VICTORY: LGBT bill to allow children to “consent” to psychiatric therapy is stopped in Colorado Senate — after hard-hitting pro-family testimony

Parents fight back even harder

Five pro-family people who came to testify – including two from Colorado MassResistance, a constitutional attorney, and representatives of Colorado Citizens Commission on Human Rights and Lutheran Family Services.

They warned the Senators that the bill allowed for a dangerous overreach by mental health staff at schools. It virtually removed accountability for therapists (to parents or anyone else) and would lead to inappropriate testing, misdiagnoses, and bad treatment plans. It would certainly prompt lawsuits because of the bill’s dubious constitutionality, given the history of Supreme Court decisions favoring parental rights. MORE

Texas Adoption Agencies Could Soon Ban Gays, Jews, Muslims

(AP) — Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by public or private agencies with religious objections to them being Jewish, Muslim, gay, single, or interfaith couples, under a proposal advancing in the Republican-controlled Legislature.

Five other states have passed similar laws protecting faith-based adoption organizations that refuse to place children with gay parents or other households on religious grounds — but Texas’ rule extends to state-funded agencies. Only South Dakota’s is similarly sweepingly. MORE

Tornado destroys Texas Catholic church—but statue of Mary survives

I’ve seen about five of these cases in the last 4 years or so. One statue at Joplin? MO. was Our Lady of Sorrows. It was the only thing standing in the whole city, or at least in that block.

The video here, from CNN, is remarkable for a number of reasons—including the dignity the newscaster shows the church and its parishioners. (It’s also one of the few times I’ve heard a reporter use the verb “celebrate” with Mass; usually reporters talk about how people “attend” Mass or “hear” Mass.) MORE

Older-worker rate highest since 1962

These people need some kind of incentive to retire so others can take their place.
More Americans age 65 and over are still punching the clock, and the last time the percentage was this high was when John F. Kennedy was in the White House.

Last month, 19 percent of Americans age 65 and over were still working, according to government data released Friday. That’s the highest rate since 1962, and it caps a long trend higher since the figure bottomed out at 10 percent in 1985. MORE

Insight into the Catholic Faith presents the Catholic Tradition Newsletter

Vol 10 Issue 18 ~Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
May 6, 2017 ~ Saint John before the Latin Gate

1. Is the Chair of Peter Vacant? An Argument for Sedevacantism
2. Third Sunday after Easter
3. Saint Stanislaus
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:
This week most Catholics will be looking forward to commemorating the Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. Continue reading

NC House Passed HB 330 – Allowing Drivers To Legally Drive Through Protesters Who Block Roads

This is the second state to do so…N or S Dakota is the other

A new bill has passed the NC House that would allow North Carolina drivers to drive through protesters who are blocking the road without being sued, as long as they “exercise due care.”

The North Carolina House passed HB 330 with a 67-48 vote.

 It was introduced by Republican Justin Burr and “provides that a person driving an automobile while exercising due care is immune for civil liability for any injury to another if the injured person was participating in a demonstration or protest and blocking traffic.” MORE

Royal Decree Allows Saudi Women Access to Public Services

Women rest after casting their votes at a polling station during municipal elections, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 12, 2015. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser

Jeddah- Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz on Thursday issued a directive relieving women from the prerequisite of obtaining the consent of guardians in order to receive public services, “unless there is a legal basis for this request in accordance with the provisions of Islamic law.”

King Salman bin Abdulaziz had passed the notice over to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, who is also Interior Minister. MORE

20 million people in 4 countries on the brink of famine

The United Nations says it needs $4.4 billion by July to prevent famine in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and northeastern Nigeria.

U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien, who just returned from field missions to the affected countries, told Security Council members Friday that the United Nations is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since the organization’s creation. He said that without the necessary funding and full, safe and unimpeded access for aid workers, people will die. MORE

May Jewish American Heritage Month

President Donald Trump proclaimed May Jewish American Heritage Month, continuing a tradition maintained by every president since 2006.

“During Jewish American Heritage Month, we celebrate our nation’s strong American Jewish heritage, rooted in the ancient faith and traditions of the Jewish people. The small band of Dutch Jews who first immigrated in 1654, seeking refuge and religious liberty, brought with them their families, their religion, and their cherished customs, which they have passed on from generation to generation,” read the proclamation issued late Friday by the White House. MORE

Why Pope Pius XII picked May 1 for St. Joseph the Workman

What Catholics seem to forget is Italy became the biggest Communist country outside of the Iron curtain. Most of the labor unions where vastly becoming controlled by the communists. Since May 1st was the adopted celebrated day for the communists, Pope Pius XII turned to St. Joseph (The workman) to help stop the takeover of Italy by these communists. At the time these labor union thugs were shooting top executives in the knee who wouldn’t cooperate with their agenda.

MAY 1
St. Joseph the Workman

1. On May 1, 1955, Pope Pius XII delivered a significant address before an assembly of representatives of the Catholic Association of Italian Workers. Continue reading

Insight into the Catholic Faith presents the ~ Catholic Tradition Newsletter

All the world’s a stage, Shakespeare

Vol 10 Issue 17 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
April 29, 2017 ~ Saint Peter of Verona

1. Is the Chair of Peter Vacant? An Argument for Sedevacantism
2. Good Shepherd Sunday
3. Saint Catherine of Siena
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:
Shakespeare wrote the play, As You Like It (1600) in which he has one of the characters stating: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. Continue reading

AntiChrist Will Be a Jew, Why Some Traditionalists Believe

In cleaning out some of my forty year old files, I came across a back issue of (The Roman Catholic) October 1986 issue, the managing editor was Father Clarence Kelly (Bp. Kelly now). I remember his article on the (AntiChrist), because I also found my rebuttal enclosed that I had sent him on this thesis that the AntiChrist would have to be a Jew, in which HE added, “from the Tribe of Dan.”

In my rebuttal I tried to explain that ‘Jew’ was a slang word for Judeans and that the Dan Tribe were not of Judea, but one of the Israelite Tribes. However, now in re-reading both his and my thesis, I saw how much we both left out of this complicated subject and so I decided to give a much more credible account to a confusing issue. Continue reading