
MEXICO CITY (JTA) — It was during her ultimately successful campaign for Mexico City mayor that Claudia Sheinbaum made a reference to her Jewish heritage. Speaking before a group of Jewish women, she said she was proud of those origins. MORE

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loves Hanukkah. The annual ritual of lighting the Hanukkah candelabra organized by his party provides him with a stage from which to project his brightness unto the people of Israel and the world. MORE
The ring bearing the name of Pontius Pilate was discovered in the late 1960s, one of thousands of artifacts found in the excavation of Herodium, an ancient fortress and palace south of Bethlehem, in the West Bank. MORE

The iconic Yellowstone volcano landmark is the world’s tallest and most active geyser but recent activity has gone off the charts. Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) geologists monitoring the supervolcano complex have noted almost weekly water eruptions from the geyser this year. The Steamboat geyser has been erupting every 7-10 day for the past six weeks. MORE

Vol 11 Issue 49 ~Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
December 8, 2018 ~ Feast of the Immaculate Conception
1. What is the Sacrament of Confirmation
2. Second Sunday in Advent
3. Saint Hipparchus & Companions
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
Last Sunday we listened to the Gospel of Saint Luke telling us: and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea and of the waves;
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DEMOCRACY HAS ENDED By James Reed
The end of Australia as we know it is proceeding according to plan:
“Bill Shorten is facing internal pressure to follow through on a promise to consider quotas for gay and indigenous MPs, as his Labor team attempts to politicise women’s pay and representation in the workforce.
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Another Newchurch Archdiocese Bites the Dust. As Santa Fe, New Mexico, Becomes the Seventeenth Newdiocese to Go into Bankruptcy
From: The TRADITIO Fathers
An Unhappy John Wester. Newarchbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico Declares His Newarchdiocese the Seventeenth Newchurch Diocese To Go Bankrupt since 2006. In Newchurch’s Continuing Great Sex Embezzlement Holocaust.
The New Mexico Attorney General Raided His Administrative Offices
And the Next Day Wester Threw in the Towel. Wester Has 40 Lawsuits Pending against Him And He Has Only 126 Presbyters Left.

A student named Grace Lewis was enrolled in “a class offered by Polk State College, in Florida.” Lewis is known for being a very good student, often holding a 3.9 G.P.A. She is, after all, taking college classes while still in high school. That achievement was diminished greatly when she got four zero grades because she held to her faith in the existence of God. MORE