Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has surged ahead to become the latest front-runner in the campaign for the Iowa caucuses, dislodging Ben Carson and opening an impressive lead over a stalled Donald Trump, a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows. MORE

For the fourth straight year fewer Americans are struggling to pay medical bills, according to a major government survey released Tuesday. Most of the progress has come among low-income people and those with government coverage.

The data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the number of people in households that faced problems paying medical bills decreased by 12 million from the first half of 2011 through the first six months of this year. MORE

Women in Saudi Arabia have cast their first votes in the country’s history, in municipal elections.

Women were also standing as candidates, another first, despite the conservative kingdom being the only nation where women are not allowed to drive. MORE

Hasakeh (Syria) (AFP) – Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State group in Syria.

The fierce-looking 36-year-old in fatigues from the Syriac Christian minority in the northeast believes she is making the future safe for her children.

“I miss Limar and Gabriella and worry that they must be hungry, thirsty and cold. But I try to tell them I’m fighting to protect their future,” she told AFP. MORE

A REFLECTION ON THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO CATHOLIC–JEWISH RELATIONS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “NOSTRA AETATE” (NO.4)

INDEX

1. A brief history of the impact of “Nostra aetate” (No.4) over the last 50 years
2. The special theological status of Jewish-Catholic dialogue
3. Revelation in history as ‘Word of God’ in Judaism and Christianity
4. The relationship between the Old and New Testament and the Old and New Covenant
5. The universality of salvation in Jesus Christ and God’s unrevoked covenant with Israel
6. The Church’s mandate to evangelize in relation to Judaism
7. The goals of dialogue with Judaism MORE

Considering the situation in Syria right now, as Russia continues to bomb ISIS command and control locations, such as they are, by bombing those who Obama has been arming, there seems to be a rather pressing question on the minds of those who are watching the escalation closely…MORE

Vol 8 Issue 50 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
December 12, 2015 ~ Our Lady of Guadalupe

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (46)
2. Third Sunday in Advent
3. Saint Lucy
4. Christ in the Home (21)
5. Articles and notices

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It’s not a legal issue but a moral issue.

Americans forgot that we started and supported the “Arab Spring” revolution over there and failed with Syria. When Obama was going to bomb Syria the whole world called foul. This helped Isis recruit followers and get strong. So now we have to help bring in their homeless immigrants. Also Syria is a secular nation. So, the Jihadist issue does not apply to them. Sunni countries are the problem. Iran is not Sunni.
How many black people are killed in Chicago by black gangs this year (200?) maybe we should send them back to Africa.Now that makes sense, ha.

Since he was elected pope in 2013 (some say unlawfully, in violation of Papal Law No. 91), Jorge Bergoglio has evinced expansive good will toward many and sundry groups:

• To homosexuals, he said with faux humility, “Who am I to judge?”.
• To non-Catholic Christians, he emphasized “the unity of all believers in Christ”.
• To Muslims, he held out an olive branch, claiming that Muslims and Christians both worship the same “one living and merciful God, and call upon him in prayer.”
• Toward Jews, he recently said that “Catholics should not try to convert Jews and should work with them to fight anti-Semitism”.

Toward fellow Catholics, however, Bergoglio is much less charitable, regularly and frequently castigating them for one reason or another: MORE

On December 7, 2015, another law enforcement official posted a video that has gone viral, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey, states “Enough is Enough, as he also took to Facebook stating “IT’S TIME TO SAY WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID TO PROTECT OUR CITIZENS!!

Another is Lee County, Florida Sheriff Mike Scott, who went on to the Department’s Facebook page and explained the “Fallacies of Gun Control,” where he stated in part  that “the good guys (and gals) and their right to legally own and possess firearms,” are “likely going to be the first responder,” in an attack.

This is how quickly your Christmas tree can turn into a death trap – transformed from a harmless symbol of festive cheer into a blazing inferno in just ten seconds. MORE

ISIS jihadi fighters are ‘afraid of girls’ and fear facing female soldiers, a militia commander in the Kurdish women’s unit has said.
The terrorist soldiers believe being killed by a woman will prevent them from going to heaven, according to all-female Kurdish frontline troops. MORE

This is the heart-warming moment three young children found out they could stay with their family ‘forever and ever’ as they unwrapped their adoption papers on Christmas morning. MORE

Thousands have been left without power after ferocious storms and flooding struck the US Pacific Northwest.

Portland has endured more than 5 inches of rain in three days, nearly as much as falls in all of December in a typical year, and Seattle exceeded its normal December rainfall tally in just 8 days, the National Weather Service said. MORE