Vol 12 Issue 19 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
May 11, 2019 ` Saints Philip and James, opn!

1.      Mary, Our Mother
2.      Third Sunday after Easter
3.      Sts. Nereus, Achilleus and Domitilla
4.      Family and Marriage
5.      Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards seems to jump at every chance she gets to do an interview with a journalist who will flatter her abortion work. MORE

I TOLD YOU SO, REMEMBER, NOBODY LISTENED STORY

Federal fire bosses are plotting a strategy to battle an unusually large early-season wildland fire near Delta Junction once it leaves military lands, where it’s already scorched thousands of acres. MORE

Wind and rain caused the thunderstorm to dump sand and dust it had picked while passing over the coastal town of Onslow on its way out to the Indian Ocean, Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Austen Watkins said. PHOTOS

This President has guts. Yea.

President Donald Trump on Monday granted a pardon to a former first lieutenant in the US Army… MORE

The U.S. measles vaccine program has reduced cases from more than 700,000 a year in the 1950s to a low of 37 in 2004. This week, U.S. measles cases have climbed to their highest level in 25 years. MORE

 — where “doctrine” is expected to take a backseat to “evangelization” —  stating that the plans do not contain a “convincing concept of the origin, essence, and mission of the Church,” and, pointing out that one passage of the document even contains “shocking theological cluelessness.”

… “to be run like an international company” and as if “it is about a balance of power” between a mother company and subsidiaries. MORE

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Pope Francis traveled to Bulgaria Sunday to meet with the faithful but was stymied in his hopes of celebrating a joint prayer service with representatives of the Orthodox Church. MORE

Imagine a society enfeebled by constant, top-down, progressivist experimentation offering universal, programmatic solutions to problems that are either inherently localist or transcendent. Imagine an intellectual elite who are arrogantly uninterested in—and perhaps conscientiously deaf to—the concerns of ordinary, working-class people. Imagine a media that serves as a microphone for this elite, actively avoiding stories that don’t harmonize with their enlightened narrative.