Category Archives: Current Events
Is Saudi Arabia to blame for Islamic State?
Is Saudi Arabia to blame for the rise of the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIL)? It is commonly claimed that Wahhabism, the strict form of Islam originating in the Kingdom – and the Saudi state’s aggressive promotion of it – has fuelled terrorism.Saudi Arabia is also accused of funding IS, either directly or by failing to prevent private donors from sending money to the group. MORE
Tim Tebow got criticized for kneeling for his beliefs, Kaepernick gets praised

Chances are you’ve heard Kaepernick’s reasons for deciding to sit in silence as the “Star Spangled Banner” plays, but that doesn’t mean you have to agree with him. MORE
Evolution Just Got Harder to Defend
A new fossil discovery makes it even tougher for Darwinists to explain the origin of life.
There’s an old story about a chemist, a physicist, and an economist stranded on a desert island with nothing to eat but a can of soup. Puzzling over how to open the can, the chemist says, “Let’s heat the can until it swells and bursts from the buildup of gases.” “No, no,” says the physicist, “let’s throw it off that cliff with just enough kinetic energy to split it open on the rocks below.” The economist, after thinking a moment says, “Assume a can opener.” MORE
VIDEO: N. Korea says floods ‘worst disaster’ since WWII
Floods in North Korea that have left hundreds dead or missing are the “worst disaster” to hit the country since World War II, state media said on Wednesday.
The official KCNA news agency did not give exact numbers of those killed or unaccounted for, but a UN report said 138 people have died and 400 are missing after torrential rains caused devastation in the country’s far north. MORE
We Misled You’: How the Saudis Are Coming Clean

Mexico sending African migrants to U.S. border

VIDEO: US Navy sailor abruptly gives birth on aircraft carrier at sea
The US Navy was surprised to find a sailor, who had been complaining of stomach pain, give birth to baby girl aboard an aircraft carrier while deployed in the Persian Gulf. The aircraft carrier is in the middle of flying combat missions over Iraq and Syria.
VIDEO: Queen Elizabeth’s Billion Dollar Gold Coach
The Gold State Coach is an enclosed, eight horse-drawn carriage used by the British Royal Family. It was built in the London workshops of Samuel Butler in 1762 and has been used at the coronation of every British monarch since George IV. The coach’s great age, weight, and lack of manoeuvrability have limited its use to grand state occasions such as coronations, royal weddings, and the jubilees of a monarch.
Insight into the Catholic Faith presents ~ Catholic Tradition Newsletter

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (85)
2. Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
3. St. Paphnutius, Bishop
4. Christ in the Home (59)
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
In the Liturgy of the Sunday Mass there is the insistence on Love/Charity. As with Grace, which is distinguished by the two types of grace, actual and sanctifying; as with virtue, which is distinguished also by that which is natural and that which is supernatural, so with Continue reading
Supporters of “Why Jesus said,” From the past.

VIDEO: Trump rips media for mocking Christians
Donald Trump accused the media of mocking Christians and vowed to be a champion for religious liberty at a gathering of social conservatives in Washington on Friday. MORE
VIDEO: OBAMA: “AMERICANS ARE TOO LAZY AND UNINFORMED TO ACT INTELLIGENTLY”
When you have been as big of a failure as Obama, one would think he doesn’t have much to hold his hat on, but he sure spoke confidently Wednesday when he told a group that Americans are “lazy” and “uninformed of the world.” While Liberals will give him a pass on referring to us all as lazy and uninformed, it is interesting to think about when you consider how lazy and uninformed he has been while serving this country. MORE
VIDEO: Clinton: Half of Trump supporters are in ‘basket of deplorables’
Hillary Clinton told an audience of donors Friday night that half of Donald Trump’s supporters fall into “the basket of deplorables,” meaning people who are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic. MORE
Let us pray alongside the Christian martyrs of today

