KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government threw its support in parliament this week behind an Islamic penal code that includes amputations and stoning, shocking some of his allies and stoking fears of further strains in the multi-ethnic country.

Critics believe the scandal-tainted prime minister is using ‘hudood’, the Islamic law, to shore up the backing of Muslim Malay voters and fend off attacks on his leadership ahead of critical by-elections next month and a general election in 2018. MORE

Golfers in Palmetto, Florida, could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled off the course and into Jurassic Park at the weekend.

While playing a typical Sunday game at Buffalo Creek Golf Course, Charles Helms was able to get a video of a monster alligator casually strolling across the course.

The dinosaur-like gator looked even bigger when another man came into the frame to take a picture – but apparently he is quite a regular sight in the area. MORE

The massive swarm is so huge it has spread for 70 thousand hectares across farmland in southern Russia. MORE

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“Gabriel’s Oboe” is the main theme for the 1986 film The Mission directed by Roland Joffé. The theme was written by Italian composer Ennio Morricone, and has since been arranged and performed several times by artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Holly Gornik, and Brynjar Hoff, among others.

What goes on in the “gay straight alliance” clubs in high schools – and now in middle schools – across the country? What happens to kids that are persuaded to join them? We had a chance to see it up close – at one of their statewide events. And it’s worse than anyone realizes. MORE

ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday awarded medals to American actors Richard Gere and George Clooney and actress Salma Hayek at an event held at the Vatican to promote the work of a foundation inspired by the pontiff, Scholas Occurrentes. MORE

In what the Vatican is billing as a “summit on the migrant emergency,” Pope Francis met with a group of four hundred schoolchildren from the south of Italy on Saturday, assuring them that they have nothing to fear from migrants but should be reaching out to welcome them.

The students all came from the southern Italian region of Calabria, which has been among the areas hardest hit by the waves of migrants that daily reach Italy’s shores, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa. MORE

Vol 9 Issue 22 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
May 28, 2016 ~ Saint Augustine of Canterbury

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (70)
2.Second Sunday after Pentecost
3. St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
4. Christ in the Home (44)
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

This week Holy Mother the Church will celebrate the Queenship of Mary. The discrepancy about the Church and her teachings in comparison with the Neo-Modernists is that the Neo-Modernists say they are going back to Scripture and the Fathers but don’t; Continue reading →

Alessia would like you to support Nuns in need of a home
by making a donation and helping spread the word.

Two traditional Roman Catholic Nuns on Mission in New England desperately need your support for finding a suitable house for a convent in Salem, NH.   These two Sisters are members of a Traditional Catholic Religious Community, The Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen out of Spokane, Washington.   They arrived in Boston in 2005 in response to a few families who were requesting the Traditional Latin Mass and the corresponding Catholic Life that accompanies the Mass. MORE

Oh great, isn’t life wonderful.

An Israeli from a Catholic Arab family has been crowned the winner of the country’s first transgender pageant.. MORE