The Trump administration issued a final rule Friday that underscores that federal taxpayer funds provided for family planning services may not be used to support abortion in any way. MORE

Vol 12 Issue 8 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
February 23, 2019 ~ Saint Peter Damian

1.      What is the Sacrament of Confirmation
2.      Sexagesima Sunday
3.      Saints Matthias
4.      Family and Marriage
5.      Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

At the Pope’s recent visit to Abu Dhabi, he and the Muslim Grand Imam of al-Azhar signed a document entitled “A Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together.”  Among other things, it said this:

The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings.  This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives. Therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept.

Cdl. Burke explains it away: Pope’s declaration saying God wills ‘diversity of religions’ is ‘not correct’

This is an attack against Catholics and Western Civilization, Wow!

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a 2020 presidential contender, voiced support for switching Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, long an agenda item for the far Left. MORE

STORY

Too many Christians shy away from the social gospel, Pope Francis said Monday, because they are afraid the Church will end up looking like the communist party. MORE

Japan on Friday unveiled a plan to attract more foreign blue-collar workers, as the world’s third-largest economy battles a crippling labour shortage caused by an ageing and shrinking population. MORE

New Migrant Caravan Leaves for U.S. Border

A gay French writer has lifted the lid on what he calls one of the world’s largest gay communities, the Vatican, estimating that most of its prelates are homosexually inclined and attributing much of the current crisis in the Catholic Church to an internecine war among them. MORE

Toll Booths at the Mexican Canada Borders.  The Government is closed for President Day

Effective enforcement and security at the borders, ” Referring to these expenses and it’s budget. Recommending we put in toll booths to pay for these expenses and take it away from the tax payers. Over 200,000 cars cross the Mexican U.S. border per day. Not counting Trucks buses etc.  At $2.00 per car, that’s $400,000 dollars a day. Add Canada. This would pay for our border expenses and eventually become income. Think of other jobs created from it. It costs $7.00 just to go over the Golden Gate Bridge. Hello!
Here is the White house phone number. Call twice, once for the President and the other for the Vice President.  202-456-1111  If you want to call the Secretary of State as well, here is his number 202-647-6575

‘Mother’ and ‘father’ to be banned on forms as French schools go gender-neutral.

Children’s documents will instead refer to Parent 1 and Parent 2. The move has angered conservatives and Christians who argue that it signals the country’s moral decline. MORE