Grafting in the blazing sun, Kim Jong-un ’s child slaves load heavy rocks into sacks as others mend railway tracks with hammers.
Taken out of lessons and forced to carry out back-breaking work, they toil for up to 10 hours a day.
The footage of North Korea ’s human rights abuses, uncovered by the Daily Mirror, will shock the world. MORE
Experts at the World Meteorological Organization say they have established a new world record for wave height measured by a buoy.
An automated buoy recorded the wave in a part of the North Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and the U.K. on 4 February 2013. It was 19 meters, or 62.3 feet, in height.
The WMO Commission for Climatology’s Extremes Evaluation Committee has classified the measurement as “the highest significant wave height as measured by a buoy.” MORE
ROME – The Christmas tree and Nativity scene are symbols of God’s love and hope, reminding us to contemplate the beauty of creation and welcome the marginalized, Pope Francis said.
Baby Jesus, whose parents could find no decent shelter and had to flee persecution, is a reminder of the “painful experience” of so many migrants today, he said Dec. 9, just before the Vatican Christmas tree was to be lit and its Nativity scene was to be unveiled. MORE
1. Many Mexicans aren’t aware that the original Guadalupe is from Extremadura, Spain.
In fact, Christopher Columbus was a devotee and even named the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe in her honor, after she purportedly saved his fleet from a storm at sea. The Spanish Guadalupe is one of several black European virgins, so in her Mexican incarnation she actually became lighter-complexioned as the Virgen Morena. MORE
LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) — The Catholic Church is intimately concerned about climate change. The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences is the world’s oldest, longest running scientific mission. That body, which advises the pope on matters of science, has concluded that global climate change is real and is caused, at least in significant part, by human activity. MORE
by Joseph B. D. Saraceno
Why is it taught by Christians? “No one knows when the end will come.” The end in this case being the beginning of our lives with Christ after the general judgment for those who go to Heaven with Him.
First we have those who quote Jesus out of context. “But the day and the hour no one knows…but the Father only.”
Hello! But Jesus never said that the Father would never reveal this truth. In fact all three persons of the Trinity do reveal it as Sunday by exposing this truth to St. John in the book of the Apocalypse 1:10. (1)The Lord’s day here is Sunday. Also it makes sense since the Lord expects us to come to him on Sunday, why wouldn’t He come to us on Sunday? The Our Father states, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” So the will has to be the same. Continue reading
Can anyone help me with Bishop Richard Williamson’s mailing address? Email would help also.
In Christ, Joseph
A number of LGBT advocacy groups have slammed the Vatican’s new document on priestly formation that confirms a ban on admitting men to seminary who exhibit “homosexual tendencies.”
“Pope Francis has a lot of explaining to do,” said Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, a nominally Catholic LGBT organization. MORE
Vol 9 Issue 51a ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
December 10, 2016 ~ Our Lady of Loretto, opn!
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (97)
2. Third Sunday in Advent
3. Saint Damasus
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
Entering deeper into the Advent Season, the Church is distracted by the occasion of making sure there are laborers to bring the Gospel, the message, that Redemption is at hand and to prepare the hearts and minds of the world to prepare through penance for His coming. Continue reading
At a post-election celebration in Israel, members of the Republican Party branch in that country gathered to discuss how their efforts contributed to Donald Trump’s victory on November 8. On hand were the president of the Republican group, Marc Zell, Tzvika Brot, Ariel Sander, and others. Zell said that despite the important contribution of Israeli-American voters to Trump’s victory, there were too few absentee ballots cast from Israel to alter the outcome of the election. But Trump’s popularity in Israel did persuade non-Jewish voters in the U.S. to pull the lever for the New Yorker, said Zell. MORE
The Japanese sex problem has become so desperate that its young population has given up on dating and is just marrying friends.
A government survey found 69% of Japanese men and 59% of Japanese women do not have a romantic partner.
One Japanese aggregator website has since been awash with stories of how people have simply married lifelong friends. MORE
Details of the sinister and sometimes cult-like atmosphere around the ‘artist’ who ran the Oakland warehouse can be revealed.
Derick Ion Almena was in charge of the illegal enclave, described variously as a collective or a commune, where 36 died in Friday night’s devastating fire.
He is facing a criminal investigation into the lead-up to the fire, which happened in a warehouse filled with junk and where Almena was raising his three children with his wife, Micah Allison. MORE
It may seem like Christmas has always been celebrated in the United States, but that’s not the case. In fact, the joyous religious holiday was actually banned in America for several decades by Christians themselves.
The original war on Christmas was waged during the sixteenth and seventeenth century by Puritans, or Protestant Christians who believed that people needed strict rules to be religious and that any kind of merrymaking was sinful. MORE
Mushrooms, though classified as vegetables in the food world, are not technically plants. They belong to the fungi kingdom and although they are not vegetables, mushrooms provide several important nutrients. MORE