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[Catholic Caucus] Anatomy of a Vatican II Huckster: Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the Feb. 2018 Print Edition of Catholic Family News (subscribe HERE). We reprint it here in light of a report that Cardinal Maradiaga had to be evacuated from a plane in his native Honduras earlier this week due to political protests at the airport and even a potential “danger of lynching.” As the following article demonstrates, the Honduran cardinal and close collaborator of Pope Francis is quite a scandalous character.***** Plucked from Obscurity to Attack Catholic Moral Teaching As the coordinator of...

You shouldn't cut in line, especially in front of this lady. Just before 1 am on Sunday, Austin police were called out to the bar at La Catedral del Marisco. This is a Mexican restaurant in Austin that also does karaoke on the weekends. Several people have different stories of what happened on this night. Doris Vallejo-Godoy claims she got into an altercation with a gentleman at the bar over the karaoke machine as to who was next. Vallejo-Godoy told police she pulled out her pistol to calm the man down after he called her bad names, but never pointed...

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge suggested in an interview that aired Friday on "Rising" that he did not believe President Trump's move to slap new tariffs on Mexico would solve the immigration issue at the U.S. southern border. "I'm not quite sure tariffs on Mexico are going to solve the problem for us," Ridge, who served under former President George W. Bush, told Hill.TV. "I have a great deal of support for the notion about securing the borders, but I think we politicize the issue instead of solving the problem," he continued. The Hill obtained a draft document on...

An alligator was captured in Pittsburgh's Beechview neighborhood Thursday night. The animal was taken to the Humane Animal Rescue in Homewood. CEO of the shelter, Dan Rossi, said the animal is not happy and is stressed out. Rossi said officials are not sure yet if the alligator was male or female. He added the five-foot long reptile was a potential danger in the Beechview neighborhood. He said if people can no longer care for their exotic pets, call their helpline at 412-345-7300. This is the second alligator captured in Pittsburgh in less than a month. Another one was found in...

“Raging Bull” star Robert De Niro is worth over a half-billion dollars, an attorney said Thursday as the famous actor spars with his estranged wife over the terms of their divorce. The new details about the Hollywood star’s finances emerged during a hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court that revealed the two are battling over how to interpret a 2004 pre-nuptial agreement signed after a previous divorce. “Ms. Hightower has taken the position, 'Nope, I’m entitled to 50%,” Judge Matthew Cooper said. “We are not talking about hundreds of thousands — we are talking millions of dollars here.” De Niro attorney...

VIDEO Joe Biden turned on a dime yesterday and performed an instant flip-flop from his previous support for the Hyde Amendment. Unfortunately for him, the liberals were not buying into his very obvious pander as you can see in the comments at the Daily Kos.

Former Oklahoma state senator is found dead inside his house just one day after another former GOP senator was shot dead at her Arkansas home (full title). Senator Jonathan Nichols was found dead with a gunshot wound Wednesday. He was discovered inside his house and a police source reportedly said a gun was in the room where he was discovered at his home in Norman. Police would not confirm or deny the detail due to their ongoing investigation. A family member called 911 for the man who was married with two children. His body was found 500 miles from Linda...

[Catholic Caucus] St. Thomas Would Oppose Changing the Lord’s Prayer Pope Francis’ pre-Christmas call for a better translation of the Lord’s Prayer was met by a number of defenses of the English translation which we all know by heart. Anthony Esolen, Lionel Yaceckzo  and Charlotte Allen, for example, have made it abundantly clear that, “and lead us not into temptation,” is a correct English translation of both the Greek and Latin texts of Matthew 6:13. This is not the end of the matter, though. For, as Esolen eloquently puts it: “The words of Jesus, as words, are clear. Their implications...

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WASHINGTON -- The federal government will stop funding intramural research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) involving fetal tissue derived from elective abortions, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday. "Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the very top priorities of President Trump's administration," the department said in a statement. "Intramural research that requires new acquisition of fetal tissue from elective abortions will not be conducted." The department said current NIH-funded research at academic centers with abortion-derived fetal tissue can continue, however, and new projects can still be funded,...

Never let it be said that anti-Semitism plagues only one political group, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio so stupidly tried to claim this week. Anti-Jewish bigotry, whether casual or vicious, knows no party loyalty. Take, for example, the D.C. Dyke March. It has banned Jewish and Israeli symbols from its festivities this week in the nation’s capital, according to the Forward. The D.C. Dyke March is designed to include people of diverse races, religions and gender identities who feel excluded from the more mainstream Pride parade,” the Forward reports. “The march will also ban ‘nationalist symbols,’ including...

Recently Sohrab Ahmari, op-ed editor of The New York Post, saw something online that left him shaken. “This is demonic,” he tweeted. “To hell with liberal order.” His moral indignation led him to write a much discussed essay in the religious journal First Things. Castigating conservatives who see a possibility of coexistence with the left, he called for a religious Reconquista of American politics. The right, he argued, should “fight the culture war with the aim of defeating the enemy and enjoying the spoils in the form of a public square reordered to the common good and ultimately the Highest...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of the governing Conservatives on Friday, officially triggering a contest to replace her that could see her party embrace a tougher stance on Brexit. May announced she would step down last month after failing to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union on time, deepening a political crisis in a divided country struggling to move on from a 2016 referendum on Brexit.

Despite what you might believe from watchin­g television shows or movies, suppressors (commonly known as “silencers”) do not make guns “silent” — unless you consider an ambulance siren or a jackhammer to be silent.

New York: Oil traders and analysts closely watching weekly US inventory figures have been scratching their heads in the last few weeks wondering one thing: Where are the missing barrels? US Energy Information Administration data Wednesday showed a crude supply adjustment factor — the difference between reported stockpiles and those implied by production, refinery demand, imports and exports — of more than 800,000 barrels a day. While that doesn’t seem like that much, it’s added up to more than 24 million barrels over the past four weeks, and potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in trading opportunities. The figure tends...

University of Oklahoma Study Calls Obama 5th Best President in America I know you will find this hard to believe.... University of Oklahoma Study Calls Obama 5th Best President in America. Good research work by a fine institution. OBAMA RATED 5th BEST PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY From a total of 45 US Presidents: Obama is rated as the 5th best. The OU Public Relations Office released this statement "After 8 years in office, Americans have rated President Obama the 5th best President ever." These are the details according to OU: 1. Reagan, and Trump tied for first, 2. Twenty four...

Having an extra finger can enable people to execute movements with a single hand that would otherwise require two. Photo courtesy of HealthDay News ============================================================== Though rare, some children are born with an extra finger, a condition known as polydactyly. Now, for the first time, a team of researchers set out to see whether having this extra appendage is somehow beneficial. The answer is yes. The bottom line: Having an additional finger significantly boosts a person's ability to manipulate objects, so much so that they can execute movements with a single hand that would otherwise require two. For the study,...

CUTTYHUNK ISLAND, Mass. - Actress Jenny Slate, known for her roles on “Parks and Recreation” “Saturday Night Live” and as the voice of Assistant Mayor Bellwether in “Zootopia,” will have a very small audience when she addresses the Class of 2019. Slate will give the graduation speech for the ceremony at Cuttyhunk Elementary on Cuttyhunk Island off Cape Cod. The ceremony will graduate only one eighth grade student, 13-year-old Gwen Lynch, The New York Times reported. Cuttyhunk Island has a population of about 12 people most of the year, the Cape Cod Times reported. Vacationers fill the 2 and a...

June 7 (UPI) -- Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday will launch what he calls the largest ever coordinated campaign to beat climate change, which will close all U.S. coal plants by 2030. Bloomberg said the $500 million program, Beyond Carbon, will put the United States on track toward a 100 percent clean energy economy by working with advocates to "build on leadership and climate progress already underway." Bloomberg and his foundation joined with the Sierra Club in 2011 to launch Beyond Coal with the goal of closing at least a third of U.S. coal plants. "With...