Children are more likely to be diagnosed with autism if their mothers took antidepressants during pregnancy, a new study shows.
In the new study, women who took antidepressants in the last six months of pregnancy were 87% more likely to have a child later diagnosed with autism. Doctors saw no increase in autism rates in women who took medication for depression in the first three months of pregnancy, according to the study, published online Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. MORE
On March 7, 2015, Pope Francis celebrated Mass in the Roman parish of All Saints. He went there for the fiftieth anniversary of the first Mass celebrated in Italian by Paul VI in that very church.
Commenting on the Gospel of St. John in which Jesus chases the merchants from the Temple, the pope dwelt upon the expression: “you shall not make my Father’s house a house of trade” (John 2:16). For Francis, this refers to “a type of religiosity”: Jesus’ act is an “act of cleansing, of purification”. God “does not appreciate exterior worship performed with material sacrifices and based on personal interests,” he explained. It is “a reference to authentic worship, to a correspondence between liturgy and life; an appeal that applies in every age and even for us today — that correspondence between liturgy and life.” And he insisted: “This is not primarily a doctrine to be understood, or a rite to be performed; naturally it is also this, but in another way, it is essentially different: it is a font of life and of light for our pilgrimage of faith.” Continue reading
NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (UPI) — Crude oil prices held steady in New York Monday, holding at less than $89 per barrel before the Christmas holiday break.
Traders are focused on the budget impasse in Washington, but no news on the issue on Christmas Eve turned out to be good news — or good enough — and prices held steady. MORE
This would fit in with the new Rome.
Father Feroldi wishes you a happy Mawlid
In 2015, the celebration of the birth of Jesus coincides with the one of Mohammad. This means that in December 24 the complete Arab world will be feasting their prophet’s birth while the Christian world celebrates the vigil and at midnight the birth of Jesus. Continue reading
Unfortunately, Our Lord will not return in 2016
Grace be with you, in Christ, Joseph
These four things have to happen first before Christ can come back.
The date setting of Easter in April,
The establishment of a papal office in Jerusalem WITH the gathering of the world religions,
The Great Biblical Chastisement, (The faithful will be protected from the fire)
The killing of the two witness, then His return on Pentecost Sunday.
by Hanna Bersinger
Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will. (Luke 2:14)
Glory be to God on high, and on earth peace to men of good will. We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we adore Thee, we glorify Thee, we give Thee thanks for Thy great glory: O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty! O Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father: Who taketh away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; Who taketh away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; Who sits at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For thou alone art holy, Thou alone art the Lord, Thou alone, O Jesus Christ, art most high, together with the Holy Ghost, + in the glory of God the Father. Amen. (Mass)
May the offering of this festive day be pleasing to you, O God, and may this exchange of gifts, through your bountiful grace, cause us to grow more like Christ, in whom our human nature is united with yours; who lives and reigns with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
(Secret of Midnight Mass)
The blessings of the Infant Savior be yours at CHRISTMAS and through each day of the NEW YEAR.
As my gift to you and your loved ones, the traditional Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Las Vegas for you during the Christmas Season.
Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
Erin Brockovich writes, “the enormity of the Aliso Canyon gas leak cannot be overstated. Gas is escaping through a ruptured pipe more than 8,000 feet underground, and it shows no signs of stopping,” as according to the California Air Resources Board, methane – a greenhouse gas 72 times more impactful in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide – has been escaping from the Aliso Canyon site with force equivalent “to a volcanic eruption” for about two months now. MORE
This is the terrifying moment fierce winds that have claimed the lives of six people in the last 24 hours toppled a truck on a highway in Mississippi. MORE
BANGKOK/MANILA, Dec 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Successive storms across the Philippines, including Typhoon Melor, have temporarily uprooted 1.7 million, aid workers said, as President Benigno Aquino distributed food on Wednesday in areas hardest hit by the disaster.
At least 41 people were killed when Typhoon Melor struck central Philippines on Dec. 15, inundating villages, damaging crops and disrupting power supplies to six provinces. MORE
GUIYANG, China — Pastor Su Tianfu slides into the back seat and tells the driver to hit it.
He looks over his shoulder: “Is there anybody following us?”
It is days before Christmas, but instead of working on his sermon, Su is giving his tail the slip.
The slight and soft-spoken Protestant preacher is no stranger to surveillance. Su has worked for years in China’s unregistered “house churches,” and he said he has been interrogated more times than he can count.
But even Su is surprised by what has happened in Guiyang this month: a crackdown that has led to the shuttering of the thriving Living Stone Church, the detention of a pastor on charges of “possessing state secrets” and the shadowing of dozens of churchgoers by police. MORE
Officials said a bright light that streaked across the skies of Southern California Tuesday night was space debris from a Russian rocket and not a meteor. MORE
EDITOR’S NOTE: There have only been two World Wars in human history and both of them started by the Germans. If history is any indicator, they will have a hand in starting the third one as well, and in the not too distant future.
BERLIN – The 70-year copyright on the text, written by Hitler between 1924-1926 and banned by the Allies at the end of World War Two, expires at the end of the year, opening the way for a critical edition with explanatory sections and some 3,500 annotations.MORE
With rows of crumbling buildings stretching to the horizon and not a soul in sight, these apocalyptic scenes reveal the shocking legacy of the Syrian war. MORE
Isaias (Isaiah) 17:1
The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.
Sir Alec Guinness Had a Miraculous “Personal Encounter” with God
From: The TRADITIO Fathers
Alec Guiness
Traditional Catholics May Not Be Aware that Star Wars Hero
British Actor Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000), Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Jedi Sage
Converted to Traditional Catholicism by Vow
As a Result of a Miraculous “Personal Encounter” with God
From 1956 until the Day He Died at Age 86 in 2000 Continue reading