LAKE BALBOA >> Raul Aquino followed a group of kayakers down to the Los Angeles River, dipped a yellow boot into its flowing stream, then waded past some rocks and algae.

He stooped to collect a water sample in the Sepulveda Basin just as nearly a half dozen kayaks passed beneath the Burbank Boulevard bridge. MORE

Pictures show him tumbling to the floor next to steps leading to the altar and being helped to his feet by Vatican Master of Ceremonies, Guido Marini. MORE

Over the past week, a hurricane seems to have hit the shores of Hillaryland. After suffering a landslide defeat in New Hampshire, the Clinton campaign is trying to figure out how to stop the growing storm that is Bernie Sanders. MORE

Compilation of SJWs impaling themselves on words.
The point is not to replace the ‘patriarchy’ victimhood with a ‘feminist’ or ‘oligarchy’ victimhood. When you understand the big oil, big pharma, big agriculture, biotech, banking cartels created feminism to bleed us for more money, have less babies, & be a miserable human farm of unit movers for their benefit you can do something about it.
Your money, sex life, family, & food are controlled by these cartels. VIDEO

St. Joachim and St. Ann were both from the House of David

Saints Joaquin (sometimes spelled “Joachim,” pronounced “wal-keem”) and Anne, are the parents of the Virgin Mary. There are no mentions of them in the Bible or Gospels, what we know comes from Catholic legend and the Gospel of James, which is an unsanctioned, apocryphal writing form the second century AD. We do know from scholarship that the Gospel of James was not written by James, the Brother of Jesus, despite its claim to be so authored. MORE  AUDIO Bp. Sanborn

TEL AVIV, Israel — The water that flows into Sorek desalination plant is drawn from near the Mediterranean Sea floor. Pumped inland, the water is cleansed, step by step, of salts and impurities. The transmutation does not take long. Forty minutes after entering the facility, the stuff of sailboats and sunbathers is now drinkable.

Sorek is the newest of five Israeli coastal desalination plants. A national mission in the last decade to develop the fleet, plus many more years of investment in wastewater recycling facilities, have turned Israel into as much a water producer as a water consumer. Nearly half of the country’s water supply is now manufactured, either by desalting the Mediterranean or purifying urban sewage. MORE

An elderly priest has been killed in a hostage situation in a church south of Rouen, Normandy, northern France this morning by alleged Islamist attackers. His killers, who are understood to have been shot dead by French police. MORE

Polls show Trump’s ahead, How do we counter them trying to steal the election from Trump? All this talk of progressive values means nothing from Sanders, he was cheated out of the nomination and he’s come out in favor of Hillary. With an endorsement like that, Wall street will love him and his fans should be doubly angry.

Catholics beware: Under this administration or Hillary’s we will have to take lower paying jobs.

A senior store detective at Macy’s has been fired from his job after he intervened when a female customer reported that a man entered the women’s bathroom. After he was asked to leave the restroom, the man complained saying he believes he is really a female. The woman and her daughter were frightened by the man’s presence.

The case is now before the New York State Division of Human Rights, reports the ChurchMilitant.com.

Javier Chavez says he was never told about any policy that would allow men to use women’s facilities. He also told store managers that any policy that would allow men in a woman’s restroom violates his Catholic faith but he would abide with store mandates. MORE

Thousands of evacuees have been allowed to return home as the nearly 55-square-mile Sand Fire continues to burn in Southern California’s Santa Clarita Valley. MORE

Great Speech.  I still believe a one country with three states is better than a two state solution.

Following is the full text of Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin’s  address to the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday  June 22

A mere four hours, that is the flight time from Tel-Aviv to Brussels. I could say that four hours, and light years, separate Brussels and Tel-Aviv, but in truth there is not much difference between them, be it in awareness or in essence: two cosmopolitan cities, practically neighbors, not far from each other, both recently struck by a wave of terrorism. MORE

In the months since parishioners of St. Thaddeus Catholic Church were informed that the Archdiocese of Chicago had plans to close their place of worship, the members have turned to prayer and an online petition in hopes of keeping the doors of the historic church open.

Before Sunday morning Mass, about two dozen parishioners gathered in a circle outside the Far South Side church. The group held hands and sang hymns, recited the Lord’s Prayer and recounted their memories at the Roseland church, which was specifically built for black Catholics in 1959 at a time when minorities weren’t welcome in some congregations. MORE

With ten weeks to go until the end of the fiscal year, the Obama administration continues to admit Syrian refugees at an accelerated pace, and has now exceeded two-thirds of President Obama’s target of 10,000 by September 30.

The proportion of Christians among those resettled continues to languish below half of one percent, while other non-Sunnis account for just over one percent.

As of Monday, 1,515 Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war in their homeland had been admitted since the beginning of July, and a total of 6,726 since FY 2016 began on October 1, according to State Department Refugee Processing Center data. MORE