Throughout Rodrigo Duterte’s presidential campaign, it didn’t much seem as though the renegade Davao City mayor cared whether what he was saying was offensive or politically correct. He “joked” about not getting the chance to rape an Australian minister who was taken hostage, raped and killed in his country in 1989. He says he’ll execute 100,000 criminals. And, while Pope Francis was visiting Manila, causing massive traffic jams in the capital, Duterte said he felt like calling up the spiritual leader of most of his country’s population and telling him: “Pope, son of a whore, go home. Don’t visit anymore.” MORE

As Israel and the United States condemn Iran for allowing a Holocaust-themed cartoon festival to go on display in Tehran, the Iranian regime says it won’t censor what it says is free speech.

“Why does the United States have the Ku Klux Klan? Is the government of the United States responsible for the fact that there are racially hateful organizations in the United States?” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, asked The New Yorker, when asked why the regime has permitted the contest. MORE

The president of The Cardinal Newman Society – the premier organization that promotes and defends Catholic education – says Catholic schools should implement “human sexuality policies” that serve to protect the faith, not to conform to the federal government’s social engineering motives.MORE

More than 60 people have reportedly been killed by lightning strikes over the past two days across Bangladesh, according to local newspapers. MORE

What you may have been suspecting has been confirmed. LGBT activists’ end goal is not ruling over the bathroom. It’s obliterating the family. Riki Wilchins, a famous transsexual who recently wrote a piece in the gay publication The Advocate, revealed that many conservatives and even LGBT activists are missing the forest for the trees. MORE

Vol 9 Issue 20 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
May 14, 2016 ~ Saint Boniface, opn!

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (68)
2. Pentecost Sunday
3. St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle
4. Christ in the Home (42)
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader: Continue reading →

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has vowed to rebuild a town that has been ravaged by the wildfires in Alberta as he toured entire neighborhoods leveled by the out-of-control inferno. MORE

How’s this for a birthday present. I’m  the one who brought it up that for women to continue to have equal rights they will have to register for the draft. Hope all you liberal women enjoy the good news.

Women would begin signing up with Selective Service in January 2018 under a measure approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee, another step toward a day when young Americans of both genders may be subject to the military draft. MORE

Steve Hill in many ways is a typical candidate running for elected office in California. He’s a former U.S. Marine looking to reform public schools, reduce the state’s mass incarceration rates, and create jobs. But a couple things are holding him back: He’s an avowed atheist and Satanic Temple organizer. MORE

Wow, CMRI was having ordinations earlier that day.

Hail fell in sheets last night in Colorado, Nebraska and Missouri. It accumulated like heavy snow on the ground in Omaha, where residents used front loaders to clear it out. In a St. Louis suburb, hail the size of grapefruits battered cars and homes. MORE

This is what is bad about separation of Church and State, then add Religious Liberty and the queers take over.

ROME (Reuters) Italy’s parliament approved same-sex civil unions and gave some rights to unmarried heterosexual couples on Wednesday (May 11) after Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called a confidence vote to force the bill into law.

Italy is the last major Western country to legally recognize gay couples and an original draft law had to be heavily diluted due to divisions in Renzi’s ruling majority.

The bill had faced stiff opposition from Catholic groups who said it went too far, while gay activists said it was too timid. MORE

The Birthday of the Church

The Acts of the Apostles recounts the story of the original Pentecost (Acts 2).

Jews from all over were gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Jewish feast. On that Sunday, ten days after the Ascension of Our Lord, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary were gathered in the Upper Room, where they had seen Christ after His Resurrection: Continue reading →

Northern Ireland’s Attorney General, John Larkin, has told the Court of Appeal that the judgement in the case against a Christian-run bakery that refused to make a cake bearing a slogan supporting gay marriage was wrong.

Last year, Ashers Baking Company was found to have discriminated against a customer who placed the order in 2014.

It is trying to overturn the ruling.MORE

Victims of sexual abuse by priests, advocates say, still feel alone. That painful sense of solitude persists even 14 years after the Boston Globe documented a massive cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, setting off a wave of exposés across the country that continue until this day. Even now, some victims think that they were the only one hurt by a particular priest. MORE