Kagawa University researchers have developed a way to mass-produce a “rare sugar” that has 70 percent the sweetness of regular sugar but also prevents blood sugar and fat buildup.

Rare sugars, of which there are 50 or so varieties, is not readily found in the wild and have various functions and great potential for use in the food industry, pharmaceuticals and other applications. Its popularity as a healthy substitute for real sugar appears to be on the threshold of exploding nationally and possibly globally according to this article at asahi.com. MORE

World  What a joke. Out of the ten decrees of the Vatican II council only two were pastoral but all are formal public heresy because the whole church has to accept these decrees. As a result you have a break in Papal Infallibility, which in turn also caused a break in the line of popes and brought us into “The Great Apostasy”  In Christ Joseph

VATICAN CITY — A breakaway traditionalist Catholic group accused Pope Francis on Wednesday of spreading confusion and errors about the faith, joining a chorus of conservative criticism over his perceived lax doctrine and emphasis on mercy at the expense of morals. MORE

Lady Gaga has been barred from China following a meeting with the Dalai Lama, according to a report from the Apple Daily, a Hong Kong-based newspaper.

The meeting, which was streamed on Facebook, took place at the annual United States Conference of Mayors Sunday and has been viewed nearly 3.5 million times. The pair discussed mental health, yoga, meditation, and the world, in the approximately 20-minute long video available on Lady Gaga’s Facebook page. MORE

MOSCOW — Turkey’s president has apologized to Moscow for the downing of a Russian military jet at the Syrian border, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

Putin has received a message from Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressing his “sympathy and deep condolences” to the family of the killed pilot and apologized, Dmitry Peskov told reporters. MORE

Speaking at the March for Marriage rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Rev. Bill Owens, president of the Coalition of African American Pastors, said President Obama “deceived America” on the gay marriage issue and hurt America and “the American family.”

Pope Francis on Sunday released peace doves on the Armenia-Turkey border in a gesture of reconciliation as Ankara slammed the pontiff for denouncing the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as “genocide”.

Standing on a terrace of the Khor Virap monastery, Pope Francis and the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church Kareki- II released the two white birds in the direction of Mount Ararat — the Biblical final resting place of Noah’s Ark — now in modern-day Turkey. MORE

For two  millennia the catholic church has taught that sin leads to eternal death it has been obsessed with Jesus Christs passion (what Catholics call his suffering and death on the cross) and the reason he suffered was for our sins so we could have eternal life.  This means sin has always been seen inside the church as an outrage to god and the proof has always been Jesus Passion for us on the cross.

In every Catholic church you will find the stations of the cross and a crucifix. MORE

Please pray for my nephew’s son, Dominic M. Saraceno.
He fell when climbing a cliff five days ago and is in critical condition.

He was a rapper trying to stop violence in Baltimore. Tyriece Travon Watson, better known as Lor Scoota, had just finished hosting a charity basketball game. The fliers advertising the event had said, “Pray for peace in these streets.” Music artists and important faces from around the city had come together to prove they could get along. MORE

The Martyrdom of Sts. John and Paul, Guercino, ARSH 1630-1632

Vol 9 Issue 26 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
June 25, 2016 ~ Saint William, opn!

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (74)
2. Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
3. Sts. John and Paul
4. Christ in the Home (48)
5. Articles and notices

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Washington D.C., Jun 23, 2016 / 03:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Pius XII’s secret support for the attempted overthrow of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler is the subject of a new book that draws on wartime documents and interviews with the American intelligence agent who wrote them.

“This book is the truth – as best I could establish it in a number of years of research – about the Pope’s secret operations in World War II,” historian Mark Riebling told CNA earlier this year. MORE

The Israeli Air Force welcomed Israel’s first stealth aircraft in history Wednesday evening, with the acquisition of an F-35 Lighting II fighter jet.

ROME (RNS) A Catholic school in northern Italy has been found guilty of discriminating against a gay teacher in a case sparked when a nun quizzed the employee on her sexual orientation.

The Daughters of the Sacred Heart Institute in Trento was ordered to pay 25,000 euros ($28,500) to the female teacher, the Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on Thursday (June 23).

In addition, the school was told to pay 1,500 euros each to a labor union and civil rights association. MORE

A deadly wildfire that roared through dry brush and trees in the mountains of central California gave residents little time to flee as flames burned dozens of homes to the ground, propane tanks exploded, and smoke obscured the path to safety. MORE