POPE FRANCIS MAKES STUNNING DEFENSE OF ISLAM AS ‘PEACEFUL RELIGION’

ISLPOPEPOPE FRANCIS SAID ON SUNDAY THAT EQUATING ISLAM WITH VIOLENCE WAS WRONG AND CALLED ON MUSLIM LEADERS TO ISSUE A GLOBAL CONDEMNATION OF TERRORISM TO HELP DISPEL THE STEREOTYPE.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) – Francis, the leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, told reporters aboard his plane returning from a visit to Turkey that he understood why Muslims were offended by many in the West who automatically equated their religion with terrorism. MORE

Insight into the Catholic Faith presents ~ Catholic Tradition Newsletter

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The Early Church and Fathers

Vol 8 Issue 42 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
October 17, 2015 ~ St Margaret Mary Aloquoque, opn!

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (38)
2. Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
3. Saint Luke, Evangelist
4. Christ in the Home (13)
5 .Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

Thank you for your prayers.

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Judge: Texas can deny birth certificates for U.S.-born children of some immigrants

certA federal judge ruled Friday that Texas officials can continue to deny U.S. birth certificates to the children of immigrants who cannot supply required identification because they entered the country illegally.

Though children born in the United States are entitled by law to U.S. citizenship regardless of the immigration status of their parents, Texas authorities have been placing significant barriers to immigrants who have entered the country illegally and are seeking birth certificates for their U.S.-born children. MORE

VIDEO: Pope begs forgiveness for ‘scandals’ hitting Rome, Vatican

CHURFrancis didn’t cite examples in his off-the-cuff request for pardon at the start of his general audience and his spokesman declined to elaborate on what he might have meant. However, the past week has seen its fair share of headline-making news that has involved the church in one way or another.

On the eve of Francis’ big and contentious meeting on family issues, a Vatican monsignor came out as gay and, with his boyfriend by his side, denounced homophobia in the Catholic Church. He was summarily fired from his job in the Vatican’s doctrine office. MORE

Call Me Jorge…Jews “basically won the lottery”

franciss-sisterJohn Allen, Jr. opens his remarks to the ADL meeting with this joke,

“I know you have a jam-packed schedule and limited time, so as Henry the Eighth said to each of his wives, ‘I won’t keep you long,’”

Wow, joking about the person responsible for the deaths of thousands of people not to mention the souls lost.  As well as creating his own religion, Henry VIII helped destroy the institution of marriage.  Guess Allen was playing to his perfidious kosher audience.

He then discusses Francis’ trip to Rio in 2013 for World Youth Day.

When he arrived and started to step out of the “Popemobile,” a group of Brazilian nuns rushed him “shrieking like a bunch of teenage girls at a Justin Bieber concert.”

Can you picture that?  Did they throw their underwear at him?

After dropping the above bombshells, Allen gets to the meat of his message:
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Aviation expert presents a new theory to missing flight MH370

Aviation_experThis is the best theory so far.

Expert Clive Irving points to new warnings from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing that highlight the “immediate and urgent risk” tied to transporting lithium-ion batteries, which are used in cellphones and laptops, on passenger flights…

…Irving theorizes that the batteries could have caused a fire in the hold of the Boeing 777 that overwhelmed the plane’s fire-suppression system. MORE

 

World Religions convenes in Mormon country

MORSALT LAKE CITY (RNS) When the World’s Parliament of Religions first met in Chicago in 1893, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and even Spiritualists prayed together.

But Mormons were kept out.

What a difference 122 years make. On Thursday (Oct. 15), when the Parliament of the World’s Religions — a slight adjustment of the name was made a century after the first meeting — convenes in Salt Lake City, it will not only feature a slate of Mormon voices, it will sit in the proverbial lap of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, its global headquarters only a five-minute walk away. MORE