Get your astronomer cap on and let’s dive in. Tonight, the moon is in its new phase, and therefore appears dark in the night sky. This is because the moon is currently centered between the sun and Earth in its orbit. Its lit side faces the sun, while its dark side faces the Earth…MORE

The image on the left is what young participants in the study imagined. The one on the right was imagined by older participants in the study.

The researchers came to that realization after asking 551 American Christians what they think God looks like, so a composite mugshot could be created from the many responses.

The end result is a mugshot that shows God is white, young and clean cut, not unlike someone from an 80s boy band.

As for his expression, Mona Lisa’s vague smile comes to mind.

Liberals imagined God as “more feminine, younger, and more loving,” while conservatives have a white guy in mind who was “more powerful,” said the researchers. MORE

The outdoor wedding, stuff of girlhood fantasy and bridal-magazine photography, has long been off-limits to most Catholics.

No beachside ceremonies or mountaintop nuptials: The code of canon law, straight from the Vatican, says that marriages performed by a priest are meant to be celebrated in the bride or groom’s parish church. MORE

John Kluge, the former orchestra teacher at Brownsburg High School, says he was essentially fired for refusing to call a transgender student by their preferred name.

Bishop Mark Anthony Pivarunas Ordination Anniversary June 12. In Christ, Joseph

Will this be another blow to the Babylon Empire of the E.U. Time will tell 

A right-wing opposition party led by a former Slovenian prime minister won the most votes, but not enough to rule the country on its own, an exit poll from a parliamentary election suggested today. MORE

Remember those controversies as some U.S. state officials installed Ten Commandments monuments in their courts and schools? Imagine the uproar if instead the government had ordered the Christian cross to be installed in all state buildings. MORE

• • Donald Trump included a Hollywood-produced video in his presentation to Kim Jong-un during nuclear talks in Singapore
  • The four-minute film showed Kim as a leader at a crossroads and urged him to choose a more economically and technologically open future
  • Part of the footage included a wide shot of a beach and an image of speedboats
  • Trump said he saw the video and thought North Korea has ‘great beaches’ and is situated perfectly between the economic powers of China and South Korea
  • The main image, showing a pair of condominium spires, was shot in Miami
  • He said he encouraged Kim to consider a future that included condo and hotel developments in his country MORE

God’s does it His way, when it comes to climate change. And He ignores (pope) Francis, doesn’t bother to use oil executives.

While the lava flow has received lots of attention for destroying neighborhoods, it has also been quietly covering Hawaii’s famed tide pools, hot springs and coastal waters, changing the shoreline in the process.  MORE

Why don’t priest’s use masks and medical gloves? I’m sure the Vatican can provide them.  No doubt St. Damian of Molokai would approve. And pure clean water bottles for Holy Water and Baptism’s. With low-tech solutions, there are options. 

An Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month has led Roman Catholics to stop administering several sacraments temporarily in an attempt to keep the deadly disease from spreading. MORE

The religion of a true psychopath and its Mortal Sin of the twenty-first century.

At a two-day conference at the Vatican, the pope called climate change a challenge of “epochal proportions,” according to Reuters.

He also said that the world must move toward using clean energy and a reduction in the use of fossil fuels. MORE

The Vatican called Friday for courageous proposals to cope with a shortage of priests in the Amazon, and said it wouldn’t rule out debate on whether married men could step in to fill the “precariously-thin presence” of the Catholic Church in the vast region. MORE

Vatican document suggests role for married priests, women in the Amazon

Mixed reactions? That’s an understatement! Someone ought to paint True Religion Designer Jeans over her rear end. 

It’s a jarring sight for members of the First Congregational Church: The underwear-clad buttocks of Marilyn Monroe mooning the downtown parish.

A 26-foot Seward Johnson statue illustrating the star in her iconic pose from “The Seven Year Itch” was installed this week in Latham Park as part of the Stamford Downtown Special Services District’s “Art in Public Places” series that lasts through the summer. MORE

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Vol 11 Issue 23 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
June 9, 2018 ~ Our Lady on Saturday

1. What is the Sacrament of Confirmation
2. Third Sunday after Pentecost
3. Saint Margaret of Scotland
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and yesterday the Church celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart. As May is dedicated to Mary and we celebrate Mother’s Day during this month, it is proper that one celebrates Father’s Day during the month of June Continue reading →