The blaze started at an outside pool area on a 14th-floor deck of The Cosmopolitan and quickly spread, setting pool cabanas and trees alight. MORE
Vol 8 Issue 30 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
July 25, 2015 ~ St James the Greater ~ St Christopher
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (26)
2. Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
3. St. Anne
4. Christ in the Home (1)
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader: Continue reading
A number of Russians who went to fight in Ukraine are returning to Russia, where they oppose the government of Vladimir Putin.
Some of the activists, who organized protests against Putin in 2011 and 2012, are part of the Russian opposition’s right wing. Their political beliefs took them from the streets of Moscow to eastern Ukraine, where they defended the ethnic Russian population against the Ukrainian army, writes Courtney Weaver for The Financial Times. MORE
Mirror Mirror on the wall,
can you see our nation fall,
headline scream of our decay,
is there any hope today,
smog-ed up blind and traffic choke,
wages bind and buildings smoke,
welfare roles are soaring high,
hard drugs cause our young to die,
villains are hero’s on T.V. Continue reading
Who’s backing IS? It’s not Iran because IS is Sunni.
The two-pronged operation against IS and militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) — two groups who are themselves bitterly opposed — came after a week of deadly violence in Turkey the authorities blamed on the organisations.
The Turkish F-16 jets all returned safely to their base in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir early Saturday after the latest raids, the official Anatolia news agency reported. MORE
This week, presidential candidate Donald Trump released information required by the federal government detailing his personal wealth. The 92-page document shows that Trump owes at least $265 million in debt. While he has said that he is worth at least $10 billion, the newly released document shows that he is worth at least $1.4 billion. Showing that he earned at least $380 million kn 2014, it makes him the highest-earning candidate in the 2016 presidential field. It showed assets worth at least $1.4 billion. MORE
An evangelical pastor from Texas joined American Muslim leadersThursday (July 23) in denouncing recent anti-Muslim comments by evangelist Franklin Graham as they announced upcoming efforts to build bridges between their religious communities.
In response to the killing of five service members in Chattanooga, Tenn., last week, Graham, son of evangelical leader Billy Graham, wrote on Facebook that the U.S. should bar Muslims from immigrating. MORE
Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom Delay joined NewsMaxTV and dropped the mother of all bombshells as he asserts that he has found a secret Department of Justicememo that plans to legalize “12 new perversions,” including bestiality and pedophilia.
A top scientific advisor to Pope Francis, Hans Schellnhuber, is an atheist and a Gaia believer says Dr. William Briggs, a Catholic climate scientist who was interviewed this week on The Joe Miller Show. And his Gaia beliefs aren’t superficial: he openly contends that the Earth is “self-aware” and “cognizant.” MORE
US Secretary of State John Kerry indirectly conceded that the US would defend Iran’s nuclear program from Israeli sabotage on Thursday, in a hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in which he was grilled over the deal reached last Tuesday. MORE
Bishop Williamson has been, is now and will always be, a paper tiger.
The following is a critical examination of an answer given by Bp. Richard Williamson (formerly SSPX) to the question of whether it is ever permitted for a traditional Catholic to assist at the “New Mass” of Paul VI.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said Thursday the Iran nuclear deal appears to have the provisions needed to curtail Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon in what were the most favorable remarks yet from the kingdom on the recent agreement. MORE
The trustees who oversee Social Security and Medicare said the disability trust fund will run out of money in late 2016. That would trigger an automatic 19 percent cut in benefits, unless Congress acts.
The average monthly benefit for disabled workers and their families is $1,017. The typical beneficiary would see a reduction of $193 a month. MORE
Glorious St Anne, filled with compassion for those who invoke thee, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at thy feet, and humbly beg of thee to take the present affair which I recommend to thee under thy special protection. Vouchsafe to commend it to thy Daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all obtain for me the grace of one day beholding my God face to face, and with thee and Mary and all the saints praising and blessing Him for all eternity. Amen.
Good St Anne, Mother of her who is our life, our sweetness and our hope, pray to her for us, and obtain our request. (Say three times.) (Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be)