I’ve seen about five of these cases in the last 4 years or so. One statue at Joplin? MO. was Our Lady of Sorrows. It was the only thing standing in the whole city, or at least in that block.

The video here, from CNN, is remarkable for a number of reasons—including the dignity the newscaster shows the church and its parishioners. (It’s also one of the few times I’ve heard a reporter use the verb “celebrate” with Mass; usually reporters talk about how people “attend” Mass or “hear” Mass.) MORE

These people need some kind of incentive to retire so others can take their place.
More Americans age 65 and over are still punching the clock, and the last time the percentage was this high was when John F. Kennedy was in the White House.

Last month, 19 percent of Americans age 65 and over were still working, according to government data released Friday. That’s the highest rate since 1962, and it caps a long trend higher since the figure bottomed out at 10 percent in 1985. MORE

Vol 10 Issue 18 ~Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
May 6, 2017 ~ Saint John before the Latin Gate

1. Is the Chair of Peter Vacant? An Argument for Sedevacantism
2. Third Sunday after Easter
3. Saint Stanislaus
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:
This week most Catholics will be looking forward to commemorating the Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. Continue reading →

This is the second state to do so…N or S Dakota is the other

A new bill has passed the NC House that would allow North Carolina drivers to drive through protesters who are blocking the road without being sued, as long as they “exercise due care.”

The North Carolina House passed HB 330 with a 67-48 vote.

Women rest after casting their votes at a polling station during municipal elections, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 12, 2015. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser

Jeddah- Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz on Thursday issued a directive relieving women from the prerequisite of obtaining the consent of guardians in order to receive public services, “unless there is a legal basis for this request in accordance with the provisions of Islamic law.”

King Salman bin Abdulaziz had passed the notice over to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, who is also Interior Minister. MORE

The United Nations says it needs $4.4 billion by July to prevent famine in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and northeastern Nigeria.

U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien, who just returned from field missions to the affected countries, told Security Council members Friday that the United Nations is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since the organization’s creation. He said that without the necessary funding and full, safe and unimpeded access for aid workers, people will die. MORE

IT’S NOT GLOBAL WARMING IT’S GLOBAL SINNING

As claim centres were counting the cost of the latest trail of storm destruction, new data reveals the freak “weather event” in November led to $30 million in payouts. MORE

What Catholics seem to forget is Italy became the biggest Communist country outside of the Iron curtain. Most of the labor unions where vastly becoming controlled by the communists. Since May 1st was the adopted celebrated day for the communists, Pope Pius XII turned to St. Joseph (The workman) to help stop the takeover of Italy by these communists. At the time these labor union thugs were shooting top executives in the knee who wouldn’t cooperate with their agenda.

MAY 1
St. Joseph the Workman

1. On May 1, 1955, Pope Pius XII delivered a significant address before an assembly of representatives of the Catholic Association of Italian Workers. Continue reading →

Bishop-elect Gerardo Zendejas was born in Mexico in 1963.

He studied at the Society of Saint Pius X Seminary Nuestra Señora Corredentora, of La Reja, in Argentina.

He was ordained a sub-deacon in 1986 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and a deacon in 1987 by Bishop de Castro Mayer. He was ordained a priest by Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta on the 10^th of December 1988. MORE

All the world’s a stage, Shakespeare

Vol 10 Issue 17 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
April 29, 2017 ~ Saint Peter of Verona

1. Is the Chair of Peter Vacant? An Argument for Sedevacantism
2. Good Shepherd Sunday
3. Saint Catherine of Siena
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:
Shakespeare wrote the play, As You Like It (1600) in which he has one of the characters stating: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. Continue reading →

In cleaning out some of my forty year old files, I came across a back issue of (The Roman Catholic) October 1986 issue, the managing editor was Father Clarence Kelly (Bp. Kelly now). I remember his article on the (AntiChrist), because I also found my rebuttal enclosed that I had sent him on this thesis that the AntiChrist would have to be a Jew, in which HE added, “from the Tribe of Dan.”

In my rebuttal I tried to explain that ‘Jew’ was a slang word for Judeans and that the Dan Tribe were not of Judea, but one of the Israelite Tribes. However, now in re-reading both his and my thesis, I saw how much we both left out of this complicated subject and so I decided to give a much more credible account to a confusing issue. Continue reading →

Vol 10 Issue 16 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
April 22, 2017 ~ Easter Saturday

1. Is the Chair of Peter Vacant? An Argument for Sedevacantism
2. Quasimodo Sunday
3. Saint Adalbert
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:One might remember Quasimodi simply as the main character in Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but it points specifically to the name given to the Mass on the first Sunday after the Resurrection: Quasi modo geniti infants (as newborn infants). Continue reading →

North Carolina elections officials found that about 500 ineligible voters cast ballots in the 2016 general election — but not enough to change the outcome of any race, according to an audit released Friday.

The State Board of Elections report said the 508 cases — the vast majority active felons — represented a small fraction of the 4.8 million ballots cast. The report didn’t include any evidence of coordinated fraud, and many of the voters claimed to be confused about their eligibility. MORE