Tennessee’s Catholic bishops have taken the unusual step to publicly oppose a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after a fetal heartbeat is detected. MORE

Vol 12 Issue 20 ~  Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
May 18, 2019 ~ Saint Venantius, opn!

1.      Mary, Our Mother
2.      Fourth Sunday after Easter
3.      Saint Peter Celestine
4.      Family and Marriage
5.      Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

Hey Trump can use it to build the wall, ha.

Among the speakers are Dominican Father Wojciech Giertych, the current theologian of the papal household; Cardinal Willem Eijk, the archbishop of Utrecht; Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former head of the Vatican’s highest court; Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences; Cardinal Janis Pujats, archbishop emeritus of Riga (Latvia), as well as pro-life and pro-family leaders from a number of countries. MORE

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Senate approved a measure on Tuesday that would outlaw almost all abortions in the state, setting up a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, the case that recognized a woman’s constitutional right to end a pregnancy. VIDEO

Oh wow, this should reunite the firestorm with the Jews.

Mel Gibson’s next movie hasn’t even entered production yet, but the actor’s team is already doing damage control. On Monday, Variety reported that Gibson is set to co-star with Shia LaBeouf in Rothchild, an upcoming satire about a super-rich New York family. MORE

The Louisiana legislature is halfway toward passing a law — like the ones enacted in Mississippi and Georgia — that will ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, about six weeks into a pregnancy and before many women know they’re pregnant. Alabama is on the cusp of approving an even more restrictive bill. MORE

First of all, the interviewees say, homosexuality in their seminaries “is a common thing, a reality ever more present.” So normal “that it even reaches the point of being trivialized.” It is the widespread conviction among them “that in reality 90 percent of seminarians today are homosexual.”

Some homosexuals – they say – “seek the seminary as a means of escape so as not to take on before their families and society the responsibilities connected to their behavior.” MORE

Following multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms and flooding already this week, more heavy rain and thunderstorms are inundating areas from eastern Texas to Mississippi. VIDEO