BANGKOK/MANILA, Dec 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Successive storms across the Philippines, including Typhoon Melor, have temporarily uprooted 1.7 million, aid workers said, as President Benigno Aquino distributed food on Wednesday in areas hardest hit by the disaster.
At least 41 people were killed when Typhoon Melor struck central Philippines on Dec. 15, inundating villages, damaging crops and disrupting power supplies to six provinces. MORE
GUIYANG, China — Pastor Su Tianfu slides into the back seat and tells the driver to hit it.
He looks over his shoulder: “Is there anybody following us?”
It is days before Christmas, but instead of working on his sermon, Su is giving his tail the slip.
The slight and soft-spoken Protestant preacher is no stranger to surveillance. Su has worked for years in China’s unregistered “house churches,” and he said he has been interrogated more times than he can count.
But even Su is surprised by what has happened in Guiyang this month: a crackdown that has led to the shuttering of the thriving Living Stone Church, the detention of a pastor on charges of “possessing state secrets” and the shadowing of dozens of churchgoers by police. MORE
Officials said a bright light that streaked across the skies of Southern California Tuesday night was space debris from a Russian rocket and not a meteor. MORE
EDITOR’S NOTE: There have only been two World Wars in human history and both of them started by the Germans. If history is any indicator, they will have a hand in starting the third one as well, and in the not too distant future.
BERLIN – The 70-year copyright on the text, written by Hitler between 1924-1926 and banned by the Allies at the end of World War Two, expires at the end of the year, opening the way for a critical edition with explanatory sections and some 3,500 annotations.MORE
With rows of crumbling buildings stretching to the horizon and not a soul in sight, these apocalyptic scenes reveal the shocking legacy of the Syrian war. MORE
Isaias (Isaiah) 17:1
The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.
Sir Alec Guinness Had a Miraculous “Personal Encounter” with God
From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Alec Guiness
Traditional Catholics May Not Be Aware that Star Wars Hero
British Actor Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000), Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Jedi Sage
Converted to Traditional Catholicism by Vow
As a Result of a Miraculous “Personal Encounter” with God
From 1956 until the Day He Died at Age 86 in 2000 Continue reading
A rescue worker holds an injured boy after what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in Idlib city, Syria December 20, 2015.
On Sunday, Russian airstrikes over a busy marketplace in the rebel-held city of Idlib, Syria,killed at least 70 civilians and wounded dozens more.
“We’ve never been bombed like this,” Issa Khaled, a resident of the Aleppo suburb of Ghouta, told The Guardian the day after the attack. MORE
Nine priests outline the grave problems in the Society of St. Pius X in their March 25, 1983 letter to Archbishop Lefebvre and the General Council of the Society. The priests would be expelled the following month.
Your Grace and Rev. Fathers:
It is our understanding that the reason for which the Society of St. Pius X was founded was to promote fidelity to Tradition, by which is mean loyalty to the Church, her doctrine, more teaching, worship, sacraments and discipline. That such an organization was necessary was due to the fact that the reforms introduced by Pope John XXIII set in motion a process that has resulted in radical change, which constitutes a substantial rejection of traditional Catholic doctrine, morality and worship. Continue reading
Vol 8 Issue 51 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
December 19, 2015 ~ Ember Saturday
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (47)
2. Third Sunday in Advent
3. Saint Lucy
4. Christ in the Home (22)
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will. Continue reading
Saying “We don’t discriminate based on race, creed, color,” the principal of a Catholic school in Michigan defended allowing Muslim students to use a so-called “sacred space” on the campus for their daily prayers despite complaints from parents. MORE
This year a “super moon” will appear on December the 25th which is a very rare event with the last one in 1977. A Christmas full moon will not happen again until 2034. December’s full moon is called the Full Cold Moon, according to the Farmers’ Almanac. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. MORE
Namely, smoking causes your lungs to be loaded with nicotine and tar, which are both extremely bad.
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Homeless crisis for those living in Vehicles
The south bay has a growing homeless crisis and a shortage of answers. Especially with those who are living in motor vehicles. With the increase of more citywide ban on overnight parking and with many more vehicles per household, street parking is running out of space.
One solution to the problem at least for the homeless would be to have the local city’s to set up a safe parking program that would allow homeless people to park overnight in designated lots owned by the city or nonprofit organizations. It is the homeless population that is most adversely affected by these restrictions so this is the least we can do to lessen their burdens.
Joseph B. D. Saraceno
More than 1,000 people may have been exposed to tuberculosis at a Northern California hospital by a nurse who was exposed to the disease – and hundreds of infants could be at risk. MORE
Alaskans are certainly used to taking the worst that Mother Nature can dish out, but she tried her best Saturday evening.
A massive 928 mb (good luck finding that on your barometer) storm churning in the Northern Pacific just off the Aleutian Islands is bringing not just any hurricane-force winds to the region, but what would qualify as Category 3 hurricane force winds had the storm been an actual hurricane MORE