Caro Carol forgive me, but I’m confused. I can’t find where the original post was on the subject of St Peter’s bones. I just need to know if St Peter’s bones are still in Rome today? Or did Pope Francis give all the bones to the Orthodox Patriarch?
Stromboli volcano in violent eruption off Sicily A volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted dramatically on Wednesday, sparking fears among inhabitants and tourists. The volcano is known to be active but on Wednesday there was a particularly powerful eruption. "It was like being in hell because of the rain of fire coming from the sky," Italian news agencies quoted local priest Giovanni Longo as saying. He said it was not known if there were any hikers on the volcano at the time of the eruption. Italian media reported that tourists had fled the island's coastal area after the eruption. Firefighters in Messina, Sicily said there were no immediate reports of casualties. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) said there were two huge explosions on the central-southern side of the volcano's crater at around 1446 GMT Wednesday. The explosions were preceded by lava spills "from all the active mouths of the crater terrace," the INGV said, prompting a two-kilometre high plume of smoke. A firefighting plane could not put out fires in the area because of the amount of smoke, Italian media reported. The INGV said it was monitoring the situation. Stromboli is part of the seven-island Eolian Archipelago just off Sicily in southern Italy. https://www.france24.com/en/20190703-stromboli-volcano-violent-eruption-off-sicily
Byron, That's ok. I am pretty sure that I posted about this on the Vatican Has Fallen thread and I think that earthtoangels posted something about his bones there too I still have to read that article but I think it was about more bones of his being discovered. Anyway, Pope Francis gave some relics (bones) of St. Peter but not all. I hope this helps.
Preliminary 6.4 magnitude earthquake rattles Southland Posted Jul 04 2019 10:56AM PDT Updated Jul 04 2019 11:51AM PDT http://www.foxla.com/news/local-news/preliminary-64-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-southland LOS ANGELES (FOX 11) - A magnitude-6-6 earthquake was felt throughout the Southland today, shaking up local residents celebrating the Fourth of July. For earthquake resource links and information please go to: http://www.foxla.com/earthquakes The quake, which began at 10:33 a.m., was centered about 10 miles from Ridgecrest, near the San Bernardino County and Kern County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in Los Angeles or Orange County. The Los Angeles Fire Department reported that "all 106 fire stations are out conducting a strategic survey of their districts to determine if any damage exists. Once this process is complete, an overall assessment of the impact in the City of Los Angeles will be compiled" Southland police agencies were reminding the public not to use 911 for earthquake questions unless they have injuries or dangerous conditions to report. The Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters tweeted out: We felt the earthquake, did you? Please only use 911 to report emergencies. Non emergencies in the City of Los Angeles use 877-ASK-LAPD. Officials with the San Bernardino County Fire Department tweeted that they were conducting an assessment of the region and "no injuries reported, however buildings and roads have sustained varying degrees of damage." People all over the southland are sharing their videos of the quake on social media: ... *** *** Largest earthquake in decades hits Southern California, measuring 6.4 magnitude By Harriet Ryan, Rong-Gong Lin II, Julia Wick, Louis Sahagun and Karen Kaplan Jul 04, 2019 | 11:20 AM | https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquake-california-shake-quake-20190704-story.html Location of earthquake (Los Angeles Times) A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California on Thursday, the largest temblor to hit the region in decades. [Emphasis added] The 10:33 a.m. quake was centered in the Searles Valley, a remote area of Kern County about 100 miles from Los Angeles, and was felt as far away as Long Beach and Las Vegas. The quake was the largest in Southern California since the 1994 6.6 Northridge quake, which killed dozens and caused billions of dollars in damage. But the Northridge quake hit in the center of a populated area, while Thursday’s quake was located far from the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Caltech seismologist Lucy Jones, California’s foremost earthquake expert, told a midday press conference in Pasadena to anticipate more shaking on the Fourth of July. “We should be expecting lots of aftershocks,” Jones said. She estimated that there was a “greater than 50-50” chance of an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 or more Thursday afternoon. She added, “We should always be preparing for the big one. This does not make it less likely.” The Kern County Fire Department was responding to “nearly 2 dozens incidents ranging from medical assistance to structure fires in and around the city of Ridgecrest,” according to the department’s Twitter account. Mark Leach, an engineer who lives in the city, was in his garage about to drive to a July 4 barbecue in Los Angeles when the shaking started. It felt like it went on for 30 seconds, he said. “About halfway through it I dashed out into the road completely freaking out,” he said. “You can see some cracking in the seams of the drywall and stuff was knocked off the shelves — books and CDs and stuff.” As the aftershocks started, Leach said he could actually hear them before he felt the shaking. The quake was relatively deep, occurring more than five miles underground. "I was in my kitchen trying to get some coffee and all the windows started rattling," said Emma Gallegos, a 34-year-old journalist in southwest Bakersfield. "It was just a little bit at first — I thought something was going by, and then I realized all the windows were rattling. It was kind of a long gentle roll and I felt two distinct waves." Gallegos said that the dried chiles hanging from a hook on her kitchen wall were all shaking. "It was surreal." The earthquake was centered roughly 80 miles northeast of a stretch of the 106-year-old Los Angeles Aqueduct spanning the San Andreas fault. “Aqueduct personnel have been deployed as part of our standard earthquake response protocols to inspect the aqueduct and reservoirs,” said Joe Ramallo, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “In the city, critical facilities are also being checked.” “There is no information nor reports of damage at this time,” he said. Other people nearer to the epicenter were shocked by the shaking. “I was laying down in my bed and I had my feet on the wall and I felt like both of the sides of the house were moving and shaking so I ran, and grabbed my brother and kid and came outside,” said Edith Mata, 22, a student at Bakersfield College. Her son is 3 years old and her brother is 17. “The neighbors across the street were also outside with their whole family of five people. My kid had no idea what was going on.” Mata said that it felt very “creepy” and that she had never experienced anything like it before. It was unclear whether the temblor caused damage or injuries. Los Angeles officials said they have gotten no reports of major damage. In the Los Angeles area, the quake was slow and steady, lasting about 30 seconds. The earthquake was centered 10 miles northeast of Ridgecrest, Calif., a city of about 29,000 in Kern County mostly known as a small town for skiers and snowboarders headed from Los Angeles to Mammoth. The earthquake was centered about 90 miles northeast of Bakersfield and 125 miles north of Los Angeles.The earthquake was felt widely throughout the Los Angeles area, said Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson. It’s unlikely there was significant damage in a major urban area given that the earthquake was centered in such a remotely populated area.The area that ruptured occurred in an area of faults slightly east of the Sierra Nevada. The Little Lake fault is one of them, and last went through a magnitude 6 earthquake in 1984, Hauksson said. Local emergency agencies have been flooded with calls, and officials urged that people only use 911 for emergencies. “We are very much aware of the significant earthquake that just occurred in Southern California. Please DO NOT call 9-1-1 unless there are injuries or other dangerous conditions. Don't call for questions please,” the LAPD said in a statement.
Yep. Was sitting in my Dad's back room when it rolled through. It was very mild because we were on the coast and away from the epicenter. But my kids got to experience their first earthquake. It lasted a long time, like a full minute or more and like jello, a rolling quake. Life in So Cal
The real sickness is in the minds and hearts of so called "health" practitioners these days. Prayers for this man undergoing such treatment. Dehydration and starvation of France’s Vincent Lambert begins July 2, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The dehydration and starvation of Vincent Lambert has started again. Less than four days after the French Court of Cassation ruled against the Parisian Court of Appeal’s decision that saved Lambert’s life on May 20, Dr. Vincent Sanchez seized the earliest opportunity to deeply sedate Lambert and pull his feeding tube on Tuesday, July 2. France’s Terri Schiavo, a tetraplegic and brain-damaged 42-year-old, will die within about a week, according to Bernard Devalois, a doctor who specializes in palliative care who told the French press agency AFP that in such cases patients intravenously receive midazolam, a powerful sedative. Mainstream media are repeating that “Vincent will not suffer” while his organs shut down due to lack of fluids. “In Mr. Lambert's case, there is no sensation of thirst: in order to be thirsty, you need to be conscious,” said Devalois. The media are also repeating that Lambert is in a “vegetative state” and that he is going to be “allowed to die,” in the same way that they are insisting that he has been “unplugged,” as if a life-support machine has been turned off. Specialized doctors who work personally with brain-damaged patients in the same condition as Lambert have throughout the whole affair explained that he has a form of consciousness that, as his mother confirms, when well disposed he reacts to her demands, follows visitors with his eyes and is capable of swallowing custards and fruit purée in small quantities when she gives them to him with a spoon. He is emphatically not in an end-of-life situation. Like Eric Kariger, the first doctor who put Lambert on an end-of-life path in 2013, Sanchez is a geriatrician who has no experience or specialized knowledge of brain damaged and severely handicapped people. Viviane Lambert, the mother of Vincent who together with husband Pierre and two of their children has been fighting for his life in the courts for the last six years, received notice of the end-of-life process by email from Sanchez on Tuesday morning. She was just back from Geneva, where she had given witness the previous day at the United Nations to the fact that her son is alive and needs to be protected from being assassinated. Viviane Lambert was able to speak twice on Monday at the Palais des Nations, the UN’s headquarters in Switzerland, where the Human Rights Committee is holding its 126th session. Having traveled to Geneva together with lawyers Jérôme Triomphe and Jean Paillot, as well as Gregor Puppink of the European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ), she addressed the diplomatic delegates to the UN commission and also gave a press conference. At that point, she was not aware that Sanchez intended to make a new attempt to kill her son the next day. Addressing the delegates, she said: “Today I am sending you a cry for help. “Without your intervention, my son, Vincent Lambert, will be euthanized by a doctor because of his cerebral disability. “He is in a state of minimal consciousness: he is not a vegetable! He sleeps at night, wakes up during the day, and looks at me when I talk to him. He only needs to receive his food through a tube. And it is that tube that his doctor wants to deprive him of, in order to make him die, even though a team of legal experts has stated that he is not being subjected to any kind of therapeutic aggressiveness. “On May 19, on the day before his scheduled death, he cried when he saw us. We are still deeply shaken. “That is why we have referred this matter to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, because the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities prohibits the deprivation of food and drink on the grounds of disability. Doing that would be discrimination. “On two occasions, this Committee has asked France not to kill Vincent. But the French government refuses, blatantly violating its international obligations. “I beg you to intervene with France to remind it of its obligation to respect the provisional measures prescribed by the Committee, and not to kill my son. “Apart from my son, it is the lives of the 1,700 other people who share his condition that are at risk. “Please, help us.” To the press, she said that her son was at risk of being “assassinated.” The Committee for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is clearly sensitive to her emotional pleas. Having been informed of Sanchez’ decision to go ahead immediately with the end-of-life protocol, it made an emergency request to France on Tuesday, demanding the country respect its decision requiring “provisional measures” not to implement an irreversible act that would deprive Lambert of his life, so that the committee can examine whether this disabled person's rights are being violated. Later during the day, Triomphe and Paillot published the following statement: “On July 2, we informed the CRPD of Dr. Sanchez’s new announcement indicating that he is stopping feeding and hydrating Vincent Lambert as of today. “The CRPD's Requests and Investigations Department has urgently reiterated to the French State its request to maintain Mr. Vincent Lambert’s food and hydration as a precautionary measure. “It is recalled that provisional measures are mandatory in order to guarantee the effectiveness of the appeal to the CRPD, which requires that Vincent Lambert's life not be harmed. “The mandatory nature of the CRPD's provisional measures was reiterated by the (French) Defender of Rights in person on May 17, 2019. “We have just informed Dr. Sanchez. “We will continue to act through all legal channels to enforce these interim measures. “There will be no further comments as things stand.” Jérôme Triomphe - Jean Paillot Counsel for parents, brother and sister of Vincent Lambert. It is clear that they have not yet given up hope. As for Vincent Lambert, he has up to now shown exceptional resiliency in remaining alive despite his difficult situation. He survived 31 days without food and little water in 2013 until a court ordered that he be fed and looked after. According to Emmanuel Hirsch, professor of medical ethics at Paris-Saclay University, “Vincent Lambert, in his resolve to live in the confinement of a hospital room, is giving witness of his will not to give up, of not renouncing his existence.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dehydration-and-starvation-of-frances-vincent-lambert-begins
It really is Teri Schaivo all over again. God bless Vincent Lambert. May his sufferings be United to the sufferings of Christ.
And the EVIL, PRO-ABORTION DEMOCRATS SUPPORT THIS MURDER OF INNOCENT BABIES! The Democratic Party is the party of evil!
This is extremely odd no matter how they try to explain it away. I have seen hail before but not like this. Why Caution Is Needed With Those Hail Pictures In Mexico Updated on July 2nd, 7:50 ET Did you see the tremendous pictures of hailstones piling up in parts of Mexico this week? It is certainly an extraordinary spectacle. Words like "freak" or "epic" storm are being used to describe the event. According to the Accuweather writer Amanda Schmidt, The Mexican city of Guadalajara woke up to a wintry surprise on Sunday morning. The city, which has been experiencing a hot, sweaty summer, was blanketed with up to 3 feet of ice in some areas following a heavy hailstorm. As I browsed the social media, I saw claims of climate change, "end of times" language, and sheer awe that hail fell in Mexico during the Summer. I thought that it would be instructive to provide context and perspective on this event before things get too carried away... *** ? Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple, and there were lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake, and great hail.
My daughter texted me today from the beach. The kids went to the beach and were loaded up with towels and chairs and everything and Planned Parenthood was asking for donations on the beach. The gal asked my daughter, who was lagging a bit, and she said "No" and the lady turned to her and called her a witch with a B. Wow, way to get donations by treating people disrespectfully. But of course respecting people's dignity is not top priority for PP. My daughter said she literally felt herself get hot and she almost turned around and said something nasty. But she didn't and kept on walking. She told me she felt "icky" and bad that she was even hit up for supporting a place that murders children. I love my daughter.
The "cleansing" continues: Novi family angry over request to remove Virgin Mary statue Every morning, each member of the Samona family stops to pray in front of a small statue of the Virgin Mary that adorns the flower bed in the yard of their Novi home. They pause again in front of the tiny statue when they return home at day's end. It's been part of the family's routine since they moved into the Tollgate Woods neighborhood in 2003 On Tuesday, the Samonas received a letter from their homeowners association, stating that the Virgin Mary figure and other pieces of statuary in their yard were in violation of neighborhood policies. The family believes it's discrimination. "There is no doubt in my mind that this is an attack on our religion," said Joseph Samona, who lives at the home with his parents."We have already received an outpouring of support from friends and family, and we are prepared to fight this tooth and nail." In 2005, they tried to make the family remove their lawn nativity scene. They pushed back, bringing in a lawyer and drawing widespread media attention until the association backed off. In 2009, the homeowners association asked them to remove the Virgin Mary statue. The family never responded and the group never followed up on its request. Tollgate Homeowners Association representative Debbie Laudermilch did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The letter said the family is in violation of the association's bylaws but doesn't cite the specific section. However, the group's "Declaration of Easements, Covenants and Restrictions" found online notes that "no lawn statues, ornaments or outdoor art shall be placed on any lot without prior approval" which may be withheld for "purely aesthetic reasons." Samona said the family is considering taking legal action. But one real estate lawyer said the case might be complicated. “It would only be illegal if the homeowners association was arbitrary in its enforcement of the rule,” said attorney Mark Linton of the Advanta Law Firm in Southfield. “They have the right to prohibit homeowners from putting up these items in their yards.” As far as city ordinances go, Novi spokeswoman Sheryl Walsh said that no ordinance exists prohibiting a statue of religious nature. “If the homeowners association came to the city asking for support, the city would not be able to do that because this rule is not a city ordinance,” she said. Samona said his parents are deeply religious and deeply involved in their local faith community. They immigrated to the U.S. from Iraq decades ago to escape religious persecution for their Catholicism. "We're just looking to let people know that no matter what your faith is — whether it's Catholicism, Islam, Judaism — don't let anyone tell you that you have to back down from that," Samona said. https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...5/novi-virgin-mary-discrimination/1643640001/
SO, just had another earthquake. 6.9 Ridgecrest area epicenter again. USGS said it's a new quake and not an aftershock. Can't say we had a boring weekend in L.A.
