China has resurrected memories of a 1999 bombing in Belgrade which most in the West have likely forgotten. In the context of the Ukraine war, China has brought up the bombing by NATO of its embassy. Beijing said the 1999 incident was a “barbaric atrocity” the country will not forget, according to Chinese and Iranian media.  MORE

Wow, in your face. I don’t feel that even the BLACKS will be happy over this appointment.

President Joe Biden on Thursday named Karine Jean-Pierre to be the next White House press secretary, the first Black woman and openly LGBTQ person to serve in the role. Incumbent Jen Psaki is set to leave the post next week. VIDEO

From the Pastor’s Desk:My dear faithful,

You have all heard, I am sure, the sad news that Bishop Dolan passed away this past Tuesday, the feast of the Mother of Good Counsel. Although his was a sudden death our heavenly Mother was there to take care of our pastor as he died clothed in her protective garment—the Brown Scapular.

They are going through what we went through with Vatican Council II.

(RNS) — A statement posted on Facebook Tuesday (May 3) by the Wesleyan Covenant Association’s Florida chapter caught the attention of the Florida bishop for the United Methodist Church: “107 Florida Methodist Churches Depart United Methodist Church,” it began. MORE

The Russian Orthodox Church hit back at the Vatican this week after Pope Francis told an Italian newspaper that Patriarch Kirill should not “transform himself into Putin’s altar boy” amid the invasion of Ukraine. MORE

A Catholic church in Boulder County has been vandalized for the second time in eight months, with the recent damage following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. MORE

A real threat to our national security.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The planes take off almost daily from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware — hulking C-17s loaded up with Javelins, Stingers, howitzers and other material being hustled to Eastern Europe to resupply Ukraine’s military in its fight against Russia. MORE

Remember, O most chaste spouse of the Virgin Mary, that never has it been known that anyone who asked for your help and sought your intercession was left unaided. Full of confidence in your power, I hasten to you, and beg your protection. Listen, O foster-father of the Redeemer, to my humble prayer, and in your goodness hear and answer me. Amen.

The farmers outside Augusta, Ga., say the hay had a musty chemical odor and was dark and mottled. But they fed it to the cows. Then the cows started to waste away, growing so thin that their ribs could be counted through their skin, the dairy farmers say. The cows died by the hundreds. MORE

Also in Florida. MORE