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A Mississippi grandmother was arrested Tuesday after officials found a baby girl stabbed, placed into a hot oven on Monday night. Carolyn Jones, 48, is charged with first-degree murder for the death of her granddaughter in Shaw, Miss., Bolivar County Sheriff Kelvin Williams confirmed to NBC News on Tuesday. The infant, 20-month-old Royalty Marie Floyd, was found by a relative who then contacted the Shaw Police Department. Upon arriving at the scene, the police contacted the Bolivar County Sheriff's Office for assistance. Royalty had been living with Jones at the time of her death the sheriff's office said in a...

Young people are idealistic and want clarity, the cardinal saidJust because some young people disagree with Catholic moral teaching, including in the area of sexuality, it does not mean the Church’s teachings are unclear or should change, Cardinal Robert Sarah told the Synod of Bishops. The Church and its pastors should “courageously propose the Christian ideal corresponding to Catholic moral doctrine and not water it down, hiding the truth to attract young people to the bosom of the Church,” the cardinal told the synod on Tuesday. Cardinal Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, noted how...

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From Patrick Reilly of the Cardinal Newman Society, via the National Catholic Register, comes this ominous warning: At the Youth Synod in Rome this week, one of the bishops’ discussion groups made some disappointing and ignorant comments about Catholic homeschoolers.In one of the English-language discussion groups at the Synod, a summary of the conversation included these disturbing notes: Home based schools—a model coming from America. USA has many home schoolers—bishops in USA are not united, as homeschooling can have an ideological basis—kids may have special needs are parents qualified to homeschool them?Let’s answer that last question first. Yes, parents are...

Facebook blacklisted the conservative news page run by disabled Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage with no warning or explanation — after he reportedly spent more than $300,000 on Facebook advertising.On his new website which aims to put an end to social media censorship, Air Force veteran and triple-amputee Brian Kolfage explains who he is and the challenges he’s facing stating: “I'm a veteran of The United States Air Force. I was severely wounded in Combat, on 9/11/2004 while serving in Iraq I lost both my legs entirely and my right hand. I'm the most severely wounded US Airman to survive.”

Police recently named a Canadian university employee a “person of interest” in an assault against a female pro-life advocate that occurred earlier this month. The College Fix reports Gabby Skwarko, an employee and student at Ryerson University in Toronto, is a “person of interest” in the assault on pro-life advocates Katie Somers and Blaise Alleyne with Toronto Against Abortion. Police said they are continuing their investigation. Fox News also reports Skwarko may not contact Alleyne, also a student at Ryerson, or go within 100 meters of him or any pro-life demonstration that he is involved with. The Oct. 1 incident,...

A pro-life advocate was taken to the hospital Monday after he was punched in the face and knocked to the ground outside a Planned Parenthood in Naples, Florida. The attack is the latest in a growing list of assaults, vandalism, threats and other violence against pro-life advocates. According to the Naples Daily News, witnesses said Joe Alger, 65, of Marco Island, was praying the rosary on the sidewalk Monday morning when a man came out of the Planned Parenthood abortion facility and approached him. Carol Gentile, a regular pro-life advocate at the abortion facility, told the newspaper the man punched...

Archaeologists now know whodunnit — the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus — after uncovering a 2,000-year-old mass burial ground in the municipality’s backyard Evidence of a mass slaying, including cruel beheadings, committed during the bloody reign of the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 BCE) was recently uncovered in a courtyard next to the Jerusalem municipality during excavations of an ancient water cistern. “We removed from the pit more than 20 neck vertebrae which were cut by a sword,” said Dr. Yossi Nagar, an anthropologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). “We discovered in the pit, bodies and body parts of infants...

Twenty years after the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard sparked national outrage, his ashes will be interred at Washington National Cathedral following a public service of remembrance. The Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance for Matthew Shepard on Oct. 26 will be led by Washington Bishop Marian Budde and retired New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop and an acquaintance of the Shepard family. Until now, Shepard’s parents had not settled on a final resting place for his remains out of concern the site would be vandalized. As they approached 20 years since...

In 1993, the Harvard Crimson reported that the “Law School faculty voted yesterday to offer a tenured position to Visiting Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren.” The article goes on to celebrate that this hiring “marks an advance in the student and faculty effort to improve faculty diversity[.]” Warren began teaching at Harvard in 1995. Then… In 1995, an article in the Harvard Crimson celebrated Warren as “Native American.” Although the conventional wisdom among students and faculty is that the Law School faculty includes no minority women, Chmura said Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren is Native American. In response to criticism...

Yesterday, it came to my attention that the head of the math department at a Texas public university is engaging in political activism with students. What this professor did was to include IN A MATH EXAM a question about the Kavanaugh nomination. The question, roughly was, "Should Brett Kavanaugh be confirmed to SCOTUS? 1. No 2. Hell, no. 3. Never in a million years." Apparently, the professor's justification was that the student would get credit for answering the question, regardless of what answer they chose. And this person is quite unapologetic about it. But the point is, why is a...

President Trump accused his former personal attorney Michael Cohen of providing “totally false” testimony when Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations made at the direction of Trump. Although prosecutors indicated Cohen was being truthful in his guilty plea, Trump slammed Cohen and characterized him as a “PR person who did small legal work.” He also claimed it was unfortunate Cohen pursued a plea deal to “achieve a lighter sentence,” the Associated Press reported. Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts in August, including one count of willful cause of unlawful corporate contribution and one count of excessive campaign contribution related...

The largest super PAC supporting House Republicans will spend a million dollars on a late advertisement meant to bolster Rep. Rod Blum (R-Iowa), one of the most vulnerable incumbents facing reelection this year. The Congressional Leadership Fund said Tuesday it would pay for advertising that paints state Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D) as a pawn of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

ROME - As has become customary, Argentina’s “National Encounter of Women” on Sunday ended with violent protests that included bare-chested women throwing Molotov cocktails at a Catholic church and the City Hall in the city of Trelew, located some 700 miles south of Buenos Aires. “Abort your heterosexuality,” “Church and State, separate affair,” “death to the macho is not a metaphore,” and “lesbianize yourself” were among slogans an estimated 50,000 women who rallied through downtown Trelew left behind, with graffiti scrawled on storefronts, privately-owned homes and churches. Ten people were arrested in Trelew, located in the Patagonian province of Chubut....

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The City of Atlanta, Georgia has agreed to pay former fire chief Kelvin Cochran, $1.2 million after a Federal District Court ruled in December 2017 that the city's policies which led to Cochran's termination were unconstitutional. *** [I]n 2015 . . . the City of Atlanta fired him because he wrote a men's devotional book in his spare time – a book that briefly mentions his views on a biblical understanding of marriage and sexuality. As CBN News reported, the city did not approve of Chief Cochran's book. After a 30-day suspension without pay, in order to complete "sensitivity training,"...

A new film out this past weekend highlights the horrifying 2009 death of Karnamaya Mongar, a 41-year-old refugee from Nepal who died shortly after leaving a Philadelphia abortion clinic called the Women’s Medical Society. A grand jury report showed Mongar’s death was only deeply looked into months after, when it was uncovered during an unrelated drug raid at Kermit Gosnell’s clinic. This fact points to a key takeaway from the film, regardless of one’s views on abortion: The Women’s Medical Society was overlooked because it served poor and disenfranchised women and because Gosnell was an abortion provider. “Gosnell” centers on...

One campaign worker admits McCaskill would go as far as supporting a ban on semiautomatic rifles. Campaign worker Glen Winfrey describes how McCaskill intends to explain to voters why she flip-flopped on the issue of impeaching President Trump. He says she will tell Missourians, “Get over it. It was a national security question.” He adds that hiding her intent to vote for Trump’s impeachment will be explained as patriotic.

A day after Mayor Ted Wheeler called out right-wing group Patriot Prayer for bringing a cache of guns to a downtown rooftop before a summer protest, the mayor and police clarified significant details about the discovery and response.