Vol 8 Issue 31 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
August 1, 2015 ~ St Peter in Chains
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (27)
2. Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
3. St Alphonsus Ligouri
4. Christ in the Home (2)
5. Articles and notices Continue reading
Since their December arrival in Vietnam, U.S. Ambassador Ted Osius and his husband have become the most prominent gay couple in the Southeast Asian country.
Osius and Clayton Bond landed with their toddler son shortly before the government abolished its ban on same-sex marriage. Now the couple, who recently adopted an infant girl, find themselves ambassadors of the nascent LGBT rights movement spreading across the country. MORE
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A pair of small explosions just 20 minutes and a few miles apart shocked congregants Sunday morning at two churches in southern New Mexico.
There were no injuries or deaths from the blasts outside Calvary Baptist and Holy Cross Roman Catholic in Las Cruces, Las Cruces police spokesman Danny Trujillo said. Each building sustained minor damage. MORE
Weird things are happening off the Pacific Coast.
And at the center of the action is a warm-water mass that scientists call “the blob.” MORE
All these years I thought circumcision was a Jewish thing, but it’s done in the Islamic faith as well. In watching a Turkey travel log I was surprised that it is done there later in a boys life. Take a look of how the boys dress for the occasion.
Three members of Osama bin Laden‘s family were among four people killed in a small plane crash in southern England, British police said.
The plane crashed Friday at a car auction site on the property of Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, to the west of London, Hampshire fire and rescue services said. MORE
Baltimore reached a grim milestone on Friday, three months after riots erupted in response to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody: With 45 homicides in July, the city has seen more bloodshed in a single month than it has in 43 years.
Police reported three deaths — two men shot Thursday and one on Friday. The men died at local hospitals. MORE
He looks good to me.
Richard John “Rick” Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is an American attorney and Republican Party politician. He served as a United States Senatorrepresenting Pennsylvania (1995–2007) and was the Senate’s third-ranking Republican (2001–07).[1] He ran as a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination,[2] finishing second to the eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney. MORE
A searing Midwestern drought can send corn and soybean futures into the stratosphere. Too much rain, however, makes for a more complicated situation.
That is the position farmers and grain traders find themselves after spring and summer rains delayed planting of both crops across the eastern half of the Corn Belt and then continued to soak the region into early July. The Corn Belt is the corn-producing region encompassing western Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, eastern Kansas, eastern Nebraska and southern Minnesota. MORE
Venezuela’s hospitals are in disarray. Betty Zapata reports on a country where inflation is forcing doctors’ salaries below $10 a month and patients are forced to buy life-saving drugs on the street MORE
California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a statement of emergency as 18 large wildfires burn through more than a dozen counties.
Teary-eyed and angry Catholic parishioners across New York attended final mass services on Friday in some of dozens of churches closing or stopping regular worship services.
The closures follow an announcement by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in November that it would consolidate 368 parishes into 294, reflecting a national trend of parish closures in the United States caused by low attendance, a shortage of priests and financial troubles. MORE
A convicted kidnapper who kept 26 children and a school bus driver in a buried trailer has been granted his freedom – after the governor of California didn’t object to parole.
James Schoenfeld, 63, kidnapped the bus carrying the group then buried them alive in a chilling heist inspired by the film Dirty Harry.
Schoenfeld confessed to carrying out the 1976 crime with his brother Richard and his friend Fred Woods. MORE
THIS IS NOT JUST HAPPENING IN CALI, IT’S ALL STATES! Agenda 21, TPP, NAFTA, NDAA, CFR, UN, NATO, Slavery, Control, IMF
The first trailer for “Spotlight,” the film starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel McAdams chronicling The Boston Globe’s investigation of child sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests, was released Wednesday. MORE