Loading… The mid-year figures for 2013 are now out. What figures? The CDC figures on measles (and mumps, and whooping cough, etc.) in the USA. Let me quote from the Measles & Rubella Initiative blog. Measles cases in 2013 in the United States are already amongst the highest they’ve been in any year since 2001, […]
Archives for July 2014
The world needs to be more Latin American
Rome, Italy, Jun 15, 2014 / 03:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a visit to a community dedicated to serving the poor and needy, Pope Francis warned of the poverty of Europe which faces a declining birthrate, hidden forms of euthanasia, and high rates of unemployment. … “The treatment of the elderly, as that of children, […]
The prayer of a parent of a soldier
On this July 4th, let me post the video above and the lyrics from one of the songs from Les Misérables. This is the prayer of every parent who has a son or daughter in the Armed Forces. I was such a son once, drafted during Viet Nam. I have a daughter and a son-in-law […]
My, how fasting has changed for American Catholics!
I found myself looking at fasting rules in the United States of America for Roman Catholics. I found myself startled at the changes in their fasting rules since the 1940’s. Having been raised as a Roman Catholic, I know that we were never supposed to eat meat on Fridays and that we were supposed to […]
Habemus Metropolitanum
As many of you know, Metropolitan Philip, the former head of the Antiochian Archdiocese in the USA, reposed last March (2014). Well, the Orthodox do not have the tradition of the white smoke like the Roman Catholics. But, we do now have a new Metropolitan. The Holy Synod of Antioch has announced the election of […]
