The children told prosecutors the two Roman Catholic priests repeatedly raped them by an image of the Virgin Mary inside the small school chapel in remote northwestern Argentina. Only their tormenters would have heard their cries because the other children at the school were deaf. MORE
Author Archives: Joseph Saraceno
Catholic Cardinal: There’s ‘Serious Division in The Church,’
World Wow, it took them 40 years to see the light.
One of the top bishops in the Catholic Church, American Cardinal Raymond Burke, said there is “a very serious division in the Church which has to be mended” or it “could develop into a formal schism.” MORE
VIDEO: UN demands end to Israeli settlements after US abstains
Washington (CNN)The United States on Friday allowed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction to be adopted, defying extraordinary pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in alliance with President-elect Donald Trump.
The Security Council approved the resolution with 14 votes, with the US abstaining. There was applause in the chamber following the vote, which represented perhaps the final bitter chapter in the years of antagonism between President Barack Obama’s administration and Netanyahu’s government. MORE
American Jewish Support for Israel Is Eroding
American Jewish support for Israel is eroding. But the most important reason is not Israel’s policy on the Palestinians. More significant is the unending submission of Israeli leaders to the dictates of the government-sponsored Orthodox religious establishment. MORE
Suicide is on the rise among Irish priests
Suicide and depression and being turned into “sacrament dispensing machines” are part of an ongoing struggle for many Irish priests.
Diocesan priests in Ireland are ““often pitied, patronised, reviled, insulted, disrespected, ignored and resented.”
These words came from Fr Brendan Hoban at last week’s annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP). MORE
Hanukkah overlaps with Christmas this year. But why all the moving around?
The last time the Jewish holiday crossed over with Christmas was 2011. That year, Dec. 25 fell roughly in the middle of the Festival of Lights, as it will again in 2019. Rarer are the years when Hanukkah starts precisely on Christmas Day, as they did in 2005 and 1959 before that. MORE
Blood of St Januarius fails to liquefy
The blood of St Januarius has failed to liquefy at the expected time prompting concerns about what it might signify.
St Januarius was a Bishop of Naples who is believed to have been martyred around the year 305 during the Diocletian persecution. MORE
Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will.
Dear friends of the Truth and of the Faith
As Americans and in other protestant countries, the Angels quote’s for Christs birth in the Christmas cards is the protestant version. “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” Luke 2:14..The original Catholic version was “Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.” Continue reading
I have just received a ‘Happy Holiday’ card from my local Labor MP. (Australia)
I decided to write a short letter to her. If you agree with it please pass it on to others.
Labor MP Kate Ellis
Dear Ms Ellis,
I have just received your ‘Happy Holiday’ card. If you are too spineless to even mention the word ‘Christmas’, then don’t bother to send me a card. Continue reading
Monks switch from cement blocks to fruit cakes
The monks at Assumption Abbey in Ava, Mo., were making concrete blocks when Father Cyprian Harrison joined the order in 1965. As demand for the blocks waned, the order explored other options to support the men who call the cloistered monastery home. MORE
Australian tourists forced to undergo public “walk of shame”
Two Australian tourists have been forced to perform a public “walk of shame” through the streets of an Indonesian island for allegedly stealing bicycles. The walk of shame parade is a regulation in our village. Being publicly shamed is a common form of punishment on the island of Gili Trawangan, central Indonesia.
Merry Christmas From All of us at Catholic Endtime Truths
Changing Electoral College could cause a change in the House as well
Letter to the Daily Breeze news
I agree with Professor Edwen Chemerinsky that a change to the Electoral College system to conform to the constitution for equal representation is needed. However that just leads to another problem with the House of Representatives. The house membership was set at 435 members in 1912. So if we were to change the rules on the house to meet this same standards of the constitution today we could wind up with a 1000 members? The problem with a 1000 members would be an enormous expense to the tax payers and turn the house into chaos or at best grid lock. So whats the trade off. Leave it like it is or turn the house into chaos.
Joseph B.D. Saraceno
The Accidental Genius of the Electoral College
Slander: A Cancer in the Christian Life
By Bishop Paul S. Loverde Special to the HERALD (From the Issue of Dec. 12, 2002)
In as much as this article comes from a N/O Bishop, what he is saying here has always been the teachings of the CHURCH. “The motives that actuate the slanderer are generally revenge, hatred or ingratitude. “The Catechism Explained.” Spirago-Clark 1921
We are approaching the great Solemnity of Christmas, when we relive the birth of the one and only Savior of the World. Continue reading
Merry Christmas, May the Lord Bless You and Your Families
