Chris Christie: Education Should Be About Children, Not Adults. How about this? No superintendent should make more than I do

 Sound judgment.  Decision.  Courage.  Leadership.  Republican.

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Governor Chris Christie was the keynote speaker at the Foundation for Excellence in Education dinner in Washington, DC on Tuesday, November 30, 2010.  He slams the greed and arrogance of the New Jersey educational corruption establishment.

Dec. 8 is a holy day of obligation - USCCB ruling.

Reminder only. 
Canon 1246

§1: Sunday is the day on which the paschal mystery is celebrated in light of the apostolic tradition and is to be observed as the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church. Also to be observed are the day of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Epiphany, the Ascension and the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Holy Mary Mother of God and her Immaculate Conception and Assumption, Saint Joseph, the Apostles Saints Peter and Paul, and finally, All Saints.

§2: However, the conference of bishops can abolish certain holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday with prior approval of the Apostolic See.

Complementary Norm: In accord with canon 1246, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops decrees that the holy days of obligation to be observed in the United States are the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God; the Solemnity of the Ascension; the Solemnity of the Assumption; the Solemnity of All Saints; the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception; the Solemnity of Christmas. The Solemnity of the Epiphany shall be transferred to the first Sunday following January 1; the Solemnity of Corpus Christi shall be observed on the second Sunday following Pentecost.

SUBSEQUENT ACTION: Canon 1246§2


DECREE OF PROMULGATION
On December 13, 1991 the members of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States of American made the following general decree concerning holy days of obligation for Latin rite Catholics:

In addition to Sunday, the days to be observed as holy days of obligation in the Latin Rite dioceses of the United States of America, in conformity with canon 1246, are as follows:

January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the solemnity of the Ascension

August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

November 1, the solemnity of All Saints

December 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

December 25, the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Whenever January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, or August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption, or November 1, the solemnity of All Saints, falls on a Saturday or on a Monday, the precept to attend Mass is abrogated.

This decree of the Conference of Bishops was approved and confirmed by the Apostolic See by a decree of the Congregation for Bishops (Prot. N. 296/84), signed by Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, prefect of the Congregation, and dated July 4, 1992.
SUBSEQUENT ACTION: Canon 1246§2

In accord with the provisions of canon 1246§2 of the Code of Canon Law, which states: "... the conference of bishops can abolish certain holy days of obligation or transfer them to a Sunday with prior approval of the Apostolic See," the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States decrees that the Ecclesiastical Provinces of the United States may transfer the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter to the Seventh Sunday of Easter according to the following procedure.

The decision of each Ecclesiastical Province to transfer the Solemnity of the Ascension is to be made by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the bishops of the respective Ecclesiastical Province. The decision of the Ecclesiastical Province should be communicated to the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and to the President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Christian Persecution in Malaysia

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How silent monks render Hallelujah

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Creative high schools students give a great rendition of Halleluia!

Thank those who let us worship safely and freely the true God

These guys risk life and limb to let us worship the real God freely and to be safe from the oppression of Muslims.  Let us thank them always -  specially during this Christmas season.

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Intuitive immorality of murder. Listen to your heart before killing another.

One would think that it will be intuitive to any sane person that killing an innocent human being is evil.  From the depths of the human heart comes the conviction that it is wrong to murder good people - no matter what race or creed.  It is only through some perverse idea that the slaughter of others become acceptable e.g.  Hitler demonized the Jews, Mohammed the non-Muslims, Mao and Stalin the Capitalists;  their poisonous ideas, agitprop, made their followers override that intuition i.e. killing good people is wrong.

Right now, it is up to the person to examine his heart to find the truth.

Because there is also another intuitive truth that is common to many in not all belief systems i.e. the punishment in Hell.  Murdering innocent people - specially men of God will not be rewarded but will be severely punished;  that is what comes naturally from the soul - that fountain of truth from God.  The Koran may promise 70 virgins but does that make sense - for murdering a good man?  It doesn't because it is a lie.

I dedicate this post to the followers of Islam to save their souls from eternal punishment.  Pray to the real God to enlighten you so that you will not be duped into killing innocent people, godly people even and consequently suffer the eternal torment.

Find the truth in the heart, mind and soul that the Creator has endowed upon you not in a book written by a man pretending to be from God.

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Remember the four Last Things: Death, than which nothing is more certain; Judgement, than which nothing is more strict; Hell, than which nothing is more horrible; and Heaven, than which nothing is more beautiful!"

John Hardon S.J.

Muslims assault UK minister - for wearing a cross?

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