Pope Francis has changed church regulations to correspond to his rule-breaking celebration of the Easter Week ritual of washing the feet of men and women, Christians and not, in a sign of universal service.
Vatican rules for the Holy Thursday rite had long called for only men to participate, and popes past and many priests traditionally performed the ritual on 12 Catholic men, recalling Jesus’ 12 apostles.MORE
Sputnik reports, the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for World Economy and International Relations published its annual foreign policy forecast, detailing US internal politics. And the winner is…Hillary Clinton. She, according to the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for World Economy and International Relations’ (IMEMO) annual forecast is poised to defeat Republican Marco Rubio in November.
Two prominent rabbis in Israel – Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch and Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar – have hinted in public that the Messiah is “just around the corner” based upon certain world events taking place today.
Rabbi Sternbuch, vice president of the Rabbinical Court and head of the Eidah Charedit organization in Jerusalem, recently said that people should “put on their Shabbat clothes in preparation for the Messiah.” MORE
“We went out to the mine and the owners were two little guys that had been in the Second World War,” a California park service employee recalls at a retirement celebration for Mojave National Preserve Superintendent Mary Martin in 2005. MORE
More than 1,000 Palestinian families have taken possession of new apartments as part of a large Qatari-funded housing project in the Gaza Strip.
Saturday’s units are the first batch of a 3,000-apartment complex that was announced when the former Qatari ruler, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, became the first head of state to visit Hamas-ruled Gaza in 2012. MORE
The child abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic Church are only the tip of the iceberg, the journalists who exposed one of the hierarchy’s biggest cover-ups said Wednesday.
Walter Robinson and Mike Rezendes, who won the Pulitzer Prize for uncovering how the Church had hushed up the activities of nearly 90 paedophile priests in Boston, told AFP that thousands more have escaped justice in the United States alone.MORE
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The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has suggested the rise of ISIS is partly the result of the world accepting homosexuality.
Patriarch Kirill claimed Muslims may be fleeing to join the terror group in Syria and Iraq to avoid being part of a civilization that holds events like Gay Pride.
The 69-year-old said it was little surprise so many were joining the caliphate and that he could offer more ‘simply frightening examples’ of how the ‘godless civilization’ was growing. MORE
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by Joseph Saraceno
On or about December 1985, I was working on an article entitled “the Two Horns of Anti-Christ” I can’t remember who the particular priest’s were that I was in contact with at that time, but I remembered one that I had just recently met and was promoting his newsletter. A Father Dan Jones from Colorado. Continue reading
(CNN)Nearly 19,000 civilians were killed in Iraq between January 2014 and October 2015 — a toll the United Nations calls “staggering” in a new report.
The report, released Tuesday, outlined the horrific impact that Iraq‘s ongoing conflict is having on its civilian population.
Much of the suffering was attributed to ISIS, the brutal Islamist terror group which has declared an Islamic caliphate across the vast stretches of territory it holds in Iraq and neighboring Syria. MORE
Get ready for a spectacular sight in our skies this week. For the first time since 2005, the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will all be visible at the same time. MORE
“For too long there has been a spirit of fear and timidity in Washington,” Cruz told The Dallas Morning News on the second day of his New Hampshire tour. “We should not be ashamed of Christ. We should be willing to speak the truth with a smile.”
Cruz said the nation must return to its Judeo-Christian roots. MORE
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In today’s Gospel of the Wedding at Cana, many wonder why both Mary and Jesus were invited in the first place. What connection did they have with the bride and groom. While nothing in scripture provides the answer there are some legends that might help. It is presumed that the bride may have been a relative of Mary the Blessed Mother, maybe even a niece. Continue reading
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The controversial retired priest who is volunteering at St. Philip Catholic Church told parishioners that news media last week reported “misleading information” about him and “those who know me well would verify that I would not act in those ways suggested.”
“Personally, I believe that some critics did not like the strong stance that I was forced to take in defense of Catholic teachings,” John Nienstedt said, “particularly the traditional definition of marriage, and I think they would like to punish me for those stands.” MORE
