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Pastor’s corporal punishment advice scrutinized after child deaths

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corporal_punishment2In recent years, several children have died after enduring extreme forms of corporal punishment from parents who had absorbed the controversial child-rearing advice of Tennessee pastor Michael Pearl. Now, the New York Times reports, Pearl himself is under fire.

In their self-published book, To Train Up a Child, Pearl, 66, and his wife Debi, 60, recommend the systematic use of "the rod" to teach young children to submit to authority. They offer instructions on how to use a switch for hitting children as young as six months, and describe how to use other implements, including a quarter-inch flexible plumbing line. Older children, the Pearls say, should be hit with a belt, wooden spoon or willow switch, hard enough to sting. Michael Pearl has said the methods are based on "the same principles the Amish use to train their stubborn mules."

Girl with digestive disease denied Communion

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nacommunion_catholicAn 8-year-old girl who suffers from a serious digestive disorder and cannot eat wheat has had her first Holy Communion declared invalid because the wafer contained no wheat, violating Roman Catholic doctrine.

Now, Haley Waldman’s mother is pushing the Diocese of Trenton and the Vatican to make an exception, saying the girl’s condition should not exclude her from the sacrament, which commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ before his crucifixion. The mother believes a rice Communion wafer would suffice.

Just flushed granny down the toilet

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dead-body_mA lot can be said of a society and how it treats and values its living from how it treats and values its dead.

I have often written that the post Christian West is a Satanic playground for the minions of the Enemy. An immoral, Luciferian elite and their dumbed down and callas serfs, worshiping false idols and having long turned their backs on Christ.

Crimson Code of Berat arrives to Bulgaria

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CcodesCrimson Code of Berat arrived to Bulgaria. This is one of the exhibits displayed in the exhibition themed The Brilliance of Byzantium, which will accompany the XXII International Congress of Byzantine Studies, hosted by Sofia from August 22 to August 27.

The exhibition showed 121 decorated Greek Codes, 86 of which are from Bulgaria and 35 - from abroad. They are from the Benaki museum in Athens, the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments and National Museum in Ohrid, the State Archives - Tirana and three manuscripts from the Kalenic monastery, Serbia, as well as from the National Library in Belgrade and the Museum of Serbian Orthodox Church, the director of the National Gallery for Foreign Art Irina Mutafchieva said.

Bad Faith: The Catholic Hierarchy’s Pointless Campaign Against LGBT Rights

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catholic-gomezIn early July, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles opposed a modest piece of legislation that requires schools in that state to include lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, and other previously excluded groups, in their social studies curricula.

The archbishop argued that he was merely supporting parents’ rights to make decisions regarding their children’s education.

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