More than 60 people have reportedly been killed by lightning strikes over the past two days across Bangladesh, according to local newspapers. MORE
More than 60 people have reportedly been killed by lightning strikes over the past two days across Bangladesh, according to local newspapers. MORE


May 14, 2016 ~ Saint Boniface, opn!
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (68)
2. Pentecost Sunday
3. St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle
4. Christ in the Home (42)
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader: Continue reading
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has vowed to rebuild a town that has been ravaged by the wildfires in Alberta as he toured entire neighborhoods leveled by the out-of-control inferno. MORE

Women would begin signing up with Selective Service in January 2018 under a measure approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee, another step toward a day when young Americans of both genders may be subject to the military draft. MORE


For the most part, Pentecost Sunday will always fall in May and occasionally in June. However if and when Rome changes and date set’s Easter in April it may fall in June all the time. Can’t say if any of the Traditionalist will accept these changes, but knowing Our Lord, I would say He would prefer to come back in the month of Our Lady. Continue reading
Wow, CMRI was having ordinations earlier that day.
Hail fell in sheets last night in Colorado, Nebraska and Missouri. It accumulated like heavy snow on the ground in Omaha, where residents used front loaders to clear it out. In a St. Louis suburb, hail the size of grapefruits battered cars and homes. MORE

ROME (Reuters) Italy’s parliament approved same-sex civil unions and gave some rights to unmarried heterosexual couples on Wednesday (May 11) after Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called a confidence vote to force the bill into law.
Italy is the last major Western country to legally recognize gay couples and an original draft law had to be heavily diluted due to divisions in Renzi’s ruling majority.
The bill had faced stiff opposition from Catholic groups who said it went too far, while gay activists said it was too timid. MORE
The Birthday of the Church
The Acts of the Apostles recounts the story of the original Pentecost (Acts 2).
Jews from all over were gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Jewish feast. On that Sunday, ten days after the Ascension of Our Lord, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary were gathered in the Upper Room, where they had seen Christ after His Resurrection: Continue reading

Last year, Ashers Baking Company was found to have discriminated against a customer who placed the order in 2014.
It is trying to overturn the ruling.MORE
Victims of sexual abuse by priests, advocates say, still feel alone. That painful sense of solitude persists even 14 years after the Boston Globe documented a massive cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, setting off a wave of exposés across the country that continue until this day. Even now, some victims think that they were the only one hurt by a particular priest. MORE

The Cubans have been stranded in Panama after Nicaragua closed its border last year, preventing them from traveling north to the U.S., so the Panama government asked Mexican officials if they can simply fly the Cubans just south of the U.S./Mexico border. MORE

UK police arrested a man for making a joke YouTube video about his girlfriend’s pet dog being a Nazi.