2015 is already here and Catholics, just like other Nigerians, are warming up, getting ready to vote candidates of their choices into different elective positions—in fact, others even warming up to contest! But what actually does our faith as Catholics teach us about modern democracy? Can a Catholic, practising his faith, really participate in our type of democracy and still remains a Catholic? MORE

After first refusing to confirm nor deny it, the Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis met with the Kentucky clerk Kim Davis at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, where Davis’ attorney — who made the news public after the pope’s trip ended — said Francis told her to “stay strong.” And that simple encounter completely undermines all the goodwill the pope created in downplaying “the gay issue” on his U.S. trip. MORE

READ! “As many as 100,000 U.S. children may have been the victims of clerical sex abuse,” “As many as 100,000 U.S. children…”  Let it sink in: ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S. CHILDREN!

Comment: (Note: Not only will this “papal visit” cost over $$200 million$$ but it will apparently conform within the planks of the communist manifesto and cause further injury to those suffering from priest/paedophile rape…).

As many as 100,000 U.S. children may have been the victims of clerical sex abuse, insurance experts said in a paper presented at a Vatican conference in 2012. Some 4,300 members of the Catholic clergy were accused of sexual assault, of which at least 300 have been convicted, according to Bishop Accountability, a private group that has tracked the scandal. MORE

“In his drafting of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson used the phrase `the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.’ He took this phrase, a phrase upon which he would argue for our right to become a sovereign nation, from the writings of British philosopher John Locke and English jurist William Blackstone. … Both Locke and Blackstone were convinced that man’s laws must not conflict with the laws of nature instituted by nature’s God. Continue reading →

Just think, this is our tax money at work.

In the boldest endorsement of a growing national trend, the University of Tennessee is urging incoming students and teachers to junk references to “he,” “she,” and “them,” in favor of gender-neutral “ze” and “xe.” MORE

Vol 8 Issue 34 ~ Tradition  Catholic Newsletter
Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier

August 22, 2015  Immaculate Heart of Mary
No consequences for sin?
Dear Reader:

Can one look at the state of the world and be happy? Can one look at one’s own family and be happy? Can one look at oneself and be happy? Do I really think I can sin there be no consequences? Continue reading →

This bail bond system is just a racket. Most people can’t post bail and as a result lose what meager possessions or jobs they have. Those who can make bail, by the time it’s over wind up going bankrupt.Then they wind up on the welfare roles.

Five months after Charly “Africa” Keunang, a homeless man in Los Angeles suffering from mental illness, was killed by police officers at a public encampment, another casualty of the altercation has gone unnoticed. MORE

A new national survey of 1,000 American Jews, conducted by GBA Strategies for J Street, finds that a large majority of Jews support the agreement recently reached between the United States, world powers, and Iran. MORE

Take from the “Voice of the Unborn”  Jan-June 2015
Crediting moral character of mother, grandmother, Nicholson says he would never ‘have gotten to live’

Movie actor par excellence Jack Nicholson has always maintained a rebel image, and outsider unafraid to speak his mind. He certainly goes against the grain of leftist-leaning Hollywood when it comes to the matter of abortion. Staunchly pro-life, he said in a 1984 interview, “I’m positively against it. I don’t have the right to any other view.”
Actor Jack Nicholson was raised Catholic, the religion of his mother, and grew up in Neptune City, New Jersey. Continue reading →

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 →

Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic, has been hospitalized and placed in intensive care ahead of his trial in a Holy See court on Saturday. Wesolowski, 66, was defrocked last year after a Vatican tribunal found him guilty of pedophilia. He, however, has denied all the charges. MORE

“Marriage should be an exclusively religious institution and secular states should only be in the business of civil unions.” Gay Marriage and the End of Days by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
I have said the same thing on the radio once.(2004) That the state has no right to grant divorces to those who are married by a religious institutions. It’s a violation of the separation of Church and State. Problem is the religions won’t sue the governments for doing it. That’s another reason we are in this predicament today with gay marriage. In Christ, Joseph

Gay Marriage and the End of Days
As an orthodox rabbi, my own reaction was complicated—I can empathize with each community Continue reading →

Oh wow: What happened to “praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.”  World War II slogan

People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday. MORE