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

For almost two years, a protest movement known as “Black Lives Matter” has convulsed the nation. Triggered by the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, the Black Lives Matter movement holds that racist police officers are the greatest threat facing young black men today. This belief has triggered riots, “die-ins,” the murder and attempted murder of police officers, a campaign to eliminate traditional grand jury proceedings when police use lethal force, and a presidential task force on policing. MORE

TEHRAN — 16 villages in Rigan, southeastern province of Kerman, were buried in sand and became completely deserted, IRIB reported.

Massive sand influx and consistent sand storms led to the complete disappearance of the villages under piles of sand, the Rigan governor, Amin Baqeri said.

Agriculture and livestock are totally ruined in this area and it suffered a loss of 320 billion rials (nearly $9 million), Baqeri added.

The continuance of sand influx has already endangered 80 other villages and if not stopped timely they are subjected to be deserted too, the governor warned. SOURCE

Bring Flowers of the Rarest. Bring flow’rs of the fairest, Bring flow’rs of the rarest,
From garden and woodland. And hillside and vale; Our full hearts are swelling, MORE

Throughout Rodrigo Duterte’s presidential campaign, it didn’t much seem as though the renegade Davao City mayor cared whether what he was saying was offensive or politically correct. He “joked” about not getting the chance to rape an Australian minister who was taken hostage, raped and killed in his country in 1989. He says he’ll execute 100,000 criminals. And, while Pope Francis was visiting Manila, causing massive traffic jams in the capital, Duterte said he felt like calling up the spiritual leader of most of his country’s population and telling him: “Pope, son of a whore, go home. Don’t visit anymore.” MORE

As Israel and the United States condemn Iran for allowing a Holocaust-themed cartoon festival to go on display in Tehran, the Iranian regime says it won’t censor what it says is free speech.

“Why does the United States have the Ku Klux Klan? Is the government of the United States responsible for the fact that there are racially hateful organizations in the United States?” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, asked The New Yorker, when asked why the regime has permitted the contest. MORE

The president of The Cardinal Newman Society – the premier organization that promotes and defends Catholic education – says Catholic schools should implement “human sexuality policies” that serve to protect the faith, not to conform to the federal government’s social engineering motives.MORE

More than 60 people have reportedly been killed by lightning strikes over the past two days across Bangladesh, according to local newspapers. MORE

What you may have been suspecting has been confirmed. LGBT activists’ end goal is not ruling over the bathroom. It’s obliterating the family. Riki Wilchins, a famous transsexual who recently wrote a piece in the gay publication The Advocate, revealed that many conservatives and even LGBT activists are missing the forest for the trees. MORE

Vol 9 Issue 20 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
May 14, 2016 ~ Saint Boniface, opn!

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (68)
2. Pentecost Sunday
3. St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle
4. Christ in the Home (42)
5. Articles and notices

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