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Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings 4-12-2021, Monday of the Second Week of Eastertide Posted on Holy Rosary Church, Paia, Maui, Hawaii Readings at Mass Acts 4:23-31 © They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to proclaim the word of God boldly As soon as Peter and John were released they went to the community and told them everything the chief priests and elders had said to them. When they heard it they lifted up their voice to God all together. ‘Master,’ they prayed ‘it is...

Sabbath School commentary for discussion on Sabbath, March 13, 2021.

CONSIDERING that it is the foundation document of the United Kingdom, there is a vast amount of ignorance about Scotland’s Act of Union which brought about the Union on May 1, 1707. I seriously doubt if any more than, say, 2% of the Scottish population have read all of the Act of Union as passed by the Scottish Parliament on January 16, 1707, by 110 votes to 67. So today and next week I am devoting this column to that Scottish Act of treachery and self-interest. I am not writing about...

The Classics Survived University Witch Hunts Before, And Will Do It Again February 16, 2021 How do you eradicate a heritage? Princeton’s Classics Department is working hard at it, with The New York Times celebrating its efforts. It is hardly the first attempt at “canceling” the cradle of Western Civilization. The war on classics has a medieval pedigree; it is a sad irony that elite academics have joined forces. Palimpsests reveal tangible evidence of how “deplatforming” was done in th...

Jehovah’s Witnesses plan to release the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, in whole or in part, in 36 languages in 2021...

In a year all life in America was mandated to believe Black Lives Matter (above all other lives), someone forgot to tell the black population of Tampa Bay this monumentally important decree. Gun violence, almost exclusively with a black suspect (and almost always a black victim) doubled in 2020 from 2019, though we were required to believe Black Lives Matter starting around the end of May. Again, someone forgot to tell the black community in Tampa Bay of the Holy Writ surrounding Black Lives Ma...

Adelson Dies as B’Tselem Affirms Israeli Apartheid Trump acknowledges Adelson’s power and money   (Loren Elliott/Reuters) With all the tragedy of last week, it seems only fitting that this week brings the death of a major figure who fueled the Trump miasma and the ascendancy of a militant Republican movement: Sheldon Adelson.  Though Adelson, who was 87, was American by birth and never took Israeli citizenship, he had little use for the U.S. except insofar as it was a guarantor of Israel...

SunStar + January 13, 2021 THE Jehovah’s Witnesses released the New World Translation in 33 languages in 2020—the most in any year since releasing its first translation in 1950. As of Dec. 31, 2020, the New World Translation has been published in 195 languages. One of many milestones in its 2020 translation work was reached on Feb. 15, when Geoffrey Jackson, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses, announced the completion of the first complete Bible in American...

Adventist Books of 2020 December 31, 2020 This was a tough year in publishing with the world homebound and authors and publishers only able to market new books through online avenues. Nevertheless, books on a wide range of topics continued making their way into the hands of readers. From riveting autobiographies to vegan cooking, from theology to understanding Adventism, here are 20 books from Adventist authors that we read in 2020. (The following titles are in order of publication date.) 1. ...

The Common Cause of Religious Americans Jewish Commentary The ruling issued by the Supreme Court on Thanksgiving eve, in a case pitting an Orthodox Jewish group and a Catholic diocese against New York’s governor, was unremarkable. What was remarkable were the remarks made by those who found it remarkable. The 5–4 per curiam decision recognized that the state, in order to ensure public health, is entitled to limit capacity in churches and synagogues and even shutter them if necessary. It me...