March 3, 2018 M/O St. Joseph
In a bizarre disconnect, 40 percent of U.S. Catholics believe that Christian persecution around the world is “severe,” and yet they are more concerned about climate change and the global refugee crisis than the sufferings of their co-religionists. MORE
Boycott Georgia
Republican lawmakers in Georgia made good on a threat to eliminate a proposed tax break for Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, after the carrier declined to reverse a decision to cut ties with the National Rifle Association. MORE
In September Los Angeles County replaced Columbus day with Indigenous day. I wrote a Letter to the Breeze newspaper cursing L.A. The paper left out the curse. I figured God would hit L.A. with something, comes October 12. but He did better he got both North & South of California with the Fires. About 5 of them. The biggest and most deadly ever was the Thomas Fire. Hello, the Doubting St. Thomas-es. $1:8 Billion dollars damage and this is not counting the mud slides that happened latter when the rains came.
Oh you of little faith, how long will I be with you?
In the countless consumer boycotts that have emerged in the wake of political debate over the past few years, it seems that it’s actually a “buycott” approach — rewarding companies with purchases rather than withholding one’s business — that’s got retail executives listening. MORE
Vol 11 Issue 9 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
All men are vain in whom there is not the knowledge of God; and who by these good things that are seen, could not understand Him that is, neither by attending to the works have acknowledged who was the workman. (Wisdom 13:1)
March 3, 2018 ~ Saint Cunegunda, opn!
1. Mary as Co-Redemptrix
2. Third Sunday in Lent
3. Saint Casimir
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
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After the most recent high-school massacre in Parkland, Florida, left 17 students and teachers dead, the National Rifle Association (NRA), the nonprofit gun-rights advocacy group, was rebuked by a surprising group of liberal activists: American corporations. Pressured by Parkland high-school students and others to boycott the NRA, more than 20 companies have cut ties with the pro-gun group. MORE
Funny, I always pictured Israel as a prosperous Nation until I saw this commercial for food bank donations for their people.
Some 1.8 million Israelis, including 842,300 children, were living in poverty in 2016, according to new figures released by the National Insurance Institute this month.
The poorest region in the country continued to be Jerusalem, where some 55 percent of children live under the poverty line (down from 58% in 2015), followed by northern and southern Israel. MORE
A senior military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Feb. 27 for talks with Iraq and Afghanistan on water resources.
At a two-day conference in Tehran, “National Water Diplomacy and Opportunities for Hydropolitics in West Asia,” former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Yahya Rahim Safavi said, “The issue of the scarcity of water resources may lead to … challenges among countries. In Iran, we have common water [resources] with 12 neighboring countries, which can [lead to] both interaction and tensions.” MORE
The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year, the highest tally that the Jewish civil rights group has counted in more than two decades, according to data it released Tuesday. MORE
NEW YORK — Walmart announced Wednesday that it will no longer sell firearms and ammunition to people younger than 21 and would also remove items resembling assault-style rifles from its website. MORE
UNREAL!
The world’s oil industry is turning upside down under President Donald Trump’s economic leadership, as the United States is now selling its exported oil in the Middle East to the most unlikely oil-rich buyers. MORE
Russia has started the process of expelling North Korean migrant workers from its Far East region in order to comply with a United Nations Security Council resolution passed in December, officials said Tuesday. MORE