I'd say that maybe they're running a little late here: NASA's ambitious plan to save earth from a super volcano. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170817-nasas-ambitious-plan-to-save-earth-from-a-supervolcano
Bella, I have wondered if the Pope himself is going to Moscow and they wanted to refrain from stating so until the last minute. But it could be anything and I suppose we will know soon...
I too think it's about Medjugorje and perhaps an actual date set for the approval....in whatever "size" it comes. There's already been some news about "sometime this year" approval but nothing reported about a specific date. (If it's about Pope going to Russia it would seem at this point that that would be good news....unless the Patriarch still refuses to meet with him there during his trip to Moscow and that might be the bad news portion.)
Planned Parenthood Court Fight over Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Could Go to Supreme Court A federal appeals court last week ruled against Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit demanding taxpayer funding for abortion, creating a split with other federal appeals courts that might finally take this issue to the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court in 1973 invented a constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, even though nothing in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution suggests the existence of such a right. But even the pro-Roe Court held in its 1980 decision Harris v. McRae that Roe’s right to abortion does not include the additional right to make taxpayers foot the bill for it. Although the Constitution does not mandate abortion funding, Medicaid nonetheless provides money through state governments to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. Planned Parenthood performs 320,000 abortions per year and receives $554 million in taxpayer money. http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...nding-for-abortion-could-go-to-supreme-court/
One of the first tweets was from Fr Kevin Cusick He is a great priest He is in the military reserve I think I remember Navy Not sure His parish has the Extraordinary Form and he is very devoted to it That is where I go if I want the Latin Mass His blog is A Priest Life St Francis de Sales Church Benedict,MD
Another US Naval vessel hit in the S China Sea by a merchant vessel. Very few details but Im sure we all can read between the lines. http://www.live5news.com/story/3617...des-with-merchant-ship-near-strait-of-malacca Ten sailors missing, five injured after USS John S. McCain collides with merchant ship near Strait of Malacca Sunday, August 20th 2017, 4:44 pm PDTSunday, August 20th 2017, 6:52 pm PDT By Carli Drayton, Digital Content Producer CONNECT Source: U.S. 7th Fleet SOUTH CHINA SEA (WCSC) - The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while underway east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca, according to officials with U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs. There are ten sailors missing and five injured, officials say. The collision was reported at 6:24 a.m. Japan Standard Time, while the ship was transiting to a routine port visit in Singapore. The ship is currently sailing under its own power and heading to port. Initial reports indicate John S. McCain sustained damage to her port side aft. The extent of damage and personnel injuries is being determined. Search and rescue efforts are underway in coordination with local authorities. In addition to tug boats out of Singapore, the Republic of Singapore Navy ship RSS Gallant (97), RSN helicopters and Police Coast Guard vessel Basking Shark (55) are currently in the area to render assistance, according to the U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs. An Emergency Family Assistance Center has been established for family members. The phone numbers are (315) 243-1728 for on base and 011-81-46-816-1728 for international calls. #USSJohnSMcCain involved in collision with a merchant vessel while east of the Strait of Malacca. Updates to follow. https://t.co/6bHUovT8eIpic.twitter.com/EVcYjHwXah — 7th Fleet (@US7thFleet) August 20, 2017
BTW it was another oil/chemical tanker vessel. https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/ALNIC-MC-IMO-9396725-MMSI-636017930
Thanks, Byron! I love it here. I married myself an honest-to-goodness Texas boy (even though I'm from PA! ). As the locals here say... "Y'all come on down and see us sometime, ya hear?!"
Fr. James Martin, Jesuit Priest, "Consultor" to the Communications Department of the Holy See, Editor of the Jesuits' America Magazine, tweeted this to his 136,000 followers: Gospel: Today we see Jesus' human and divine natures: he learns from the woman that his ministry extends to all, and he heals her daughter.
Maybe the Cardinals have lodged the correction. That would be good news if it slows down the heresies being preached by the Jesuits and practised with the approval of the hierarchy. The bad news would be that a correction is required.
The fundamentalists' point of view of the eclipse: BLACK MOON: Does solar eclipse fulfil Bible prophecy of apocalypse and second coming? Many fundamentalist Christians see this as a significant warning of the impending apocalypse, the second coming of Christ and the rapture. The “Great American Total Solar Eclipse” as it is called is said to be a warning sign from God, as it allegedly fulfils a Bible prophecy. Pastor Paul Begley, host of the Coming Apocalypse radio show, said the eclipse could possibly fulfil a prophecy recorded in the book of Joel. This states: “The sun shall be turned to darkness before the Day of the Lord come.” Mr Begley said “somebody sound the trumpet” because the eclipse may mean “we are living in the last days.” Writing for Unsealed.org, Gary Ray says the eclipse may mean that 2017 will mark the beginning of the Tribulation, a time the Bible describes as a period of conflict and suffering on a scale never experienced in mankind’s history. He said that another solar eclipse in seven years will slash across the US in the opposite direction from Texas to Maine, making an eclipse X over northern America. Scott Clarke of ERF Ministries believes the eclipse is intimately connected to a September 23 astronomical alignment. he says it involves the constellations Virgo and Leo, along with Mercury, Mars, Venus and Jupiter. On that date, Jupiter will exit the lower part of Virgo (the virgin) in a way that Clarke says fulfils the “man child” of Revelation 12 being birthed by the woman. He says Regulus and the other stars of Leo—along with the other three visible planets—comprise the “crown of twelve stars” that Revelation 12:1 says will be upon the travailing woman’s head. “You’ve got this epic solar eclipse over America,” he says, “and it’s happening right at Regulus, in Leo the Lion—the constellation. There are twelve constellations. It could happen anywhere, but it’s happening in the constellation of the king, meaning the return of the king!” Not everyone is convinced the prophecy has properly been decoded though. Jeremiah Jacques wrote on Thetrumpet.com: “It’s not just sky-watchers who are stirred up about this cosmic occurrence. “This eclipse also has numerous religious commentators claiming that it’s a sign from God showing that the last days—prophesied in the Bible—are now upon on us. “Millions of religiously minded Internet users have viewed the videos and read the articles on these topics, and a great percentage of them appear to be totally convinced that these events are of prophetic significance.” “This spate of doomsday predictions surrounding the August 21 eclipse are only the latest round of attempts by men and women to interpret Bible prophecy. “For untold centuries, individuals have endeavoured to predict the future by reading their own meaning into Bible scriptures—but with an abysmal track record.” http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird...k-Moon-Bible-prophecy-end-of-world-apocalypse
RIP Comrades of Mine!! Something is terribly wrong here!! It's one thing back in the no radar or electronic warning devices days that these things happen but for this to happen twice in the course of a month is telling! Telling us, the obvious, that the US Military is worse off than the hollowed-out Military days that I served through during the Jimah Carter term of the late 70's. Fortunately, Jimah was only around for four years and then came Ronald Reagan who managed to "Right the Ship" and bring down the godless Soviet Union. We have had eight years of Obama, a lefty politician magnitudes worse than Jimah, who has not only crippled the Military but the Economy too at a time when we are engaged in Hot Wars in the ME and Nuclear confrontation in Asia. The USA is, quite simply, not the Nation we were in 1980! Our Faith, moral, fiscal and civic pride/responsibility is dissolving. Those who remain with a sense of pride/responsibility are in/approaching old age, bleeding-out on the fields of Iraq/Afghanistan &/or are being libeled/intimidated/silenced by The Usual Suspects in the Global Left Media and puppets in Left Politics back home.......... Get Ready!! GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
I figure that either the renown Aegis system has a rather large black hole of vulnerability or our crews serving aboard these vessels are poorly trained and incompetent now as you have said. Having two US Destroyers hit by 800 foot cargo vessels which don't exactly maneuver on a football field let alone a dime hit within a month of each other? There is more than meets the eye going on here. Our enemies must surely look at this and see it as the opportunity it is however. Unless they are blind. As others have said as well, the US is not the beacon of hope it once tried diligently to be however short it fell. It still tried. Those days are gone. Now, we export porn, abortion, eugenics, population control, and euthanasia, and unite ourselves to Christian enemies of God militarily. We finally elect a President who although he is rough around the edges has tried very hard to dampen these sins of our Country and he meets resistance from every power and principality. You are right to say get ready. Although time is getting very short.
