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December 24, 2019: Christmas Blessings from Bethlehem and from Del Rio

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December 24, 2019: It's Christmas-time in the neighborhood * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald

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Letter to the Editor, It’s Christmas-time in the neighborhood It’s Christmas Eve and the neighborhood is aglow with strings of ice-colored lights meticulously wrapped around the tree trunks.  It is a shimmering illumination giving the landscape the feel of a wintery-wonderland. Outside my home is the Christmas Nativity Scene; Baby Jesus in a manger and Mary and Joseph standing statuesquely, on each side of Him. As the church bells chime in unison at the stroke of midnight, the holiday decorations all around the neighborhood miraculously come to life. The Three Magi, come before The Newborn King, offering their finest gifts from the Orient, of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The shepherds, along with the sheep they herd day-and-night, softly and silently approach, being curious to take a peek and see the Newborn Baby. An angelic vision told them to come and see the most wonderful and miraculous event that would forever change the world and

December 17, 2019: Never mind! * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald

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Letter to the Editor, Never mind! As comedian Gilda Radner, playing Emily Litella, would famously say in her Editorial Reply on the news segment of Saturday Night Live (SNL) when she was gently corrected for her innocent and inadvertent misinterpretations: “Oh, that’s different. Never mind!”  Two news organizations: Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Reuters briefly posted a report that a United Nations study found that the United States had “the world’s highest rate of children in detention”.  Well of course; this would definitely add irrefutable credence that President Trump was indeed a hideous, horrible, child-caging monster for having detained so many little children at the US-Mexico border. Faster-than-a-speeding-bullet the news story was zapped. Why you may ask was such a news-worthy story so suddenly deleted and demolished, never to be seen or heard about again? Well, as it so inconveniently turns out the United Nations data was from 2015 wh

January 25, 2020: Fifth Annual Baby Shower to benefit Amistad Pregnancy Care Center (APCC) * 12 noon - 3:00 p.m. * Saint Joseph Parish Hall

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December 10, 2019: More scandalous than a soap opera * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald

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Letter to the Editor, More scandalous than a soap opera Got your attention! Thought so!  This is a real-life-story you probably haven’t heard much about, if any. A DNA test confirmed that this middle-aged man from a powerful political family fathered a baby with a young woman in college, despite his previously repeated denials to this fact. This man fathered the child while he was still legally married to his wife of 22 years and had three children with, and during this time he was also dating his late brother’s widow and the mother of his niece and nephew. His older brother, the shining star in the family, had sadly died of brain cancer. This man’s wife accused him of having “created financial concerns for the family by spending extravagantly on his own interests, including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he had sexual relations, while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills.” His wife and childr

November 26, 2019:Protecting powerful progressives vs. telling the truth

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Letter to the Editor, Protecting powerful progressives vs. telling the truth Journalists have prided themselves in being the bastions of the free-press valiantly “speaking truth to power”, but recent revelations show they shamelessly kowtowed to the prominent, powerful progressives. Shocking! Utterly shocking! Sarcastically said . . . The media conglomerates are in cahoots to protect the elites and punish the everyday people by pushing their propaganda and keeping us in-line with their agenda. If you’re sick-and-tired of being lied to, if you want to see the light-of-truth and aren’t content to be kept in the darkness-of-deception, if you want to see what real, undercover investigative journalism looks like, then be thankful for Project VERITAS. You’ll be amazed at all the courageous whistleblowers that are willing to put their livelihood and their life on-the-line for the sake-of-truth. If you honestly believe that Jeffery Epstein, a convicted se

November 12, 2019: Beto bites the dust * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald

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Letter to the Editor, Beto bites the dust We no longer have to bite the bullet enduring the endless escapades of Robert Francis O’Rourke because he’s no longer in the race for President. He ended his Presidential run by standing on a box that staffers had stamped on it in black lettering the words “soap” and “Beto 2020”. Standing on a soap-box! He was the ultimate cool-kid wannabe; the skinny, scrawny, snot-nosed little kid who desperately wanted to be accepted by the brawny, big-shot boys at school who were older, had more real-world, life-experience. He wanted to be acknowledged by the cool-kids, have them say that he was one of them. He sought attention by posting awkward, embarrassing videos on social media.  The message that came across was:  Hey everyone, look at me!  See how cool and what a hipster I am!  See me skateboarding!  Here I am getting my teeth cleaned!   Here I am changing a flat-tire!  Here I am

November 5, 2019: The day mainstream news-reporting died * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald

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Letter to the Editor, The day mainstream news-reporting died Legacy news reporting died when mainstream media reporters no longer reported what was going-on, but only commented on what a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad President Americans had elected. Day-in and day-out all that was reported was how much these reporters hated the President and how everything the President said and did was so terrible, horrible, no good and very bad. At first people would tune-in to the news to see what was going on in the country, but all they got was an earful about how the President was a dictator, misogynist, tyrant, racist, criminal, traitor, and fascist. Yet what the people saw was that the economy was doing much better than before, with the lowest unemployment figures, with tax cuts they had more money to spend, there were less regulations to strangle entrepreneurs and a booming marketplace was once again thriving, Federal judges and Supreme Court justices we

October 10, 2019: Pro-Life Group * Religious organization celebrates billboards with prayer * Religion * Del Rio News-Herald

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The Power In The Holy Mass

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The Power In The Holy Mass A Testimony by Catalina This is the testimony that I must and want to give to the whole world, for the greater Glory of God and for the salvation of all of those who want to open their hearts to the Lord. It is also given so that many souls consecrated to God will rekindle the fire of their love for Christ, some of whom are the owners of the hands that have the power to bring Him to our world so that He can become our nourishment. It is also given for others so that they break lose of the "routine practice" of receiving Him and relive the amazement of their daily encounter with Love. And it is given so that my lay brothers and sisters from the entire world live the greatest Miracle with their hearts: the celebration of the Eucharist. It was the vigil of the Annunciation and the members of our group had gone to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Some of the ladies of the prayer group had not been able to do it, and so they left their reconcili