It is always prudent to examine our past as we start off the New Year.
Were we judgmental before knowing all of the facts?
Were you aware that foolishness is sinful?
How much gossip were we involved in?
Were we honest with ourselves in 2016? Continue reading
Concern about the effects of fake news racheted up a notch Sunday with a tweet from Pakistan’s defense minister threatening nuclear war with Israel on the mistaken belief Israel’s defense minister had threatened Pakistan if it sent troops to Syria.
Fake news has been credited with contributing to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. MORE
WOW Worst drought in a hundred years. Vietnam could be ‘sowing the seeds of the next crisis.
Vietnam is expected to show annualized growth of 6.3% in the fourth quarter when it releases the data sometime next week.
That would be the first slowdown in annual growth since 2012 and below the 7% growth that was expected by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. MORE
Kim Jong Un is the Grinch who stole Christmas.
North Korea’s tubby tyrant wants the few Christians in the hermit state to spread cheer only to celebrate his grandma, Kim Jong-suk — not the birth of Jesus.
Jong-suk — who was born on Christmas Eve in 1919 — was an anti-Japanese guerrilla and Communist activist, wife of North Korea’s first dictator, Kim Il Sung, and former leader Kim Jong Il’s mother. MORE
MOSCOW — The flight data recorder of the Russian military passenger plane that crashed into the Black Sea near the resort town of Sochi, killing all 92 passengers and crew members on board, has been recovered, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. MORE
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, with roughly 40,000 new cases diagnosed in the UK every year, according to the National Health Service. Current treatments, such as radiotherapy and surgery, regularly cause lifelong incontinence. In addition, 90 percent of men who undergo such treatments struggle with erectile problems. MORE
Vol 9 Issue 52a ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
December 24, 2016 ~ Christmas Eve
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (98)
2. Christmas
3. Saint Anastasia
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:With this issue we want to extend to all our readers a most blessed filled Christmas. Continue reading
Adoration of Isa ( A Fast way to Heaven, ha.)
Billions of Christians around the world are excited to celebrate Christmas this weekend. Those in the world’s second-largest religious community, Muslims, don’t share quite the same excitement. In a few Muslim-majority countries, like Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Somalia, Christmas celebrations are banned. In Turkey, my country, they are not illegal, but some Islamist groups still organize annual protests against Christmas trees and Santa Claus costumes, which they consider Western impositions. MORE
In his annual Christmas address to the Vatican bureaucracy, Pope Francis on Thursday (Dec. 22) warned that those engaged in “malicious resistance” to the reform of the Roman Curia are inspired by the devil.
It marked the third consecutive year that the pope has slammed the highest levels of the Catholic Church’s administration in his annual holiday greeting at the Vatican. MORE
World Wow, it took them 40 years to see the light.
One of the top bishops in the Catholic Church, American Cardinal Raymond Burke, said there is “a very serious division in the Church which has to be mended” or it “could develop into a formal schism.” MORE
Washington (CNN)The United States on Friday allowed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction to be adopted, defying extraordinary pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in alliance with President-elect Donald Trump.
American Jewish support for Israel is eroding. But the most important reason is not Israel’s policy on the Palestinians. More significant is the unending submission of Israeli leaders to the dictates of the government-sponsored Orthodox religious establishment. MORE
Suicide and depression and being turned into “sacrament dispensing machines” are part of an ongoing struggle for many Irish priests.
Diocesan priests in Ireland are ““often pitied, patronised, reviled, insulted, disrespected, ignored and resented.”
These words came from Fr Brendan Hoban at last week’s annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP). MORE
The last time the Jewish holiday crossed over with Christmas was 2011. That year, Dec. 25 fell roughly in the middle of the Festival of Lights, as it will again in 2019. Rarer are the years when Hanukkah starts precisely on Christmas Day, as they did in 2005 and 1959 before that. MORE
