Our Nov. 16-23 visit to Rome was the most dramatic of many such twice-per-year work trips we have taken there during the past 10 years. After meeting with cardinals, bishops and other Vatican agency and dicastery staff, John-Henry Westen, our new Rome reporter, Jan Bentz, and I saw a consistent pattern of widespread anxiety and very real fear among faithful Church servants. We have never encountered this before. MORE

Los Angeles County supervisors Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis are asking their colleagues to join them in setting aside $1 million in county funds that can be used to help illegal immigrants fight deportation.

It is estimated that LA County’s illegal immigrant population is over 800,000, and the $1 million in funding would come from taxpayers’ pockets. MORE

Vol 9 Issue 52 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
December 17, 2016 ~ Ember Saturday in Advent

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (98)
2. Fourth Sunday in Advent
3. Saints Rufus and Zosimus
4. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:
This last week, the Fourth Week of Advent, the Church presents the period from David until the birth of Christ. Solomon, the wisest of men and who built a magnificent temple to house the Ark of the Covenant, falls into sin through pride and weakness of the flesh. Continue reading →

Manila The Philippines For years, everyone stopped at noon as the Angelus was prayed over radio stations and in schools. … the INTENSITY and depth of the faith life, solid Catholics here on the ground say they. But that is no longer the case anymore as Michael Voris witnessed in current day Manila. MORE

Yarmulkes, hijabs, wigs, turbans and habits are all religious head coverings allowed for wear in U.S. driver’s license pictures.

Add “horns of power” to the list.

A Maine man named Phelan MoonSong is now the proud carrier of a state-issued driver’s license that shows his bespectacled eyes peering out beneath a pair of pointy goat horns emanating from his forehead. MORE

A Practical Solution to the Israeli Palestine Conflict

The proposal I’m making is to make a NEW COUNTRY out of the three different States of Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. It would be fashioned like the United States of America.  This United States of Israel and Palestinian  States, would draw up a new constitution, a federal flag, with each state adopting their own flag and the religion they chose to follow and go from there.
The only way I can think of, to solve the Jerusalem problem, would be to make it an international city controlled by the New Federal Country. Continue reading →

The pictures coming out of the Gatlinburg, Tennessee, wildfires are just devastating. Acres of woodland blackened. Row upon row of homes and businesses reduced to ashes. MORE

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate campaign adviser David Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer with hardline views on Israel, to serve as US ambassador to the country. MORE

Napolitano said that based on the massive scale of the over-counted votes, the effort was  “organized, and government involved. Government violating its own laws.” MORE

The study, which was published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, discovered that pregnant women who had low vitamin D levels when they were 20 weeks pregnant were more likely to have a child who displayed autistic traits by the age of 6. For the study, researchers analyzed approximately 4,200 blood samples from pregnant women and their children in the Netherlands. MORE

Alex Jones reveals why Kanye West went to meet with Donald Trump and why Kanye West is trying to break ties with the satanic elite.

POPE FRANCIS TELLS CHRISTIANS TO PREPARE FOR THE APOCALYPSE Pope Francis said that it became clear to him that the apocalypse was imminent after the terrorist attacks on Paris by men claiming to act for Islamic State which he said had sent shockwaves throughout the entire world. MORE