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What are the Knights Templar up to now?

Posted by: Caecus on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 02:17 AM
The Vatican's recent decision to release documents on the persecution of the Knights Templar in the 14th Century has piqued interest in the mysterious order. But what are the latter-day Templars up to? By Finlo Rohrer BBC News Magazine Last Updated: Friday, 19 October 2007, 11:44 GMT 12:44 UK
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Vatican publish Knights Templar documents

Posted by: Caecus on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 02:14 AM
	The Vatican has published a slew of centuries-old documents about the Knights Templar Posted by David Pescovitz, October 12, 2007 6:45 PM \| permalink
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Knights Templar win heresy reprieve after 700 years

Posted by: Caecus on Monday, October 15, 2007 - 02:47 PM
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it had closely guarded for 700 years.
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Knights Templar meet at World Congress

Posted by: Caecus on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 - 06:40 PM
	The Scottish Knights Templar held a Templar world congress Edinburgh, Scotland, and toured in the Lothians, complete with a visit to Rosslyn Chapel. Templars from as far afield as Germany and the United States attended a service at St Mary's Church in Haddington. The Knights Templar are historically linked with Rosslyn Chapel, in Roslin, Midlothian, and both were featured in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. The church service, including communion for Catholics and non-Catholics, were completed by visits to historic and important religious sites across the country. The World Congress of Templars had representatives from Germany, Bulgaria, Wales, England, USA, Bavaria, Switzerland and other countries in attendance. A visit to Temple was made by tour, originally an old Templar church, which many visited to pay respects. During the formal dinner, The Grand Prior Generals of Germany OMCTH and SKT both spoke, attributing respects for goals and common works. The Scottish Knights Templar claim to be the world's oldest Templar Order. Original documents from the 12th century in possession of the SKT supporting these claims were discussed at a dinner speech by the Secretary General. Future world meetings are planned for 2007 and 2008.
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Templar Christmas lunch at Maryhouse

Posted by: Caecus on Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 03:51 PM

The USA Grand Prior discussing Maryhouse future plans.

On December 15, the Austin Chapter of the Scottish Knights Templar visited the Maryhouse Catholic worker, a home for elderly, sick, or homeless. The Maryhouse houses citizens in unfortunate times, and works to help rehabiliate to either always have a second family, or eventually one day get back into the workforce and establish their own independence.

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The Knights Templars (in Ireland)

Posted by: Caecus on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 - 12:08 AM
	From The Dublin Penny Journal, Volume 2, Number 87, March 1, 1834 Having in the preceding article* given some idea of the interesting district of Fingall, the following slight sketch of the rise, progress, and final destruction of the Knights Templars, to whom the Castle of Clontarf formerly belonged, may not be unacceptable.[1]
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Russian Teen Sues School Over Teaching of Evolution

Posted by: Caecus on Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 12:54 PM
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — A Russian court on Wednesday held hearings in an unprecedented lawsuit brought by a 15-year-old student who says being taught the theory of evolution in school violates her rights and insults her religious beliefs.
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Gates may take Pentagon job in December

Posted by: Caecus on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 03:22 AM
	By ROBERT BURNS AP Military Writer © 2006 The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Robert Gates, the former CIA director who is President Bush's choice to replace Donald H. Rumsfeld as defense secretary, is likely to assume the Pentagon post before year's end if he is confirmed by the Senate as expected, officials said Monday.
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American Red Cross fined for violations

Posted by: Caecus on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 03:20 AM
Associated Press \| November 28, 2006 ANDREW BRIDGES WASHINGTON - The federal government has fined the American Red Cross $5.7 million for violating blood-safety laws and the terms of a 2003 consent decree. The fine covers quality assurance, inventory management, control of non-conforming blood products, donor screening and blood component manufacturing issues turned up during a 2005 inspection of a Red Cross facility in West Henrietta, N.Y., the Food and Drug Administration said in a Nov. 21 letter.
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Suspected Al Qaeda plot to blow US-bound planes foiled

Posted by: Caecus on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 11:39 AM
	London, Aug. 10 (PTI): A suspected Al Qaeda plot to simultaneously blow up 10 US-bound flights from here using explosives smuggled in handbags was foiled by the British police, triggering a worldwide security alert and chaos at airports.
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Four Iraqi men have been arrested

Posted by: Caecus on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 11:34 AM
Four Iraqi men have been arrested in the abduction of Jill Carroll, a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, who was held 82 days before her release in March, US military officials said yesterday.
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Watch 'Da Vinci Code' debunked

Posted by: Caecus on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 03:15 PM
	Paul Maier is angry. "Put it this way," he said, "there is not one ranking scholar in the entire world who supports what Dan Brown has done with history." Maier, a Harvard graduate, Fulbright scholar, author of 15 books and professor of ancient history at Western Michigan University, is incensed at the faulty history in Dan Brown's bestselling novel, "The Da Vinci Code."
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Dobbs to President Bush: Do you take us for fools?

Posted by: Caecus on Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 03:04 PM
CNN's Lou Dobbs Outspoken CNN anchor Lou Dobbs is thrashing President Bush and senators for continuing to follow what he calls "absurd policies on both issues of border security and illegal immigration," and asks the rhetorical question, "How dumb do you all think we are?"
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"The Da Vinci Code" copyright case winds up

Posted by: Caecus on Monday, March 20, 2006 - 02:58 PM
	LONDON (Reuters) - The copyright case against the publishers of "The Da Vinci Code" reached its final chapter on Monday, with lawyers for the claimants renewing accusations that millionaire author Dan Brown stole their ideas. The Da Vinci Code, one of the most successful novels of all time with sales of over 40 million copies, shares some of the same ideas as "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail," a 1982 work of historical conjecture by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh.
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Haleigh Poutre: Bobby Schindler Speaks Out

Posted by: Caecus on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 10:12 PM
February 02, 2006 Haleigh Poutre: Bobby Schindler Speaks Out Topics: Commentary Response to Cathy Young of the Boston Globe Dear Ms. Young, I writing in response to your column, “Haleigh Poutre is no Terri Schiavo”. After reading all of the dishonesty that you purport as truths in regard to my sister Terri, I have to say that this is not only the most irresponsible article that I have yet to read from the media regarding Terri’s situation, but possibly the most egregious.
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SKT held service in Cornwall Scotland

Posted by: Caecus on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 06:00 PM
	The SKT Grand Prior of England held a service Saturday, January 21 in the original Templar Church in Temple, Cornwall Scotland. Scottish Knight Templars world Grand Prior General J.P. James McGrath admitted new Knights to the SKT as well as an incoming new Prior. Formal open invitations were given to all SKT Priors worldwide to visit. As a multiple ceremony, McGrath also appointed the new Grand Prior HSE Chev Jonas Svoboda-Jones of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. The world SKT Order continues to grow worldwide, as General McGrath has participated in many ceremonies over the last few months.
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An Intelligent Challenge to Darwin

Posted by: Caecus on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 03:04 PM
CWNews.com – This week the Dover, Pennsylvania School Board voted unanimously to rescind its Intelligent Design policy.
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New Orleans Mayor Says God Mad at U.S.

Posted by: Caecus on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 03:00 PM
	Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.
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Pope asks Christians to end discrimination against migrants

Posted by: Caecus on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 02:55 PM
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI called on Christians to shun all forms of discrimination and welcome the migrants in their midst.
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Gore: Bush does 'excessive power grab'

Posted by: Caecus on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 02:12 PM
	Former vice president calls for probe into warrantless wiretaps Monday, January 16, 2006; Posted: 4:35 p.m. EST (21:35 GMT) Former Vice President Al Gore called for a special counsel to investigate the NSA domestic spying program.
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Merry Christmas from SKT Grand Prior General McGrath!

Posted by: Caecus on Sunday, December 25, 2005 - 01:20 PM
To all Scottish Knight Templars, I hope all is well to our Order's Knights, families, and respected churches and community. How we have achieved much this year, and our achievements will serve to fuel our new goals for 2006.
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Earl Henry Sinclair's fictitious trip to America

Posted by: Caecus on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 04:53 PM
	(Note: We refer the source of this article to http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ahamilton/sinclair.htm) This article appears in the New Orkney Antiquarian Journal, vol. 2, 2002. It appears here with a few amendments. Endnotes are highlighted in the text thus (1) and clicking on the endnote number will take you to the endnote. Clicking [RETURN] at any endnote will bring you back to the section of text you were reading. You can e-mail Brian Smith from here. Henry Sinclair, an earl of Orkney of the late fourteenth century, didn't go to America. (1) It wasn't until 500 years after Henry's death that anybody suggested that he did. The sixteenth century text that eventually gave rise to all the claims about Henry and America certainly doesn't say so. What it says, in so many words, is that someone called Zichmni, with friends, made a trip to Greenland. None of Henry Sinclair's contemporaries or near-contemporaries ever claimed that he went to America; and none of the antiquaries who wrote about him in the seventeenth century said so either, although they made other absurd claims about him. The story is a modern myth, based on careless reading, wishful thinking and sometimes distortion, and during the past five years or so it has taken new outrageous forms.
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DaVinci code under the Microscope

Posted by: Caecus on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 05:38 PM
Merry Christmas to all SKT Knights worldwide, and here in the USA. The subject for this edition of Templar Round table will be on the issue of the dubious "Davinci code".
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Pope blasts commercial "contamination" of Christmas

Posted by: Caecus on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 03:38 PM
	Vatican, Dec. 12 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) decried the "contamination" of Christmas by commercialism, during his Angelus audience on Sunday, December 11.
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Indonesian Christian leaders join in call for Christmas calm

Posted by: Caecus on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 03:35 PM
Jakarta, Dec. 13 (AsiaNews) - Catholic and Protestant leaders in Indonesia have joined in a public statement urging Christians "not to be afraid" despite fears of terrorist attacks during the Christmas season, the AsiaNews service reports.
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Jerusalem patriarch calls for removal of Israeli wall

Posted by: Caecus on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 03:34 PM
	Bethlehem, Dec. 13 (CNA/CWNews.com) - The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, has called for the removal of the separation barrier being constructed between the West Bank and Israel.
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St. Malachy

Posted by: Caecus on Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 10:01 PM
St. Malachy, whose family name was O'Morgair, was born in Armagh in 1094. St. Bernard describes him as of noble birth. He was baptized Maelmhaedhoc (a name which has been Latinized as Malachy) and was trained under Imhar O'Hagan, subsequently Abbot of Armagh.
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Fears Hurricane Rita could reach New Orleans

Posted by: Caecus on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 09:03 PM
	Less than one month after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly swathe through New Orleans and across the US Gulf Coast, the region is bracing itself for yet another potentially catastrophic storm.
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Johnson County Family Faces Extreme Hardship due to Military Deployment and Illness

Posted by: Caecus on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 08:27 AM
Specialist 4 Ronald Singleton of Joshua was activated and deployed to Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. He left behind his wife, Cassandra and five children. His only income for several months has been his meager Army salary that undoubtedly fell well short of what was needed to support his large family. Additional hardship hit the family when Ronald was diagnosed with Leukemia.
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Templars support for victims of Hurricane Katrina

Posted by: Caecus on Monday, September 05, 2005 - 05:50 PM
	Scottish Knights Templars USA have aided victims of the horrendous Hurricane Katrina from New Orleans, and victims coming to Texas..
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