Why aren’t Israelis more Jewish?

shutterstock_106518716-427x283Another good reason for the difference between American Jews and Israeli Jews is, American Jews don’t have Hamas breathing down their backs.

It all depends on what you mean by “Jewish.”

This week, the Pew Center released its study on Israeli Jewish identity. The survey (read my colleague Lauren Markoe’s report) was conducted in-person with 5,601 Israeli adults. It revealed a very complex, and in some ways disturbing, portrait of what it means to be Jewish in Israel.

Here is the bottom line. Israeli Jews are not like American Jews. Israeli Jews think differently. The report showed that a near majority of Jewish Israelis advocate expelling or transferring Arabs out of Israel. MORE

Ukrainian Catholics and Orthodox in unity

3591Sviatoslav2_00000002907The beast of the Apocalypse grows bigger every month.

The history of relations between the Vatican, wherein is the Holy See of St Peter, and the various Orthodox churches has long been fraught with misunderstandings, disputes, and even violence. There were several brief periods of reunion of the Catholic Church with the Orthodox churches, following the schism of one thousand years ago. But complete communion has proved to be apparently impossible. MORE

Insight into the Catholic Faith presents ~ Catholic Tradition Newsletter

eveThe eve of the Passion

Vol 9 Issue 11 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
March 12, 2016 ~ Lenten Feria

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (59)
2. Fourth Sunday in Lent
3. St. Euphrasia
4. Christ in the Home (34)
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

Saint Joseph is patron of the Universal Church. As he protected Mary and Jesus from the cruelty of Herod and provided for them, Continue reading

Another reason why Conciliar Church not Catholic

SRI LANKA-VATICAN-RELIGION-POPEAnother reason why the Conciliar Church is not part of the Roman Catholic Church can be seen in this post for the March 11, 2016 on the ADLA:

Los Angeles Hindu-Catholic Dialogue: “God at Play in All Creatures:  Reading Laudato Si’ through Hindu Ecotheology,” Thursday, April 14, in Los Angeles

The Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs is a co-director of the Los Angeles Hindu-Catholic Dialogue.  The Dialogue will present “God at Play in All Creatures: Continue reading

VIDEO: Diabetes epidemic is out of control

The International Diabetes Federation’s 20th World Diabetes Congress, currently meeting in Montreal, released new data that shows 285 million people worldwide have diabetes, with residents of low-and middle-income countries bearing the brunt of the epidemic.  Diabetes claims the lives of four million people a year, and is a leading cause of blindness, renal failure, heart attack, and amputation. MORE

VIDEO: Evil Beneath Louisiana Flood Rescues ‘Everywhere’

Louisiana’s historic El Nino driven emergency flood rescue operations are occurring in so many areas, a first responder said Friday they were “everywhere.” The disaster had yet to even reach its main target, New Orleans and the remaining deep south Louisiana’s oil and gas heartland. It had only just begun drenching New Orleans’ white flight NorthShore, a fracker-coveted area north of the city’s Lake Pontchartrain. MORE

Conservative Catholics Like Donald Trump Despite Pope’s Opposition

Trump-and-Pope-AP-Photos-640x480It’s interesting how Faggioli comfortably labels Trump as a xenophobic (prejudice against people from other countries) as if its purely factual. Faggioli’s hypocrisy is that in ‘labeling’ a man he obviously didn’t research properly even though Trumps life is an open book, Faggioli is actually ‘profiling’ and this act of profiling is in itself to the ‘politically correct’ an act of prejudice, making Faggioli himself a xenophobc. 

In a confused and confusing article, Huffington Postwriter Massimo Faggioli declares that a majority of Catholic Republicans support Donald Trump in spite of the Pope’s alleged opposition to the Republican candidate, because of their underlying racism.

“What’s most interesting,” Faggioli writes, “is that the xenophobic and nationalist candidate has earned the vote of a majority of Catholic Republicans, either unaware or uninterested in the fact that Pope Francis said, just three weeks ago during his return flight from Mexico, that Trump’s message ‘is not Christian.’” MORE

Mass Exorcism Needed: Mexico Swept by Wave of Satanic Killings

EXORMexico is being swept by a wave of satanic ritual killings with exorcists saying there is an unprecedented demand for their services.

Father José Antonio Fortea, a leading Mexican exorcist, who once ordered the mass exorcism of the whole country, has warned of an increase in satanic ritual killings.

He said that “devil worship” stemmed from the so-called cult of Santa Muerte, depicted as a human corpse with all the flesh picked off the bones, and dressed like a bride for her wedding. MORE

VIDEO: Baby Jesus appeared on the place where he born, miracle just watch

This Apparition of Child Jesus was caught on tape by an unsuspecting tourist who accidently left his camera running just before Christmas Mass in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on the Palestinian side of Jerusalem. The apparition forms and disappears just as a monk dashes through the room. You can see the monk feels a presence of Baby Jesus and stops to pray just as the apparition disappears

Mary Johnson Obituary

wl0014002-1_20160308One of the first members of CMRI  RIP  Only a few of us left.

Mary Johnson, daughter of John and Alvina Breunig, passed away peacefully in the presence of family and her devoted caregiver early Monday morning. She is preceded in death by her husband Frank, her son Robert and her two brothers “Jack” and “Tommy.” Mary is survived by her nine children David (Pam), Sr. Marie de Lourdes AKA Katherine, John (Karen), Ronald (Shelly), Mother Teresa Christe AKA Debra, Chad (Deanna), Joseph (Cathy), Gemma and Christopher (Claudia). Continue reading