Time Magazine, one of American’s famous weekly news magazines published in New York City has just published a magazine that supports anti-American and unconstitutional doctrine. Everything from the abolishment of the electoral college, to replacing the Senate with an assembly of governors, to allowing the Supreme court to modify our Constitution was boasted about. This would literally change our capitalism country into a tyrannical technocracy. MORE

A mag 6.1 – 24km ESE of Ngulu, Micronesia is the second major quake this morning and the 4^th in the last 24 hours. A tsunami warning has been released.

Earlier this morning a mag 6.0 – 83km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands was the third major quake to strike in 24 hours after the massive 7.9 and 6.3 in Papua New Guinea yesterday. Incredibly it’s the seventh major quake to hit this area in the last 7 days with Papua New Guinea suffering a wave of aftershocks after yesterday’s massive strike. MORE

15% of American Adults are on anti-depressants or other mind altering prescription drugs

The number used to be one in ten, but according to new data, one out of every six adult Americans is taking anti-depressants or some other type of psychiatric drugs now. MORE

Japan has begun slaughtering about 210,000 farm birds in northern Hokkaido to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, an official said on Sunday.

It is the fifth mass cull this winter in Japan with hundreds of officials working to prevent the spread of the virulent H5 strain, which has been detected at several farms across the country. MORE

Our Nov. 16-23 visit to Rome was the most dramatic of many such twice-per-year work trips we have taken there during the past 10 years. After meeting with cardinals, bishops and other Vatican agency and dicastery staff, John-Henry Westen, our new Rome reporter, Jan Bentz, and I saw a consistent pattern of widespread anxiety and very real fear among faithful Church servants. We have never encountered this before. MORE

Los Angeles County supervisors Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis are asking their colleagues to join them in setting aside $1 million in county funds that can be used to help illegal immigrants fight deportation.

It is estimated that LA County’s illegal immigrant population is over 800,000, and the $1 million in funding would come from taxpayers’ pockets. MORE

Vol 9 Issue 52 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
December 17, 2016 ~ Ember Saturday in Advent

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (98)
2. Fourth Sunday in Advent
3. Saints Rufus and Zosimus
4. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:
This last week, the Fourth Week of Advent, the Church presents the period from David until the birth of Christ. Solomon, the wisest of men and who built a magnificent temple to house the Ark of the Covenant, falls into sin through pride and weakness of the flesh. Continue reading →

Manila The Philippines For years, everyone stopped at noon as the Angelus was prayed over radio stations and in schools. … the INTENSITY and depth of the faith life, solid Catholics here on the ground say they. But that is no longer the case anymore as Michael Voris witnessed in current day Manila. MORE

Yarmulkes, hijabs, wigs, turbans and habits are all religious head coverings allowed for wear in U.S. driver’s license pictures.

Add “horns of power” to the list.

A Maine man named Phelan MoonSong is now the proud carrier of a state-issued driver’s license that shows his bespectacled eyes peering out beneath a pair of pointy goat horns emanating from his forehead. MORE

A Practical Solution to the Israeli Palestine Conflict

The proposal I’m making is to make a NEW COUNTRY out of the three different States of Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. It would be fashioned like the United States of America.  This United States of Israel and Palestinian  States, would draw up a new constitution, a federal flag, with each state adopting their own flag and the religion they chose to follow and go from there.
The only way I can think of, to solve the Jerusalem problem, would be to make it an international city controlled by the New Federal Country. Continue reading →

The pictures coming out of the Gatlinburg, Tennessee, wildfires are just devastating. Acres of woodland blackened. Row upon row of homes and businesses reduced to ashes. MORE

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate campaign adviser David Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer with hardline views on Israel, to serve as US ambassador to the country. MORE