Actually, the kingdom’s involvement was deliberately covered up at the highest levels of our government. And the coverup goes beyond locking up 28 pages of the Saudi report in a vault in the US Capitol basement. Investigations were throttled. Co-conspirators were let off the hook. MORE

After 10 months of urban conflict in Turkey’s war-torn southeast, the government has expropriated huge sections of property, apparently to rebuild and restore the historical centre of the region’s largest city, Diyarbakir.

But to the dismay of the city’s handful of Christian congregations, this includes all its Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant churches. Unlike the state-funded mosques, Turkey’s ancient church buildings – some of which pre-date Islam – have been managed, historically, by church foundations. MORE

More than two thousand crosses have now been forcefully removed from churches as part of a government campaign to regulate “excessive religious sites”. MORE

Now we learn that some Québec physicians have been withholding life-saving treatments that could save lives with possibly no after-effects from suicide victims. In response, the Québec’s College of Physicians have issued an ethics bulletin telling all physicians that their is an ethical and legal guideline to provide care even to patients seeking to end their lives. MORE

The toddler was captured shouting “don’t touch my grandma! Go away, don’t touch my grandma!” repeatedly while he held a steel pipe measured some twice his height, trying to push the Chengguan away.

Despite the continuing Muslim genocide of Christians in the Middle East and Africa, American Catholic leaders continue not only to turn a blind eye to jihad terror and the persecution of their fellow Christians, but are actively aiding and abetting the forces that are persecuting them. Last month, the entire student body of St. Petersburg Catholic High School in St. Petersburg, Florida, was called together to hear a deceptive presentation on “Islamophobia” from the notorious Ahmed Bedier, who openly supports the jihad terror group Hezbollah and has worked for the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). MORE

Zimmerman, an outspoken critic of the Israeli government, was a somewhat controversial choice from the start. The New York Times reported late Thursday that “a chorus of Jewish figures” had called on the Sanders campaign to dismiss the 25-year-old, but that “the final straw was a report on Wednesday in the Washington Free Beacon,” highlighting a March 3, 2015, Facebook post in which Zimmerman called Netanyahu “an arrogant, deceptive, cynical, manipulative a**hole.”  MORE

HEFEI, April 15 (Xinhua) — A new interactive robot, named Jia Jia, was unveiled Friday by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province. MORE

Los Angeles was once the epicenter of apparel manufacturing, attracting buyers from across the world to its clothing factories, sample rooms and design studios. MORE

Vol 9 Issue 16 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
April 16, 2016 ~ Our Lady on Saturday

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (64)
2. Third Sunday after Easter
3. St. Anicetus, Pope
4. Christ in the Home (38)
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

The Church teaches that there are Sacraments of the dead (Baptism and Penance) and Sacraments of the living (Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders and Matrimony).  Continue reading →

Government members want the ceremonies to stress that Poland’s Catholic identity ties the nation to Western culture and values, especially now when the European Union is criticizing its policies and warning that they threaten democracy and the rule of law. The policies have also led to massive street protests.

“Shouldn’t we reach more boldly to the grace of holy baptism … in order to overcome enmity and discord, in order to seek reconciliation and forgiveness that we all crave so much,” Poland’s Primate Archbishop Wojciech Polak said during the Mass at the 10th-century Gniezno Cathedral. MORE

It has been proven true over the years that victors write the history. Nowhere is this fact more obvious than in Jerusalem, where some Israelis are trying unsuccessfully to rewrite centuries-old history.

Plural-ism?

After the Supreme Court’s landmark gay marriage decision, can a constitutional right to plural marriage be far behind? It seemed that way in 2013, when a federal district court in Utah followed the Supreme Court ruling by striking down part of the state’s bigamy law in a case involving the family featured in the television show “Sister Wives.”

Just think, it’s was a Catholic State.

Louisiana’s State Seal is Catholic symbol – sad!

(Reuters) – Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed an anti-discrimination order on Wednesday protecting the rights of gay and transgender people, aligning his state on the liberal side of a political divide playing out across the U.S. South.

The Democrat’s executive order also protects state employees against discrimination based on other criteria including race, religion, disability or age. It bans state agencies from discrimination, while offering an exemption for churches and religious organizations. MORE

One week after he formally received a bill to designate the Bible as Tennessee’s state book, Gov. Bill Haslam has vetoed the measure. Critics say the bill isn’t constitutional — and that it equates the Bible to the Tennessee walking horse or the Tennessee cave salamander.

The bill’s backers are pledging to try to override the veto, which comes a year after similar legislation failed.

Explaining his veto in a letter to state Speaker of the House Beth Harwell, Haslam writes that in addition to the legal issues about the bill, “this bill trivializes the Bible, which I believe is a sacred text.” MORE