KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Motorists fleeing wildfires in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge packed roads in and out of the resort towns Monday night as flames and choking smoke driven by wind swept across the area.
The Gatlinburg Fire Department ordered the mandatory evacuation of downtown Gatlinburg as wind conditions worsened and several fires grew increasingly unpredictable and dangerous. MORE
Russia and the Philippines have agreed to closer ties when it comes to defense, according to Russian news outlet RT.
The Kremlin-funded T.V. network said a decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev now appears on a Russian government website, stating the following: MORE
Flash flooding in northwest Italy has forced evacuations in several cities and may be responsible for at least two deaths.
An expansive, lumbering storm centered over the Iberian Peninsula pumped deep moisture into northwest Italy, said weather.com senior meteorologist Jonathan Erdman, and run off from the resulting torrential rains swept quickly out of the mountainous terrain.
The two countries resumed full diplomatic ties last week with the mutual naming of new ambassadors, after six years of downgraded ties following the Mavi Marmara incident. Turkey sent two planes to Israel in December 2010 to fight the Carmel forest fire, at the height of the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. MORE
In one of the most shocking flip-flops in recent political history, German Chancellor Angela Merkel now says she will deport about 10% of recently arrived migrants — 100,000 of them.
But more than that, her tone on granting asylum to migrants has radically changed. MORE
The Electoral College & the Liberal Bigots
In response to Edwen Chemerinsky Breeze 11-17-16
Changed title to: Liberal policies defy our founding principles
One of the main reasons we kept the Electoral college that still matters is to give extremely small states some say in the election. Today if we were to go by the popular vote the 12 to 15 most populated states could dominate any national election. That’s one third of the States could rule the country. Continue reading
VATICAN CITY: A papal commission on the role of female deacons met for the first time Friday in a move reformers hope could open the door to women eventually entering the Catholic clergy.
As things stand only men can serve as priests or as deacons. The latter are church officers who are authorised to give sermons and preside over baptisms, marriages and funerals but not to hear confessions or give communion, tasks which remain the preserve of ordained priests. MORE
Back in May, we obsessed over the D.C. mansion where the Obamas will move after they leave the white house, and now it sounds like the family plans to be bicoastal. The New York Post reports that the President has purchased a second home in Rancho Mirage, just outside of Palm Springs. MORE
STOCKHOLM – Norway’s state Lutheran Church has condemned the anti-Jewish legacy of Martin Luther, the 16th century German theologian who started the Protestant Reformation.
In a statement issued Friday ahead of next year’s 500-year anniversary of the Reformation, the Church of Norway’s General Synod said some of Luther’s writings were later used in anti-Semitic propaganda, including in Nazi Germany. MORE
Event hosts speakers who are pro-gay, pro-transgender and pro-unchaste sex
LOS ANGELES (ChurchMilitant.com) – The 2017 Religious Education Congress (REC) hosted by the archdiocese of Los Angeles is again hosting speakers with pro-gay, pro-transgender and pro-unchaste messages delivered to Catholic educators and youth alike. VIDEO
Vol 9 Issue 50a ~Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
November 26, 2016 ~ Saint Sylvester, opn!
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (95)
2. First Sunday in Advent
3. Saint James Intercisus
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
Tomorrow is the first Sunday in Advent which, for Catholics, is the beginning of the New Year for the Church as she begins the Liturgical Year again. Catholics begin preparation for the Coming of Christ. Continue reading
“It hasn’t begun to sink in that everything is gone. I am still in that space where I am grateful that everyone is alive and no one was hurt,” she said.
On Wednesday night, she and her husband, Ohad, had left their home in the Talmon settlement in the Binyamin region of the West Bank to go to a bat mitzva in Petah Tikva, about 40 minutes away. MORE
Before Vatican Council II the Church Taught
Excommunication. A penalty imposed by the Church on a sinner in order to bring about his correction and amendment. It consists of the exclusion of the sinner from the communion of the faithful with certain legal effects, including the loss of his right to assist at divine services, exclusion from all the sacraments, Continue reading
