Americans eat a lot of peanut butter — more than a million pounds a year. And our love of the peanut-y spread starts early — who didn’t eat PB&J’s in elementary school almost every day? People around the world, however, don’t really understand our fascination with Skippy. Nutella, maybe. But never peanut butter. So why the bitter taste? According to Brian Sternthal, a professor of marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, “In many parts of the world, peanut butter is regarded as an unpalatable American curiosity.” MORE

Whether photographers are deliberately playing with “devilish” visuals or are simply catching them by accident, is a discussion readers can debate in the comment section, but for the second time since September 2014, Barack Obama has been captured with what appears to be “devil horns,” as shown in the photo above. MORE

pope Francis does not have long to go as pope from what is observed so far by his visit here. Twice he was caught dosing off, (falling asleep) Once standing at the white house ceremony’s and the other at Mass. My concern is that we need these two other major events to bring Christ back. One date setting Easter and another papal center in Jerusalem. Another A/C pope would add at least one more year before Christs return. MORE

The Christan family has been almost completely eliminated.

The U.S. birth rate dipped in 2011 to the lowest ever recorded, led by a plunge in births to immigrant women since the onset of the Great Recession.

The overall U.S. birth rate, which is the annual number of births per 1,000 women in the prime childbearing ages of 15 to 44, declined 8% from 2007 to 2010. The birth rate for U.S.-born women decreased 6% during these years, but the birth rate for foreign-born women plunged 14%—more than it had declined over the entire 1990-2007 period.¹ The birth rate for Mexican immigrant women fell even more, by 23%. MORE

The 78-year-old Argentine pontiff stepped onto US soil for the first time at Andrews air force Base outside Washington DC, where he was greeted by US President Barack Obama and his family, as well as Vice President Joe Biden. MORE

Francis and the full moon change coming for Easter. Next year may be to soon.

It hasn’t happened in 32 years, and won’t for another 18 years: Sunday evening, a total lunar eclipse will coincide with a “Supermoon.” MORE

Can’t understand why there is no dialog between them and CMRI? or other western Sede Vacantists? MORE

The Synod of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church by the grace of the Holy Trinity and under the patronage of the Most Holy Mother of God considered the critical situation in the Catholic Church, namely: violation of the saving faith in the Catholic Church and acceptance of a new teaching and a different spirit which is contrary to the fundamental truths of the Gospel and the Apostolic Tradition.

On 5 April 2011 the Synod resolved to establish the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate. The mission and purpose – to unite all believers who desire to preserve the sacred deposit of the Catholic faith, regardless of nationality or belonging to any of the Catholic Churches or traditions. MORE

Personal testimonies of the Sisters concerning barbaric armed raid on their monastery in Bryukhovychi on 22 June 2015

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin ofRussia and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, disagreed here on Monday over the level of threat to Israel from Syria, backed byIran.

Mr. Netanyahu said that Iran and Syria had sought to provide modern weapons to the militant group Hezbollah to open a second front against Israel. MORE

FINALLY a Muslim Leader admits what the flood of “refugees” (sic… invaders) into Europe represents: CONQUEST OF THE CONTINENT FOR ISLAM – Watch to the see the future of Europe

Scrambling to address a growing Syrian refugee crisis, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced Sunday that the United States would significantly increase the number of worldwide migrants it takes in over the next two years, though not by nearly the amount many activists and former officials have urged.

The U.S. will accept 85,000 refugees from around the world next year, up from 70,000, and that total would rise to 100,000 in 2017, Kerry said at news conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier after they discussed the mass migration of Syrians fleeing their civil war. MORE

Vladimir Putin has backed plans to establish a Russian military air base in neighbouring Belarus in a move that will unnerve Poland and the Baltic nations.

Belarus has made clear it would not welcome a Russian base, but the former Soviet republic remains dependent on Moscow for credit and energy.MORE

I don’t think they could survive with their own state now.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – More than half of Palestinians no longer support a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel, a survey released on Monday showed, rejecting the goal that has underpinned four decades of international diplomacy.

The poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, a leading research group in the Palestinian territories, found that 51 percent of Palestinians oppose the two-state solution while 48 percent support it. MORE

“Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?”

Vol 8 Issue 38 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
September 19, 2015 ~ Saint Januarius, opn!

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (34)
2. Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
3. St. Eustace and Companions
4. Christ in the Home (9)
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

This week a convert of Fundamentalism and Anglicanism to the Conciliar Church writes of three branches within Conciliar Catholicism: Continue reading →

With a lack of overnight economic data to consume, we are left to reflect on yesterday’s Federal Reserve decision to keep interest rates at 0.25%. While their justification to do so seems understandable – a lack of inflation remains concerning as does economic weakness in emerging markets – what is most curious is the negative response by the crude complex. Despite a weakening dollar (a stronger dollar was highlighted as another pillar of pain upholding the decision not to raise rates), oil prices have shown downside movement ever since. It raises the question: what would prices have done if they had raised rates?! MORE