Vol 13 Issue 9 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
February 29, 2020 ~ Saturday after Ash Wednesday
1. What is the Holy Eucharist
2. First Sunday in Lent
3. Saint Felix II
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
Francis has not specifically met with coronavirus sufferers, but shook hands with the faithful in the front row during the audience. He also kissed a baby during his popemobile spin through St. Peter’s Square and greeted visiting bishops.
But the clergy members appeared to refrain from kissing his ring or embracing him as they normally would. VIDEO
“I gotta say this because it’s black history month: man, you the first black president.” Jack Brewer said, Bloomberg News’ Josh Wingrove reports. Brewer made the remarks in the Cabinet Room of the White House where President Trump hosted a roundtable event and addressed a group of roughly two dozen black civic and religious leaders. MORE
Israeli researchers at the Galilee Research Institute say they are just a few weeks away from the first vaccine of the coronavirus.
If all goes well, the vaccine could be available in 90 days. MORE
HOWEVER; The US has started human testing of a drug to treat the novel coronavirus VIDEO
California department stores that sell children’s products such as toys and clothes would be prohibited from segregating them by gender, under a bill now being considered by lawmakers. VIDEO
As sad as this is, a little laughter is good for the Soul. Beats crying.
Its that time of year again when bishops shake-down the sheep for their annual Lenten appeal. But this year, things are different. Catholics are fed-up with the financial and sexual corruption in hierarchy of bishops. PRINT YOUR OWN MONEY
In the beginning, CMRI did not have the talent or facilities that SSPX had in the training of the Priests and as I recall Bishop Francis Schuckardt would censor the seminaries learning abilities. Like he kept them from studying the Canon’s of the Church.
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A Korean Air flight attendant tested positive for coronavirus after working on flights in and out of Los Angeles, according to reports from South Korean media. VIDEO
HBO executives are doubtless congratulating themselves for their “courage,” but it doesn’t take any courage at all to skewer the Catholic Church today. When will they be courageous enough to take on Islam, which, with the rampant human rights abuses occasioned by Sharia, would be fertile ground for a lurid miniseries like The New Pope? Oh, around never. MORE
“Sadly, the ‘sign of peace’ must be discontinued because of the Coronavirus. That’s the most important part of the Mass,” commented a Novus Ordo Attendee. Lol.
More important than the Holy Eucharist?
In the Philippines — Asia’s only majority Roman Catholic country — priests sprinkled ashes on the heads of the faithful rather than making the mark of the cross on their foreheads to avoid physical contact. MORE
A Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Mexico City burned effigies of the pagan “Pachamama” statues while leading the faithful in prayer to atone for the sin of worshiping the statues at the Vatican during the recently concluded Amazon Synod. VIDEO
A small group of desert locusts has entered Congo, marking the first time the voracious insects have been seen in the Central African country since 1944, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency said Tuesday as U.N. agencies warned of a “major hunger threat” in East Africa from the flying pests. MORE
