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

The children told prosecutors the two Roman Catholic priests repeatedly raped them by an image of the Virgin Mary inside the small school chapel in remote northwestern Argentina. Only their tormenters would have heard their cries because the other children at the school were deaf. 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

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 blood of St Januarius has failed to liquefy at the expected time prompting concerns about what it might signify.

St Januarius was a Bishop of Naples who is believed to have been martyred around the year 305 during the Diocletian persecution. MORE

By the light of a star they traveled far to seek the lowly Manger. Let us Rejoice on the Day Christ was born, and let us also Rejoice on the Day He will come back on. Pentecost Sunday.  A Blessed Merry Christmas and a productive Spiritual New Year.

I decided to write a short letter to her.  If you agree with it please pass it on to others.
Labor MP Kate Ellis

Dear Ms Ellis,
I have just received your ‘Happy Holiday’ card. If you are too spineless to even mention the word ‘Christmas’, then don’t bother to send me a card. Continue reading →

The monks at Assumption Abbey in Ava, Mo., were making concrete blocks when Father Cyprian Harrison joined the order in 1965. As demand for the blocks waned, the order explored other options to support the men who call the cloistered monastery home. MORE