Water managers in Los Angeles and Las Vegas are poised to adopt a drought-driven deal to send enough water to serve about 300,000 homes annually from the Lake Mead reservoir to Southern California.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority board is due on Thursday to consider a water agreement that would have the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California pay $45 million for 150,000 acre-feet of water. MORE
Some pontiffs have been beatified or canonized, but Pope Francis is receiving a far more dubious honor.
He’s being “Obamified.”
The charismatic Pope, who arrives in the United States on September 22, has gained fans in and out of the Catholic Church for denouncing unfettered capitalism, warning about climate change and urging mercy toward divorced couples and women who have had abortions MORE
EDITOR’S NOTE: On September 23rd, Pope Francis will meet with US President Barack Hussein Obama at the White House to discuss global wealth redistribution, increasing illegal immigration and how many billions to spend on Climate Change. The Pope will also discuss the best way to disarm Israel and make Iran a nuclear power at the same time.
The Vatican released a statement Tuesday officially welcoming the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 world powers (U.S., UK, China, France, Russia, Germany) and Iran, stating that the Holy See believes Tehran will reduce its nuclear capabilities in exchange for sanctions relief. In calling for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, the Vatican also appeared to target Israel, given that it is the lone nuclear power in the region MORE
Papal Craziness:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Peres-the-pope-and-a-plan-for-world-peace-374893
Peres, the pope and a plan for world peace
Peres proposes ‘UN for religions’ to pope at Vatican
Shimon Peres, a patriarch of today’s Israel, wants to leave a legacy. Most in this mode aim for things like monuments, memoirs and money. Peres’s aim is world peace. And in his opinion, Pope Francis, a man he calls “Holy Father,” is the one to make it happen. Vatican spokesmen concur, as does Italy’s representative for Islam, who “fully agrees.” Continue reading
The Constitution forbids any “religious test” as a condition to hold office, so the suggestion made at the end of the editorial will not happen.
Title 7 of the U.S. Civil Rights Act provides for an “accommodation” be made for any worker, public or private, whose personal convictions, religious or otherwise, prevent carrying out of duties. Continue reading
The Queen will have an audience with the Pope.
That would be the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, who has joined the roster of artists scheduled to perform for Pope Francis and his congregation at the Festival of Families in Philadelphia on Sept. 26.
Palestinians and Israeli forces have clashed at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque for a third straight day, as Israeli forces were seen on the roof of the holy site. MORE
A wall of water swept away two vehicles carrying women and children in a Utah-Arizona border town Monday, killing at least eight people and leaving five others missing in a community that served as a home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, authorities said.
Three people survived as the flash flooding washed the vehicles several hundred yards downstream about 5 p.m. MDT, Hildale assistant fire chief Kevin Barlow said. MORE
Airbus Chief Executive Fabrice Bregier is laying plans to draw level with Boeing in the United States, its rival’s home turf and the world’s largest aerospace market, starting with a new factory in Alabama.
It’s an aggressive move, considering the European plane-maker controls only about 20 percent of the U.S. market. That share will reach 40 percent as soon as carriers including American Airlines take delivery of Airbus planes on order. MORE
Father Donat Gionet, a Catholic priest in Caraquet who was relieved of duties for anti-gay and anti-abortion comments in recent sermons, told CBC Wednesday he was merely teaching church doctrine.
Gionet, 85, gave a series of sermons at numerous churches around the Acadian Peninsula about what he considered to be evils eating away at the Catholic Church, including abortion and homosexuality.
The sermons took place the weekend of Moncton’s Aug. 21 pride parade. MORE
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“Therefore the holy martyr Cyprian, writing about schism, denied to the pseudo-bishop Novatian even the title of bishop, on the grounds that he was cut off and separated from the Church of Christ. “Whoever he is”, he says, “and whatever sort he is, he is not a Christian who is not in the Church of Christ.”” MORE
In 2013, shortly after he was elected, Francis I joked with Cardinals saying,“May God forgive you for what you’ve done.”
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Yes, they are doing something like this, but it is also important not to forget easily that these popes, out of their own free will, have vehemently rejected some core doctrines of the Catholic Church. All of them held heretical opinions even before they ascended the papal throne (In fact, a careful study has shown that it was because of these heretical opinions that they were actually elected by the cardinals). For instance, at Vatican II, Archbishop Carol Wojtyla, the future John Paul II, commenting on missionary activity in the Church, said: “It is not the role of the Church to lecture unbelievers. We are engaged in a search along with our fellow men—let us avoid moralizing or the suggestion that we have a monopoly of truth.” As Pope he repeated this in his abominable encyclical Ut unum sint and spoke often of the possibility of the universal salvation of all men. Continue reading
