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In the information age with hi-tech devices, computers and GPS tracking devices is it reasonable to believe that human beings can still experience a vision or an apparition?

It’s been a momentous couple of weeks at the Supreme Court. As usual, they saved the big cases for the end. This year the big three were Bruen (gun rights), Dobbs (abortion rights) and West Virginia (administrative regulation of CO2). All three cases were decided 6-3 along ideological lines. These cases involved the most basic issues of what the Constitution is and how it is to be interpreted. On those issues there is virtually no hope of one side ever convincing anyone from the other side. There just are two fundamentally irreconcilable visions of how this should work. The two...

I heard the Lord speak, “I have extended an olive branch of peace to the United States of America and will extend Donald Trump’s presidency into a second term by the power of my right hand. What I have done in the White House will happen with every branch of Government in the United States for I will pull out corruption and plant trees of righteousness that will bear much fruit. Even now the ax is laid to the root of these corrupt trees. Every tree which does not bear good fruit will be cut down, pulled out and thrown...

The Legendary Psychic Rose Stuart Returns to her hometown of Great Falls, Montana this month, where she is the most popular and respected psychic serving the public in Canada and the Northwestern United States. World renown Rose Stuart predicted Donad Trump’s win, election tampering by Russia, and attempts by Obama, Hillary, and certain other Democrats to get Trump impeached. She warns that the current major threat to the United States is not necessarily North Korea, but rather certain covert hostilities from Iran that are intent on harming America. Located across from the Great Falls shopping mall in Great Falls, Montana,...

The Visions This afternoon, as I was sitting at this table engaged in preparing a dispatch, something seemed to disturb me. Looking up, I beheld standing opposite me a singularly beautiful female. So astonished was I, for I had given strict orders not to be disturbed, that it was some moments before I found language to inquire the cause of her presence. A second, a third and even a fourth time did I repeat my question, but received no answer from my mysterious visitor except a slight raising of her eyes. By this time I felt strange sensations spreading through...

Guidelines date from 1978 - publication linked with Medjugorje? The newly published guidelines were already on 25 February 1978 adopted by the CDF, as William Cardinal Levada, Prefect of the Congregation points out in his introduction. At that time, they were brought to the attention of the bishops, but not made known. The reason was that they concerned "primarily the pastors of the Church" said the Prefect. Why have they now been published? Is the disclosure in connection with the decision still-awaited in 2012 on Medjugorje?

QUIX: SHORT EXCERPTS ARE OFFERED IN A SORT OF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FIRST--THEN THE ENTIRE NARRATIVE AS AVAILABLE AT SPIRITLESSONS.COM I found this to be another anointed, Biblical narrative about a very convincing Heavenly visitation--actually, as usual, to hell, too. There's an item or 3 in this one to potentially trouble the RC's and Maryolators, . . . as well as some potentially troubling things for some Calvinists, however. Read at your own risk. Those exposed to The Truth are responsible before God for what they do about and with The Truth.On the other hand, ignorance affords no eternal protection....

[Quixicated emphases] "THE BRIDE Will LEAVE CHRISTENDOM"-Vision by Wayne Thomas. The following vision is probably one of the most well-known that hasever come out of my home nation of New Zealand. It is a key vision that has been acknowledged and read around the world. This vision was given to Wayne Thomas late in 1993. He told me that it was probably the most powerful he had ever seen. VISION of THE BRIDE LEAVING CHRISTENDOM-Wayne Thomas. Basically, it was a traditional wedding scene. The radiantly beautiful Bride had just stepped out of the Cathedral and was standing on the top...

People who drink too much coffee could start seeing ghosts or hearing strange voices, UK research has suggested. People who drank more than seven cups of instant coffee a day were three times more likely to hallucinate than those who took just one, a study found. A Durham University team questioned 200 students about their caffeine intake, the journal Personality and Individual Differences reported. However, academics say the findings do not prove a "causal link". They also stress that experiencing hallucinations is not a definite sign of mental illness and that about 3% of people regularly hear voices. "This is...

Dream Last Night- The 08 Election CAN change! Andy Sanders Oct 28, 2008 I had a dream last night that must be shared. In the dream and another man and I walked into a public setting. There were many non-believers everywhere. It was a crowded place with people working and shopping and doing all kids of stuff. There were even government offices in this building. In one location all of society was represented under one roof. In this dream I sat down at a table and the four of us began to talk about the 08 election. One that was...

Ambikapur, Dec. 15, 2006 (CNA) - An abandoned hut on the outskirts of a central Indian town has become a prayer center at the instruction of a 10-year-old boy who claims to have visions of Jesus. Rohit Rajan Toppo, a sixth-grader, initiated the center in a village near Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh state, 1,300 kilometers southeast of New Delhi, reported UCA News. Known as "Nani Ashram," it attracts hundreds of people including Hindus. "People come to pray here every day," says Fr. Suman Xaxa, who heads the team that runs the five-room center. Its transformation began in November 2005 after Toppo told...

JERUSALEM - The Muslim call to prayer resounds through a large part of the Earth, where more than one billion people call themselves Muslims. Throughout the Islamic world, many Muslims from Gaza to London are also responding to the call to global jihad, where the goal is to take over the world for Islam. It's a clash of civilizations with the Christian faith in the middle. Throughout the nearly 1,400 year history of Islam, Muslims have resisted the Christian Gospel. Many Christians tried to reach them with the good news, but with little success. But according to many reports from...

Some years ago when I was first a bishop in Louisiana, it must have been 1988, I was making my first "ad limina" visit to the Holy Father in Rome. The other bishops of Louisiana were with me and, as what the custom of John Paul II, we were invited in to enjoy a lunch with him. There were eight of us at the table with him. Soup was being served. Bishop Stanley Ott of Baton Rouge, La., who has since gone to God, asked the Holy Father: "Holy Father, what do you think of Medjugorje?" The Holy Father kept...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinal Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, announced a commission would be formed to review the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje and pastoral provisions for the thousands of pilgrims who visit the town each year. "The commission members have not been named yet," Cardinal Puljic told Catholic News Service in a July 24 telephone interview. "I am awaiting suggestions from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" on theologians to appoint. "But this commission will be under the (Bosnian) bishops' conference" as is the usual practice with alleged apparitions, he said. The cardinal said he did...

In a newsletter published by a conservative Baptist denomination, a story is presented concerning one of its members. Deployed in Iraq , this middle aged soldier revealed that often, as he wrestles with problems of various types, “God just reveals the answer to me.” A leader from his church back home also claims to have heard from the Lord. “The Lord told me,” he says, “That this young man is going to be known as a builder, not a destroyer in Iraq .” So far his prophecy seems to have come true for, although the soldier has been involved in...

  by Robert R. Allard, DirectorApostles of Divine Mercy 75th Anniversary of the appearance of Jesus to St. Faustina, February 22nd 2006 Everywhere you turn, people are talking about Divine Mercy!  Hurricanes, Floods, Tsunamis, Global Warming, and Fires.  Hardly an article can be written about any of these events without the thought of the Second Coming of Jesus and Divine Chastisement. Today marks a very significant date for all mankind.  Seventy-five years ago on February 22nd 1931 Jesus appeared to St. Faustina as The Divine Mercy with a special mission for her.  He told her to paint an image as she witnessed Him with...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Dramatic differences emerged this week among Latin American leftists at Venezuela's World Social Forum, highlighting the region's diverse views. About 1,000 marchers paraded through Caracas on Friday to call attention to causes ranging from land reform to anti-globalization. The crowd was dominated by supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but one small group calling itself Radical Critics held a sign accusing the Venezuelan president and other leaders of not taking a hard-enough stance against corporate capitalism. Chavez has used a windfall in oil profits to funnel millions of dollars into programs for the poor while extending preferential...

A Farragut man who said the end of the world would begin on Friday, has been fired from his job at Knology after going public with it. John Gilmore had run the East Tennessee operations for phone, cable, and internet company Knology. He'd predicted five big cities in the US would face economic collapse. He now says he has no hard feelings toward knology, and understands why it let him go. "In the end I view it as a resignation. I feel God is calling me to do other things. I've said this before but a couple of months ago...

Folks, in my forays looking for good iconography sites I stumbled upon the Mount Angel Abbey Icon Gallery. The icons there had been written--like Holy Scripture, icons are "written," not "painted"--by Br. Claude Lane, Benedictine. Within this gallery I found this icon Br. Lane wrote in honor of Claude Newman, a prisoner in Mississippi's death row back in 1944. Newman's story is quite remarkable and deserves your reading. This remarkable story was published in the March 2001 issue of Catholic Family News and was authored by John Vennari. According to a Fr. O'Leary, a priest-chaplain at that Mississippi jail,Claude Newman...

SOUTHFIELD, MI—Bored with scaring elderly misers, the Ghost of Christmas Future is spending the holiday season taunting modern children with visions of Christmas 2016's hottest toy: the Sony PlayStation 5, a 2,048-bit console featuring a 45-Ghz trinary processor, CineReal graphics booster with 2-gig biotexturing, and an RSP connector for 360-degree online-immersion play. "You know how kids are—a year is an eternity to them," the wraithlike specter said Monday during a visit to the Southfield home of 13-year-old Josh Kuehn. "So just imagine showing them something they'll have to wait 14 years for. Teasing them with a glimpse of the PS5...