(CNN)Florida may be the fishing capital of the world, but you’d never know it from the latest scenes around the state’s Indian River Lagoon. MORE

Vol 9 Issue 13 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward KrierMarch 26, 2016 ~ Holy Saturday

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (61)
2. Easter Sunday
3. St. John of Damascus
4. Christ in the Home (36)
5 .Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

I wish everyone a most blessed Feast of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Without the Resurrection, that is, without a future life, Darwin and de Chardin would be right, one’s life would only be “a survival of the fittest” as witnessed by the world in the vain attempts to survive a few days more through transplants (a decision determining one’s life is more important than another—but Continue reading →

While Christians in some parts of the Middle East are being driven out of their ancestral lands and killed for their faith, one Gulf nation is trying to make Easter colorful for its Christian expat community.

Islam is the official religion in the United Arab Emirates, and apostasy is officially a crime. But the country that thinks “go big or go home” for every other holiday isn’t about to miss out on the season of bunnies and Peeps. MORE

On Breitbart News Daily Friday morning, with Breitbart News executive chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon, reporter Katie McHugh warned that Christian charities may be bringing jihad to America by taking taxpayer dollars in exchange for importing U.N.-selected Muslim refugees into American neighborhoods. MORE

The geniuses over at Microsoft created an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot named Tay, supposedly imbued with the personality of an American girl, to “experiment with and conduct research on conversational understanding,” with the purpose of “learning” from conversations with social media users to become progressively “smarter.”

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“This may never happen if and when Rome date sets Easter in April”
Vox‎ – 9 hours ago
Today is a religious rarity that will not occur again in our lifetimes. For most Christians in the …
More news for U.S. Good Friday won’t fall on March 25 again until 2157. Here’s why that matters.

Today is a religious rarity that will not occur again in our lifetimes. MORE

Dear Friends, I am enclosing a recent book review by Mari Gaudio of my latest novel – “Marrano – A Novel of Faith, Mystery, Murder and Mayhem at the Vatican,” which is available at www.newengelpublishing.com. God bless, Randy Engel

Book Review of Marrano by Mari Gaudio 3/22/2016

When I began reading Marrano, I expected to read a standard fabricated plot inhabited by cardboard characters set between the Bronx, New York and Vatican City. Instead, I was drawn into an intriguing plot, made possible by the author’s gift for rendering a scene filled with wonderful visual details, and memorable characters like Monsignor Tony Morello – a parish priest and former Marine, Continue reading →

Cemil Şeboy, a deputy candidate for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), has suggested the construction of the world’s biggest Virgin Mary statue in the Selçuk district of western İzmir province, in order to increase the district’s tourism potential.

Şeboy said that a project will be submitted to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to design the statue of the central Christian figure. As the deputy candidate for İzmir’s first electoral district, Şeboy said that several projects that will turn the district into a tourist destination are already completed. MORE

We are about to live in a world where more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers, and by far. Think about what that means for a second…

The reproductions of the 50 foot arch that stood at the Temple of Baal in Palmyra, Syria that will be erected in New York City and London next month will only be the first of many. MORE

Pope Francis will wash the feet of young refugees during an Easter Week ritual in a gesture high in symbolism inside the Catholic Church and beyond.

The Vatican didn’t say Tuesday if non-Catholics would be among the 12 refugees participating in the Holy Thursday rite at an asylum center in Castelnuovo di Porto, north of Rome. But women will almost certainly be involved, and a Vatican official, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, noted that most of the center’s residents are non-Catholic. MORE

The Obama administration has been unrelenting in its fight to force a group of Catholic nuns to violate their beliefs and pay for abortion-causing drugs and contraception, arguing that they are essential health care services.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard an appeal from the Little Sisters of the Poorand 37 other religious groups to stop the Obama administration from forcing them to comply with Obamacare’s abortion mandate. The mandate compels religious groups to pay for birth control, drugs that may cause abortions and sterilization. Without relief, the Little Sisters would face millions of dollars in IRS fines MORE

Benedict-Ratzinger Would Recant Vatican II Anti-council
The Man Who Promoted Heresy for Fifty Years Now Claims It Was a “Deep Hole”
From: The TRADITIO Fathers

On March 16, 2016, Benedict-Ratzinger, disgraced and abdicated Newpope, publicly stated that the Vatican II Anti-council (1962-1965) had brought Newchurch into a “deep crisis.” Ratzinger, who was a full throated supporter of the heretical Vatican II Anti-council, which in 1964 replaced the Catholic Church with the anti-Catholic Newchurch of the New Order, is now, on the verge of his own death, having second thoughts about his role in destroying the Catholic Church as the institutional Church. Continue reading →

That stance puts him in line with the Republican Party’s conservative base but would break two decades of bipartisan White House policy. MORE

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I can see why China is reluctant to chastise N. Korea when they have Russian support.

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 22 (UPI) — Two North Korean military units are fighting on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad in the Syria conflict.

Asaad Al-Zoubi, the head of the Syrian opposition’s High Negotiations Committee delegation, told Russian news agency TASS that North Koreans have committed troops to the civil war. MORE