Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Teachers' Day



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In many countries, Teachers' Days are intended to be special days for the appreciation of teachers; World Teachers' Day is celebrated across the world on October 5. Ever since the importance of teachers has been recognized by UNESCO, by adopting the “Recommendation concerning the status of teachers”, World Teachers' Day has been celebrated annually.[1] This includes celebrations to honor the teachers for their special contribution in a particular field area or the community in general.


Occupy Wall Street Agenda Tuesday, October 4

Raised Fist
The resistance continues at Liberty Square and Nationwide!

Occupy Wall Street Agenda

Tuesday, October 4
1:00pm General Assembly
When Tue, October 4, 1pm – 3pm
Where Broadway and Liberty St., NYC (Liberty Square) (map)
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5:00pm Internet Working Group meeting

5:30pm Open Forum: Rick Wolff "Economic Update"

6:00pm Information Front Desk Meeting
When Tue, October 4, 6pm – 7pm
Where East Side Front Desk, Liberty Square (map)
Description Coordination of Information Front Desk activity.
We are the face of Occupy Wall St. to the general public. Currently 3 information desks operating. Please join us and help us get bigger!
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7:00pm General Assembly
When Tue, October 4, 7pm – 9pm
Where Broadway and Liberty St., NYC (Liberty Square) (map)
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8:30pm Education and Empowerment Co

National Student Walk-out Day October 5th/Occupy movement


Against unforgivable student debt and soaring tuition prices

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National Student Walk-Out Day
Against unforgivable student debt and soaring tuition rates

Visit for more information:
nystudentsrising.org
studentsunitedforafreecuny.wordrpess.com
takebackbrooklyn.wordpress.com
resistandmultiply.wordpress.com

This is part of the Occupy Wall Street movement which is part of a wider movement tied in to the protests in Egypt, Spain, and more to fight for the voice of the people and not just the elite 1%.

How many friends do you have, or people do you know who have graduated from an institution of higher learning, who have no job, a part time job, an underpaid job, or a job not related to their field?

This walk out day is a demonstration to the institutions, but more importantly to our government and our economic sector that we as Americans, as students and as people striving to be productive members of society deserve a say in the way things are run!

Also check out....
occupywallst.org
october2011.org
nycga.cc
occupytogether.org

Read up on the new fiscal years Austerity budget plans, plans to cut back on consumer spending, and provide UNLIMITED funds to corporations and war!

Fight back against the machine, don't just skip class...email your professors and explain why you aren't coming, see if they'll help you. Ask if you can turn in work via email and find out what you may miss. If you are daring and feel like you need to let the world know that it's time for change, join the OccupyDC movement this Thursday, October 6th, or help create the movement in the making for Baltimore!

This is not a solicitation to be a radical or to skip out on your duties as a college student, this is a solicitation to take a stand for human needs, a stand for what we as the people of this nation, the next generation of our world need and deserve, our lives, our liberties, and our pursuit of happiness!



Monday, October 03, 2011

Pope to Protestants: Faith is not something that can be negotiated




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Ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue have been key during the pope's trip to Germany. The most symbolic moment was perhaps, his visit to the convent where Martin Luther, the leader of the Protestant Reform, lived from 1505 to 1511.

Vatican police show off new hardware on feast day




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Media say Pope may resign in April

09/25/2011


According to Italian daily newspaper "Libero", Pope Benedict XVI is thinking about leaving the papacy next April, when he will turn 85


ANdrea Tornielli
Vatican City


There is one front page news story that will certainly not go unnoticed: that is, that the Pope is thinking about resigning during the Spring of 2012. Journalist Antonio Socci has confirmed the same in the Italian daily, Libero.

"For now,” Socci writes, “he is saying that this may be true (Joseph Ratzinger’s personal assumption), but I hope the story does not reach the news. But this rumor is circulating high up in the Vatican and therefore deserves close attention. The Pope has not rejected the possibility of his resignation when he turns 85 in April next year.”

Socci recalls that the assumption he will resign, without any hitches, was the same thing Ratzinger talked about in an interview in the book “Luce del mondo” (Light of the World), when, in response to a question by interviewer Peter Seewald, he said: “When a Pope arrives at a clear awareness that he no longer has the physical, mental, or psychological capacity to carry out the task that has been entrusted to him, then he has the right, and in some cases, even the duty to resign.” Furthermore, in another passage, Benedict XVI wondered if he would be able to “withstand it all, just from the physical point of view.”

Socci makes the following observation in today’s edition of Libero: “Today, Pope Benedict seems to be in really good form; just the same, there’s the issue of his age and just how much energy he has left.” But the writer/journalist also recalls another passage from the same book interview, which has to do with the attacks and controversies related to the pedophile priests' scandal: “When there is a great menace, one cannot simply run away from it. That is why, right now, it is definitely not the time to resign.”

“It is actually at moments like these that one needs to resist and overcome difficult situations. One can only resign at a time when things are calm, or simply, when nothing more can be done about it. But one cannot run away right when the threat is alive and say, ‘Let somebody else take care of it.”

The issue of papal resignations has been the subject of debate for many decades. Pope Pius XII had prepared a letter in which he stated he would resign if he were taken away by the Nazis (“In that way, they will have Cardinal Pacelli, but not the Pope.”)

Pope John XXIII, while talking with his confessor, had taken into consideration that he would possibly have to leave when his illness worsened. Even Pope Paul VI, who had established the exclusion of those who were over 80 from the conclave, and renunciation of the episcopal seat at the age of 75, seriously thought about resigning in 1977, when he turned 80, but his entourage dissuaded him from going ahead with this. This issue came up again, in a dramatic fashion, with Pope John Paul Il’s long illness; he had even prepared a letter of resignation.

Anyone who knows Ratzinger would confirm that the answer he gave to Seewald, is what he feels would be best, in the event of him becoming physically, mentally, or psychologically incapacitated. However, such a possibility seems, at the moment, somewhat remote. In fact, one is immediately struck by the contrast between the front page story in Libero and the images coming from Germany, where Benedict XVI is concluding an historic trip, during which he made 18 speeches in four days. Many of these put him under considerable pressure, especially as they were entirely written by him. The German press was astonished at the old Pontiff’s endurance, which he demonstrated by the fact that he was able to manage all the exhaustion from moving around; he did not sleep more than one night in a single bed. And he was successful in carrying out a packed schedule of engagements, meetings, vigils, and celebrations.

This would show that nothing of what Benedict XVI himself said in answer to his alleged plans to resign, seems to be materialising.

Finally, a total media “distortion” caused an outburst of fear after explosive gunshots were heard yesterday in Erfurt. They were fired by an unbalanced youth with an air gun, who targeted two security guards, without wounding them, on a street just 500 meters from where the Pope was to celebrate mass, two hours before Ratzinger arrived. False alarms that were blown out of proportion by the media, were also raised when Pope John Paul II visited Mexico City in 2002, and a year ago, when Pope Ratzinger was in England.

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Last Flag of the Papal States Returns to the Vatican -- Saved in 1870

Friday, September 23, 2011



(Rome/Vatican) After 144 years the Papal flag, which flew from the city door of the Porta Pia, will return again to the Vatican.* The flag was flown from the Aurelian city wall of Rome till the 20th September 1870, as a continuation of a thousand years came to an en, when Italian troops attacked the Church State.


The flag comes with an especially symbolic character for the troops of the Kingdom of Savoy charged the city walls seeking to breach and break through the Pia Porta, built by Michelangelo in the 16th Century.

The Papal flag on the battlement did not fall into the hands of the attackers. They were saved by Prince Ruslpoli. The Troops of the Kingdom of Italy succeeded in their successful incursion through the garden in the Villa of Napoleon Karl Bonaparte, a Grand Nephew of Napoleon I, and Christina Ruspoli. In the garden of the villa was the site of the last defensive battle in the siege at which 19 Papal Zouaves fell. The flag, perforated by numerous bullet holes, was brought to safety by Princess Cristina and since then guarded by the Ruspoli family.

29. September 2011, for the feast of the Papal Gendarmes, Prince Sforza Ruspoli will place the Vatican flag back. The restoration ceremony will take place at 17.30 on the square at the Governorate in Vatican City. After the review of the various units, and the honorary procession and National Anthem of the Papal State, Prince Ruspoli will hand over the Papal flag of the Porta Pia and therefore the last flag of the old Church State, to Cardinal Secretary Tarcicio Bertone. Finally, a commemoration to the fallen will take place where a message from Pope Benedict XVI will be read.

The relationship of the Ruspoli Family with the Popes speaks of a long history, which experienced an intensive period in the 18th century. In 1708 Francesco Maria Ruspoli raised the Ruspoli Regiment with a strength of a thousand men and put it at the service of the Holy see. In 1721 Pope Benedict XIII raised Francesco Maria and his heirs to the Roman Principate. At the end of the 18th century the Ruspoli lent the sum of 800.000 gold scudi to compensate the dues which Napoleon Bonaparte had then levied against the Church.

The current family head, the 84 year old Prince Sforza Ruspoli, organizes every year on the 20th of September with the Militia Christi, a counter demonstration at the Porta Pia, where the Freemasons and other enemies of the Church celebrate the fall of the Church State every year. For this event, he unfurls the rescued Papal flag on the battlements of the city gate to remember the Papal soldiers who lost their lives in defense of the Pope and the Church.

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P.S. * The Papal flag was returned to the Vatican on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. http://youtu.be/nD33j142dKw
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Historic Papal Flag returned to the Vatican



Published on Sep 30, 2011 by vatican

The papal flag that flew above Porta Pia on September 20th, 1870, was returned to the Holy See yesterday afternoon, in an impressive ceremony that took place in front of the Governor's Palace in the Vatican Gardens, near the top of the Vatican Hill. The flag, which had been in the possession of the Ruspoli family, was returned to the Vatican on the feast of the Gendarmerie, the Vatican police force. The ceremony was attended by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's Secretary of State, and by Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, the outgoing president of the Governorate of Vatican City State. Also present were representatives of the Vatican forces, a squad of Italian Lancers from Montebello, and the flag of t ...


Leon Panetta warns Israel against growing isolation



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By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel October 3, 2011 (AP)

Israel must find a way to resume negotiations with the Palestinians and has a responsibility to try and ease tensions with its neighbors in the region, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Monday amid prodding from the United States to return to peace talks.

Standing next to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Barak pushed back a bit on the Pentagon chief's warning that Israel is becoming increasingly isolated in the region, threatening its security. And he offered no new thoughts on the thorny issues that have stymied the peace talks, including the proposed timetable and the contested settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Making his first trip to Israel as defense secretary, Panetta has pressed the Obama administration's view that the two sides must restart the long-stalled peace talks. And during a news conference with Barak, Panetta said it's time for bold action by both sides to move toward a negotiated two-state solution.

The visit comes amid new international pressure to reach a peace deal by the end of next year, fueled by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' move two weeks ago asking the U.N. Security Council to recognize an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip. Those areas were captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war.

Mideast negotiators — known as the Quartet — are urging the Israelis and Palestinians to produce comprehensive proposals on territory and security within three months. The Quartet — the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia — is also urging both sides to avoid "provocative actions."

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta... U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta answers questions aboard an Air Force plane over the Atlantic Ocean Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011. Panetta is traveling to the Middle East to meet with leaders on various issues related to the region. (AP Photo/Win McNamee, Pool)



The administration opposes the Abbas' U.N. bid, and Panetta's visit was clearly part of a broad campaign to avoid such a vote, and instead nudge the two sides back to the table.

On Sunday, Panetta issued his edgy warning that Israel risks eroding its own security if it does not reach out to its neighbors, such as Turkey and Egypt, where relations are eroding.

"It's pretty clear that at this dramatic time in the Middle East, when there have been so many changes, that it is not a good situation for Israel to become increasingly isolated. And that's what's happening," he said.

Barak offered only general agreement but made no commitments that Israel would be more receptive to discussions about the settlements. Israel has continued to build settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, where some 500,000 Jewish settlers now live. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005.

But, he added, "I fully agree that we have to look for any reasonable and proper way to ease tensions with Turkey, with Egypt, to find a way to resume negotiations in a sincere and effective manner with the Palestinians."

But he also criticized Abbas' move at the U.N., saying the "events of last week in New York clearly prove that there are limits to the Palestinians' capacity to navigate the world."

And while he agreed Israel needs to reach out to its neighbors, he said that it's clear there are others in the world "who would like to see Israel cornered into some kind of isolation."

Panetta met Monday with Barak in Tel Aviv on the first leg of a Middle East trip that also includes meetings with Palestinian leaders, and a stop in Egypt to meet with top officials there. Later in the week, he will head to Brussels for a meeting of NATO defense ministers, to talk about the Afghanistan war and the military mission in Libya.

He is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. According to U.S. officials traveling with Panetta, those Israeli and Palestinian leaders would not be making any public statements to the media during the meetings.

Panetta's visit to Israel comes six months after his predecessor, Robert Gates, traveled to the region to meet with Israeli leaders and make the first journey by a Pentagon chief to the West Bank to talk with Fayyad.

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Justices attend toned-down Red Mass

By Laurie Ure, CNN Producer

updated 6:35 PM EST, Sun October 2, 2011

Supreme Court justices attend the annual Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on Sunday.



STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Previous Masses have dealt with abortion, separation of church and state
Critics say it's inappropriate for justices to attend
Service is meant to invoke God's blessings on public officials
Group started holding Mass in 1953


Washington (CNN) -- A half dozen Supreme Court justices, hundreds of members of the legal profession and other dignitaries attended the annual Red Mass in Washington Sunday to hear what amounted to an uncharacteristically noncontroversial service.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined associate justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito for the service at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, a beautifully ornate church located a few blocks from the White House. All are Roman Catholic except Breyer, who is Jewish. The current Supreme Court is composed of six Catholics and three Jews.

The purpose of the Red Mass -- so named because of the color of the garments worn by clergy -- is to "invoke God's blessings on those responsible for the administration of justice as well as on all public officials," according to the John Carroll Society, a lay Catholic group of prominent lawyers and professionals, which started the Mass in 1953.

The Mass is celebrated traditionally on the Sunday before the first Monday in October, which marks the beginning of the Supreme Court's annual term.

Critics have called the attendance of leading decision-makers, including members of the highest court in the land, inappropriate. They see the services as an unhealthy mix of politics, the law and religion. The Mass is a Catholic service, but power brokers of other faiths are asked to attend the invitation-only event.

Sunday's attendees included Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and White House Chief of Staff William Daley.

Archbishop of Seattle Peter Sartain gave this year's sermon, which was largely devoid of controversy, telling those in attendance that "we are not fully alive, even if we follow a balanced, healthy lifestyle ... unless we give ourselves to someone beyond ourselves."

"In the end, it is in our relationship with the Lord in which we find the spiritual health that reveals and makes possible true balance, true integrity," Sartain said.

However, at one point in the service after the main sermon during what's called the Prayer of the Faithful, Montgomery County, Maryland, Circuit Court Associate Judge Joseph Quirk made a quick reference to the unborn, reciting a short prayer, "We pray for the inevitable right to life for every human being."

See some of the important cases the court will consider

Archdiocese of Washington spokeswoman Chieko Noguchi Scheve said the prayer readings are determined before the service by the John Carroll Society.

Past homilies by individual speakers have lamented the high court's ruling legalizing abortion and the constitutional separation of church and state, prompting one justice to stop going.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended Red Masses in the past, but has said she grew tired of being lectured by Catholic officials. Ginsburg, like Breyer and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, is Jewish.

"I went one year, and I will never go again, because this sermon was outrageously anti-abortion," Ginsburg said in the book "Stars of David: Prominent Jews talk About Being Jewish" by author Abigail Pogrebin. "Even the Scalias - although they're much of that persuasion - were embarrassed for me."

CNN Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears contributed to this report.

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Red Mass Marks Start of Supreme Court Session

October 2, 2011, 7:16 pm


By WILL STOREY


In 58 years, the Red Mass, held the first Sunday of October at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington to kick off the Supreme Court session, has gone from a token ritual to a power conclave.

When the Mass started in 1953, there were no Catholic members of the Supreme Court. The service’s traditional “Catholic seat” had to be filled at the time by Justice Sherman Minton, a Protestant whose wife was Catholic. Today, there are six Catholic justices, three Jewish justices and, for the first time in history, no Protestant justices.

On Sunday, the ceremony was attended by
five of the Catholic justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Anthony Kennedy — plus Justice Stephen Breyer, who is Jewish. (Justices of other faiths sometimes attend as a sign of respect.)

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the sixth and least conservative Catholic on the court, did not attend. Neither did Justice Elena Kagan, who is Jewish, or Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who came once and was so offended by the “outrageously anti-abortion” homily that she never returned.

There was also a weighty Catholic contingent from the executive branch — the White House chief of staff Bill Daley, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta — listening to Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle give a homily emphasizing a quality that bickering politicians in Washington often
lack: humility.


The archbishop did not follow in the fiery footsteps of clerics presiding in the past who took the opportunity to lecture the high-profile audience on the evils of abortion, gay marriage and humanism. He dwelt instead on “the importance of the perfection and integration which self-forgetfulness, generosity and humility bring to a life of Christian service.” The abortion issue was touched on, however, by an associate judge from Montgomery County, Md., who led the congregation in a prayer and stated, “We pray for the inevitable right to life for every human being.”

The Red Mass, a tradition that dates to Europe in the Middle Ages, usually coincides with the beginning of judicial calendars. It is designed as a blessing and a call for God to bestow wisdom upon judges and lawmakers for the coming year. It takes its name from red garments worn by attending clergymen, symbolizing the fire of the
Holy Spirit. Similar ceremonies are held in Britain, France, Italy and across the United States.

The Red Mass has managed to stay under the radar, except when it was the subject of an episode of the television show “The West Wing.” Pressed by his aide Charlie Young about the breach in the separation of church and state, President Bartlet, who was Catholic, offered a lesson in Washington pragmatism: “How isn’t it a constitutional issue? It is. But sometimes you say ‘Big deal.’ ”

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Sunday, October 02, 2011

At DC Red Mass, A Call "To Do the Good"


Sunday, October 02, 2011

Per tradition, this morning's 58th edition of the Washington Red Mass in St Matthew's Cathedral took place before a 5-justice majority of the Supreme Court, and an assortment of other top officials, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley.

As previously noted, though, the day's prime turn fell to this year's guest-preacher: Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle.

Here below, Sartain's fulltext (emphases original).


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When I bought my first pair of Asics running shoes many years ago, I noticed a familiar Latin maxim on the box – “Anima sana in corpore sano” – and soon realized much to my amazement that the name “Asics” is in fact an acronym for that very maxim. It is a variation on “Mens sana in corpore sano,” usually translated, “A sound mind in a sound body.”

The Roman poet and satirist Juvenalis (55-127 A.D.) is usually credited with the saying, and his point is a good one. People of every age have championed the value of a healthy body, even if notions of health and beauty have varied greatly through the centuries. The body/mind connection is a reminder that we are whole persons, that one aspect of living directly affects the others. Physical, intellectual, and psychological health go hand-in- hand. We live more serenely, think more clearly and work more energetically when we take care of our bodies – when we literally put our Asics to use.

It is interesting that Asics chose “anima” over “mens” for its corporate slogan, because while “mens” usually referred to the mind in its intellectual aspects, “anima” referred to the more encompassing “vital principal” of life, the “breath of life,” one’s “heart,” and one’s overall sense of well-being. In fact, “anima” is the word used for “soul” in the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible, in Church writings and in the liturgy.

Juvenalis was not a Christian, but his famous maxim certainly lends itself to an essential Christian application: “A sound soul in a sound body.” We do well to remember that there is something deep within, something all-encompassing and literally life-giving, the very life-principle that makes the body human, which begs for attention, discipline and nourishment: our soul.

Juvenalis was just a kid as St. Paul was drawing near his martyr’s death, but Paul was keenly aware of the influence of comparable writers and thinkers in Greco-Roman culture. They shaped in part the environment into which the Lord sent him to preach the gospel, and it was critical to his mission to be familiar with them. Paul was a master of observation when it came to culture, law, language, philosophy – and yes, athletics – and put to work his highly-honed skills when framing the proclamation of the Christian message.

He borrowed from Stoic thought to exhort the Christian community in the Roman colony of Philippi to live a life of integrity:

“...whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things” (Philippians 4:8).

A sound, healthy soul will be truly nourished only by the good and the beautiful, the noble and the pure. A Christian cannot live a life of integrity or peace when wittingly or unwittingly stuffing oneself with or indifferently absorbing the superficial and the fleeting. Moreover, one cannot hope to be healthy or to do well in one area of life when the rest of life is malnourished. The Desert Father Poemen said, “Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.”

St. Paul recognized that Christian freedom is not only freedom “from” the constraints of sin but freedom “for” positive striving for fulfillment in Christ, a natural and critical outgrowth of faith and one’s desire to live life to the full, peacefully and integrally.

He also knew that at the heart of the Gospel is a mandate which both draws challengingly on the deepest resources of human freedom and opens up for the individual and for society the most complete fulfillment possible: and that is the spirit of loving self-giving, made manifest in acts – in lives – of total sacrifice.

As human persons we are not fully alive – even if we follow a balanced, healthy lifestyle and nourish ourselves with all that is good and beautiful in culture – unless we live for something beyond ourselves, unless we give ourselves to Someone beyond ourselves. It was that spirit, that stance, in Solomon which caught God’s eye:

“Because you have not asked for a long life for yourself, nor for riches, nor for the life of your enemies, but for understanding so that you may know what is right – I do as you requested. I give you a heart so wise and understanding that there has never been anyone like you up to now, and after you there will come no one to equal you” (1 Kings 3:11-12).

Solomon desired to use his gifts for others – literally for the good of his people, who were, after all, God’s people – and thus for the purpose for which God gives every one of his gifts. It is love which makes the using of one’s gifts perfect; it is love which makes the gift of oneself beautiful in the eyes of God; it is love which best manifests the presence of God in our personal and public lives. This love is not just altruism. Rather, it is conscious participation in the sacrificial love of Christ, which the Christian disciple realizes he or she is called to communicate and proclaim – in everything.

It is impossible to overstate the importance of the perfection and integration which self-forgetfulness, generosity, and humility bring to a Christian’s life of service. Why? Because these virtues manifest our desire not just to do well, but to do the good and to deliberately manifest in our lives the One Who Is Good. We can barely grasp the extraordinary depth of God’s humility, the infinity of his love, and the mind-boggling truth that he has invited us to share in his very life and in his care for his people.

Try as I might to wrap my mind and heart around the image that Jesus presents in the gospel passage we have just heard, I am always utterly astounded and speechless when I picture it:

“Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them” (Luke 12:37).

The Lord Jesus, having left us “in charge” until his return, will himself return – but still a servant, ever a servant, with perfect love and unimaginable humility – and will serve us at table. It could not be otherwise for the One who “came to serve” and to “give his life as a ransom.” Likewise, it cannot be otherwise for us who are his disciples. St. Augustine writes,

“...the Christ who is preached throughout the world is not Christ adorned with an earthly crown, nor Christ rich in earthly treasures, but Christ crucified... Thus, at length, the pride of this world was convinced that, even among the things of this world, there is nothing more powerful than the humility of God” (see Epistle 232:5, 6).

In the end, it is in our relationship with the Lord that we find the spiritual health that reveals and makes possible true balance, true integrity. We are speaking here not of a formula, and certainly not of self-improvement: we are speaking instead of lives lived in God, for others. It is God who created us who makes us complete, and it is a life lived in humble union with the servant-Savior that literally does the most good.

A sound soul in a sound body makes for a balanced life, a life of integrity. And such sound, integrally healthy lives given to public service lift up and transform society. And consciously committed lives of discipleship reveal the living, saving presence of the humble Savior who gives himself as food to those who are his own. It is his love, his sacrifice which sets the standard for every life of humble service – and thus it is a living relationship with him that integrates our lives and makes them truly healthy. That is what we call holiness.

My sisters and brothers, we who are here this day know that it is from God that we come and toward God that we are headed. Each of us, according to the calling given us, has been put “in charge” of the Lord’s vineyard. The vineyard is his, we are his, and those we serve are his. And we pray that we will be humble servants like him, who seek to do only his good. It is that for which we were made – and it is that for which we are sent into the world. Amen.

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It's 3 P.M. on Washington Red Mass Sunday..


...and the news media has not provided a single news story on the event?

Why?

When it's such a big event within the circles of political influence of our government, why?

Cooperation in Evil

By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: October 1, 2011

WASHINGTON

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

MAYBE it’s the Mario Lanza in him. But Nino Scalia relishes being operatically imprudent.

The Supreme Court justice’s latest supreme lapse of judgment involves poking his nose in a local legal wrangle about the place where I slept for four years: the Catholic University dorms.

In a speech last weekend at Duquesne University Law School, a Catholic institution in Pittsburgh, Justice Scalia defended religion in public life.

“Our educational establishment these days, while so tolerant of and even insistent on diversity in all other aspects of life, seems bent on eliminating the diversity of moral judgment, particularly moral judgment based on religious views,” the devout Catholic said.

As an example, he cited the lawsuit filed by the “notoriously litigious” George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf against Catholic U.’s new ban on coed dorms.

In June, the president of Catholic U., John Garvey, wrote an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal explaining why, as a father of five, he felt the need to resort to a “countercultural” and “slightly old-fashioned remedy,” ending 25 years of coed dorms. He said he believed single-sex dorms would “improve the practice of virtue,” reducing binge drinking and “the culture of hooking up.”

Using a formula that’s the inverse of “Sex and the City,” Garvey wrote: “Rates of depression reach 20 percent for young women who have had two or more sexual partners in the last year, almost double the rate for women who have had none. Sexually active young men do more poorly than abstainers in their academic work.”

He made note of the sad slide from proud feminism to proud sluttiness. “I would have thought that young women would have a civilizing influence on young men,” he wrote. “Yet the causal arrow seems to run the other way.”

Banzhaf, who calls Garvey’s arguments “totally secular,” pronounced himself “astonished that a justice of the nation’s highest court would single out and prejudge a legal proceeding which could set an important precedent, and could one day even come before the U.S. Supreme Court.”

As the Supreme Court gets ready to go into session on Monday, its six Catholic justices were set to merge church and state by attending the traditional first-Sunday-in-October Red Mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral. (
It’s hard to believe there’s no Protestant on the Supreme Court.) Through the years, the presiding clergy have aimed their homilies against abortion, gay marriage and “humanism.” Justices of other faiths have attended; but as Dahlia Lithwick wrote in Slate, “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stopped attending the Red Mass altogether after hearing her very first homily, which she has described as ‘outrageously anti-abortion.’ ”

In 2007, there was a kerfuffle about Catholic dominance on the court because the five justices who pushed to uphold the ban on “partial-birth abortion” were all Catholic men appointed by conservative presidents.

The church has aggressively meddled in politics on abortion, trying to defeat candidates who support abortion rights and prevent some liberal politicians from receiving Communion. But American bishops have been inconsistent in preaching their values.

They do not try to bring down politicians who supported the Iraq war, even though Pope John Paul II spoke out against it and sent a Vatican cardinal to warn W. that the war would be a “disaster” that would “destroy human life.” They do not express outrage at Republican audiences that cheer for executions, or target pols who brag on the death penalty, even though John Paul issued an encyclical against “the culture of death,” saying modern states have so many ways to protect citizens that the necessity for executions is “very rare, if not practically nonexistent.”

Scalia, confident in his own infallibility, dissented. As he wrote in a religious journal in 2002, he does not find the death penalty immoral, and he believes that as the “minister of God,” government has powers to get “revenge” and “execute wrath.” He’s clearly more an Old Testament guy than New, or he would know that some prisoners get falsely accused and nailed to the cross (Matthew 26:59-66).

Now Scalia has dissented from the opinion of a second pope on the issue. Pope Benedict sent Georgia state officials a letter last month asking for clemency for Troy Davis, but the very Catholic Supreme Court denied a last-minute stay of execution.

In his Duquesne speech, Scalia said: “If I thought that Catholic doctrine held the death penalty to be immoral, I would resign. I could not be a part of a system that imposes it.”

My family priest, Father Kevin O’Neil, teaches about “cooperation in evil” in Catholic moral theology. If you facilitate something that has been deemed wrong, like taking a human life, are you cooperating in evil?

Maybe the Supreme Court should ask itself that question. Are you “cooperating in evil,” Justice Scalia?



A version of this op-ed appeared in print on October 2, 2011, on page SR11 of the New York edition with the headline: Cooperation In Evil.

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U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia defends Catholic believers

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:30


Written by Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

TORONTO - Critics often wonder how a Harvard-educated man like U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia can believe in God. Scalia answers that being a devout Catholic does not mean you forgo your intellect or reason.

“A faith that has no reason is not sound,” Scalia said to a packed room of more than 200 lawyers and judges as keynote speaker following the 87th annual Red Mass on Sept. 22 at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto.



“That is why I am not a Branch Davidian,” he joked, with chuckles from the audience. (The Branch Davidians are the infamous sect notorious for the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas, where more than 80 people died during a standoff with the FBI.)

The talk, organized by the St. Thomas More Lawyers' Guild of Toronto, began with a 5 p.m. Mass at St. Michael's Cathedral celebrated by Archbishop Thomas Collins.

Historically, the Red Mass is celebrated annually in the Catholic Church for judges, lawyers, law school professors, students and government officials. It originated in Europe during the Middle Ages and borrows its name from the red vestments traditionally worn to symbolize the tongues of fire that descended upon the Apostles at Pentecost.

In his talk entitled "Note to the Wise: The Christian as Cretin,” Scalia noted the disdain and disbelief of the “worldly wise” who look down upon faithful Catholics as “simple-minded” and unsophisticated.

“To believe in traditional Christianity is something else,” Scalia explained, while standing beside a framed painting of St. Thomas More, patron saint of lawyers and judges.

Other core Christian beliefs such as the virgin birth, Jesus' divinity and His teachings on suffering are also regarded with skepticism in the “modern world.”

“Those who adhere to these traditional beliefs are regarded as simple-minded,” Scalia said.

On Christian martyrs and their undying belief in the Resurrection, he said, tongue-in-cheek, that critics thought it was "surely part of their clever plan to get themselves crucified."

The labels attributed to “fundamentalist Christians” can be “easily applied to traditional Catholics,” he added.

And what about those people who pray the rosary, kneel before the Blessed Sacrament, go on pilgrimages to Lourdes and Medjugorje “and (follow) indiscriminately, rather than in smorgasbord fashion, the teachings of the Pope,” he continued. “Surely, these people are simple-minded and easily led,” non-believers would argue.

Scalia said Thomas More's life is an example of courage. To his contemporaries and friends, the reason for More's death was “silly.”

“More went to his death to support the proposition that only the Pope could unbind Henry VIII's divorce,” he said.

Although the papacy at that time was corrupt, Scalia argued that More did not waver in his belief of the papal succession originating from Peter, the first pope. He was “seeing with the eyes of faith. He believed Peter was the rock of the Church.”

“As low as the papacy got, the Vicar of Christ alone, not the bishops of England have the power to unbind marriage,” he said.

Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1936 to Catholic parents who emigrated from Sicily. He married Maureen McCarthy when he attended Harvard and she was at nearby Radcliffe College. They have nine children. “Nino,” as he's known to friends and colleagues, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and was nominated as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986 by then President Ronald Reagan. Although his outspoken style has ruffled feathers, opponents admire his tenaciousness and formidable intellect.

Scalia is the leading jurist most identified with a formal textualist and originalist jurisprudence, meaning that he argues that judges should be guided by their decision-making through the plain meaning and original understanding of the Constitution as opposed to a “living constitution” which can be reinterpreted to the times. For example, he has argued that there is no constitutional right to abortion in the United States, saying the matter requires a political decision by other popular branches of the government.

Michael Obsorne, president of St. Thomas More Lawyer's Guild of Toronto, called Scalia “a true defender of justice and the rule of law.”

The guild, he said, believes that there is no contradiction between being a faithful Catholic and being a good lawyer or judge.

Phil Horgan, president of the Catholic Civil Rights League, said Scalia's talk complemented Collins' homily at the Red Mass, with both describing Thomas More as a “man of his age, sophisticated in the ways of the world and the court politics of the day.”

“But on the key issues, he chose not to abandon (his) core belief,” Horgan said.

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Faith and Action to Attend Annual Red Mass


It’s rare to worship in church with a Supreme Court justice, but hundreds will have just that opportunity this Sunday at the 58th Annual Red Mass to be held at 10:00 AM on Sunday, October 2nd at St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington DC. This year, the Red Mass will be hosted by the John Carroll Society (a Christian organization of lawyers, judges, and law professors) for its members, guests, and many government officials. The special service’s primary purpose is praying with and for members of the judiciary and anyone engaged in the law, including attorneys, legal advocates, paralegals, justices, and judges. Faith and Action will be represented at the church service.

Included in the Red Mass church service is preaching, prayer, and bible readings. One particular emphasis of the Mass is to request guidance from the Holy Spirit for all people who seek justice. The name for the mass originated in Europe sometime during 1000-1300. It comes from the red vestments traditionally worn in symbolism of the tongues of fire that descended on the Apostles at Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4). The oft-neglected third person of the Holy Trinity, therefore, is an essential foundation and focus for the church service. Seeking guidance from the Holy Spirit are some of the most important judiciary leaders in America.

Significantly, the annual Mass often draws Supreme Court Justices. Faith and Action president Rob Schenck has attended the Red Mass for the last ten years and has noted the attendance of Justices Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito, Sandra Day O’Connor (even after retirement), and Antonin Scalia. What is meaningful about their presence is that the highest court in America is annually represented at a church service in which direction is being sought from God. The importance of their presence and participation at the Red Mass cannot be overstated.

The Red Mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, always held on the Sunday before the first Monday in October, is one of the better-known Red Masses – and usually well covered by the media.

May God be glorified as we seek to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him (Micah 6:8).

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Saturday, October 01, 2011

Red Mass at The Cathedral of St. Matthew, Washington, DC


Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 10:00am

The 58th Annual Red Mass will be held at the Cathedral Sunday, October 2, at 10am. The John Carroll Society hosts the Red Mass for its members and guests, including many government officials with attendant security. It is open to the public, but attendance by the Society’s members and guests is very high. If you plan to attend the Red Mass, please arrive early as the fire marshal will not allow entry once the Cathedral is filled to capacity.

For more information about the Red Mass visit www.johncarrollsociety.org.
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October 02, 2011

58th Annual Red Mass & Brunch
Location: The Cathedral of St. Matthew, Washington, DC, at 10:00 a.m.

Brunch Registration

Principal Celebrant: His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl. Homilist: Most Reverend J. Peter Sartain

Brunch to follow at The Capital Hilton 1001 16th St., NW


http://www.johncarrollsociety.org/events/58th_annual_red_mass/
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Cardinal O’Brien presents Papal knighthood at Red Mass

BY Martin Dunlop September 30 2011


Cardinal Keith O’Brien was the main concelebrant at the annual Red Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, on Sunday, marking the opening of the new legal year in Scotland.


Sunday’s Mass was an extra special occasion for Lord Gill, the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, when his outstanding service to public life in the country was recognised. Cardinal O’Brien, representing Pope Benedict XVI, bestowed upon him the Papal Knighthood.

Joining the cardinal and Lord Gill at Sunday’s Mass, were various members of the legal profession in Scotland and their families, including Lord Gill’s fellow judges, Lord Hardie, Lord Drummond Young, Lord Matthews and Lord Doherty.

Also present were Frank Mulholland QC, the Lord Advocate, Richard Keen QC, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, and Austin Lafferty, vice president of the Law Society of Scotland.

In his homily at Sunday’s Mass, Cardinal O’Brien urged Catholic lawyers in Scotland to remain strong and true to their religious beliefs.

“There is no doubt that one of the biggest challenges facing Catholic lawyers in Scotland today is a challenge which has faced many people and different groups in society down the ages: how do you live and act out your professional lives while at the same time remaining true to the teachings and doctrine of the Church?” Cardinal O’Brien said. “Specifically for lawyers the challenge must be how can you represent your clients’ interests to the best of your abilities while applying the law of the land, when at times these two pressures may be in conflict with your own Catholic Faith.”

The cardinal said that, in so doing, he was ‘echoing the words’ of Pope Benedict XVI during his address at Westminster Hall during his visit to the UK last September.

“The Pope called upon the lay Faithful, ‘within their respective spheres of influence,’ to seek ways of promoting and encouraging dialogue between Faith and reason at every level of national life,” the cardinal said, while encouraging those present to consider the message of the day’s readings and take confidence from the Word of God.

Prior to bestowing upon Lord Gill—who was attending his 44th consecutive Red Mass—the Papal Knighthood, the cardinal spoke about Lord Gill’s life and some of his many achievements.

Following on primary and secondary schooling at St Thomas’ Primary School and St Aloysius’ College, Glasgow, Lord Gill attended Glasgow University, gaining the degrees of MA and LLB before being called to the Scottish Bar as an Advocate in 1967. From 1964 to 1977 he lectured in the Faculty of Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Lord Gill went on to become an Advocate Depute; then, as an Advocate. He was also appointed as Standing Junior Counsel to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Home Office and the Scottish Education Department; and in 1981, he was appointed a Queen’s Counsel.

Appointed a judge in 1994—at that time the only serving Catholic judge in Scotland—Lord Gill went on to become chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, a post he held until 2001 when he was appointed Lord Justice Clerk.

“Lord Gill is at present Scotland’s longest serving judge—undertaking a review of the Scottish Civil Courts on behalf of the Scottish Government and fulfilling various other roles on behalf of the UK and Scottish Governments,” the cardinal said. “He has enjoyed the support of his wife, Kate, and family, having been married for 42 years and having five sons and one daughter along with 14 grandchildren. He is a loyal and active parishioner in St Columba’s Parish, Edinburgh and at national level has assisted the Bishops of Scotland.

“It is then I am sure you will agree, entirely appropriate that the Holy Father has seen fit to recognise Lord Gill’s exceptional contribution to public life in Scotland and to graciously bestow on him the honour of a Knighthood of the Order of St Gregory the Great.

“It is an award that I am sure will be warmly welcomed by both the Catholic Community and the whole legal profession.”

“It is an honour and a privilege to receive a knighthood from this great Pope,” Lord Gill said. “I was touched by the gracious words of the cardinal at the Red Mass.”

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More than 500 arrested in Wall Street protest


Police officers reach into a crowd of protesters to make an arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge during an Occupy Wall Street march in New York October 1, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi

By Ray Sanchez

NEW YORK Sat Oct 1, 2011 9:37pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 500 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.

The arrests took place when a large group of marchers, participating in a second week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement, broke off from others on the bridge's pedestrian walkway and headed across the Brooklyn-bound lanes.

"More than 500 were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge late this afternoon after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway," a police spokesman said.

"Some complied and took the walkway without being arrested. Others locked arms and proceeded on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway and were arrested," he added.

The bridge was reopened at 8:05 p.m. EDT after being closed for hours.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene on the famous suspension bridge as a sea of police officers surrounded the protesters using orange mesh netting.

Some protesters tried to get away as officers started handcuffing members of the group. Dozens of protesters were seen handcuffed and sitting on the span as three buses were called in to take them away, witnesses and organizers said.

The march started about 3:30 p.m. EDT from the protesters' camp in Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan near the former World Trade Center. Members of the group have vowed to stay at the park through the winter.

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In addition to what they view as excessive force and unfair treatment of minorities, including Muslims, the movement is also protesting against home foreclosures, high unemployment and the 2008 bailouts.

Filmmaker Michael Moore and actress Susan Sarandon have stopped by the protesters' camp, which is plastered with posters with anti-Wall Street slogans and has a kitchen and library, to offer their support.

On Friday evening, more than 1,000 demonstrators, including representatives of labor organizations, held a peaceful march to police headquarters a few blocks north of City Hall to protest what they said was a heavy-handed police response the previous week. No arrests were reported.

A week ago, police arrested about 80 members of Occupy Wall Street near the Union Square shopping district as the marchers swarmed onto oncoming traffic.

A police commander doused a handful of women with pepper spray in an incident captured on video and spread via the Internet, galvanizing the loosely organized protest movement.

The group has gained support among some union members. The United Federation of Teachers and the Transport Workers Union Local 100, which has 38,000 members, are among those pledging solidarity.

The unions could provide important organizational and financial support for the largely leaderless movement.

Similar protests are sprouting in other cities, including Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.

(Reporting by Ray Sanchez; editing by Philip Barbara)

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Obama advocates ‘big America’ in speech to gay activists


The Obama administration has advanced key gay issues, like ending 'don't ask, don't tell.' AP Photo

By JENNIFER EPSTEIN 10/1/11 8:33 PM EDT


President Barack Obama called for a “big America” in a speech to a major gay rights group Saturday but barely mentioned the biggest issue of all — the legalization of same-sex marriage.

“We believe in a big America, a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America,” Obama told the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner in Washington, where he advocated a society where people are respected, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

“We don’t believe in a small America. We don’t believe in the kind of smallness that believes that a stage full of political leaders — one of whom could end up being president of the United States — being silent when an American is booed,” Obama said, referring to the jeers that came from the crowd at Republican presidential debate last month after a gay soldier asked a question from Iraq. A standing ovation continued even as he kept speaking.

“If you want to be commander-in-chief, you have to start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform even when it’s not politically convenient,” Obama said, echoing similar remarks he made earlier this week at a West Coast fundraiser.

The Obama administration has advanced key gay issues including bringing an end to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and the executive branch’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act, while working to combat bullying in schools and enacting legislation against hate crimes.

“Many questioned whether we would succeed in repealing ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’” but this administration was able to do it, Obama said.

Obama said he wants to see the Defense of Marriage Act “join ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ in the history books,” or codified into law by Congress.

“So, yes, we have more work to do,” Obama said. “After so many years, even decades, of inaction, you’ve got every right to push against the slow pace of change. But make no mistake: I want people to feel encouraged that we are making change, we are making real and lasting change. … And I’m going to continue to fight alongside you.”

For years, Obama has backed civil unions and equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual couples, but has not voiced public support for same-sex marriage. He’s said that his “feelings are constantly evolving.”

Obama made little mention of the legalization of same-sex marriage, though he did herald progress on gay rights issues that has come from places other than the federal government.

“I am still hopeful because of the deeper shift that we’re seeing,” he said. “A transformation not only written into our law but woven into the progress of our society. It’s progress led not by Washington but by ordinary citizens who are propelled not just by politics but by love and friendship and a sense of mutual regard.

“It’s playing out in legislatures like New York, in courtrooms and in the ballot box,” he said. “But it’s also happening around water coolers, at the Thanksgiving table, on Facebook and Twitter, at PTA meetings and potluck dinners, and church socials and VFW halls.”

Kids who are being bullied in school should “know that the president and first lady [are] standing right by them every inch of the way,” Obama said to applause.

He got some laughs when he mentioned Lady Gaga, the pop star who is an anti-bullying advocate. “I took a trip out to California last week, where I had some productive bilateral talks with your leader, Lady Gaga. She was wearing 16-inch heels. She was eight feet tall. It was a little intimidating,” he said.


Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/64898.html#ixzz1ZaEdmprX
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And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,..

Revelation 17 (Listen)X

1And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

3So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.



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4And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

5And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

7And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

8The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

9And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

10And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

11And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

12And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

13These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

14These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

15And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

17For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

18And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.



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Signs Of Danger In The Last Days!

Volume XXX Issue X October 2011
Last Trumpet Ministries, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI 53916
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Signs Of Danger In The Last Days!



"The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined."
Psalm 10:2


"But 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."
II Peter 3:10


"And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth."
Isaiah 2:19


"And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"
Revelation 6:15-17


In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will once again examine the current happenings of our time and compare them to the conditions of the last days, which were foretold of in God's Word. We as the human race have been given a beautiful gift. When God inspired His servants to write the Holy Scriptures, we were provided with a book to edify, exhort, and comfort us in these very trying times in which we live. Although many obstinate people, inspired by Satan and his minions, have risen up to question the veracity of the Bible, God's Word has stood the test of time. Despite being written thousands of years ago, the Scriptures have never been more pertinent than they are today.

When a person studies the Bible with an open heart, it soon becomes obvious that it is more than just a book. Even though the Bible is divided into sections, written by many different men under the inspiration of God, each part works together in ways that go beyond the capabilities of mortal men. For example, portions of the book of Daniel go hand-in-hand with portions of the book of Revelation, despite the fact that the servants who were chosen to write each book had never met each other. Numerous verses of the Bible also contain scientific principles, which in some cases were written down thousands of years before the very same principles were discovered by the scientific community.

However in my view, the most miraculous aspect of the Holy Scriptures is the vivid and accurate description of the days we now live in. Whether you turn to Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, II Timothy 3, or various other portions of the Bible, the conditions written of are consistent with the conditions we now see in this present year of 2011.

"The Elements Shall Melt With Fervent Heat!"

II Peter 3:10 gives us a description of the coming of the Lord in which the circumstances surrounding the event bear a striking resemblance to a nuclear disaster. While no man can say for certain how much of a factor nuclear weapons will be in the end time scenario, the possibility of mass destruction at the hand of such weapons remains a very real threat.

A report by the Federation of American Scientists estimates that there are over 20,500 nuclear warheads in existence today. The nations which are known to possess these weapons are Russia, the United States, France, China, the United Kingdom, Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea. (1) There is also growing fear amongst world leaders that Iran is covertly developing nuclear weapons. In a recent speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded with world leaders to prevent Iran from developing such weapons, stating, "The possibility that the world's most dangerous weapons will fall into the hands of the world's most dangerous regimes is too real." (2)

Meanwhile, the nation of China is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal. A report by the Pentagon to the U.S. Congress stated, "China is both qualitatively and quantitatively improving its strategic missile forces. Beijing will likely continue to invest considerable resources to maintain a limited nuclear force ... to ensure the [People's Liberation Army] can deliver a damaging retaliatory nuclear strike." (3)

Precisely how much nuclear material exists in the world is impossible to determine because much of it has been lost. A shocking report issued in September 2011 by the Government Accountability Office indicates that 36,000 pounds of the United States' weapons grade uranium and plutonium has gone missing. (4) There are also an estimated fifty atomic bombs that were lost during the Cold War, many of which now sit on the bottom of the ocean floor. In an article published in 2008, Otfried Nassaur, an expert on nuclear armament, explained how many of those weapons were lost. "In the early days of the Cold War, the aircraft lacked sufficient range to cross the Atlantic on one tank of fuel. Some bombers collided with their tanker planes, while others simply missed the tankers and, after running out of fuel, plunged into the sea." The article also recounts the story of a B-52 bomber that exploded on January 24, 1961. Before the plane exploded, the two hydrogen bombs it was carrying were ejected. One of the bombs landed in a tree, while the other landed in a marsh near Goldsboro, North Carolina, where it still exists to this day. The area is now a restricted military zone. (5)

There have also been concerns raised in recent days regarding the possibility that a nuclear power plant disaster, such as the recent event in Japan, could also occur in the United States if there was a significant earthquake. The United States is home to 104 nuclear power plants, and according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC, twenty-seven of these plants may need upgrades to help prevent a potential meltdown. The plants flagged for upgrades include the Perry 1 reactor in Ohio, which was found to be twenty-four times more likely to suffer from nuclear core damage than previously thought. There is also concern over nuclear plants on the West Coast, because it's generally believed that a major earthquake will occur in that region in the not-so-distant future. In an article by the Associated Press, Brian Sheron, head of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, was quoted as writing, "Isn't there a prediction that the West Coast is likely to get hit with some huge earthquake in the next 30 years or so? Yet we relicense their plants." (6)

The possibility of a nuclear disaster occurring in the United States has caused many people to become fearful of the future. Immediately following the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant crisis that wreaked havoc on the nation of Japan in March 2011, reservations for a spot in an underground bunker, now being constructed in Nebraska, soared by 1000 percent. The bunker is 137,000 square feet and is designed to house 950 people for a year. (7)

In an even more bizarre development, an "adult entertainment" company, known as Pink Visual, is also constructing an underground bunker in case the apocalypse should occur in the year 2012 as predicted by some groups and individuals. In addition to the usual amenities you might find in an underground bunker, this facility will also feature fully stocked bars, a huge performance stage, and a studio in which they hope to produce pornography. "We're not building this thing just to eke out a few more months of a deprived, downscaled existence. Our goal is nothing less than to survive the apocalypse to come in comfort and luxury, whether that catastrophe takes the form of fireballs flung Earthward by an all-seeing deity, extended torrential rainfall, Biblical rapture, an earthquake-driven mega-tsunami, radioactive flesh-eating zombies, or some combination of the above," stated group spokesman, Quentin Boyer. (8)

It is also a well-known fact that many government and military bunkers, such as the Raven Rock Mountain Complex in Pennsylvania, the Cheyenne Mountain Directorate in Colorado, and the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Virginia, exist. When I read about bunkers built underground or carved out of mountains, I cannot help but think of Revelation 6:15-17, which reads, "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"

A "Dangerous New Phase!"

In a September 2011 speech, Christine Legarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned that the world is entering a "dangerous new phase." "The world is collectively suffering from a crisis of confidence, in the face of a deteriorating economic outlook and rising concerns about the health of sovereigns and banks," Legarde stated. (9) There is growing concern amongst economists and world leaders that Greece will default on its sovereign debt and spark a series of events that will result in a "global recession." Should the economies of Greece and other nations in the Eurozone fail, it would likely cause many European banks to collapse as many of them are already teetering on the brink of disaster. A recent article by Business Insider featured a list of twenty banks that are most likely to fail. The list included financial institutions in Italy, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Germany, France, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. (10)

To solve the current crisis in Europe, former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has called for the formation of a "United States of Europe." Although many of the European nations are already united under a common currency known as the Euro, each country stills maintains a degree of autonomy. Mr. Schroeder believes this needs to change. "The current crisis makes it relentlessly clear that we cannot have a common currency zone without a common fiscal, economic, and social policy. We will have to give up national sovereignty," Schroeder stated. (11)

Meanwhile, the economic conditions in the United States have not improved. I would love to be able to report that the economy is getting stronger, unemployment is improving, and the housing market is recovering, but none of these statements would be true.

Economists in the United States were shocked to learn upon the release of the "Employment Situation Summary" by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that job growth in August 2011 was zero. (12) Here let it be noted that this was the first month in which no jobs were created in the United States since February 1945. (13) The bleak situation prompted New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to warn that we may soon see widespread rioting in New York. "You have a lot of kids graduating college, [who] can't find jobs. That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here," Bloomberg stated. He also went on to say, "The public is not happy. The public knows there is something wrong in this country, and there is. The bottom line is that they're upset." (14)

As if the economic hardships in the United States were not already bad enough, we are now seeing one of the country's oldest institutions, the United States Postal Service, on the verge of collapse. "Our situation is extremely serious. If Congress doesn't act, we will default," pleaded postmaster general Robert R. Donahoe. (15) In an effort to help stave off insolvency, the postal service is hoping to gain approval from Congress to eliminate Saturday mail delivery, close 3,700 post offices, and lay off 120,000 workers. "The situation is dire. If we do nothing, if we don't react in a smart, appropriate way, the postal service could literally close later this year. That's not the kind of development we need to inject into a weak, uneven economic recovery," said Senator Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees the postal service. (16) It is unfathomable that the U.S. Congress would just let the postal service collapse. In all likelihood, a bailout of some sort will be arranged. This, of course, will cost the taxpayers more money.

In an effort to improve the employment situation in America, Barack Obama has devised the American Jobs Act, which if passed would cost 447 billion dollars. The plan includes provisions to extend tax cuts which would otherwise soon expire, provide more unemployment benefits, improve infrastructure in the United States, and provide funding to help schools retain teachers. (17) While I can appreciate having a little extra money in my pocket due to tax cuts, it seems unlikely to me that Obama's plans will do much to create new jobs. If anything, it may prevent some jobs from being lost and create a small amount of temporary jobs for construction workers or similar lines of work. Those who recall Obama's original stimulus package may remember that it had similar provisions and did little to actually improve the American economy. I couldn't help but notice that Obama has taken on a strange new repetitive tone as he urges Congress over and over to "pass the bill." At any rate, Obama's plan has left many lawmakers underwhelmed. "The federal government already has tried using more spending and more debt to resuscitate the economy. That experiment failed. The President should have the courage to acknowledge when he's wrong, and there's no doubt his economic policies have been dead wrong," stated Representative Justin Amash of Michigan. (18)

This is a sad time in America. Approximately 800,000 houses have been repossessed in the United States because of the recession, and 248,000 of them are owned by the government. (19) The housing crisis has impacted some of our most vulnerable citizens. In fact, a 101 year-old woman in the city of Detroit was recently foreclosed on, and consequently evicted from her home. (20) There has also been a significant increase in combined households in which one additional adult is living in a home who is not a student or the main householder. There were 21.8 million such households in the spring of 2011 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. (21)

Tragically, the number of homeless people in the United States has increased 20 percent from 2007 to 2010. There are now over 700,000 homeless Americans. Some have resorted to living in "tent cities," such as the one found in the woods near the city of Lakewood, New Jersey. (22) As I consider the housing crisis in this country, I cannot help but think of Isaiah 5:9, which reads, "In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant."

As many Americans struggle just to get by, the cost of food has continued to rise steadily. In the month of August 2011, prices for finished consumer foods soared by an annualized rate of 13.2 percent. (23) To further exacerbate the problem, poor corn crop yields, due to harsh weather and drought this year, may cause food prices to rise at an even more rapid rate. The US Department of Agriculture, or USDA, has warned that the corn surplus in the United States could dwindle to a 19-day supply during the autumn months of this year. (24) With Americans growing increasingly desperate to put food on the table, some have resorted to dumpster diving. "I don't like getting all the way into dumpsters unless there's something really valuable in there, but my son doesn't mind as much. He'll jump right in," said one dumpster diver as quoted in an article by MSNBC. "I have three kids in school and a wife in nursing school, and things are tight. This helps a ton," the man went on to say. (25)

In this erstwhile prosperous nation of the United States, it has become poignantly clear that this country is no longer blessed by God. When people must search through dumpsters to obtain food, hundreds of thousands of houses sit vacant, and large portions of crops are lost due to drought, it is quite obvious that there is something very wrong in this land. However, in these times of trouble we can look to our Heavenly Father for guidance and protection. Whatever the future may hold, we have a Saviour who is with us every step of the way. For as it is recorded in Hebrews 13, God has promised, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

A Worldwide Health Crisis!

In the Holy Scriptures, we are warned by Jesus that there would be pestilences in the last days. This has never been more true as mysterious illnesses and various diseases affect millions of people all over the world. Some of the health problems now plaguing civilization are man-made maladies while others have developed from unknown origins.

In August 2011, it was reported that a new mutant strain of bird flu virus has been spreading in Asia, particularly in the nations of China and Vietnam. Officials at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, have expressed concern that the new variant of bird flu, which is formally known as H5N1, may soon become more widespread. "The general departure from the progressive decline in 2004-2008 could mean that there will be a flare-up of H5N1 this fall and winter, with people unexpectedly finding the virus in their backyard," said Juan Lubroth of the FAO. (26)

In September 2011, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, warned of a growing threat from a tick borne infection known as Babesiosis, which is now infecting the American blood supply. The infection, which can cause severe disease or even death, cannot be detected through any diagnostic procedures at this present time before people donate blood. (27)

Scientists have also discovered a new strain of the sexually transmitted disease known as gonorrhea, which cannot be killed with any of the typical treatments used to fight the disease. This new "superbug" was discovered in Kyoto, Japan. (28)

Diabetes has become a global epidemic with 366 million people around the world suffering from either Type 1 or Type 2 of this disease. Sadly, the illness takes the lives for 4.6 million people per year, and someone dies from diabetes every seven seconds. (29)

In August 2011, a new study was released that suggested watching too much television can significantly shorten the lifespan of the viewer. "TV viewing time may have adverse health consequences that rival those of lack of physical activity, obesity, and smoking; every single hour of TV may shorten life by as much as 22 minutes," wrote researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia. (30)

I realize that with so much illness in the world it is easy to be fearful and worried that we may become sick. I take comfort in knowing that ultimately God holds the keys of life and death. I can't help but think of my father who passed on in June 2010. He was a strong advocate of God's healing power and experienced numerous such healings throughout his sixty years on this earth. I recall sitting in the hospital last year wondering if God would grant him yet another miracle. However, after forty years of service, God decided that it was time to take my father home.

As the children of God, there is no need for us to be fearful. Yes, the world is corrupt and full of sin, and there are many things which can harm us. However, God is in control, and He never makes mistakes. Throughout the Gospel books, one of the things our loving Saviour, Jesus Christ, tells us over and over is, "Be not afraid."

The Spirit Of Blasphemy In The Last Days!

Another indicator that we are truly living in the last days is the increasing amount of blasphemy against God. The book of Revelations warns us that the spirit of blasphemy would rise up and that this problem will increase as we get closer to the coming of our Lord.

In southern California, a group of atheists, known as the Backyard Skeptics, recently gathered to tear apart photocopies of Bible verses. One of the portions of Scripture these atheists find particularly offensive is James 5:14-15 which reads, "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." Although the original plan was to only rip up photocopies of Bible verses, the group's leader, Bruce Gleason, was so overtaken by the devils inside him that he could not resist tearing actual pages out of the Bible. "I just want to tear out pages of the Bible that are illegal," Gleason said. (31)

The British actor and so-called "comedian" Ricky Gervais has again gone out of his way to offend Christians. Gervais, who is the man responsible for the movie known as "The Invention of Lying" which openly mocks God, has taken his blasphemy even further. The actor is featured in a photo on the cover of New Humanist magazine on which he poses shirtless with the word "atheist" written above his chest in blood. He also wears a crown of thorns on his head in the picture. (32)

Earth - A Constantly Shaking Planet!

The disasters we are now seeing around the world are yet another indicator that we are living in the last days. While the world has always suffered from natural disasters, what we are seeing now is an almost constant barrage of calamity. Earthquakes, in particular, were spoken of by Jesus as indicative of the end times, and we are now seeing more quakes than ever.

On August 23, 2011, a 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck the United States. The earthquake spanned twenty states, and it caused significant structural damage in Washington, D.C. It was reported that this was the largest earthquake in the Virginia region since 1897. (33) It is interesting to note that the Washington Monument, which is the large phallic symbol that overlooks our nation's capital and has strong ties to freemasonry, was damaged by the quake. A news report from CNN indicated that the monument would be "closed indefinitely." (34)

There have been numerous other recent earthquakes "in divers places." On the very same day that the above mentioned earthquake occurred, another quake struck in Colorado. The 5.3-magitude rumbling was the largest in the area in over forty years. (35) Other earthquakes which occurred in August and September 2011 include a 6.8-magnitude quake in East Timor (36), a 6.8-magnitude quake in the Aleutian Islands near Alaska (37), a 6.4-magnitude quake in Argentina (38), a 7.0-magnitude quake in Vanuatu (39), a 5.9-magnitude quake in New Zealand (40), a 5.9-magnitude quake in Chile (41), a 6.2-magnitude quake in Japan, a 6.0-magnitude quake in Cuba (42), a 7.2-magnitude quake in Fiji (43), and a 6.9-magnitude quake in India, Nepal, and Tibet (44)

With so much havoc occurring around the world, earthquakes are only part of the problem. The news often carries reports of flooding, drought, wildfires, and other disasters. Those in the secular world blame such events on global warming and climate change, but as my father used to say, "The problem is not global warming; it is global sinning."

In closing, I want to encourage all of you to put your trust and hope in God. Yes, there are many troubles and sorrows in this world, but through it all we have a loving Saviour who will never forsake us. It is only through His strength that we are able to endure these desperate days. There are many alarming things that I have written about in this newsletter, but we can overcome every single one of them through Jesus Christ our Lord. If you have not yet fully given your heart to God, I urge you to do so now. Call upon Him in prayer, read His Holy Word, put your faith and trust in Him, and obey the Scripture.

Thank you to all who support this ministry. It is through your kindness that we are able to publish this newsletter and do a work for God. We at Last Trumpet Ministries appreciate your donations, letters, news clippings, and support so very much. If you have any prayer requests, small or great, please do not hesitate to send them our way. Each request is always given personal and individual attention. Rest assured - if you send us a prayer request, we will pray for you. Grace and peace be unto you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Samuel David Meyer

Acknowledgments
01. Federation of American Scientists, "Status of World Nuclear Forces," http://fas.org.
02. Associated Press, September 11, 2011, By Associated Press, Jerusalem, Israel.
03. The Washington Times, August 25, 2011, By Bill Gertz, http://washingtontimes.com.
04. Business Insider, September 15, 2011, By Robert Johnson, http://businessinsider.com.
05. Spiegel Online, November 14, 2008, By Benjamin Maack, http://spiegel.de.
06. Associated Press, September 2, 2011, By Dina Cappiello and Jeff Donn, Washington, D.C.
07. The Daily Mail, April 1, 2011, By Daily Mail Reporter, http://dailymail.co.uk.
08. Laist, September 8, 2011, By Lauren Lloyd, http://laist.com.
09. CNBC, September 9, 2011, By Catherine Boyle, http://cnbc.com.
10. Business Insider, September 16, 2011, By Simone Foxman, http://businessinsider.com.
11. Reuters News Service, September 4, 2011, By Brian Rohan, Berlin, Germany.
12. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Official Report, September 2, 2011.
13. CNN Money, September 16, 2011, By Aaron Smith, http://cnnmoney.com.
14. Ibid.
15. The New York Times, September 4, 2011, By Steven Greenhouse, http://nytimes.com.
16. Ibid.
17. Economy In Crisis, September 9, 2011, By Karl Rusnak, http://economyincrisis.com.
18. Human Events, September 9, 2011, By Audrey Hudson, http://humanevents.com.
19. Bloomberg Businessweek, September 5, 2011, By Lorraine Woellert and Clea Benson.
20. Associated Press, September 14, 2011, By The Associated Press, Detroit, MI.
21. Chicago Tribune, September 14, 2011, By Mary Ellen Podmolik, http://chicagotribune.com.
22. Business Insider, September 8, 2011, By Robert Johnson, http://businessinsider.com.
23. Economic Policy Journal, September 14, 2011, By Robert Wenzel, http://economicpolicyjournal.com.
24. Associated Press, September 17, 2011, By The Associated Press, New York, NY.
25. MSNBC, September 8, 2011, By Bob Sullivan, http://msnbc.com.
26. Associated Press, August 29, 2011, By The Associated Press, Rome, Italy.
27. Reuters News Service, September 5, 2011, By Julie Steenhuysen, Chicago, IL.
28. Reuters News Service, July 11, 2011, By Kate Kelland, London, England.
29. CBS News, September 13, 2011, By Ryan Jaslow, http://cbsnews.com.
30. The Telegraph, August 15, 2011, By Martin Beckford, http://telegraph.co.uk.
31. Christian Post, September 18, 2011, By Audrey Barrick, http://christianpost.com.
32. Christian Post, August 22, 2011, By Eryn Sun, http://christianpost.com.
33. Reuters News Service, August 23, 2011, By Lily Kuo and Malathi Nayak, Washington, D.C.
34. CNN, August 24, 2011, By CNN Staff, http://cnn.com.
35. CNN, August 23, 2011, By Samuel Gardner III and Josh Levs, http://cnn.com.
36. Fox News, August 30, 2011, By Associated Press, http://foxnews.com.
37. Reuters News Service, September 2, 2011, By Yereth Rosen, Anchorage, AK.
38. Associated Press, September 2, 2011, By Michael Warren, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
39. Associated Press, September 3, 2011, By The Associated Press, New York, NY.
40. Earthquake News, September 14, 2011, By Earthquake News, http://savant7.com/earthquakenews/
41. Reuters News Service, September 14, 2011, By Reuters News Service, Santiago, Chile.
42. Christian Post, September 15, 2011, By Emma Koonse, http://christianpost.com.
43. Associated Press, September 15, 2011, By The Associated Press, New York, NY.
44. Reuters News Service, September 19, 2011, By Biswajyoti Das, Guwahati, India.

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