Experts say there are four stages of denial that many people go through when it comes to natural disasters.

1. It won’t happen.

2. If it does happen, it won’t happen to me.

3. If it does happen to me, it wont be that bad.

4. If it does happen to me and it is that bad, there’s nothing I can do about it because we’ll all be dead. MORE

POPE FRANCIS SAID ON SUNDAY THAT EQUATING ISLAM WITH VIOLENCE WAS WRONG AND CALLED ON MUSLIM LEADERS TO ISSUE A GLOBAL CONDEMNATION OF TERRORISM TO HELP DISPEL THE STEREOTYPE.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) – Francis, the leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, told reporters aboard his plane returning from a visit to Turkey that he understood why Muslims were offended by many in the West who automatically equated their religion with terrorism. MORE

The storm that slammed into the high desert and mountains of Southern California this week was one for the record books. MORE

The Early Church and Fathers

Vol 8 Issue 42 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
October 17, 2015 ~ St Margaret Mary Aloquoque, opn!

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (38)
2. Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost
3. Saint Luke, Evangelist
4. Christ in the Home (13)
5 .Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

Thank you for your prayers.

As always, enjoy the readings and commentaries provided for your benefit.—The Editor Continue reading →

A federal judge ruled Friday that Texas officials can continue to deny U.S. birth certificates to the children of immigrants who cannot supply required identification because they entered the country illegally.

Though children born in the United States are entitled by law to U.S. citizenship regardless of the immigration status of their parents, Texas authorities have been placing significant barriers to immigrants who have entered the country illegally and are seeking birth certificates for their U.S.-born children. MORE

The former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration, Paul Craig Roberts, told Alex Jones on Thursday he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is in danger of being assassinated by the CIA.

Not for the first time Cuban forces are doing Russia’s dirty work, this time in Syria. On Wednesday it was reported that a U.S. official had confirmed to Fox News that Cuban paramilitary and Special Forces units were on the ground in Syria. Reportedly transported to the region in Russian planes, the Cubans are rumoured to be experts at operating Russian tanks. MORE

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A group of parishioners who have staged an 11-year, 24-hour vigil inside a closed Roman Catholic church in Massachusetts have once again lost their appeal to keep it open, a place they say they’ve helped build and maintain since the 1960s. MORE

A woman suspected of being possessed by the devil started screaming and having muscular convulsions after the congregation forced her face against a holy relic in Romania. MORE

The first Mass conducted in Mexico’s most prominent indigenous language has been held in the country’s most important church.

Roman Catholic Bishop Felipe Arizmendi said during his homily Tuesday at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City that rather than accept and respect the culture of the country’s original peoples, they have been scorned. Continue reading →

Francis didn’t cite examples in his off-the-cuff request for pardon at the start of his general audience and his spokesman declined to elaborate on what he might have meant. However, the past week has seen its fair share of headline-making news that has involved the church in one way or another.

On the eve of Francis’ big and contentious meeting on family issues, a Vatican monsignor came out as gay and, with his boyfriend by his side, denounced homophobia in the Catholic Church. He was summarily fired from his job in the Vatican’s doctrine office. MORE

John Allen, Jr. opens his remarks to the ADL meeting with this joke,

“I know you have a jam-packed schedule and limited time, so as Henry the Eighth said to each of his wives, ‘I won’t keep you long,’”

Wow, joking about the person responsible for the deaths of thousands of people not to mention the souls lost.  As well as creating his own religion, Henry VIII helped destroy the institution of marriage.  Guess Allen was playing to his perfidious kosher audience.

He then discusses Francis’ trip to Rio in 2013 for World Youth Day.

When he arrived and started to step out of the “Popemobile,” a group of Brazilian nuns rushed him “shrieking like a bunch of teenage girls at a Justin Bieber concert.”

Can you picture that?  Did they throw their underwear at him?

After dropping the above bombshells, Allen gets to the meat of his message:
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This is the best theory so far.

Expert Clive Irving points to new warnings from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing that highlight the “immediate and urgent risk” tied to transporting lithium-ion batteries, which are used in cellphones and laptops, on passenger flights…

…Irving theorizes that the batteries could have caused a fire in the hold of the Boeing 777 that overwhelmed the plane’s fire-suppression system. MORE

SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) When the World’s Parliament of Religions first met in Chicago in 1893, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and even Spiritualists prayed together.

But Mormons were kept out.

What a difference 122 years make. On Thursday (Oct. 15), when the Parliament of the World’s Religions — a slight adjustment of the name was made a century after the first meeting — convenes in Salt Lake City, it will not only feature a slate of Mormon voices, it will sit in the proverbial lap of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, its global headquarters only a five-minute walk away. MORE