SAINT OF THE DAY: St. Olympias
15-YEAR-OLD FEMALE STUDENT IDENTIFIED AS SHOOTER AT ABUNDANT LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN MADISON, WISCONSIN
Three people are dead after a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School, a Madison, Wisconsin, campus for grades K-12. A teacher and a teenage student were killed, police said. Officials said the shooter was a 15-year-old female student at the school.Six other people were injured, two students were in critical condition, and a teacher and three other students had non-life-threatening injuries, officials said. READ MORE >
KENNEDY STORMS WARY SENATE WITH WAVE OF PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR ‘MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN’ MOVEMENT
Senate Republicans will be under intense public pressure to approve President Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose vaccine skepticism and crusade to overhaul the nation’s public wellness regime have turned him into a populist health hero backed by many in the Republican base. READ MORE >
1 IN 20 CANADIAN DEATHS WERE THROUGH ASSISTED SUICIDE LAST YEAR, COUNTRY SAYS
One in 20 Canadians who died last year were killed through medically assisted suicide, new government data shows. A total of 15,343 people died through Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program in 2023, according to Canada Health’s annual report released Wednesday. READ MORE >
FAITHFUL BECOME ‘TEARY-EYED’ AS THEY APPROACH WOODEN CROSS AFTER RAGING WILDFIRE
A wooden cross overlooking Malibu, California, somehow survived a sweeping fire unscathed, despite nearly everything around it being destroyed. Set on a hill above Pepperdine, a private Christian university, the 20-foot cross remained standing as the Franklin Fire blazed across the Santa Monica Mountains this week READ MORE >
U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION RELEASES REPORT CONFIRMING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL LOST IN TRANSIT — SHIPPING CONTAINER ARRIVES DAMAGED AND EMPTY IN NEW JERSEY
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has confirmed that radioactive material was lost in transit earlier this month, heightening fears about public safety and sparking theories about mysterious drone activity in New Jersey. Officer Lew, a prominent political commentator READ MORE >
TRUMP EYEING PRIVATIZING US POSTAL SERVICE: REPORT
President-elect Donald Trump has expressed interest in taking the US Postal Service private as the federal agency hemorrhages billions of dollars, according to a report. He’s discussed the issue with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary, at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla., READ MORE >
RESTORING THE BEAUTY OF THE LITURGY If the Church is to continue to transform and humanize the world, how can she dispense with beauty in her liturgies, that beauty which is so closely linked with love and with the radiance of the Resurrection?
This question, asked by the future Pope Benedict XVI, is purely rhetorical. The answer is that the Church cannot continue to transform and humanize the world if she dispenses with the beauty of the liturgy…READ MORE >
LOS ANGELES PRIEST EXPERIENCED MIRACLE THAT PAVED WAY FOR PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI’S CANONIZATION
When a seminarian was injured while playing basketball in 2017, he had no idea it would one day contribute to the cause for canonization of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. Father Juan Gutierrez, 38, then a seminarian at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California, got an MRI and soon learned he had torn his Achilles tendon READ MORE >
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