Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $23,056
28%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 28%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: wester

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • New Mexico diocese to sell off properties in online auction

    08/11/2021 5:56:22 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 12 replies
    National Catholic Reporter ^ | August 11, 2021 | AP
    <p>Albuquerque, N.M. — The Archdiocese of Santa Fe will be auctioning nearly 140 parcels of property next month as it seeks to settle a raft of sex abuse claims.</p><p>Church officials announced Aug. 10 that an online auction will begin Sept. 21. Opening bids will start as low as $500 for vacant pieces of property that are spread throughout three counties in central New Mexico. Another auction is planned for November.</p>
  • [Catholic Caucus] Priest's faculties revoked by bishop for offering Mass

    03/28/2020 11:51:49 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    San Ignacio Catholic Church! ^ | March 26, 2020 | Archbishop John C. Wester
  • Editorial: Archbishop reacts to priest’s abortion letter

    11/06/2016 7:55:50 PM PST · by ebb tide · 10 replies
    Albuquerque Jounal ^ | November 2, 2016 | Albuquerque Editioral Board
    At places of worship across the country, abortion is not an unusual topic for discussion, or even instruction. That the subject may be given more intense attention during an election season isn’t unusual, either. That’s because even though abortion is legal, based on a 1973 Supreme Court decision, it remains one of the most divisive issues across America and an important one for many religious denominations. That a Catholic priest in Santa Fe would issue guidance to his flock that is consistent with the Catholic Church’s official position – that abortion is a “moral evil” – shouldn’t come as a...
  • New Jersey: Court Upholds Man Arrested For Visible Gun Case In Car

    05/28/2013 6:19:11 PM PDT · by KOZ. · 125 replies
    www.thenewspaper.com ^ | 5/27/2013 | http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/41/4110.asp
    New Jersey: Court Upholds Man Arrested For Visible Gun Case In Car New Jersey appellate court upholds five-year sentence for ex-cop who was driving with his legally owned guns. Readington TownshipMotorists driving through New Jersey can be subjected to a warrantless search if their luggage is similar in appearance to a gun case, an appellate court ruled last week. The Superior Court's Appellate Division upheld a five year prison sentence against Dustin S. Reininger, a former police officer who was in the process of moving from Maine to Texas when a Readington Township police officer recognized the cases in the...
  • Serious Drought May Strike Western US

    04/05/2007 2:38:43 PM PDT · by blam · 107 replies · 1,747+ views
    New Scientist ^ | 4-5-2007 | Michael Reilly
    Serious drought may strike western US 19:00 05 April 2007 From New Scientist Print Edition. Michael Reilly The western US may be heading towards a return to the dustbowl landscape that devastated the prairies of the 1930s, climatologists warn. The horror of that period in the US was vividly described in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath: thousands of people migrated from the parched American prairie – a dustbowl – and travelled west towards the "promised land". But the once-greener pastures are heading towards a drought more severe than the one that created the dustbowl of the 1930s.For the...