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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (KUTV) — The accused killer of her father has been arrested, but she believes the parolee suspect should have already been in prison. “He was a great guy, very quiet, very soft spoken,” said Kim Dixon of her beloved father, 82-year-old Farrell Bartschi. “Just a sweet guy.” This Father’s Day weekend, she is missing her dad, but after eight months since his death, the accused killer—Noel Munoz Lopez—is finally in custody. On a morning last October, Farrell Bartschi was on his daily walk in the neighborhood of 4200 West 3800 South in West Valley.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former South Florida talk show host Dick Farrel, known and beloved by fans for his over-the-top right-wing opinions, has died from complications from COVID-19. On Facebook, Farrel advocated against getting the coronavirus vaccine and was skeptical of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and his recommendations concerning the coronavirus. Friends said after contracting the virus he changed his point of view. "COVID took one of my best friends! RIP Dick Farrel. He is the reason I took the shot. He texted me and told me to 'Get...

New Dublin archbishop favors women deacons, blessing of rings for gay couplesDUBLIN, Ireland, January 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The new archbishop of Dublin, Ireland, Dermot Farrell, has come out in favor of female deacons and blessing rings for homosexual couples, while simultaneously attacking traditional Catholics.Pope Francis’s new appointee as archbishop of Dublin, Farrell, was most recently the bishop of Ossory in the south of Ireland, after having being moved to that post by the Pope in January 2018. Farrell is also the finance secretary for the Irish Bishops Conference.In an interview given to the Irish Times (the full text of...

Pontifical council re-issues document claiming unity between Catholic and Lutheran doctrineThe republication marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s excommunicationPope Francis next to a statue of Martin Luther placed in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall. October, 2016.VATICAN CITY, January 7, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) and the Lutheran World Foundation (LWF) have released an updated version of their joint document on justification to mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s excommunication from the Catholic Church. Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in 1521 by Pope Leo X, but the PCPU and the LWF...

Is Pope Francis’s Vatican turning into Richard Nixon’s White House? There was a point in the Watergate scandal when revelations came so thick and fast that journalists struggled to keep up with them. And we seem to have reached an equivalent point in respect to the scandals engulfing Pope Francis's Vatican. Last week I interviewed Vatican expert Ed Condon about the sacking of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, accused by the Pope of stealing or misusing unimaginable sums of Church money, something he denies. Since Ed and I spoke, there have been two developments, both in their own way hard to believe.  First,...

Pope Francis fills committee to monitor internal Vatican financial decisions Vatican City, Oct 5, 2020 / 06:45 am MT (CNA).- Pope Francis on Monday named Cardinal Kevin Farrell president of a committee to monitor internal Vatican financial decisions which fall outside of new accountability norms.Called the “Commission for Reserved Matters,” the five-member group is tasked with overseeing financial agreements which are exempted from Pope Francis’ new public contract law, promulgated June 1.In addition to Cardinal Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, Pope Francis named Archbishop Filippo Iannone, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, as...

[Catholic Caucus] Dallas Diocese’s Rampant Sex Abuse Culture Decades of sex abuse allegations revisited after police raid diocese The May 15 police raid on three distinct Dallas diocese locations climaxed a sordid history in Texas Catholicism. Dallas police on Wednesday executed a 42-page search warrant specific to St. Cecilia's Church, a storage facility owned by the diocese and the Dallas diocese's headquarters, seeking documentation related to clerical sexual abuse allegations. CBS News reports the network obtained an affidavit that depicts a disturbing course of events in which the diocese withheld from police 51 pages of details from the file of an...

Pope Francis names Cardinal Kevin Farrell camerlengo Vatican City, Feb 14, 2019 / 05:41 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis Thursday nominated a new camerlengo, Irish-American Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, and a former bishop of Dallas.The responsibilities of camerlengo include overseeing the preparations for a papal conclave and managing the administration of the Holy See in the period between a pope's death or renunciation and the election of a new pope.Farrell was one of several bishops about whom questions were raised last summer regarding prior knowledge of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick's misdeeds in...

Cardinal Farrell Accused of Failing to Report Abuse Farrell told victim his relationship with priest was "consensual" DALLAS (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Vatican cardinal is being accused of minimizing priestly sex abuse, characterizing one priest's sexual misconduct with a much younger male as consensual.  A lawsuit filed in May 2018 against the diocese of Dallas, Texas alleges that Fr. Timothy Heines "sexually, emotionally, and physically abused" a younger male (alias "John Doe") and that the diocese — then under the leadership of Bp. Kevin Farrell — failed to report the abuse. Fr. Timothy Heines Heines was ordained in Dallas in 1994, going on...

Cardinal Farrell says Amoris Laetitia is being welcomed by Catholics and opposition is “ideological” Cardinal Kevin Farrell says Pope Francis’ family life teaching is being well received by Catholics across the world and is only opposed by those who want to go back to a Church that “never existed”. The cardinal, who is Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life says that Amoris Laetitia does not need to be “corrected”. It is, he stresses, very clearly rooted in the gospel and sets out how to accompany married couples and families.  L’attualità va raccontata. Aiutaci a farlo sempre meglio...

DALLAS - Sources tell Banks of the Trinity that Kevin Cardinal Farrell is under investigation by the Keller Police Department regarding an allegation of abuse while he was bishop of Dallas.We will keep you updated as this story develops.

Fox Business bans guest who pushed conspiracy theory claiming people in the migrant caravan were getting money from the 'Soros-backed State Department' Fox Business pulled an episode of 'Lou Dobbs Tonight' after a guest made controversial remarks about Jewish philanthropist George Soros Judicial Watch official Chris Farrell suggested a Central American migrant caravan moving towards the US border was being funded by Soros A Fox News spokesman said Farrell will no longer be booked for its programs It comes days after a gunman killed 11 people in a Pittsburg synagogue Fox Business has pulled an episode of 'Lou Dobbs Tonight'...

According to The Hill, Fox Business Network [specifically Lou Dobbs’s show] will no longer book a guest who blamed the latest migrant caravan on the “Soros-occupied State Department.” “We condemn the rhetoric by the guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight,” Gary Schreier, senior vice president of programming for Fox Business, said in a statement, according to CNN. “This episode was a repeat which has now been pulled from all future airings.” A Fox News spokesperson told CNN that the guest, Judicial Watch head Chris Farrell, will no longer be booked on Fox Business Network or Fox News. He’s a very interesting...

Fox Business on Sunday said it pulled an episode of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" that contained what critics said was anti-Semitic sentiment just a day after a gunman killed 11 people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. In the segment, Judicial Watch official Chris Farrell claimed a Central American migrant caravan moving towards the U.S. southern border is being funded by the "Soros-occupied State Department." Farrell was referencing George Soros, a Jewish billionaire and political activist who routinely funds Democratic candidates and initiatives. “We condemn the rhetoric by the guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight. This episode was a repeat which has now...

Cardinal Farrell Is Lying About His Biography ChurchMilitant.com claims on Twitter (September 9) that Curia Cardinal Kevin Farrell “is lying”. Farrell told LaStampa.it (September 5) that he held during his years in the Legion of Christ “no position of authority” and never even heard anything negative about the founder, Father Marcial Maciel, who was accused of sexual abuses. In reality Farrell used to be General Administrator in the Legion of Christ which according to ChurchMilitant.com was a high-ranking position of great authority with supervisory authority over seminaries and schools in several countries. #newsSzbwdyzinz

The Italian traditionalist blog Messa in Latino (Mass in Latin) has reported that its own “internal sources” at the Vatican have confirmed a report by the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano on September 4, indicating that there is a possibly soon  to be revealed dossier on the American cardinal Kevin Farrell.Farrell, picked by Pope Francis as the prefect for the new Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, is the highest ranking prelate from the United States. He is also a former Legionary of Christ – under the tenure of their founder, the monstrous abuser Fr. Marcial Maciel – and also one of...

On August 24, 2018, Deacon Ray Dever of Tampa, Florida, assisted Cardinal Kevin Farrell at the closing Mass of the Pastoral Congress portion of the World Meeting of Families in Dublin. As reported by the gay website “The Advocate:”Deacon Ray Dever of Tampa, Fla., and his 25-year-old bi daughter, Emily Dever, plan to be “a visible presence” at the church event, according to a press release from New Ways Ministry, which advocates for LGBTQ equality in Catholicism.Deacon Dever is a frequent contributor to New Ways Ministry’s blog “Bondings 2.0” where he discusses his experiences being the father of a transgender...

As has been known for days, with a terse statement Pope Francis has announced that Theodore McCarrick, 88, archbishop emeritus of Washington, is no longer a cardinal, is under house arrest, must lead a life of prayer and penance, and is suspended “a divinis.” And all this while awaiting the results of the “regular canonical trial.” One must go back to 1927 to find a previous case of removal from the college of cardinals. That time the one to be stripped of the scarlet was the Jesuit Louis Billot, on account of his allegiance to the political movement “Action Française,”...

Detail of “The Cardinal’s Friendly Chat” by Jehan Georges Vibert (snapshot taken at the New Orleans Museum of Art) The Washington Post writes about its retired hometown cardinal, Uncle Teddy McCarrick. Once a globe-trotting representative of the Catholic Church worldwide and one of the architects of the church’s policy on sexual abuse, McCarrick’s precipitous fall over the past month has shocked Catholics, especially in Washington, where he was a popular archbishop from 2001 to 2006.McCarrick’s future now rests with Pope Francis, who as pontiff oversees the cardinals. Many church-watchers think this is a make-or-break moment for Francis because of McCarrick’s...

Pro-Gay Cardinal Lived In Same Apartment With Cardinal McCarrick Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 87, who is accused of having fondled seminarians and some minors, has been the big mentor of Cardinal Kevin Farrell, 70, the head of the Dicastery for Laity, Family [sic!] and Life. McCarrick made Farrell an Washington auxiliary bishop in 2001. The two liberal prelates even shared an apartment together with two priest secretaries, according to Washingtonian.com (October 2004). [As Newark Archbishop (1986-2000) McCarrick hired Father Kenneth Martin, a homosexual abuser, as his personal secretary.] In 2007 Farrell was promoted to Dallas. He even paid tribute to McCarrick...