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This is really disgusting! The so called “Bus Tour” was not a bus tour at all ! An AP reporter said that Obama might have ridden these expensive buses only one mile at each stop. Therefore, it wasn’t really a “BUS TOUR”! Obamaspent most of the “BUS TOUR” on an airplane traveling between stops. Itlooks like Obama has scammed the American people again........with the help of the liberal media. It’s no damn telling just how much this “show” cost the American taxpayer. OBAMA’S HYPOCRISY KNOWS NO BOUNDS !!! "Greyhound 1".... Secret Service Buys Two New $1.1 Million Buses For Three-Day...

The pilot of a Nanchang CJ-6A Chinese trainer gives Mesa police an account of the events that led to him crashing the plane into a closed restroom facility at Red Mountain Park after trying to make an emergency landing in the park due to engine failure. Feb. 7, 2010.Ralph Freso, Tribune Crew personnel look over the damage to the CJ-6A trainer aircraft. Feb. 7, 2010. Ralph Freso, Tribune The right wing of the aircraft is sheared off by a light pole fixture in front of the restroom building. Feb. 7, 2010.Ralph Freso, Tribune Crew personnel begin to remove avionics...

Two Valley Catholic priests, Monsignor Dale Fushek and the Rev. Mark Dippre, have been excommunicated by Bishop Thomas Olmsted for defying his order to not engage in public ministry, an activity that was deemed out of accord with the Roman Catholic Church. Just over a year ago, the priests, who had once served together at St. Timothy’s Catholic Community church in Mesa, founded the nondenominational Praise and Worship Center, which meets Sundays at the Fiesta Fountains Reception Center, 1316 S. Longmore, Mesa. Fushek was put on paid leave of absence in late 2005 after he was indicted on 10 misdemeanors...

Nine experienced cross-country skiers hurriedly left their tent on a Urals slope in the middle of the night, casting aside skis, food and their warm coats. Clad in their sleepwear, the young people dashed headlong down a snowy slope toward a thick forest, where they stood no chance of surviving bitter temperatures of around minus 30 degrees Celsius. Baffled investigators said the group died as a result of “a compelling unknown force” — and then abruptly closed the case and filed it as top secret. The deaths, which occurred 49 years ago on Saturday, remain one of the deepest mysteries...

The operators of a Northern Arizona ski resort cannot use recycled sewage to make snow, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. In a unanimous decision, the judges said there is no evidence that denying the operators of Arizona Snowbowl the ability to use sewage for artificial snow would force the facility, located on U.S. Forest Service land, to shut down. They said there is no “compelling governmental interest” in having artificial snow on the San Francisco Peaks. The judge said the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act requires government agencies to use the “least restrictive” means of interfering...

In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science on how they've gone one step further: pushing light into reverse. As if to defy common sense, the backward-moving pulse of light travels faster than light. Confused? You're not alone. "I've had some of the world's experts scratching their heads over this one," says Robert Boyd, the M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester. "Theory predicted that we could...

The drink arrives, not in a glass, but in a puff of alcohol-laden vapor. Imbibers sit beside each other on bar stools, breathing deeply from plastic devices that resemble giant asthma inhalers. Even though the futuristic Alcohol Without Liquid machines have apparently not arrived in Massachusetts, some legislators and law enforcement officials are so fearful of their potency that the House will hear testimony today on a bill banning the machines, which are popular in Europe. Promoters say the devices deliver low-calorie, low-carb, hangover-free doses of booze.

PHOENIX, January 10 (CNA) - Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix is now the third U.S. bishop to require a full course of natural family planning for couples who want to marry in a Catholic church. The other dioceses are Denver and Fargo. Most other dioceses only require an introduction to the method. In a series of articles, Bishop Olmsted said artificial birth control is a grave wrong that is at the root of many of the problems afflicting American society, reported the Arizona Republic. He said: "marriage itself is gravely harmed" when a couple uses birth control, and that marital...

LifeTeen founder arrested Phoenix, Nov. 21 (CWNews.com) - Msgr. Dale Fushek, the fouder of the popular LifeTeen youth program, was arrested today in Mesa, the Arizona Republic has reported. He will face several charges of assault, indecent exposure, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Msgr. Fushek, who was the vicar general of the Phoenix diocese under Bishop Thomas O'Brien, was replaced in that role in 2003, after Bishop O'Brien resigned and was replaced by Bishop Thomas Olmstead. Fushek was suspended from active ministry in December of last year after he was accused of involvement in the sexual abuse...

In Interview, He Gives His Perspective on the Liturgy VATICAN CITY, NOV. 16, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The Mass is a moment of reflection and encounter with God, rather than a form of entertainment, says Cardinal Francis Arinze. In an interview with Inside the Vatican magazine, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments made a comprehensive assessment of the recent Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist and of developments in liturgical practice 40 years after the Second Vatican Council. Regarding "music in the liturgy, we should start by saying that Gregorian music is the Church's precious heritage," he...

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Bishop restores Latin Mass By Lawn Griffiths, Tribune June 21, 2005 The Old Mass has regained critical mass in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. The one-year experiment to determine whether enough Valley Catholics wanted Masses in Latin — the mother tongue of the church — has ended. And Bishop Thomas Olmsted has declared Latin a winner. The response to a first year of "Tridentine liturgy" or Latin Masses at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in east Phoenix has been so strong that Olmsted is making them permanent, and extending the special Masses to more parishes. After July...

Bishop restores Latin Mass By Lawn Griffiths, Tribune June 21, 2005 The Old Mass has regained critical mass in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. The one-year experiment to determine whether enough Valley Catholics wanted Masses in Latin — the mother tongue of the church — has ended. And Bishop Thomas Olmsted has declared Latin a winner. The response to a first year of "Tridentine liturgy" or Latin Masses at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in east Phoenix has been so strong that Olmsted is making them permanent, and extending the special Masses to more parishes. After July...

Go showerless today. Late Monday night, Phoenix officials announced only one of its five water treatment plants is operating at full capacity and a second plant, co-owned by Phoenix and Mesa, is overwhelmed by muddy water. As a result, Phoenix residents are being asked to conserve water until at least noon today — giving officials time to make adjustments at the Val Vista Water Treatment Plant in Mesa, the plant partially owned by Mesa. "We’re calling this a water conservation alert for lack of a better phrase," said Ken Kroski, a spokesman for Phoenix’s water services department. "We’d like to...

Large Blast Heard at Russian School

The first Olympics held in America, in St. Louis in summer 1904, nearly put an end to the modern games. Not that the previous Olympic games, held in Paris in 1900, were a paragon of efficiency and virtue. There, the facilities were poor -- there was no flat track for the sprinters, and groves of trees encroached on the hammer and discus fields. Marathon runners faced an unfamiliar and complicated course through Paris; the winner, a Parisian, was accused of taking shortcuts. "A slipshod affair," wrote William O. Johnson Jr., author of "All That Glitters Is Not Gold." But the...

Radio report said officals have isolated and are combing a Phoenix to Reagan Nat'l flight on the ground at Sky Harbor. Apparently, someone found (I'm not kidding) a soda can with a wire sticking out of it.

About 400 people turned out Monday night for a meeting called by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix to explain why a popular Gilbert priest was suspended on accusations he broke church law. Many were dissatisfied with what they felt was an inadequate investigation. "This is a high-tech lynching," said Jerry McCarty, who attended to the meeting in defense of the Rev. John Cunningham. "They’re trying to silence the more liberal priests." Cunningham was suspended April 30 from his job as pastor of the St. Mary Magdalene parish after accusations he broke church law by celebrating Mass with a non-Catholic...

CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIPAND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENT INSTRUCTION Redemptionis SacramentumOn certain matters to be observed or to be avoidedregarding the Most Holy Eucharist   INDEX Preamble [1-13]Chapter I The regulation of the Sacred Liturgy [14-18]1. The Diocesan Bishop, High Priest of his Flock [19-25]2. The Conference of Bishops [26-28]3. Priests [29-33]4. Deacons [34-35] Chapter IIThe Participation of the Lay Christian Faithful in the Eucharistic Celebration1. Active and Conscious Participation [36-42]2. The Ministries of the Lay Christian Faithful in the Celebration of Holy Mass [43-47]Chapter IIIThe Proper Celebration of Mass1. The Matter of the Most Holy Eucharist [48-50]2. The...

I would be very greatful if you would add my family to your prayers. My wife and I are magnificently blessed with a four-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter. We also have lost eight other children during pregnancy. We have been consulting with a "fertility specialist" for the last year. I won't trouble you with all the difficulty he had had diagnosing our issues, but the net result is that he has instructed my wife to take supplimental progesterone following ovulation every cycle when we are trying to conceive. Unfortunately, and despite all these efforts, we have lost six children...