The Archbishop of Dublin said Thursday that an upcoming report on child sexual abuse involving Catholic priests will likely reveal that thousands of youngsters were abused from 1975 to 2004.

The report “will shock us all,” said Diarmuid Martin, during Mass at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral.

The archbishop said the report, compiled by the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation, is expected to show that “thousands of children or young people across Ireland were abused by priests in the period under investigation and the horror of that abuse was not recognized for what it is.”

Source:  msnbc.com

We have put together a few paragraphs appropriate for the season.  If you feel like there is something very wrong with Christmas the way you are experiencing it out there, you are probably right, though you might be astonished about what is wrong with it in particular.  Please visit Joshuah’s House to read more:

Merry Christmas – or should it be “Merry Krampus” ?

Enjoy.

Scripture has lots to say about what you can read in this article. I guess remembering the First Commandment would be important here, and if you care to, look up what should be done with witches, those with familiar spirits, those who talk to the dead… It’s not that theses spirits don’t exist, they do, but God told us how to deal with them. Please also read our article on witchcraft.

Via: HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

Samantha Weaver loves to dance beneath the moon near the marsh in her backyard.

“Sometimes I even wear clothes,” quipped the 61-year-old Camellia Shores resident. “I’m sure my neighbors think I’m crazy.”

Weaver’s moonlit “sky-clad” prances aren’t just whimsical amusement. They offer her a spiritual connection with nature that she said is part of her heritage.

A local speaker and soon-to-be published author, Weaver claims to descend from a long line of swamp or “bog” witches who hail from Iona, Scotland, an island steeped in mystical lore. For centuries, the first-born daughters in her family were named Iona.

“My grandmother told me that we were of the fairy blood – descendents of the fairy race,” said Weaver, who believes that her short stature – just over 5 feet tall – and A-positive blood type attest to her ancestry.

Weaver also was born with a “veil over her face” or a caul – an amniotic membrane – which she interprets as a sign that she is a spirit-discerner.

In medieval times the appearance of a caul was considered good luck and an omen that the child was destined for greatness.

Full article

If you went to the movies recently and watched “The Golden Compass”, you hopefully did not take your children. If you did, or if you bought Pullman’s trilogy in book-form for them, you should read this article on the Chalcedon website, and probably have a serious talk with your children before throwing the books out.

“Satanism for Young Readers: A Review of His Dark Materials“

Let me quote from the article what Rushdoony has to say about Satanism, so that we know what we are talking about:

“Philip Pullman has been anything but bashful about his atheism. He proudly proclaims it whenever he spots a microphone.

The message of his books, however, is not atheism.

It’s satanism.

We’re not talking about pop-culture satanism here, a bunch of dolts in black robes dancing around a pentagram. This is real satanism.

“In his [Satan’s] hostility to God,” R. J. Rushdoony writes, “he believes that the creature should have the same powers [as God] by right. Satan believes in creaturely and human rights. His goal therefore is to push man into rebellion to test his theory in the hopes that man, as civilization develops, will triumph.” (R. J. Rushdoony, Genesis (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 2002), p. 41.). This is what satanism is about: the tempter’s seduction of man by offering him equality with, or even superiority to, God.”

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Joshuah’s House will be publishing a series of articles on the biblical definition of witchcraft in the days to come. The first page is there already – have a look:

On Witchcraft

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