Free Republic

Artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction. It’s part of daily life. But as AI becomes more powerful, serious spiritual questions have been raised: Is AI the Antichrist? Is AI connected to end times? And how should Christians think about AI? In my recent podcast, we cover the topic of AI because it isn’t something to discuss in the future. These are questions for right now. Is AI the Antichrist? The Bible tells us that in the last days, there’s going to be a world figure that will emerge—the Antichrist, also called the Beast and the Wicked One. I don’t...

The Bible describes a future period in which authority is concentrated not solely in traditional kingdoms, but in a limited number of powerful figures who operate beyond national boundaries. And that is why I am paying close attention to President Trump’s Board of Peace. Here are some fast facts: 1) President Trump will serve as chairman and wield considerable overall control. It will help resolve conflicts globally. He has the sole authority to invite new members and appoint a successor. 2) Global peace seems to be their goal, though they will participate in other global duties as well. The immediate...

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Dannon, wrote an opinion article titled, “Why are Jews still attacked worldwide?” To answer this staggering question, Danon wrote: International Holocaust Remembrance Day is meant to stop time. To force the world to confront the industrial murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. We remember these atrocities because memory is supposed to protect the future and because education is meant to prevent repetition. But honoring the victims demands more than ritual; it demands responsibility. That is why remembrance ceremonies take place, year after year,...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis ‘secret decrees’ undermined defendants’ rights in Cdl. Becciu trial, lawyers sayDefense attorneys told Vatican judges that unpublished papal decrees unlawfully expanded prosecutorial powers and violated Cdl. Angelo Becciu’s fundamental rights under Vatican law.Defense lawyers have told the Vatican appeals tribunal that “secret decrees” issued by Pope Francis unlawfully expanded prosecutorial powers and undermined the fundamental rights of defendants in Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s trial.On Tuesday, during the resumption of the appeals phase of the Vatican’s so-called trial of the century, defense attorneys for Becciu and eight co-defendants argued before the Vatican City State Tribunal that four confidential...

[Catholic Caucus] To negotiate with the Tradition, nothing better than «Tucho»There are appointments that explain on their own the concept of “unity” that Rome handles. Leo XIV has decided to entrust the dialogue with the Society of Saint Pius X to Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, universally known as “Tucho”. And no, it’s not a joke or an ironic provocation: it’s the official decision at the most delicate moment in relations with the FSSPX in decades.Read also: Leo XIV entrusts “Tucho” with direct dialogue with the FSSPXIt is worth pausing for a second and looking at the full picture. The Society...

[Catholic Caucus] God’s Inclusive Love Respects Homosexuals – Archbishop SciclunaGod dwells within every human life and this idea can offer consolation and direction to homosexual Catholics, writes pro-homosexual Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna on the pro-homosexual Outreach.faith (February 3) His text employes psychological categories and rhetoric such as “feelings”, “wounds”, “weaknesses”, “fear”, “self-punishment”, “self-doubt”, “dependence”, “healing”, and so on. As if there were no sin, Monsignor Scicluna claims that “our stories, relationships, questions and identities are never beyond God’s loving gaze”. He believes that “our lived experiences—including our questions, wounds and hopes—are not obstacles to God, but places of encounter”. “Many...

Faith FactsA federal court in Pakistan gave custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a Muslim man who kidnapped and forcibly converted her to Islam.The court dismissed official documents proving her age and ignored previous judicial findings declaring the marriage illegal.Legal advocates and the girl’s family denounced the decision as a threat to the protection of Christian minors.A Christian family in Pakistan is mourning a court ruling that handed their 13-year-old daughter to her abductor, undermining official records and disregarding the sanctity of childhood.Despite clear evidence and appeals from her parents, judicial authorities ignored the girl’s legal birth documents and...

FReepers have a finely-honed enthusiasm for reporting on, and then bludgeoning, the never-ending series of our political leaders’ failures and frauds. It’s why dear Jim created this site, and it’s what we do. But perhaps our relentless jaundiced-eye could benefit from a dose of prophetic context.Those present during the coming millennium will behold an altogether new kind of leader, one who never succumbs, not even once, to the pressures and temptations to which our current politicians so readily surrender. For a thousand years, the King of Kings will be the ideal leader. I think it’s worth taking a moment to...

Human fraternity is an urgent necessity, Pope writes in Zayed Award messageIn a message for the International Day of Human Fraternity and the awarding of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity, Pope Leo XIV paid tribute to “what is most precious and universal in our humanity: our fraternity, that unbreakable bond which unites every human being, created in the image of God.”Both the day and the award recall the Document on Human Fraternity, signed on February 4, 2019, by Pope Francis and Sunni Muslim leader Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar in Egypt, during Pope Francis’s apostolic journey...

[Catholic Caucus] Interview with the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X“Suprema lex, salus animarum”.“The supreme law is the salvation of souls.” The entire legitimacy of our apostolate ultimately depends on this higher principle.1. SSPX News: Mr. Superior General, you have just publicly announced your intention to proceed with episcopal consecrations for the Society of Saint Pius X on July 1st . Why did you make this announcement today, February 2nd?Father Davide Pagliarani: The Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary is very significant in the Fraternity. It is the day when candidates for the priesthood...

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. James Martin tells Stephen Colbert that Pope Leo plans to continue Francis’ LGBT agendaFr. James Martin said that 'the message I got from (Leo) was that he’s continuing Pope Francis’ mission and message of welcome and inclusion and he wants that to be broadcast.' During an appearance on left-wing comedian Stephen Colbert’s late night talk show Tuesday, celebrity priest James Martin revealed that Pope Leo told him he plans to continue Pope Francis’ LGBT agenda.After explaining that during an audience with Leo last year where “initially we talked about ministry to LGBT Catholics,” Martin said that “the...

Say "NO!" to a Global Digital ID

[Catholic Caucus] SSPX Episcopal Consecrations: All About SoulsIn his sermon for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Father Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), announced his decision to “entrust the bishops of the Society with the task of proceeding with new episcopal consecrations, on 1 July next.” Many people — perhaps even some with good will and a basic knowledge about Catholicism— may misunderstand almost everything associated with this decision.However, as we can see from the passages from Fr. Pagliarani’s sermon that follow, one thing should become abundantly clear...

Bishop Eleganti: The Church is suffering ‘internal schism’ because pope, bishops ‘tolerate heresies’The healing of the Church could only happen if heresies were clearly identified as such by the pope, and their representatives and promoters (activists) were excommunicated again if they did not want to repent.Preliminary remark from Bishop Marian Eleganti: I was inspired to write this article by an Eric Sammons piece in Crisis Magazine with similar content: “Is a Leonine Unity Even Possible?” I agree with this view.(LifeSiteNews) — Vladimir Soloviev writes: “The ‘Latins’, as you call the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, have never abandoned the...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider Severely Criticizes Cardinal Roche's ReportInterviewed by Diane Montagna, Bishop Schneider challenges the historical assumptions and theological premises underlying Cardinal Arthur Roche's document. He maintains that the report does not reflect an impartial and thorough analysis, but rather an ideological approach marked by what he calls "rigid clericalism." Bishop Schneider argues that the Mass most faithful to the Council was the Ordo Missae of 1965, and that the form later promulgated by Pope Paul VI—the Novus Ordo Missae—was substantially rejected by the first Synod of Bishops after the Council in 1967. He disputes the interpretation of the...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: ‘I cannot remain silent’ as confusion in the Church deepensThe greatest danger facing the Church today is not persecution from the outside. The Church has endured emperors, revolutions, prisons, martyrdom; the deeper danger today is confusion within.My brothers and sisters in Christ,There are moments in the life of the Church when a shepherd feels a weight that cannot be ignored. Not a political pressure. Not a media storm. But a quiet, insistent sense of responsibility before God. A sense that silence, however comfortable it might seem, is no longer faithful. READ: Scholars break down why Zionism...

The list of 70 names in Genesis 10 is often called the Table of Nations because each man named was the original ancestor of an ethnic group that later became a nation. These post-diluvian men are the sons and descendants of Noah’s three sons. Japeth was Noah’s eldest son. His descendants are mentioned in Genesis 10:2-5. Japeth had seven sons. “The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras” (Genesis 10:2). Three of these names appear in the prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39. Magog, the second son of Japeth, fathered the children who...

On Jan. 19, 2026, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) staff reported that Israel’s Finance Minister and head of the Religious Zionist Party, Bezalel Smotrich, said: Israel should issue Hamas a short ultimatum for disarmament and true exile, and once it expires—Israel should storm Gaza with all its might, destroy Hamas militarily and civilly, open the Rafah crossing with or without Egyptian consent, and allow Gaza residents to leave and seek their future elsewhere, where they won’t endanger the future of our children. This was the simple, self-evident position of the overwhelming majority of Israelis in the days after the massacre...

[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV has a problem, his name is CupichThe Cardinal and Archbishop of Chicago's interventionism in matters of internal and ecclesiastical politics, such as his attacks on the ancient rite, risks causing difficulties for the Pope, who favours unity. Cupich is approaching 77 years of age. When will he resign from his position as leader of the archdioceseLeo XIV has a problem called Blase Cupich. The loquacity of America's most liberal cardinal risks putting his fellow countryman, the Pope, in a difficult position. Recently, the Archbishop of Chicago decided to lead the opposition against the Trump administration. In...

Cardinal McElroy fans the flamesBy now all responsible public leaders have recognized the need to dial down the rhetoric and de-escalate the confrontations in Minnesota. Yet Cardinal Robert McElroy has joined with several other religious leaders in Washington to rouse passions still further, beyond their already dangerous heights.“The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti,” the religious leaders’ joint statement begins. Right away that opening statement signals their choice to use inflammatory language. They could have spoken in neutral terms about the “deaths” of those two people. Or “killings” would have been perfectly accurate, and conveyed a better sense of...