Vol 9 Issue 21 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
May 21, 2016 ~ Ember Saturday

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (69)
2. Trinity Sunday
3. St. Rita of Cascia
4. Christ in the Home (43)
5. Articles and notices

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The capture of Mexican drug lord Miguel Angel Treviño Morales earlier this week has brought Mexico’s crime scene into the limelight, but its criminal justice system is perhaps what most deserves scrutiny.

Some 27,500 people were murdered in Mexico last year. That’s more than Colombia and Venezuela—combined. It’s more than twice the number of murders in China, and nearly twice the number in the US. In fact, it’s more than every other country in the world save for Brazil and India. MORE

A vast amount of volcanic ash covered the Costa Rican capital of San Jose on Friday after a powerful eruption of Turrialba volcano at 7:40 a.m. blew a column of smoke to a height of some 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) above the crater. MORE

JAIPUR: The severe heatwave conditions intensified in dry Rajasthan on Thursday with a majority of stations witnessing maximum temperatures above 46 degrees Celsius. MORE

Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman has released a scathing statement in response to likely rival Donald Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court picks. MORE

This scathing liberal video (below) actually gives you excellent information in a nutshell of Donald Trumps picks elevating the integrity of all on Trumps court list. William Pryor, Jr. (Roman Catholic) is the one name that keeps popping up and the one they fear the most.

The nation’s largest reservoir has broken a record, declining to the lowest level since it was filled in the 1930s. MORE

Lots of bad news out there lately. But not today. Today we’ll talk about a big win for religious freedom.

On May 15^th, the Supreme Court handed a big victory to the Little Sisters of the Poor and other Christian organizations that refused to go along with the HHS contraceptive mandate.

Not that you would know this if all you had to go on was the reaction of the mainstream media. When they weren’t downplaying the impact of the court’s three-page ruling remanding the cases to the lower courts, they were all-but-ignoring the story. MORE

In what has been described as a mass case of demonic possession, the pupils in Peru are experiencing seizures alongside their horrifying hallucinations.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma lawmakers have moved to effectively ban abortion in their state by making it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure, an effort the bill’s sponsor said Thursday is aimed at ultimately overturning the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

The bill , which abortion rights group Center for Reproductive Rights says is the first of its kind in the nation, also would restrict any physician who performs an abortion from obtaining or renewing a license to practice medicine in Oklahoma. MORE

The Temple of Baal arch was built as part of a project by the Institute for Digital Archaeology, a joint initiative that works with Oxford, Harvard and the Museum of the Future in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, to draw attention to the destruction of cultural artifacts across the world, and to rebuild some pieces.

BEIJING — China‘s attempts to claim a nearly 1.4-million-square-mile swathe of open ocean are without precedent and probably without legal merit, but Beijing continues to assert its right to the economically critical zone — and increasingly puts its claims in military terms.MORE

Eugene Michael Jones (born May 4, 1948) is a writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine (formerly Fidelity Magazine). Jones has made numerous appearances as a journalistic commentator on Russia Today and PressTV.

In a shocking interview, Pope Francis likened Jesus Christ to ISIS and said Muslim migrants must breed with Europeans to counter “declining birth rates.” MORE

The Texas pastor who sued Whole Foods in April for allegedly writing a gay slur on a cake he bought withdrew his lawsuit on Monday and apologized to the supermarket chain for perpetrating a hoax, KVUE reported. MORE

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a bill that could lead to student-led prayer over school intercoms or at graduations or sporting events. SOURCE