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25 August 2026 Tuesday of week 21 in Ordinary Time St Louis Cathedral Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading2 Thessalonians 2:1-3,14-17Stand firm and keep the traditions we have taught youTo turn, brothers, to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and how we shall all be gathered round him: please do not get excited too soon or alarmed by any prediction or rumour or any letter claiming to come from us, implying that the Day of the Lord has already arrived. Never let anyone deceive you in this way. Through the Good News that we brought God...

"[Love] believes all things" (1 Cor. 13:7). Love always expects the best of others. In Luke 15 Jesus tells a parable about a father who had two sons. The younger son asked for his share of the family inheritance, then left home and squandered it on sinful pursuits. When he realized his folly, he decided to return home and ask his father's forgiveness. So "he got up and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him, and kissed him. And the...

The ad begins with a poor Russian peon, bundled up for the harsh winter, cautiously asking a stern sentry about what he is guarding. “Is toilet paper.” “Is good?” “Is cheap,” replies the soldier. The word spreads down the ranks of the people standing in line at the store. “Cheap toilet paper!” they say in astonished turn. One gets his hands on some: it bends and folds, as if it’s not toilet “paper” at all but lengths of semi-raw wood pulp. For some reason that television commercial from the mid-’80s has come to mind quite a lot lately. It was...

If you live in an Islamic or communist society and you feel like somebody’s always watching you, you’re right because both systems demand it. In revealing the commonalities of the Reds and the Greens in the Red-Green Axis, we have elucidated the shared goals of communists and Muslims, including violence, monopoly rule by elites, slaughter, etc. (See the full list of essays exposing these commonalities at the end of this article.) Here, we explore surveillance, informants, and social enforcement networks. Islamic political systems and Marxist-Leninist communism both built what have, through the present, been permanent institutions for watching their own...

Torrential rains caused a gigantic pile of garbage to become a deadly landslide in Guinea’s capital city of Conakry on Sunday morning, killing at least 30 people as homes were completely buried under the avalanche of refuse. City sanitation officers said the Dar Es Salam landfill, the largest trash dump in Conakry, was supposed to be shut down on Sunday. Minister of Territorial Administration Djenab Toure announced on Thursday that trash from the unsafe landfill would be relocated to a dump further from the city, which has a population of about two million. The same site produced a deadly landslide...

When we took over, the FBI Laboratory faced a DNA-processing backlog of more than 1.81 MILLION samples. Today: ZERO. 🔺 1.81M+ samples processed 🔺 Backlog had been growing by roughly 75,000 samples per month 🔺 Hundreds of thousands of samples were arriving each year 🔺 Profiles can help solve homicides, sexual assaults, mass shootings, and other violent crimes 🔺 Equipment upgraded 🔺 Resources redirected 🔺 Technology improved 🔺 Bureaucratic barriers removed DNA profiles belong in CODIS helping law enforcement solve crimes—not stalled in a government backlog. Under President Trump’s leadership, we are rebuilding the FBI around one standard: MISSION FIRST....

Did Demons Create the First Atomic Bombs? Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs, 81 years ago, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9). This August has been no exception. As ever, many critics have faulted the United States for the bombings: two gruesome blasts—aimed at dual-use military and industrial targets in both cities—that may have caused some 100,000–120,000 immediate deaths among combatants and civilians. And not all these critics are on the Left. Two years ago, podcaster Tucker Carlson blasted the Truman administration’s...

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The electric car market grew by 20% from 2024 to exceed 20 million sales. The sales share of electric cars in the overall car market increased to 25%. about 5% of the global car stock is now electrified, displacing 1.2 million barrels of oil per day in 2025. In a growing number of countries, the electric car sales share has recently surpassed 10%. Close to 55% of new cars sold in China were electric in 2025 More than 13 million electric cars were sold in China in 2025. Monthly electric car sales exceeded a 50% sales share in 11 out...

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Feds busted an airport worker and a friend from turning an LAX men’s restroom into a drug den after the duo was caught allegedly transporting 24 pounds of fentanyl. A 24-year-old LAX worker named Miguel Angel Tuz-Noh and 23-year-old Anthony Olvera – both from Lennox in South Bay – were arrested after allegedly attempting to transport fentanyl meant for a Minnesota-bound flight. “Both defendants were arrested on August 19 and made their initial appearances on August 21 in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. A federal magistrate judge ordered each of them released on $10,000 bond. Their arraignments...

A woman who listed her home address as a local bar while running for Stockton City Council has dropped out of the race after she was arrested on multiple felony charges. Desiree Lynch, who was running for the District 5 seat, withdrew from the race Monday, effective immediately, according to her attorney, Allen Sawyer, KCRA News 3 reported. “Today Ms. Lynch resigned and withdrew from the race effective immediately,” Sawyer said in a statement. “In light of the legal process she is facing, there will be no other comment on this matter. Ms. Lynch is focused on taking care of...

The call to prayer is sounding across America. From Hamtramck, Michigan, to Paterson, New Jersey, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, rooftop amplifiers remind growing numbers of Muslim faithful five times a day of their duties with the Arabic message that “Allah is the Greatest! There is no god but Allah!”… Like Polish, German, Irish, and Italian immigrants before them, American Muslims now control several small cities. These include Hamtramck, which has an all-Muslim city council, as well as midsize cities like neighboring Dearborn. They are also wielding influence in large metropolises like New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top staff is...

Marketed as a Neolithic and Roman find, the site was in fact assembled with concrete and grouted stone blocks. A man in northern Italy has been sent to prison after Italy's highest court gave final confirmation to his conviction for illegally constructing a fake ancient theater and presenting it to the public as a genuine archaeological site, charging visitors an entrance fee of up to 40 euros. The structure still stands in Arcugnano, in the province of Vicenza. It consists of tiered stone seating built from stacked stones that were worked to look ancient. The columns are fake too, made...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. But these you should have done, without neglecting the others. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!” Matthew 23:23–24Over the course of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, the Church presents nearly all of Chapter 23 of Matthew’s Gospel, which contains Jesus’ powerful denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees. This confrontation took place in the Temple area during Passover week—the days...

The United States on Monday formally removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a move Secretary of State Marco Rubio said eliminates the final major barriers to investment and economic recovery in the country. Rubio said in a statement that he had authorized the formal rescission after a mandatory 45-day congressional notification period ended. President Donald Trump had initiated the countdown in July after confirming to Congress that Syria’s government had ceased supporting acts of international terrorism. "I have also delisted Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) designation as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT)," Rubio said Monday. "These...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is slamming Donald Trump as a 'loser' and the 'king of bankruptcies' after the US president criticized him on social media Monday afternoon. In a post on Truth Social, Trump referred to Ford by name as 'the less charismatic, intelligence, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford." The post came hour after an interview with "The Morning Rush with Bill Carroll" in Ottawa in which Ford said that Trump could 'kiss my *ss". At a news conference in Hamilton on Monday afternoon, Ford initially said that he wouldn't respond to a 'dictator' and...

Kameron Glasgow with his wife, Kenya Glasgow, and their daughters, Kennedi and Kensli. A Fort Lauderdale father is mourning the loss of his wife and young daughter Monday after a lightning strike a day earlier took their lives. Kameron Glasgow said his 31-year-old wife, Kenya Glasgow, and their 2-year-old daughter Kennedi were getting out of their car in front of a family member’s Margate home when the lightning hit. Kennedi’s twin sister, Kensli, was still in the car, and Kameron was about 15 feet away — where he felt the aftershock. “It’s the worst feeling in the world to turn...