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[Catholic Caucus] Largest ever survey of US Catholics shows faithful want an end to Communion in the handThe largest survey of Catholics in the United States ever conducted found that the faithful overwhelmingly say that receiving Holy Communion in the hand has led to loss of faith in the Eucharist and that they want a restoration of traditional liturgical practices.The largest survey of U.S. Catholics ever conducted shows that the faithful want reverent, solemn worship and an end to distributing Holy Communion in the hand and the use of extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion.On Tuesday, the Real Presence Coalition (RPC)...

In her recent interview on The View, Vice President Kamala Harris was asked what differentiates her from President Joe Biden. The question suggests that for Harris to win she must show how she is different from Joe Biden. We believe that she can win over Donald Trump’s falsehoods by forcefully articulating the true triumphs of the Biden-Harris Administration, starting with the economy. To date, she has proudly call herself a “capitalist” promoting programs that champion business growth, from small businesses to global dynamos, in addition to proposing tax cuts for start-ups, preserving sensible trade policies, and promising independence of the...

Fulton County DA Fani Willis sent a scathing letter to the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee demanding that her lover, Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to spearhead the prosecution of former President Donald Trump on Georgia RICO charges, should not have to answer certain questions before Congress, because the proceedings could compel Wade to "improperly divulge confidential information." Willis contacted the committee's chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), ahead of Wade's deposition slated to take place Tuesday, arguing that it could interfere with the Trump case. On X, the House Judiciary GOP posted a copy of the Democrat DA's letter addressed...

It’s not every day that humans launch a space mission of such potential as it was done on Monday in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket was launched on a quest to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life. The mission will take the spacecraft Europa Clipper five and a half years to reach Jupiter, orbit around the Solar system’s largest planet and sneak close to its fourth largest moon, Europa. Associated Press reported: “Scientists are almost certain a deep, global ocean exists beneath Europa’s icy crust. And...

A proud dad posted a TikTok video bragging about his 10-year-old ‘trans’ son going on a date in a mini-skirt, and suffice to say the reaction on X wasn’t very enthusiastic. “(This is) my daughter Edie and today is a big day because she’s going on her first date,” states the dad. The child then twirls in a mini-skirt and explains how he has bought his date some gifts, including four Stranger Things Funko Pop toys. “I also got him this iPad so he can face time me, I’ll also be keeping this if the date isn’t going well,” says...

A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), led by Prof. Jianwei Pan, Qiang Zhang, and Kai Chen, in collaboration with CHEN Jingling from Nankai University, has achieved the loophole-free test of Hardy's paradox for the first time. The team successfully demonstrated Hardy's nonlocality, closing both the detection efficiency loophole and the locality loophole...Hardy's paradox, introduced by Lucien Hardy in the 1990s, offers a simplified test of local realism—the classical idea that physical properties exist independently of observation and that no signals exceed the speed of light. This...

While vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former Rep. Liz Cheney used an encrypted phone app to directly and indirectly communicate around defense counsel --and possibly ethical rules -- with a witness who would later change her testimony in shocking fashion, according to evidence obtained by congressional investigators and Just the News. Cheney’s Signal communications with witness Cassidy Hutchinson on June 6, 2022 and her friend, Alyssa Farah Griffin, were recently obtained by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee that has identified significant problems with the original Democrat-run inquiry...

Discoveries made during excavations in Oxford have confirmed the original defensive perimeter of the then Anglo-Saxon town.An area around Oriel College was investigated by Oxford Archaeology during refurbishment works on its bar and kitchens.Experts found the remains of a ditch, indicating where the defences originally stood, confirming that Oxford in about 900AD was much smaller than the medieval town it went on to become...Excavations outside the Bodleian Library in 1899 previously revealed a section of wall thought to be the original town's north-eastern corner...Oxford Archaeology said it gave "credibility" to theories that the early fortified Oxford was smaller and had...

Republican Senate candidates have the edge in three critical states where they can flip blue seats red, while several other races are either on a knife’s edge or show Republicans within striking distance, according to a National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) polling memorandum. The memo, first published by Politico on Tuesday, shows Republicans ahead in Montana, Ohio, and Wisconsin against three Democrat incumbents. This is a major development considering Democrats currently hold a 51-49 seat majority in the Senate. If West Virginia’s senate race breaks for Republicans, as expected, and GOP incumbents successfully defend their seats while bringing home these...

HOUSTON, TX — As the world still celebrated the astonishing accomplishment of SpaceX catching its returning Starship, NASA officials were baffled at how Elon Musk managed to succeed without as many gay non-binary Muslim dwarfs of color as they have. SpaceX's historic achievement occurred despite not making diversity and inclusion its top priority, leaving NASA in awe that such a feat could be pulled off without the mandated involvement of underrepresented people groups. "Not a single transgender dwarf of color on the team! How does this guy do it?" one high-ranking NASA official marveled. "We devote all of our time...

Time and time and time again, “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” and other similar words are being used as excuses to dumb down educational standards.Here are 24 examples:1) The New York Times wrote, “The Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.”Original: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html?_r=0Archive: https://archive.ph/GzyQM2) The New York Times wrote, “A 2009 Princeton study showed Asian-Americans had to score 140 points higher on their SATs than whites, 270 points higher...

The star of a controversial new film about Donald Trump has said the former president "should be grateful" that it provides a "complex, three-dimensional take" on his life. US actor Sebastian Stan portrays Trump in The Apprentice, which focuses on Trump's younger years as a real estate tycoon in New York. The former president has threatened to take legal action against producers, describing the film as "fake and classless" and saying he hoped it would "bomb" at the box office. The film struggled to find a distributor in the US and its director has described the process of making and...

Former President Donald Trump has widened his lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the battleground state of North Carolina. A new telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and American Thinker finds that, if the election were held today, 51% of Likely North Carolina voters would vote for Trump, while 46% would vote for Harris. In September, Trump had a three-point lead – 49% to Harris’s 46% – in North Carolina.

Russia is reportedly assembling a battalion of North Korean nationals to help push Ukraine's forces out of Kursk. -snip- In an apparent effort to remedy its waning forces, the North Korean soldiers will form a "special Buryat battalion," named after the Mongolic ethnic group, indigenous to the region spanning Siberia as well as northern Mongolia and China. -snip- The battalion is anticipated to comprise up to 3,000 North Korean soldiers and is currently being equipped with small arms and ammunition. This North Korean unit will complement the Buryat presence in the Russian army, currently one of the most overrepresented groups...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson announced a multi-million dollar lawsuit against both a major news network and a local musician over multiple published reports that Robinson claims are defamatory. On Tuesday, Robinson and his attorney, Jesse Binnall, who represented former Pres. Donald Trump in multiple cases including his unsuccessful attempts to have the 2020 election thrown out, announced in a Tuesday morning news conference that they had filed a defamation lawsuit. They accuse The Assembly and CNN of publishing false articles in September that allege that Robinson frequented a pornographic video store and pornographic message...

Explanation: How bright and strange will the tails of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS become? The comet has brightened dramatically over the few weeks as it passed its closest to the Sun and, just three days ago, passed its closest to the Earth. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) became of the brightest comets of the past century over the past few days, but was unfortunately hard to see because it was so nearly superposed on the Sun. As the comet appears to move away from the Sun, it is becoming a remarkable sight -- but may soon begin to fade. The featured animated video shows...

Itay Shabi: ''For five hours I hid under a tree, when the terrorists passed by my side. I felt that God protected me from the terrorists. That morning of Simchat Torah, Shabi started it with me like most of the residents of the Gaza Envelope with a series of loud alarms and explosions. "Immediately we understood that we were at war. The intensity of the barrages left no doubt that we were in an event on an unusual scale. Something we had never experienced before. However, in the first few minutes we did not understand what was happening, but we...

Forty-nine House Democrats signed an open letter to Fortune 1,000 chief executives asking them to affirm their commitment to their workplace equality initiatives, amid heightened backlash and legal challenges to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs. “We write to call on you to reject division and continue supporting programs, policies, and initiatives that give everyone a fair chance at achieving the American Dream,” read the Tuesday letter, led by Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.). Garcia and his colleagues made the case that supporting programs that foster inclusion is smart for business, since, the lawmakers said in the letter, if the...

NATIONAL CHEESE CURD DAY On October 15, National Cheese Curd Day celebrates the velvety goodness of cheese curds. #NationalCheeseCurdDay Cheese Curds are unique, funky, snackable little pieces of yellow or white Wisconsin cheddar cheese. Many restaurants coat and deep-fry them to a golden brown. When you bite into one, first expect a warm buttery crunch on the outside. The next delicious taste will be an ooey-gooey burst of dairyland delicacy on the inside. What are they? Well, cheesemaking naturally creates cheese curds. Fresh ones squeak when you bite into them. Cheesemakers create different flavors to appease the growing number of...

An anti-sex trafficking activist claims that the trafficking of migrant girls has exploded since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration, according to a Monday report from the Free Press. A woman who identified herself as “Lisa” and runs a non-profit organization dedicated to dismantling sex trafficking rings said that the number of girls being trafficked has drastically changed in just the past few years as open border policies have made it easier for criminals to operate in the U.S., according to a report by the Free Press. The claims follow hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) from Latin...