and distribute oil, which makes its way across Syria and Iraq, as well as overseas.

But this is no state-run company. This is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) lifeline – a business that provides the armed group with more revenue than any other source. MORE

This video shows the bizarre moment a car appears to levitate in the air as it drives over a set of crossroads. MORE

INDIANAPOLIS — It’s bigotry! It’s hatred! It’s discrimination!

That’s the tenor of the talk these days as powerful advocates try to write protections into law for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Those advocates, battling against conservative Christians who are staunch in their beliefs of right and wrong, wonder why anyone would deny others their rights. MORE

ST. PAUL, MINN. — Attorney Jeff Anderson Tuesday released the personnel files of five monks and priests who were part of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville. MORE

Hawaii’s Department of Health announced Thursday that the National Guard will be assistingthe agency in a “support” role after 79 cases of dengue fever have been confirmed on the Big Island since Sept. 11.

So far, the National Guard’s involvement has been small, according to Hawaii News Now, and has included flying mosquito sprayers from Oahu to the Big Island. MORE

Senator Marco Rubio; ” Not Even God Can save this Country but I can”

I sent this to traditio@traditio.com  and they ignored it. I asked them to PROVE to me that Francis was ordained in the new rite. They never responded.

Most countries were not in a hurry to adopt the new rites. In “The Order of Melchisedech” by Michael Davies (1995) states that the episcopate of Argentina had refused to adopt these new rites. When they finally adopted them is unknown but most certainly after 1969. This would conclude that Jorge Bergoglio was in fact ordained according to the traditional rite for priests. As for the new rite of consecration of a Bishop, no one can say dogmatically that it’s not a valid rite. I’ve read it through and compared it to the old rite and found it having the same basic wording only in a different arrangement and valid to me. If you go back to the time of the Apostles there was very little formality in consecrating a Bishop or an Apostle..

In Hawthorne, CA. my church of St. Josephs did not adopt the new Mass until 1971. I was there when the changes took place and even saved one of the original Missalettes. So they disobeyed pope Paul VI edict,  on the time table, as well…So did a lot of countries.

In Christ, Joseph

What airheads!

Airline and security officials at Kennedy Airport let 150 passengers arriving from an international flight leave the airport without going through customs, the Daily News has learned.

UPS plane, at least 30 buses filled with people’ — Refugees?

MIDDLETOWN, Penn. (INTELLIHUB) — An eyewitness claims that he saw at least “thirty” buses being filled with people who had disembarked a “UPS flight” at Harrisberg International Airport last Thursday. MORE

A series of surreal lightning strikes in Australia on Monday dialled up the fright factor to 100. MORE