Vatican diplomat in US called home amid child porn investigation

By Delia Gallagher, CNN



Updated 3:49 PM ET, Fri September 15, 2017

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(CNN)A Vatican diplomat in Washington has been recalled to Rome after the US State Department notified the Holy See of "a possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images."
The priest, a diplomatic officer representing Pope Francis at the Holy See Embassy in Washington, has not been named. A Vatican statement says it was notified of the US investigation on August 21.
The priest currently is in Vatican City. Like most diplomats in foreign countries, he has diplomatic immunity from prosecution in the United States.

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The Vatican declined to waive diplomatic immunity for its diplomat, a State Department official told CNN.
According to the official, the United States formally requested the waiver.


The Vatican, invoking its status as a sovereign state, says it has opened its own investigation and has begun "international collaboration" in gathering evidence relative to the case.
"We hope the Holy See will be forthcoming with more details," Bishop Daniel DiNardo, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement. "This is a serious issue."

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Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told CNN that he had nothing to add to the statement except to note that in 2013, the Vatican updated its civil laws to include possession of child pornography as a crime.
According to that new law, promulgated by Pope Francis, possession of child pornography carries a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison.

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There are two types of tribunals at the Vatican: one for civil cases, meaning crimes committed by Vatican employees or on Vatican territory which carry regular civil penalties such as fines and jail time, and one for canonical cases, or crimes involving priests, which carry canonical punishments such as laicization, or removing the priest from his position.

CNN's Elise Labott contributed to this report.

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North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Over Japanese Airspace Again

Sep 14 2017, 8:52 pm ET




by Hans Nichols, Stella Kim and Phil Helsel


WASHINGTON — North Korea on Friday fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japanese airspace before crashing into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and U.S. military officials said.

The ballistic missile was launched at 6:57 a.m. Friday Seoul time (5:57 p.m. Thursday ET) from the Sunan area of Pyongyang. It flew in an eastern direction around 2,300 miles and passed over Japanese airspace, a South Korean military official said.

The launch comes weeks after North Korea in late August fired a missile that traveled over Japanese airspace.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in a televised address that the single missile launched Friday flew over Hokkaido. There were no reports of any objects falling in Japanese territory or any other damage, Suga said.

"We as a nation simply cannot accept these repeated provocative acts [by] North Korea, and we have lodged our firm protest and while communicating the strong anger from the Japanese public. We expressed our condemnation using the strongest of terms," Suga said. He said the missile landed around 1,242 miles east of Cape Erimo.

U.S. Pacific Command also confirmed the launch and said it believed the missile was an intermediate-range ballistic missile. .....

 North Korea has conducted several ballistic missile tests this year in defiance of U.N. resolutions, including two intercontinental ballistic missile tests that experts said suggest that a missile could reach parts of the United States. North Korea earlier this month conducted its sixth nuclear test.

The United Nations said the Security Council would meet to discuss North Korea in a closed session on Friday afternoon.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement: "These continued provocations only deepen North Korea's diplomatic and economic isolation." He said U.N. resolutions, including recent sanctions, "represent the floor, not the ceiling, of the actions we should take."

Tillerson also said that "China supplies North Korea with most of its oil. Russia is the largest employer of North Korean forced labor" and both nations "must indicate their intolerance for these reckless missile launches by taking direct actions of their own."

The news of the new launch came after three military officials told NBC News that North Korea may have be preparing to test an intercontinental ballistic missile in the coming days, defying sanctions imposed by the United Nations this week.

In the previous 72 hours, U.S. intelligence had observed North Korea moving mobile missile launchers and preparing sites that have been used for previous launches, according to the officials, who requested anonymity.

The activity was a strong indication that North Korea's ballistic missile program is proceeding on its internal schedule and that the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, is unfazed by the international condemnation of country's Sept. 3 nuclear test.

Calls to punish skeptics rise with links to climate change, hurricanes

A house in Florida, slid into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday while Irma, downgraded to a tropical storm, was menacing Georgia and canceling flights at the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta.

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Monday, September 11, 2017


Calls to punish global warming skepticism as a criminal offense have surged in the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, but it hasn’t discouraged climate scientists like Judith Curry.


A retired Georgia Tech professor, she argued on her Climate Etc. website that Irma, which hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Saturday, was fueled in large part by “very weak” wind shear and that the hurricane intensified despite Atlantic Ocean temperatures that weren’t unusually warm.

That is the kind of talk that could get policymakers who heed her research hauled before the justice system, if some of those in the climate change movement have their way.

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The States Where a Driver's License Won't Work for Air Travel Next Year

Here's what you need to know. 

Cailey Rizzo 

                            

September 05, 2017

As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) slowly implements the REAL ID Act of 2005, ID standards will change at airports around the country. This month, the government will expand its outreach program to spread information to travelers about the change.

Related: Residents of These States May Not be Able to Fly With Their Driver’s Licenses


Effective Jan. 22, 2018, the DHS will no longer accept state-issued IDs from half the country. Travelers from “noncompliant” states will need to show an alternative form of ID, such as a passport, when boarding a plane.

So far, there are only 25 states with ID standards that meet those set forward by the REAL ID Act. Residents of these 25 states can continue to fly domestically with a driver's license. The remaining states have been given extensions to comply with REAL ID. Travelers can check the most up-to-date status of their individual state’s compliance on the DHS website.

 

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The Department of State is issuing passport books and passport cards for travelers whose states remain noncompliant with the act.
The passport card is an alternative that will allow travelers from noncompliant states to board a domestic flight; it will not be valid for international air travel. Passport cards are the same size as a driver’s license, cost $55 for first time applicants, and $30 for anyone who already has a passport.

It costs $110 to apply for or renew a passport book.

Related: How to Get a New Passport as Quickly as Possible

Travelers considering renewing or applying for a passport should do so well in advance of a trip. The Department of State recommends that travelers apply for passports from September through December, when wait times are lower.


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Pope Francis says DACA repeal not "pro-life" and refutes climate change deniers

Gerard O'Connell

September 11, 2017

Pope Francis answers questions from journalists aboard his flight from Cartagena, Colombia, to Rome Sept. 10 (CNS photo/Paul Haring).


On the flight back to Rome from Cartagena on Sept. 10, Pope Francis addressed two questions that are much discussed in the United States today: the situation of the 800,000 Dreamers whose could face deportation and the moral responsibility of governments that deny climate change.

Responding to a question about the negative effects of the suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in the United States, Pope Francis said that since the president presents himself as pro-life, then he should also be pro-family and not do anything that would be detrimental to the family.

The pope also addressed questions about climate change, saying that those who deny its reality should listen to scientists, who “speak very clearly.” He insisted that people at every level have to take responsibility to care for the environment, since “it’s true that if we don’t turn back we will go down.”


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Speaking to reporters shortly after take-off, Francis had a dark mark around his left eye from an accident in the popemobile in Cartagena. He sought to play down the injury saying, “I was leaning down to greet children and then I banged my head.… I now have a puffed eye!” Despite a physically grueling five days visit to Colombia, Francis was in good spirits fielding questions in what he calls “the lion’s den.”

Recalling that whenever Francis meets young people anywhere in the world, he always tells them “don’t let them rob you of hope, don’t let them rob you of your future,” a reporter asked Pope Francis: “Don’t you think that with the abolition of [DACA], young people will lose their joy, their hope, their future?”

Pope Says Humanity Will 'Go Down' if It Does Not Address Climate Change

Sept. 11, 2017, at 9:02 a.m.





Pope Francis talks to journalists during a press conference aboard a plane to Rome at the end of his visit to Colombia September 11, 2017. REUTERS/Andrew Medichini/Pool Reuters





By Philip Pullella


ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis said the recent spate of hurricanes should prompt people to understand that humanity will "go down" if it does not address climate change and history will judge those who deny the science on its causes.

"If we don't turn back, we will go down," Francis told reporters on Sunday on the plane returning from Colombia. Francis strongly backed the 2015 Paris agreement on reducing global warming, from which the United States withdrew this year.

Francis spoke as hurricane Irma pounded central Florida as it carved through the state with high winds, storm surges and torrential rains that left millions without power, ripped roofs off homes and flooded city streets.

Francis was asked about recent hurricanes, including Irma and Harvey, and if political leaders who do not want to work with other countries to stem global warming should be held morally responsible for future effects on the planet.

"You can see the effects of climate change and scientists have clearly said what path we have to follow," he said, referring to a consensus by scientists that global warming is caused by human activity such as fossil fuels.

"All of us have a responsibility, all of us, small or large, a moral responsibility. We have to take it seriously. We can't joke about it," he said. "Each person has their own. Even politicians have their own."

Ahead of the Paris summit in 2015, Francis wrote a major encyclical, or papal letter, on the care of the environment which backed the gradual elimination of fossil fuels to stem global warming.

The accord, agreed on by nearly 200 countries, aims to cut emissions blamed for global warming. The United States committed to reducing its own by 26 to 28 percent, compared with 2005 levels, by 2025. Many world leaders criticized Trump for pulling out.

"If someone is doubtful that this is true, they should ask scientists. They are very clear. These are not opinions made on the fly. They are very clear. Then each person can decide and history will judge the decisions," he said.

U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris agreement shortly after visiting the Vatican in May. The Vatican had urged him to stay in the accord.

A Vatican official said at the time that the U.S. move was a "slap in the face" for the pope and the Vatican.


(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)

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Any given Sunday: Blue laws reflect changing times

By Isaac Groves
Times-News




Saturday Posted Sep 9, 2017 at 2:36 PM Updated at 12:02 PM

Selling Bloody Marys and cheladas at 10 a.m. on a Sunday is new, but the laws that make that controversial are not at all.

Blue laws are older than the republic, but have slowly — very, very slowly — been whittled down to the point where most just restrict alcohol sales. Over the years, though, they have prohibited a wide, and sometimes puzzling, array of activities.

The New Haven colony passed the first law prohibiting work and play on the Sabbath in 1665, which, according to legend, was printed on blue paper.

Keeping Sunday as a day of rest and worship is not uniquely American, but laws enforcing it seem to be pretty much our own. The so-called “brunch bill” is another step away from that American tradition.

One of the first known North Carolina blue laws was published in 1741, called “An act, for the better observing the Lord’s Day called Sunday … and also for the suppressing of profanities, immorality, and other vicious and enormous sins.”

The titles of our state’s general statutes haven’t honestly gotten much pithier in the past 276 years.

Among other things, the Sabbath law specifically set aside particular Sundays commemorating events like “The Day whereon the late Royall Martyr & sovereign King Charles I. was barberously murthered [sic],” or “the Anniversary of the late barbarous massacre committed by the Indians on the Inhabitants of Bath County in the year 1711,” which were “to be kept & solemnized, annually, as Days of Humiliation, with Fasting & Prayer.”

It also forbade planters, merchants or their servants to “cause or encourage or permit any Servant, or Servants, Slave or Slaves to work on the Lord’s Day.”

There was also a 10-shilling fine for using a boat on Sunday unless it was needed to get to church. Curses on Sunday came at a fine of two shillings and six pence each, and it goes on. Fines were paid to the church warden for the use of the poor.

Looters caught by Local 10 cameras arrested by Fort Lauderdale police

Looters seen breaking into shoe stores

By Jeff Tavss - Executive Producer

Posted: 1:31 PM, September 10, 2017Updated: 5:26 PM, September 10, 2017



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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Fort Lauderdale police arrested 9 people caught by Local 10 cameras looting Fort Lauderdale business despite the dangerous winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Irma

Local 10 cameras caught a group breaking into the Simon's Sportswear on Sunrise Blvd. and Powerline Road.


The group of about 8-9 people broke through the front window and were seen walking in and then walking out with stolen items.

The group then began looting a Footlocker and CashAmerica Pawn Store in the same area.

Hours later, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department tweeted that they had caught the criminals.

"Going to prison over a pair of sneakers is a fairly bad life choice," said Fort Lauderdale police chief Rick Maglione. "Stay home and look after your loved once and be thankful they are all safe."

The Broward Sheriff's Office immediately reacted to Local 10's report, tweeting "ATTENTION LOOTERS; Every incident will be investigated. Evidence collected will be used to pursue charges after the fact."

Meanwhile, the Pembroke Pines Police Department issued a stern warning, tweeting "Any looters who come to Pembroke Pines will be greeted by our officers. Choose wisely and stay home."

South Florida law enforcement officials promised to police the streets to prevent looting, but with unsafe winds currently pummeling the region, it's not known if units are currently on patrol.

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FOX NEWS LIVE STREAM - HURRICANE IRMA LIVE UPDATE

2 million South Florida homes and businesses have lost power. When will they get it back?

By Nancy Dahlberg and Susan Salisbury

ndahlberg@MiamiHerald.com




September 10, 2017 9:06 AM


In Hurricane Irma’s destructive wake, does anyone still have power?

More than 2 million homes and businesses in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties were without power Sunday evening after Hurricane Irma assaulted the lower Florida Keys and thrashed South Florida. And for those home and business owners, the wait could be several days or longer for electricity to be restored, said executives with Florida Power & Light, the state’s largest utility.

By evening, Irma cut the power to 3 million FPL customers across the state and more outages were expected as the storm was tracking up the west coast of Florida, FPL executives said Sunday at the company’s command center.

Roughly 17,000 line and vegetation workers are prepared to begin full-scale restoration efforts on Monday, FPL’s CEO and President Eric Silagy said. The repairs and restoration are forecast to take more than 1 million man hours, but the cost cannot be calculated yet.

“We are not going to bed here. We are working 24/7,” Silagy said. “This is a monster.”

Still, he said, power has already been restored to many customers because of advancements in technology. “Despite Irma's exceedingly high winds, tornadic activity, storm surge and severe flooding, FPL has restored power to hundreds of thousands of customers, due largely to automation along its energy grid.”

Once the impact of tornadoes, which can cause structural damage, wind and storm surge are known, the damage assessment should take about 48 hours, Silagy said.

“This is the hardest part of the storm for us. We know what our customers are going through,” Silagy said. “By the time the storm clears, some people will have been out for a day, and we haven't even been able to roll a truck.”

At 6 p.m. in Miami-Dade, 888,530 didn’t have power out of a total 1.1 million customers, according to FPL’s outage data. That’s four out of every five homes and businesses in the county, a total that has surged in the last 12 hours.

Broward’s outages have also spiked, as hurricane force gusts began being felt in the county. In Broward, more than two-thirds of FPL’s customers — 666,380 out of 933,300 — were without power. FPL reported that Palm Beach County had 458,840 out of 739,000 customers were impacted by outages.


Multiple outages were common, too. Some customers who experienced outages Saturday and had their power restored lost power again on Sunday.

For many residents, it will now be a hot and frustrating waiting game because FPL crews couldn’t work to restore power in winds of 35 mph or higher. “When you don't have power, the sight of an FPL truck on your street is everything,” tweeted Barbara Vyse, whose family lost power after Hurricane Andrew for a month.

Elaine Duke, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the Miami Herald she expects power could be out for weeks across Florida after Hurricane Irma passes. “The major area of concern with this storm is the wind damage, especially with the electrical system,” Duke said by phone from Washington D.C. Power outages also complicate relief efforts, Duke noted.

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Water empties from bay in Tampa, but folks warned: stay out

By The Associated Press

Published September 10, 2017

Associated Press





TAMPA, Fla. – Hurricane Irma has pushed water out of a bay in Tampa, but forecasters are telling people not to venture out there, because it's going to return with a potentially deadly vengeance.



On Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa, about 100 people were walking Sunday afternoon on what was Old Tampa Bay — a body of water near downtown. Hurricane Irma's winds and low tide have pushed the water unusually far from its normal position. Some people are venturing as far as 200 yards (180 meters) out to get to the water's new edge. The water is normally about 4 to 5 feet (1 to 1.5 meters) deep and reaches a seawall.

The U.S. Hurricane Center has sent out an urgent alert warning of a "life-threatening storm surge inundation of 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 meters) above ground level" and telling people to "MOVE AWAY FROM THE WATER!"


The waters retracted because the leading wind bands of Irma whipped the coastal water more out to sea. But once the eye passes and the wind reverses, the water will rush back in.

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America Can’t Afford to Rebuild

America Can’t Afford to Rebuild



September 9, 2017 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:21 pm

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A number of people have argued over the past few days that Hurricane Harvey will NOT boost the US housing market. As if any such argument would or should be required. Hurricane Irma will not provide any such boost either. News about the ‘resurrection’ of New Orleans post-Katrina has pretty much dried up, but we know scores of people there never returned, in most cases because they couldn’t afford to.

And Katrina took place 12 years ago, well before the financial crisis. How do you think this will play out today? Houston is a rich city, but that doesn’t mean it’s full of rich people only. Most homeowners in the city and its surroundings have no flood insurance; they can’t afford it. But they still lost everything. So how will they rebuild?

Sure, the US has a National Flood Insurance Program, but who’s covered by it? Besides, the Program was already $24 billion in debt by 2014 largely due to hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. With total costs of Harvey estimated at $200 billion or more, and Irma threating to cause far more damage than that, where’s the money going to come from?

It took an actual fight just to push the first few billion dollars in emergency aid for Houston through Congress, with four Texan representatives voting against of all people. Who then will vote for half a trillion or so in aid? And even if they do, where would it come from?

NATO chief: world is at its most dangerous point in a generation

Exclusive: Jens Stoltenberg warns of converging threats as Russia mobilises estimated 100,000 troops on EU’s borders

Secretary general Jens Stoltenberg visits Nato battle group soldiers at Tapa military base in Estonia. Photograph: Raigo Pajula/AFP/Getty Images


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The world is more dangerous today than it has been in a generation, the head of Nato has said, days before the mobilisation of an estimated 100,000 Russian troops on the EU’s eastern borders, and as a nuclear crisis grows on the Korean peninsula.

Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the military alliance, said the sheer number of converging threats was making the world increasingly perilous.

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Asked in a Guardian interview whether he had known a more dangerous time in his 30-year career, Stoltenberg said: “It is more unpredictable, and it’s more difficult because we have so many challenges at the same time.

“We have proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in North Korea, we have terrorists, instability, and we have a more assertive Russia,” Stoltenberg said during a break from visiting British troops stationed in Estonia. “It is a more dangerous world.”

From next Thursday, over six days, Russian and Belarusian troops will take part in what is likely to be Moscow’s largest military exercise since the cold war. An estimated 100,000 soldiers, security personnel and civilian officials, will be active around the Baltic Sea, western Russia, Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, without the supervision required under international agreement.

On the other side of the world, in the face of local protests, the South Korean government has deployed the controversial US Thaad missile defence system as it looked to counter potential future attacks from North Korea, which recently launched a ballistic missile over Japan, threatened the US Pacific territory of Guam and tested a possible thermonuclear device.

Donald Trump has threatened to unleash “fire and fury” on the North Koreans should further threats be made against the US, and kept up the threat on Thursday, saying he is building up US military power.

“It’s been tens of billions of dollars more in investment. And each day new equipment is delivered – new and beautiful equipment, the best in the world, the best anywhere in the world, by far,” Trump said. “Hopefully we’re not going to have to use it on North Korea. If we do use it on North Korea, it will be a very sad day for North Korea.”

Trump has ruled out talks with Pyongyang for the time being and Washington’s diplomatic focus is now on efforts to secure agreement at the United Nations for much tighter economic measures, including an oil embargo and possibly a naval blockade.

Pope cheered in rain-soaked Medellin ahead of Mass

Pope: Church isn't a custom's post, its doors are open

Pope Francis waves from his Pope Mobile as he arrives to offer a giant outdoor Mass in Medellin, Colombia, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)



Posted: 11:16 a.m. Saturday, September 09, 2017


MEDELLIN, Colombia —

Pope Francis flew to a rain-soaked Medellin on Saturday to console orphans, the poor and sick — and to demand priests and ordinary Colombians look beyond rigid church doctrine to care for sinners and welcome them in.

"My brothers, the church is not a customs post," Francis said. "It wants its doors to be open."

Francis was tending to in-house church business on his penultimate day in Colombia, after having spent the first half of his trip encouraging its fragile new peace process.

Heavy rain forced him into a last-minute change of plans to reach Colombia's second-largest city. Instead of taking a helicopter from the international airport outside Medellin, Francis drove down the Andes, delaying by nearly an hour the start of a Mass that was expected to draw as many as 1 million people.

Francis apologized for the delay as he arrived, thanking the crowd for "your patience, perseverance and courage." But neither the rain nor the delay seemed to dampen the spirits of the faithful who came out to see him, dressed in colorful plastic ponchos to guard against the continued occasional drizzle.

They cheered wildly and waved white handkerchiefs and Colombian flags as Francis zipped around the grounds in his popemobile at an unusually fast clip to make up for lost time.

At the Mass, Francis urged Colombia's conservative church to look beyond rigid rules and norms of church doctrine to go out and find sinners and minister to them.

"It is of the greatest importance that we who call ourselves disciples not cling to a certain style or to particular practices that cause us to be more like some Pharisees than like Jesus," he said. Those in the early church who stuck so closely to the rules became "paralyzed by a rigorous interpretation and practice of that law," he said.

Francis has frequently riled conservatives by criticizing their rigid interpretation of church norms, particularly in matters of sexual ethics and family life. He says such strict observation of norms is anathema to Jesus' message of mercy and welcome to all, especially sinners.

His cautious opening to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion, for example, has sparked heated criticism from conservatives who say church teaching clearly forbids adulterous couples from receiving the sacraments.

In his homily, Francis said that such "cold attachment to norms" might bring comfort and assurance to Catholics who need the security of laws, but it belies the Gospel-mandated call to help others who aren't so perfect and need consolation.

"We cannot be Christians who continually put up 'do not enter' signs, nor can we consider that this space is mine or yours alone," he said. "Everyone has a place, everyone is invited to find here, and among us, his or her nourishment."

After the Mass, Francis was heading to an orphanage to meet with abandoned children and the sick. He also had a meeting with priests, seminarians, nuns and their families in Medellin's La Macarena stadium before returning to Bogota for the night.

On Sunday, he heads to Cartagena to honor St. Peter Claver, a 17th century Jesuit who ministered to the tens of thousands of African slaves who arrived in the port to be sold. He returns to Rome on Sunday night.

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The Peace and Safety Cry

 

September 9

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14.

Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will ... see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium.

“The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” 2 Peter 3:10. When the reasoning of philosophy has banished the fear of God's judgments; when religious teachers are pointing forward to long ages of peace and prosperity, and the world are absorbed in their rounds of business and pleasure, planting and building, feasting and merrymaking, rejecting God's warnings and mocking His messengers—then it is that sudden destruction cometh upon them, and they shall not escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:3.

Like the dwellers in the vale of Siddim, the people are dreaming of prosperity and peace. “Escape for thy life,” is the warning from the angels of God; but other voices are heard saying, “Be not excited; there is no cause for alarm.” The multitudes cry, “Peace and safety,” while Heaven declares that swift destruction is about to come upon the transgressor. On the night prior to their destruction, the cities of the plain rioted in pleasure and derided the fears and warnings of the messenger of God; but those scoffers perished in the flames; that very night the door of mercy was forever closed to the wicked, careless inhabitants of Sodom. God will not always be mocked; He will not long be trifled with. “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.” Isaiah 13:9. The great mass of the world will reject God's mercy, and will be overwhelmed in swift and irretrievable ruin. But those who heed the warning shall dwell “in the secret place of the most High,” and “abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” His truth shall be their shield and buckler.

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