Last month, after Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro unveiled a bombshell 1,300-page grand jury report detailing the alleged sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children in his state by hundreds of Catholic priests, American Catholics called for more investigations into church documents. Some even demanded the federal government step in. MORE
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Vol 11 Issue 36 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
September 8, 2018 ~ Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Dear Reader:
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A rare sexually transmitted disease that causes flesh-eating ulcers on patients’ genitalia has popped up in England, the Lancashire Post reported.
An unnamed female patient, who lives in Southport and is between the ages of 15 and 25, reportedly was diagnosed with donovanosis within the last 12 months. MORE
California wild fires are another story. The western US and Canada has been getting dryer (not hotter) for at least 500 years. (SoCal used to be a rain forest 6,000 years ago.) Man’s contribution to earth’s temperature rise is very small, But the increased CO2 in earth’s atmosphere does have a measurable affect on plants. They grow faster and more massive. The difference is especially significant in arid regions. Satellite photos show remarkable “greening effect” in semi-arid regions everywhere around the world. I have noticed in the canyons I hike something like double the woody desert scrub fuel, just in the last 13 years I have lived here.
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WOODSTOCK, Ill. (RNS) — “You cannot understand our history as a country until you understand the history of the church.” MORE
His point is well taken. Make sure to keep children away from YouTube. Unfortunately his spiel goes the route of pro-gay.