There are some very clear reasons why Catholics don’t evangelize, and they are difficulties that run right to the foundation of our understanding and practice of the faith. MORE

Amen, God is absent just about everywhere in U.S.A. Including the new catholic church.

This was supposed to be Spirit Week at Marshall County High School.

Instead, homecoming events were canceled, the governor was in town lamenting the nation’s moral decay, and preparations were being made for the funerals of two 15-year-old children. MORE

CALIFORNIA – Good night. Sleep tight. Try not to let the bed bugs bite, California!

The blood-sucking creepy crawlers have spread rapidly in California and other parts of the United States in recent years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, this year the Golden State’s three most populous regions made Orkin’s annual ranking of the top 50 bed bug cities in the country. MORE

There they go again. Less than a year after the state of California pronounced the drought emergency over, it–drought, that is–is back. phys.org reports:

California is rapidly plunging back into drought, with severe conditions now existing in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties—home to one-fourth of the state’s population, a national drought monitor said Thursday.
The weekly report released by the U.S. Drought Monitor, a project of government agencies and other partners, also shows 44 percent of the state is now considered to be in a moderate drought. It’s a dramatic jump from just last week, when the figure was 13 percent. MORE

There’s a lot of confusion, actually, about St. Valentine, whose feast we celebrate today.
The most popular legend places Valentine near Rome in the third century, during the reign of the Emperor Claudius III (nicknamed Claudius the Cruel). According to the story, Claudius sought to expand the Roman Empire, and so needed a strong army to conquer new settlements. He was having trouble getting soldiers to join his military forces; and Claudius believed that this was because young men were unwilling to leave their wives and families. Therefore, the Emperor banned all marriages and engagements in Rome.(For Soldiers) Continue reading →

This was an announcement for the week by the Conciliar Archdiocese of Los Angeles:

By popular demand, St. Cyril of Jerusalem Parish in Encino will once again present its Dixieland Mass on Sunday, February 11, at the 12:00 noon Mass.This Mass was composed by Dale Jergenson, composer-in-residence, Continue reading →

Can you imagine, at $500 dollars each. Whatever will they do with them.

Vol 11 Issue 5 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
February 3, 2018 ~ Saint Blaise, opn!

1. What is the Sacrament of Confirmation
2. Sexagesima Sunday
3. Saint Andrew Corsini
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

What is love? What is charity? Unfortunately the world has taken the word love and charity to mean something totally Continue reading →

Declining birthrates that are affecting diaper sales signs of the times..Maybe they should make diapers for dogs, ha.

Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies and Kleenex, is laying off about 13 percent of its work force and shedding factories worldwide, amid declining birthrates that are affecting diaper sales and a retail price war that is weighing on profits. MORE

The Grammy Awards struck a sour note with viewers on Sunday, with fewer than 20 million tuning in to watch the CBS broadcast, a 24% decline from last year’s show and the smallest television audience for the awards program since 2009. MORE

“…it is known that controlling the ordinations has always been a demand from the Chinese government “, says the bishop of Hong Kong, his eminence Joseph Zen.” recently, the holy father talked about this very cautiously and reassured us. But in November there was news that two legitimate bishops were asked to give rise to two illegitimate bishops, one of whom is excommunicated. This concerns us, it would be a tragic thing for the church in China. For many years it was said that you should resist, be faithful, now ask to surrender! So, what for? One surrenders without obtaining anything, because this chinese government feels strong, scary, has economic means; it seems a surrender of the weak with the strong… but the reality is that we in the church have a lot of strength, is a force Spiritual.

This is really hard to understand. We can’t understand what they want to grant, the government wants to control everything! And we deliver everything! And this is incomprehensible. If the Vatican orders surrender, some, after years of struggle and deprivation, will accept; surrender is easy. But there will be those who will continue to oppose and say that the church has always told him that an independent church is objectively schismatic. The Popes avoid the word “Schism” for mercy. How can anyone say that it is progress to force everyone into this church? Amazing, just amazing.” source: Infocatólica.

South Africa’s police and military will help secure water collection sites in drought-stricken Cape Town if authorities must turn off most taps on what they call “Day Zero,” a date currently projected to fall in the first half of April, the city said Sunday. MORE