Fr Jim Chern

Pope Leo XIV is working to change how we calculate Easter. There is a major new push inside the Vatican to get every Christian worldwide celebrating Easter on the exact same day. Let's look at the breakdown of this historic plan Pope Leo XIV recently met with Catholicos Aram I of the Oriental Orthodox Church, and one of the massive talking points of their agenda was; ending the centuries-old calendar split so all Christians can celebrate the Resurrection together every single year. Currently, Western Christian churches (Catholics and Protestants) and Eastern Christian churches (Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox) usually celebrate Easter on entirely different Sundays weeks apart. The division comes down to how the different branches of Christianity calculate the spring equinox and astronomical cycles. The Western churches use the modern Gregorian calendar, while the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches (including the Armenian Apostolic Church) base their liturgical calculation on the ancient Julian calendar. And because the Julian calendar is mathematically behind by 13 days, their spring equinoxes are set to different dates. Also, Eastern traditions strictly adhere to a rule from the early Church stating that Easter must take place after the Jewish Passover festival. Western calculations do not factor Passover in, which sometimes places Catholic Easter before or during Passover. Although the two calendars occasionally align by pure astronomical coincidence, for instance in 2025 when both traditions celebrated Easter on April 20, they quickly fall out of sync again. For example, Catholic Easter was observed on April 5, while Orthodox Easter took place a week later on April 12. Pope Leo XIV and Catholicos Aram I want to permanently end this split. The proposal is to agree on a fixed structural solution, such as permanently anchoring Easter to a specific Sunday in April (e.g., the second or third Sunday) or adopting a shared astronomical calculation. This would allow all global Christians to witness and celebrate the resurrection on the exact same day. Cool right?

I was told by a 22yr old today that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without AI.

AWFUL: A Quebec physician says parents should be able to euthanize disabled newborn babies. He says parents “should have the opportunity” to have their newborn killed under Canada’s MAiD euthanasia regime. This is absolutely insane.

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly." The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal. When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience." Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable. When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates. I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped. The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault." I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology." Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident. Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize." I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time." They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again." I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes. © 6IX.

Israel dropped bombs on a school run by nuns today in Nabatieh, South Lebanon. They obliterated it. Not a military site. A school run by religious sisters.

Pastor Robert Jeffress: "It looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches than the Pope"