San Salvador (AFP) – A “well-loved” senior bishop in El Salvador who is also a prominent Church historian was Friday condemned by government officials and a rights organization after being accused of repeatedly raping a girl in the 1980s.
Bishop Jesus Delgado, 77, was on Thursday suspended from his functions as number three in the country’s archdiocese after the alleged victim, today a 42-year-old woman, came forward with her account. MORE
On the face of it, it looks like any state-run oil industry.
Engineers, managers and traders all help extract, refine and distribute oil, which makes its way across Syria and Iraq, as well as overseas.
But this is no state-run company. This is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) lifeline – a business that provides the armed group with more revenue than any other source. MORE
This video shows the bizarre moment a car appears to levitate in the air as it drives over a set of crossroads. MORE
I. The word “paradox” is defined as “A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.”
II. A paradox involves two statements that are contradictory yet true.
Discussion
I. WE MUST DIE TO LIVE (MT 16:24-26; ROM 6:3-4; GAL 2:20).
II. WE MUST MOURN TO BE HAPPY (MT 5:4). Continue reading
Sunlight is just starting to filter through the palms east of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in downtown Las Vegas when The Rev. Courtney Edward Krier begins his day.
At 7 a.m., the priest’s floor-length black cassock sweeps along the courtyard of the church on the corner of Ninth Street and Ogden Avenue as he pours out old holy water in preparation for his first Mass of a long day. Back inside, he fills the large, silver pot with water from the kitchen tap and carries it down a narrow hallway and into the elaborate church, where it is placed by the door and blessed for use by congregants in ritual purification as they enter the church. MORE
INDIANAPOLIS — It’s bigotry! It’s hatred! It’s discrimination!
That’s the tenor of the talk these days as powerful advocates try to write protections into law for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Those advocates, battling against conservative Christians who are staunch in their beliefs of right and wrong, wonder why anyone would deny others their rights. MORE
ST. PAUL, MINN. — Attorney Jeff Anderson Tuesday released the personnel files of five monks and priests who were part of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville. MORE
The yearly cycle of Earth’s ecosystem is simply beautiful.
As the seasons change throughout a year, the density of plant growth on land and in oceans fluctuates. NASA scientists recently imaged that yearly cycle in a stunning new animation.
The animation does not showcase a specific year of the annual plant life cycle, rather it shows an average yearly cycle based on an accumulation of satellite data and images, including data sets of the average over years and a “running average” over a certain number of days.
Hawaii’s Department of Health announced Thursday that the National Guard will be assistingthe agency in a “support” role after 79 cases of dengue fever have been confirmed on the Big Island since Sept. 11.
So far, the National Guard’s involvement has been small, according to Hawaii News Now, and has included flying mosquito sprayers from Oahu to the Big Island. MORE
Senator Marco Rubio; ” Not Even God Can save this Country but I can”
I sent this to traditio@traditio.com and they ignored it. I asked them to PROVE to me that Francis was ordained in the new rite. They never responded.
Most countries were not in a hurry to adopt the new rites. In “The Order of Melchisedech” by Michael Davies (1995) states that the episcopate of Argentina had refused to adopt these new rites. When they finally adopted them is unknown but most certainly after 1969. This would conclude that Jorge Bergoglio was in fact ordained according to the traditional rite for priests. As for the new rite of consecration of a Bishop, no one can say dogmatically that it’s not a valid rite. I’ve read it through and compared it to the old rite and found it having the same basic wording only in a different arrangement and valid to me. If you go back to the time of the Apostles there was very little formality in consecrating a Bishop or an Apostle..
In Hawthorne, CA. my church of St. Josephs did not adopt the new Mass until 1971. I was there when the changes took place and even saved one of the original Missalettes. So they disobeyed pope Paul VI edict, on the time table, as well…So did a lot of countries.
In Christ, Joseph
What airheads!
Airline and security officials at Kennedy Airport let 150 passengers arriving from an international flight leave the airport without going through customs, the Daily News has learned.
MIDDLETOWN, Penn. (INTELLIHUB) — An eyewitness claims that he saw at least “thirty” buses being filled with people who had disembarked a “UPS flight” at Harrisberg International Airport last Thursday. MORE
A series of surreal lightning strikes in Australia on Monday dialled up the fright factor to 100. MORE
Only in America
Chicago (AFP) – The Muslim teenager arrested when a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb threatened to sue his school and the town of Irving, Texas for $15 million, his lawyer said.
Ahmed Mohamed, 14, became an overnight sensation in September after his sister tweeted a photo of the aspiring inventor standing in handcuffs while wearing a t-shirt with the US space agency NASA’s logo. MORE