Two members of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas joined more than 500 ministers and religious leaders on November 4 for a day of prayer and conversation in south central North Dakota to confront what they contend is an ecological disaster waiting to happen. MORE

A powerful storm accompanied by at least one very large tornado hit Italy on November 6, 2016, causing extensive damage. According to preliminary reports, at least two people have lost their lives. Several are seriously injured.

A large tornado was first reported in the coastal town of Ladispoli, where two floors of an eight-story building in Ancona street collapsed.

MONTREAT, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham turned 98 years old on Monday.

“Happy Birthday to my father Billy Graham–he’s 98 today!” He told us three years ago that he might live to be 100—I hope he does,” the Rev. Franklin Graham said of his father on Facebook. “He once said, ‘God isn’t finished with you when you retire! We never retire from His service.’” MORE

Chelsea Clinton used her family foundation’s cash to pay for her wedding, living expenses and taxes on gifts of cash from her parents, according to a bombshell email made public Sunday.

Doug Band, formerly a top aide to President Bill Clinton, griped about the former first daughter’s spending in a Jan. 4, 2012, email released by WikiLeaks. MORE

WASHINGTON (AP) — An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border in the last year, according to arrest data from the Homeland Security Department. MORE

NEW YORK — After dropping sharply between 2005 and 2012, the number of children in the U.S. foster care system has increased for a third year in a row, according to new federal data released Thursday. A major factor: Worsening substance abuse by parents. MORE

The Vatican on Friday condemned a right-wing Catholic radio station that said a series of earthquakes that hit Italy in the past three months was “God’s punishment” for the country approving same-sex civil unions.

“These remarks are offensive for believers and scandalous for non-believers,” Deputy Secretary of State Archbishop Angelo Becciu was quoted as saying by Italian media. MORE

There’s a side of the Muslim refugee story you probably have not heard in the mainstream media.

We’ve seen the video clips of Muslim refugees—many of them from war-torn Syria—flooding into an unprepared and overwhelmed Europe. We’ve heard accounts of some of these refugees committing ugly crimes and others demanding that the post-Christian societies that welcome them conform to the harsh demands of Islamic law. We’ve even read the stories about Islamist terror groups such as ISIS infiltrating the refugee populations in order to wreak further havoc on the West. MORE

Vol 9 Issue 49 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
November 5, 2016 ~ Our Lady on Saturday

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (93)
2. Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
3. Saint Leonard
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

Watching the world go to hades on television does nothing but guarantee that the world will go to hades. The TV has become the neo-coliseum. When one returns to the time when the martyrs were brought to the coliseums to be fodder for the gladiators or food for the wild beasts there are found the “good” citizens who were excited to see the spectacles sponsored by the state and who would fill the coliseums watching Christians being murdered. Continue reading →

The third powerful earthquake to hit Italy in two months spared human life Sunday but struck at the nation’s identity, destroying a Benedictine cathedral, a medieval tower and other beloved landmarks that had survived the earlier jolts across a mountainous region of small historic towns.

Lost or severely damaged in the shaking were ancient Roman walls, Gothic and Baroque churches and centuries-old paintings crushed beneath tons of brick, sandstone and marble. MORE

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments. MORE

Sex crimes with children, child exploitation, money laundering, perjury, and pay to play, reads the partial list of crimes that, claim New York City Police Department sources, could “put Hillary and her crew away for life.” MORE and MORE

Citing a “well-placed source” in the New York Police Department, Blackwater USA founder and retired Navy SEAL Erik Prince claims that among the 650,000 Huma Abedin emails on her estranged husband’s laptop is evidence Hillary Clinton, as well as former President Bill Clinton, was a visitor to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean hideaway, known as “Orgy Island.” MORE