The Vatican on Friday condemned a right-wing Catholic radio station that said a series of earthquakes that hit Italy in the past three months was “God’s punishment” for the country approving same-sex civil unions.
“These remarks are offensive for believers and scandalous for non-believers,” Deputy Secretary of State Archbishop Angelo Becciu was quoted as saying by Italian media. MORE
There’s a side of the Muslim refugee story you probably have not heard in the mainstream media.
We’ve seen the video clips of Muslim refugees—many of them from war-torn Syria—flooding into an unprepared and overwhelmed Europe. We’ve heard accounts of some of these refugees committing ugly crimes and others demanding that the post-Christian societies that welcome them conform to the harsh demands of Islamic law. We’ve even read the stories about Islamist terror groups such as ISIS infiltrating the refugee populations in order to wreak further havoc on the West. MORE
Vol 9 Issue 49 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
November 5, 2016 ~ Our Lady on Saturday
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (93)
2. Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
3. Saint Leonard
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
Watching the world go to hades on television does nothing but guarantee that the world will go to hades. The TV has become the neo-coliseum. When one returns to the time when the martyrs were brought to the coliseums to be fodder for the gladiators or food for the wild beasts there are found the “good” citizens who were excited to see the spectacles sponsored by the state and who would fill the coliseums watching Christians being murdered. Continue reading
The third powerful earthquake to hit Italy in two months spared human life Sunday but struck at the nation’s identity, destroying a Benedictine cathedral, a medieval tower and other beloved landmarks that had survived the earlier jolts across a mountainous region of small historic towns.
Lost or severely damaged in the shaking were ancient Roman walls, Gothic and Baroque churches and centuries-old paintings crushed beneath tons of brick, sandstone and marble. MORE
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments. MORE
Citing a “well-placed source” in the New York Police Department, Blackwater USA founder and retired Navy SEAL Erik Prince claims that among the 650,000 Huma Abedin emails on her estranged husband’s laptop is evidence Hillary Clinton, as well as former President Bill Clinton, was a visitor to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean hideaway, known as “Orgy Island.” MORE
November 19, 1969 is when Paul VI denounced the Traditionalists & the Cardinal “Ottaviani Intervention.”
November 3, 2016 – Within the Octave of All Saints
Semidouble Feast
Neo-SSPX Sellout Could Come by November 19, 2016
That Is the Day on Which Francis-Bergoglio’s Fabricated “Year of Mercy” Ends
From: Peter, the TRADITIO Network’s Canadian Correspondent Bernie Fellay Continue reading
THE business lunch once seemed so blithely simple. Shepherd some clients to a nice restaurant, order a steak and a few highballs, make a couple of deals, gossip over the cheesecake. Hand a charge card to the waiter after barely glancing at the check. MORE
The 500th anniversary of the Reformation would be the “perfect time” for Protestant leaders to recognize and apologize for the “horrific antisemitism” of their movement’s founder Martin Luther, an official with a leading US-based Jewish human rights organization told The Algemeiner on Monday. MORE
