Every August, tens of thousands of Egypt’s Coptic Christians and Egyptian Muslims take buses and trains to the Virgin Mary Monastery in Assiut. The monastery is believed to have been visited by the Holy family when they fled Israel out of fear of persecution by King Herod. Hamada Elrasam was in Assiut and has the story.
Israel’s first transgender beauty pageant, won by a Christian Arab on Friday, brought together contestants from the Holy Land’s main faiths in an unconventional show of tolerance and coexistence. MORE
The photos have been a hit on social media, with Corinne Cavallo commenting: “These are so spectacular!!”
Mehdi Mudassir said: “Whenever I return to the US I would make it a point to photography the Manhattan skyline with you.”
While another fan wrote: “We were driving and saw this great red moon on the horizon .. wishing I had the 600mm to capture it. Great shot. All I had was my phone on the motorway.” MORE
A major earthquake has hit central Italy, demolishing communities and killing scores of people. MORE
Dear friends, here are a few revelations which will occur if SSPX align themselves with Rome. To read all of these transcripts go to this web site on the month of August…www.traditio.com
And what is a “personal prelature” in the Newchurch of the New Order? It is defined in Newcanons 294 to 297 of the anti-Catholic Novus Ordo 1983 Code. First of all, it is not a particular church that is equivalent to a Newdiocese under Canon 368. Secondly, it includes only clerics: it does not include laypeople. For example, it excludes monks, hermits, nuns, friars, and other religious brothers and sisters who are not deacons or presbyters. Religious and lay orders can be affiliated to the personal prelature, but they are not part of it. Lay associations can also be associated, but are not part of it either. Continue reading
Board-certified diagnostic radiologist Dr. Milton R. Wolf says that Hillary Clinton has a “serious underlying disease” that her campaign is hiding from the American people. MORE
TEHRAN: Iran on Friday cheered Kimia Alizadeh who became the first Iranian woman ever to win an Olympic medal with President Hassan Rouhani leading the praise over her taekwondo bronze.
“My daughter Kimia, you have triggered the happiness of all the Iranians, and particularly of the women. I wish you eternal joy,” the president tweeted. MORE
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a church in decline but one whose enthusiasm for attacks on Israel never wanes.
The decline is very clear in the numbers. When formed in 1988, the ELCA had over 5 million members, but it is now down to about 3.8 million—down over a fourth. The number of member churches is similarly in decline. MORE
Vol 9 Issue 38 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
August 20, 2016 ~ St Bernard of Clairvaux, opn!
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (82)
2. Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
3. St. Jane Frances de Chantal
4. Christ in the Home (56)
5, Articles and notices
Dear Reader: Continue reading
For those of you who are not aware of my role as a Traditional Catholic for the last 48 years.
Briefly: In the old testament we had High Priests and Prophets.The High Priest would speak for God on matters of faith and the Church. Prophets were called upon to keep everyone in line or not living up to their responsibilities,so in this sense you have Two people speaking in the place of God. Continue reading
It’s never really been that way from the beginning. The State violates the First Amendment every time it grants a divorce to someone who was married in a Religious Institution. The Religious Institutions don’t sue because the State provides subsidies to the these Institutions.This being the case if a Religious School wants to exclude Secular People from admission to their Schools they have the right to do so, providing they do not accept state subsides. End of Story.
Joseph B. D. Saraceno
Yesterday, 1,800 signatures were collected against the Islamic place of worship – the number needed for a vote to take place.
Italian journalist and politician Magdi Allam called the referendum “the Italian revolution” and he said Pisans did not expect to get 1,800 signatures.
Vice-chairman of the committee against the construction of the new mosque, Gianluca Gambini, said: “And we will not stop here – because we expect to get to a higher number of signatures, at least two thousand, to avoid problems with the council. MORE
A few years ago, relatively early on in the war against ISIS, I was smuggled into Northern Syria along a PKK re-supply route. Taking a small inflatable boat across the river which acted as the border between Syria and Iraq, my first stop in the Kurdish held areas of Syria (known as Rojava) was a military outpost called Derik. MORE
A drought in northern Paraguay has driven thousands of thirsty alligators to crowd around lakes and wells, scaring off cattle from the dwindling water sources, environmentalists and locals say.
A former Marine faces a rare federal stalking charge for what the FBI alleges was a campaign of harassment and threats against the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville and its parishes, carried out from a boat in California.
David Andrew Webb, 40, was arrested last month in Chula Vista, Calif., where he had been living on the boat, on a sealed complaint filed by FBI Agent David Bukowski charging him with stalking and a related sealed indictment charging Webb with using a phone to “engage in a course of conduct that caused substantial emotional distress to the victims and placed them in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury.” MORE