Just when I was getting to like Ben Carson.

Donald Trump is perplexed that his 2016 Republican opponent Ben Carson has surpassed him in Iowa polls. As Trump in recent days questioned why the former pediatric neurosurgeon is gaining ground, he’s also called into question Carson’s religious beliefs.

“I’m Presbyterian,” Trump said to a crowd in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday. “Boy, that’s down the middle of the road folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about.” MORE

About 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, but unfortunately most of that liquid nourishment isn’t suitable for drinking because it’s salt water found in the oceans. Removing salt from water is not an easy process, either. Current desalination technology requires a high amount of energy, making it prohibitively expensive — especially in developing nations. But don’t worry: a team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt have bypassed these power-hungry methods and created a simple filtration technique; the details of which are described in a research paper published last month in Water Science and Technology. MORE

San Ramon appears to have broken a new earthquake record over the last two weeks: A total of 408 small quakes have struck the East Bay city, almost four times the amount of quakes set in 2003 in half the time period.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that as of Oct. 13, the Northern California Seismic Network had detected 408 earthquakes – at least a dozen since 10 p.m. on Monday, with other quakes spilling into the wee hours of Tuesday. Most quakes have clocked in with magnitudes ranging from 2.0 to 3.0. MORE

The ‘battlefields’ now in play include China seeking to make the yuan a permanent replacement for the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, to the internet, where China continues its’ endless attacks upon the US, to a potential WW3, where China recently responded to plans by the US to send warships into the South China Seas by saying: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This“.  MORE

Those Chamela village homes of the poor were not the only ones damaged. Hurricane Patricia left over 3000 homes partially or totally destroyed, according to Mexican President, yet U.S. and even French media repeatedly reports “no damage” in the same articles reporting massive home damage, as seen in the below listed articles.

• No major damage as Hurricane Patricia remnants move north, USA Today;
• Mexico Spared Major Damage by Giant Storm, NY Times,
• Hurricane flattens Mexico homes, but no major disaster, AFP.) MORE

Overview – Candy is meant to be a treat, but even when consumed in moderation some varieties push the wellness envelope. To have your sweets and stay healthy too, limit candy that’s particularly high in sugar, unhealthy fats and artificial ingredients. Read on for 20 candies that can really spook your health. MORE OF THE 20

Hotdogs — both vegetarian and meat-based — were found to contain a lot more than you bargained for in a new report by a food watch dog group. Think you’re making the healthy choice by picking a vegetarian hot dog? Check the brand you’re buying: A new report found that 10 percent of the vegetarian hot dogs tested contained meat, including chicken in a vegetarian breakfast sausage and pork in a vegetarian hot dog.

But that’s not all. Clear Food, a company that genetically tests food products, looked at 345 hot dog samples from 75 brands, including meat-based and meat-free dogs. Of those 345 hot dogs, 14.4 percent had some sort of issue, be it a labeling inaccuracy or hygiene problem. MORE

The US military and intelligence community are becoming concerned that Russia could cut underwater cables during a diplomatic crisis, bringing the internet grinding to a halt. MORE

“The day of Christ” 

Vol 8 Issue 43 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
October 24, 2015 ~ St Raphael, opn!

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (39)
2. Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
3. Feast of Christ the King
4. Christ in the Home (14)
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader: Continue reading →

” And unless those days had been shortened, no living creature would be saved, but for the sake of the ELECT those days will be shortened”.. St. Matthew 24:22

Christians could become extinct in certain parts of the world, according to a new report, because of “ethnic cleansing motivated by religious hatred.” MORE

Feast Day October 24

St. Raphael the Archangel whose name means “Medicine of God” in Hebrew; is one of the seven Archangels that stand before the throne of GOD chanting hymns of unending praise. When we pray for his help he intercedes directly to God the Father. He is one of the three angels mentioned by name in holy scripture. St. Raphael appears in the deutero-canonical Book of Tobit, a beautiful narrative in the Old Testament. MORE

Once again the anti-Muslim bloggers have been having a field day, this time with the concept of “taqiyah” or dissimilating (lying). It is said that the Qur’an teaches the Muslims are allowed to lie to non-Muslims, and that Muslims can thus have a secret agenda. Thus when they assert that theirs is a religion of peace, they can secretly be planning religious war against non-Muslims. MORE

“Two Syrian archbishops have expressed approval of the Russian strikes against rebel forces in their country,” announced American agency Catholic News Service(CNS) on October 9, 2015. Indeed, Bishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart, Catholic Melkite Archbishop of Aleppo, told Television Suisse Romande on his way through Geneva on October 8th, that the intervention of Russia in the Syrian civil war “gives hope” to the Christians of Syria amongst whom he has observed “renewed confidence.” MORE

Even the most ramshackle properties in San Francisco are worth a ridiculous amount of money.

Not only that, potential buyers actually are fighting over them.

A 765-square-foot wood shack that has sat in the city’s Outer Mission neighborhood since it was built in 1906 as the area built up around it sold this week for a whopping $408,000.

It had been advertised for sale at $350,000, but the price quickly rose under competing bids. MORE