The second total lunar lunar eclipse of 2014 and 2015 lunar-eclipse tetrad will occur on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, and will be visible from the Pacific Ocean and regions immediately bordering it. As the Moon passes completely through the Earth’s dark shadow, or umbra, it will gradually get darker and then take on a rusty or blood red color. MORE

A minor earthquake shook the ground just south of Sloan and was felt in parts of the valley early Sunday morning.

The 3.6 magnitude earthquake happened at 3:11 a.m. about 22 miles south of Las Vegas, according to the Las Vegas Fire Department. MORE

This should be good…

Something more is happening as bishops gather for the first major doctrinal and pastoral summit of the Francis papacy; something quieter, deeper, and less immediately obvious: a spiritual renewal that Pope Francis hopes to foster between church leaders and their people. MORE

Vaccine Resistance Movement is investigating the link between this extremely toxic experimental vaccine and the sudden surge in cases of Ebola.

Even the CDC Director admits they are baffled by the unprecedented concentration of cases outside the typical range, MORE

Vol 7 Issue 40 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier

October 4, 2014 ~ St. Francis of Assisi, opn!

1. In Defense of the Faith, Chapter 33b
2. Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost—Benedict Baur, O.S.B.
3. Feast of St Placidus and Companions
4. The Christian Family (22)
5. Articles and notices

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The U.S. trade deficit slipped 0.5 percent in August to $40.1 billion, the lowest since January, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

Oil imports fell to their lowest level in four years. MORE

Pope Francis on Sunday issued a strong signal of support for reform of the Catholic Church’s approach to marriage, cohabitation and divorce as bishops began a landmark review of teaching on the family. MORE

Animal control officer Wanda Snell knows what she saw: A veterinarian inserted a needle into the black-and-brown mutt and injected a chemical meant to euthanize the dog no one had adopted. The animal moved a bit and was still and quiet by the time she left the shelter for home.

What Snell can’t explain is how or why a mixed-breed dog that nobody wanted recovered overnight and has since bounced back fully from what should have been a lethal injection. MORE

A new genetic history of HIV shows how the pandemic almost certainly took root in the 1920s in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers said Thursday.

Assisted by train transport and the sex trade, the virus that causes AIDS then spread across the continent and eventually the world, infecting some 75 million people and killing 36 million of them. MORE

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake jolted the central Philippines on Friday, sending workers out of their offices and causing cracks on a building’s wall. There were no immediate reports of casualties.  MORE

In the Eastern spirit, there are two contradictory natures: cruelty and elegance, and with both of them intertwined like two serpents, the outcome is a horrendous savagery underneath the shell of beauty and sophistication. Such is the ways of the Orient.

The Turks conducted massacres of ineffable brutality and indescribable sadism, but they at the same time, had their poets, their rhythmic music, their gentle manners, their animate paintings and ornamental arts pleasing to the eyes. MORE

After a nine-hour day working at a citrus packing plant, her body covered in a sheen of fruit wax and dust, there is nothing Angelica Gallegos wants more than a hot shower, with steam to help clear her throat and lungs.  MORE

During the 14th and 15th century pandemic, the black death killed nearly half the world’s population, according to, Bubonic Plague: Yesterday’s Scourge–and Tomorrow’s? As present-day cases of bubonic plague reappear in parts of North America and Europe, people are seeking natural methods to fortify themselves against this devastating disease. Due to its remarkable ability to destroy numerous toxic pathogens, garlic possesses the clout to kill plague. MORE

Amateur video has unexpectedly photographed angels. On the screen, visiting angels of one of the apartments of an apartment house is visible. Afterwards, we found out it appeared at the time in the house a child has died. Angels are behind the soul of the child. MORE

Jim Meaney, owner of Cansolair Inc. displays how he converts pop cans into a powerful solar heating panel. MORE