Five major airlines plan to furlough more than 13,000 California workers in October as they grapple with a steep drop-off in air travel amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. MORE

I cannot remember when we’ve ever endorsed for the president of the United States until now. That’s how important this is. …. Mr. President, we’re fighting for our lives out there we don’t want this to spread to the country, we need your strong voice across the country. MORE

Heat wave grips the state with temperatures hitting 112 degrees and crowds flocking to beaches. Rolling blackouts could affect up to 250,000 homes and businesses in the state. MORE

You know it’s hot when Death Valley, California, breaks high temperature records.

A long-duration, dangerous heat event is setting up for parts of the West that will begin Friday and last into next week. MORE

Microsoft’s billionaire founder and vaccine enthusiast Bill Gates said on Sunday that President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was “mind-blowing because you can’t get the federal government to improve the testing.” MORE

Introduction by Michael J. Matt: If in the long history of the Catholic Church there has been an event more vigorously contested among faithful Catholics than the Second Vatican Council, I’d like to know what it is. Some would argue that, some fifty years after the fact, the Council is emerging as the most polarizing event in Church history. MORE

The pastor of a church in California who was sued by county officials for holding indoor worship services said he intends to disobey a judge’s restraining order and continue holding services anyway. MORE

The “Unity Agenda” released by the Biden campaign calls for the restoration of taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood, repealing the Hyde Amendment, preventing taxpayer funds from paying for abortions, and promises to work to codify Roe v. Wade. VIDEO

The U.S. needs to wake up to the plot that’s transpiring in the Middle East with Iran, Russia and China.

American policymakers have long assumed that Chinese and American goals in the Middle East are largely complementary. Beijing, so the prevailing wisdom holds, is fixated on commerce, with a special emphasis on oil and gas. “China’s strategy in the Middle East is driven by its economic interests,” a former senior official in the Obama administration testified last year before Congress. MORE

Vol 13 Issue 32 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
August 8, 2020 ~ Saints Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus, and Companions, opn!

1.      What is the Holy Eucharist
2.      Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
3.      Saint John Marie Vianney
4.      Family and Marriage
5.      Articles and notices
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Upwards of 200 Minneapolis police officers have started the process to apply for permanent disability following the George Floyd riots; Mike Tobin reports. VIDEO