U.S. provision of military aid to Ukraine would be seen by Moscow as a declaration of war and spark a global escalation of Ukraine’s separatist conflict, Russian defense analysts said. MORE 2nd VIDEO: MORE

Thomas filed a dissenting opinion after his colleagues rejected Alabama’s plea to put a hold on same-sex marriages in the state until the Supreme Court resolves the issue nationwide in a few months.

He criticized his fellow justices for looking “the other way as yet another federal district judge casts aside state laws,” rather than following the customary course of leaving those laws in place until the court answers an important constitutional question. MORE

Several reports have come in from Spokane, Walla Walla, Pendleton — and really across much of that region. The rain has left a dirty residue on cars and has flooded social media over there with people wondering what is causing the odd rain.

So far, the official cause remains a mystery, but officials with the National Weather Service offices in Spokane and Pendleton are looking into it. MORE VIDEO: MORE

Hope they have proper protection, who can they trust? The police? Pray for these children. MORE

The Divine Sower

Vol 8 Issue 6  ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier

February 7, 2015 ~ St. Romuald, opn!
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (5)
2. Sexagesima Sunday
3. St Apollinaris
4. Marriage and Parenthood (6)
5. Articles and notices Continue reading →

Germany and a leading anticorporal punishment group on Friday rejected as “unacceptable” Pope Francis’ comments that it’s okay to spank your children to discipline them, as long as their dignity is maintained. Verena Herb, a spokeswoman for Germany’s Families Ministry, said, “There can be no dignified hitting.” MORE

Scaramuccia, also known as Scaramouche or Scaramouch, is a roguish clown character of the Italian commedia dell’arte who wears a black mask and, sometimes, glasses. He entertains the audience by his “grimaces and affected language”. TRAILER: MORE 

Rai Fazio , the writer of the hot new boxing film TWO FISTS ONE HEART lets you into the secrets that made him a boxing champion. In this first video of four,…MORE

Guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid’s target inside a walk-in refrigerator: unmarked jugs of raw milk. MORE

The leaders of France and Germany sat down with Vladimir Putin today to try and hammer out a peaceful solution to the Ukraine crisis, as fears grew that their approach to solving the conflict is threatening Europe’s relationship with the U.S.

Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel were pictured seated around a table with the Russian president this afternoon, but no UK or U.S. officials were at the meeting in Moscow. MORE

Liberals won’t acknowledge either the violent coup in Ukraine, or the brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign to cement its result: an anti-Russian Government on Russia’s doorstep — a very real threat to Russia’s national security, and a very aggressive American policy against Russians. MORE VIDEO: MORE

On Wednesday, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton urged state legislators to consider increasing the penalty for resisting arrest from a misdemeanor to a felony. The change, he argued, would help New Yorkers “get around this idea that you can resist arrest. You can’t.” It would also give cops an easy way to turn victims of their own worst impulses into the worst class of criminal. MORE

Religious equality leads to the inequality of the Christian faith. Light is never identical to darkness, and so the attempt to force to the two to be equal is a support for the darkness to engulf the light. Since all false religions are equal in their error, they wish for all peoples to be equally plunged into deception, while the true religion is seen as a threat by the impious, and needing to be sought for persecution and destruction. MORE

After the installation of the members of the US-controlled Puppet Government, the logical next step occurred today. The Ukrainian administration has put in its request for admission as the 51st state of the Union. The background to this action is that various US citizens, who were about to be settled into the Ukrainian government, refused to take up Ukrainian citizenship. Ukraine allows its people only one citizenship: Ukrainians who go around with a double passport are subjected by the state to strong penalties. MORE