Islam has taken its first step towards becoming an officially recognised religion in Italy, with major Muslim groups signing up to a government demand that all imams are registered and preach in the Italian language.

Islam is the only major religion in Italy with no agreement with the State, leaving institutions unable to receive tax subsidies. Islamic weddings also have no legal status and Muslim workers are unable to take religious holidays off work. MORE

Vol 10 Issue 6 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
February 11, 2017 ~ Our Lady of Lourdes, opn!

1. Is the Chair of Peter Vacant? An Argument for Sedevacantism
2. Septuagesima Sunday
3. Seven Holy Servite Founders
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:
As the Church changes to purple to express the entrance into the penitential season that begins with Ash Wednesday, ceasing to say the Alleluia and on Sundays and ferias suppressing the Gloria. Continue reading →

Cairo- Sheikh Jaber Tayei, head of religious department in the Egyptian Endowments Ministry General Bureau, said that the newly appointed women preachers will perform their tasks at the women oratories.

He added that two days per week will be allocated to giving lectures on women related topics.

Tayei told Asharq Al-Awsat that “144 preachers were appointed as a first step and there are more steps in the upcoming period to activate the women preaching work.” MORE

Well would you believe, I’ve been trying to get Israel to implement a 1-Country -3- State policy with the Palestinians. Here you have a friend of the family, hugging the Jewish King.

In times past, whenever Chuck was in the L.A. area, he would visit and work out at Steve Fisher Studios. Steve was known as the California Kid. My son Daniel became a black-belt instructor there, and has worked out with Chuck.   

One of Daniel’s friends became Chucks bodyguard. We’ve lost touch with Chuck over the years. Which is too bad, since he could have helped suggest my peace plan. Both Steve and the bodyguard are gone. RIP.

“Israel is strong, but it’s indestructible now,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quipped in a meeting with visiting American movie star Chuck Norris — an avid martial artist. MORE

There’s a lot of confusion, actually, about St. Valentine, whose feast we celebrate today.
The most popular legend places Valentine near Rome in the third century, during the reign of the Emperor Claudius III (nicknamed Claudius the Cruel).  According to the story, Claudius sought to expand the Roman Empire, and so needed a strong army to conquer new settlements. Continue reading →

February 13, 2017 – Ferial Day
Francis-Bergoglio Denounces Newchurch’s “Traditionalist” Orders. Is about to Shut down the Fraternity of St. Peter and Others?
From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Fraternity of St. Peter
Newchurch’s Pseudo-traditionalist Fraternity of St. Peter Continue reading →

Divine constellation

Turn this evening into a cosmic experience — a full moon, lunar eclipse and the chance to see a pale green comet as it streaks by Earth. Oh, and beg for clear skies. MORE

Just weeks after Donald John Trump was elected 45th president of the United States of America, his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway speaks out about the real reason why he won.

In a landslide election, Donald J. Trump shocked liberals and republicans alike when he defeated Hillary Clinton in a historic, unprecedented win. And to say that people were astonished at Donald Trump’s victory would be the understatement of the century. MORE

In one of the cardinal’s antechambers, amid religious statues and book-lined walls, Cardinal Burke and Mr. Bannon — who is now President Trump’s anti-establishment eminence — bonded over their shared worldview. They saw Islam as threatening to overrun a prostrate West weakened by the erosion of traditional Christian values, and viewed themselves as unjustly ostracized by out-of-touch political elites. MORE

At age 24, Alex Mangion became Malta’s first transgender politician when he won a local office on the conservative Nationalists’ ticket, a striking combination in a country that until recently had been a last bastion in western Europe of social norms largely dictated by the Catholic church.

The Nationalist Party recruited Mangion to run for town council with an eye toward grooming him as a candidate for next year’s Parliamentary election. The party, which governed Malta for a quarter-century, hopes to reverse its stinging, landslide 2013 loss to socialist archrivals who returned to power with an agenda heavy on LGBT rights. MORE

“I have been proudly serving in the US Navy Reserve Force since November 2008. I have pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and to spread freedom and democracy around the world. I will never waver from that pledge. I feel like a hypocrite singing about the ‘land of the free’ when I know that only applies to some Americans. I will gladly stand again, when ALL AMERICANS are afforded the same freedom.” MORE & MORE

This is brilliant:  That’s Amore Francis Italian style

Is Babylon falling?

On Saturday, posters appeared around Rome featuring a stern-looking Pope Francis and questioning “Where’s your mercy?” Although no group took credit, the fact that they spoke of a decapitation of the Order of Malta makes it easy to infer they came from conservative quarters. MORE

Vol 10 Issue 5 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
February 4, 2017 ~ Saint

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

Dear Reader: Continue reading →