Pope Francis has created a commission to study the historical role of female deacons in the Catholic Church, the Vatican’s press office said Monday.
Most of the world silent on this.
Israeli authorities have demolished more Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank thus far in 2016 than in any other calendar year in the last decade, according to data provided by Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem Wednesday and statistics from the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA. MORE
The Islamic State terror group has come out publicly to reject Pope Francis’ claims that the war being waged by Islamic terrorists is not religious in nature, assuring the pontiff that their sole motivation is religious and sanctioned by Allah in the Qur’an. MORE
In a press conference Sunday, Pope Francis appeared to suggest that all religions are equally prone to violence and that Islam and Christianity are the same in this regard.
When asked by a journalist about the “barbarous assassination of Fr. Jacques Hamel” in northern France who was clearly “killed in the name of Islam” last Tuesday, the Pope replied that he doesn’t like speaking about Islamic violence because there is plenty of Christian violence as well. MORE
A “smiley face” was spotted inside the Kilauea volcano’s crater during an ongoing eruption. Mick Kalber of helicopter tour company Paradise Helicopters captured the remarkable scene. MORE
During world war II the U.S. put Japanese Americans and Italians in camps, and they didn’t complain or riot or resent it. But Muslims are exempt?
Again, “Never seen anything like this before.” Apocalyptic Times.
The scene in Ellicott City Saturday night was scary, surreal and downright dangerous. MORE
More Evacuation Warnings Issued as California Wildfire Expands
Funny and we are the ones who are supposed to be civilized.
Tribal laws of the two largest Native American tribes in the United States prohibit gay marriage, as do the laws of nine other smaller tribes.
The Navajo and Cherokee Nations, the first and second largest tribes respectively, together have about 600,000 members. The nine smaller tribes that ban gay marriage have another 350,000 members. These tribes all either define marriage as between a man and a woman or explicitly prohibit same-sex marriage, according to the Associated Press (AP). MORE
The Brown administration on Thursday adopted a goal of making all new passenger vehicles sold in California zero-emission by 2050 – an initiative that, if successful, could dramatically reduce the environmental footprint of the state’s drive-everywhere culture.
The goal was adopted in a nonbinding agreement with 12 other North American and European governments, including Germany, the United Kingdom, Connecticut, Maryland and New York. MORE
Vol 9 Issue 30 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
July 30, 2016 ~ Our Lady on Saturday
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (79)
2. Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
3. Saint Ignatius of Loyola
4. Christ in the Home (53)
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader: Continue reading
It’s one thing to disagree with the effects of Capital Punishment but another to ban any country from E.U. membership because they wish to adopt it in their country, Even Catholics are divided on the issue.
Since 1980, the USCCB has taken a strong and principled position against the use of the death penalty in the United States. We oppose the use of the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of horrible crimes, but for how it affects society; moreover, Pope John Paul II, in both The Gospel of Life and the revised Catechism of the Catholic Church, states that our society has adequate alternative means today to protect society from violent crime without resorting to capital punishment.
Capital Punishment. A Necessary Tool To Defend The Sanctity Of Human Life. Continue reading
The website, started by Seattle-based “conceptual artist” Natasha Marin, suggests a number of ways in which white people can atone for the fact that 1.4 per cent of white people owned black slaves in the United States over 150 years ago.
Examples on the site’s ‘about’ page include; MORE
LAKE BALBOA >> Raul Aquino followed a group of kayakers down to the Los Angeles River, dipped a yellow boot into its flowing stream, then waded past some rocks and algae.
He stooped to collect a water sample in the Sepulveda Basin just as nearly a half dozen kayaks passed beneath the Burbank Boulevard bridge. MORE
