A rescue worker holds an injured boy after what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in Idlib city, Syria December 20, 2015.
On Sunday, Russian airstrikes over a busy marketplace in the rebel-held city of Idlib, Syria,killed at least 70 civilians and wounded dozens more.
“We’ve never been bombed like this,” Issa Khaled, a resident of the Aleppo suburb of Ghouta, told The Guardian the day after the attack. MORE
Nine priests outline the grave problems in the Society of St. Pius X in their March 25, 1983 letter to Archbishop Lefebvre and the General Council of the Society. The priests would be expelled the following month.
Your Grace and Rev. Fathers:
It is our understanding that the reason for which the Society of St. Pius X was founded was to promote fidelity to Tradition, by which is mean loyalty to the Church, her doctrine, more teaching, worship, sacraments and discipline. That such an organization was necessary was due to the fact that the reforms introduced by Pope John XXIII set in motion a process that has resulted in radical change, which constitutes a substantial rejection of traditional Catholic doctrine, morality and worship. Continue reading
Vol 8 Issue 51 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
December 19, 2015 ~ Ember Saturday
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (47)
2. Third Sunday in Advent
3. Saint Lucy
4. Christ in the Home (22)
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will. Continue reading
Saying “We don’t discriminate based on race, creed, color,” the principal of a Catholic school in Michigan defended allowing Muslim students to use a so-called “sacred space” on the campus for their daily prayers despite complaints from parents. MORE
This year a “super moon” will appear on December the 25th which is a very rare event with the last one in 1977. A Christmas full moon will not happen again until 2034. December’s full moon is called the Full Cold Moon, according to the Farmers’ Almanac. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. MORE
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Homeless crisis for those living in Vehicles
The south bay has a growing homeless crisis and a shortage of answers. Especially with those who are living in motor vehicles. With the increase of more citywide ban on overnight parking and with many more vehicles per household, street parking is running out of space.
One solution to the problem at least for the homeless would be to have the local city’s to set up a safe parking program that would allow homeless people to park overnight in designated lots owned by the city or nonprofit organizations. It is the homeless population that is most adversely affected by these restrictions so this is the least we can do to lessen their burdens.
Joseph B. D. Saraceno
More than 1,000 people may have been exposed to tuberculosis at a Northern California hospital by a nurse who was exposed to the disease – and hundreds of infants could be at risk. MORE
Alaskans are certainly used to taking the worst that Mother Nature can dish out, but she tried her best Saturday evening.
A massive 928 mb (good luck finding that on your barometer) storm churning in the Northern Pacific just off the Aleutian Islands is bringing not just any hurricane-force winds to the region, but what would qualify as Category 3 hurricane force winds had the storm been an actual hurricane MORE
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has surged ahead to become the latest front-runner in the campaign for the Iowa caucuses, dislodging Ben Carson and opening an impressive lead over a stalled Donald Trump, a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows. MORE
For the fourth straight year fewer Americans are struggling to pay medical bills, according to a major government survey released Tuesday. Most of the progress has come among low-income people and those with government coverage.
The data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the number of people in households that faced problems paying medical bills decreased by 12 million from the first half of 2011 through the first six months of this year. MORE
Women in Saudi Arabia have cast their first votes in the country’s history, in municipal elections.
Women were also standing as candidates, another first, despite the conservative kingdom being the only nation where women are not allowed to drive. MORE
Hasakeh (Syria) (AFP) – Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State group in Syria.
The fierce-looking 36-year-old in fatigues from the Syriac Christian minority in the northeast believes she is making the future safe for her children.
“I miss Limar and Gabriella and worry that they must be hungry, thirsty and cold. But I try to tell them I’m fighting to protect their future,” she told AFP. MORE
A REFLECTION ON THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO CATHOLIC–JEWISH RELATIONS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “NOSTRA AETATE” (NO.4)
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Considering the situation in Syria right now, as Russia continues to bomb ISIS command and control locations, such as they are, by bombing those who Obama has been arming, there seems to be a rather pressing question on the minds of those who are watching the escalation closely…MORE