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Daniel Snyder was fired from his job as a metalworker because he objected to his employer’s use of a rainbow to promote gay pride month. Snyder, who worked for the global aluminum manufacturing giant Arconic, is suing his former employer claiming religious discrimination. As I wrote in my new book, “Twilight’s Last Gleaming,” religious liberty is under fierce attack in the nation. Click here to read my book. “Because of his Christian beliefs, Mr. Snyder respects all people regardless of their sexuality, and he previously worked alongside a transgender individual at Arconic without any issues,” said Thomas More Society attorney...

NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo tore into President Joe Biden on Thursday, accusing the White House of sending a “mixed message” on Israel and warning him that no amount of political pressure — even from within his own party — was an “excuse to be weak.” Cuomo was responding to Biden’s Thursday call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which he reportedly pressured the Israeli leader to move ahead with a ceasefire in Gaza despite the fact that the terrorist group Hamas — which started the current war with an unprovoked attack on October 7th and is still holding Israeli and...

CNN, 'The Whole Story,' 7 April 2024. "Hostages: The road home." Bianna Golodryga: Yarden Roman-Gat understands Arabic, but spoke with her captors in English... Yarden: They only want one thing. Jihad Their aim is to get the world to be Islamic. They spoke about it that all the time. They want an Islamic State Bianna: Israel should not exist? No two states? Yarden: No. No. They want "a world of Islamic state."

“Blessed Are Those Who Have Not Seen and Yet Have Believed” (John 20:19-31) Suppose you happened to be indoors all afternoon tomorrow. And the next day people say to you, “Hey, how about that eclipse yesterday?” And you say, “Sorry, I didn’t see it. Therefore, since I didn’t see it, it must not have happened.” Now that would be ridiculous. Just because you didn’t see it, there were plenty of people who did. Just because you didn’t see it, it still happened. Yeah, as crazy as it sounds for the sun to turn pitch black in the middle of the...

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#MohammadRezaZahedi, one of the top commanders of the #QudsForce, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the building next to the Iranian embassy in #Damascus. He has been involved in killing people in the Kurdistan of Iran and killing children in Syria.

I don't consider President Joe Biden to be a true Catholic. I grew up in the Catholic Church, which you may have guessed by my very Irish surname. Admittedly, some things about the Church are still a mystery to me. I'm no Biblical scholar, and I can't detail every Catholic ritual. I'm rather unremarkable in being especially 'good' at any form of Christianity, often half-jokingly saying, "I expect to be in Heaven, just with really bad seats." I wouldn't disqualify anyone as a person of faith based on sinful actions, I expect imperfection. That doesn't mean they are not a...

Welcome here we are on what is considered a Holy Week culminating on Easter Sunday the Resurrection Of Christ and lets bring in Russell Brand... One can say the name of "the Lord" proclaim it loudly but in the end one must do what Jesus would do act like "the Lord"... "As soon as we begin to implement these destructive thoughts about the fact that everyone else is strangers here, we will ruin the country, and the main victims will the Russian people..."... "The well-being of the people of both countries, as well as the future and destiny of humanity,...

“Just as He Told You” (Mark 16:1-8) Alleluia! Christ is risen! (He is risen indeed! Alleluia!) You say that with such conviction! And well you should. For Christ’s resurrection is the heart and soul of our hope as Christians. Brothers and sisters, our Lord Jesus Christ has conquered sin and death for us. He has secured for us the sure and certain hope of our own resurrection and everlasting life. Which makes our Gospel reading today a little strange. It doesn’t end the way we would like. We would want the woman at the tomb, who had just heard those...

“The Great Good Friday Eclipse” (Mark 15:1-47) It’s early afternoon on an early spring day, with lots of people in town, and the sky turns completely dark. No, I’m not talking about what will happen here on April 8, when Greenwood and the whole Indianapolis area will lie in the path of totality of a solar eclipse, and lots of people will be here to experience that rare event. No, I’m talking about what happened in Jerusalem back on the day when Jesus was crucified. On that day, lots of people were in town for the Passover festival. And on...

Spring is a wonderful time of year. Despite T.S. Eliot’s line that “April is the cruelest month,” spring is a time of renewal, a good time to remind ourselves to open up to new facets of life. One of the best things about spring, to me, is the opening of the baseball season. I am a fervent baseball fan. To me, there is a good deal of metaphysics in baseball. You start out at a place called home, then you go on a little journey like the Prodigal Son, the aim being to return home. The ones who go home...

This week, President Biden, in observance of the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, condemned "the hate that Muslims face because of their beliefs and the ugly resurgence of Islamophobia following the war in Gaza. Let us rededicate ourselves to a world where people of all faiths are free to live without fear." Meanwhile, Imam Abdou Zindani observed the International Day to Combat Islamophobia by saying "one day Muslims will slaughter Jews like sheep." A poll in Palestine found that 71% see the October 7 attack and massacre of unarmed civilian Israeli Jews as a good decision and that 93% do...

Here is the latest news on little Allie Rose. Allie is 4 years old and still in Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). In January Allie became very sick and her illness was a puzzle to medical people. She slipped into a coma and was in that state for about 6 weeks. In a stunning example of the power of prayers, Allie woke and was able to appropriately smile. She is expected to be in CHOP for at least another several months. At this point Allie is out of ICU and breathing on her own but still having important difficulties. During...

“Love to Receive, Love to Give” (John 13:1-17, 31b-35) “Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” Yes, Jesus did that. And he also tells his disciples: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” And so our message tonight is all about love: The love with which Jesus loved us, and then the love he would have us give to one another. “Love to Receive, Love to Give.” First of all, love to receive. This...

The Second Great American Eclipse By Laramie Hirsch “The LORD said to Moses, ‘If they do not believe you and are not convinced by the first miraculous sign, they will be convinced by the second sign’.” -Exodus 4:8 “All the world’s a stage.” -William Shakespeare There has been a large amount of discussion in regards to the upcoming 2024 eclipse over the United States. A lot of the conversation revolves around Providential, prophetic themes of omens and eschatology. It therefore probably behooves us to have an exhaustive, comprehensive overview of the facts and implications for all who are interested in...

HOW MANY AMERICANS, with the help of God in sincere humble prayer, truly live all of the Ten Commandments according to God (Ex 20:2-17; Deut 5:6-21; CCC 1858-2557), not according to the world or according to their own subjective interpretation? (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of the special formatting is lost, such as bold, italics, underlined words and embedded links. To read the document with the formatting and embedded links go to the link of the document.) THE TRUTH COMES FROM GOD, NOT FROM THE CHURCH. The Church is the servant of the...

In normal circumstances, the Oscars could be filed under “things I don’t watch.” However, something occurred during the recent awards ceremony that should be addressed—in particular, the following statement by Jonathan Glazer, director of the Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest,” which won the Academy Award for best international film : “We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza—all the victims of this dehumanization.” This statement...

“Reserved for a King” (Mark 11:1-10) Our story today starts out with “a colt tied.” As our text says, “You will find a colt tied.” But no, I’m not talking about finding Peyton Manning tied with Brett Favre at 186 regular-season wins. This is not about an Indianapolis Colt. This is about a different colt, in a different town, tied in a different way. The colt I’m talking about is the one that Jesus uses to ride into Jerusalem on. Jesus sends two of his disciples ahead to get it: “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately...

“The Passion of Our Lord: ‘Eloi, Eloi, Lema Sabachthani?’” (Mark 15:33-47) “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” So cries Jesus from the cross, as found in Matthew and Mark, where it is the only word from the cross that is recorded. “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” What is so striking about this is that it is spoken, and recorded for us, in another language. That language is Aramaic, which is sort of a cousin to Hebrew. Aramaic was the everyday language that Jewish people like Jesus spoke at that time. And we find several places in the gospels where Jesus’ words in Aramaic...

“Not to Be Served But to Serve” (Mark 10:32-45) Let me start out our message today with a question. Here it is. Which of these two statements is true: a) “A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none,” or b) “A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all.” Which one is true? Actually, the correct answer is c) “both of the above.” A Christian is both a perfectly free lord of all and a perfectly dutiful servant of all. It was Martin Luther who set forth these two seemingly contradictory propositions in...