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Posted on June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope “God Wants Me to Be Happy” - A Reflection on a Deeply Flawed Moral Stance One of the questionable, and unfortunately common, forms of moral reasoning today is the rather narcissistic notion that God wants each of us to be happy. Sometimes it is put in the form of a rhetorical question: God wants me to be happy, doesn’t He?And this sort of reasoning (if you want to call it that) is used to justify just about anything. Thus, in pondering divorce, a spouse might point to his...

The popular page "The_Donald" was instrumental in the 2016 eleciton sharing Memes and information for the campaign. Following up the Google/Veritas revelations that big tech is committed to defeating Donald Trump, Reddit has placed the page under a "Quarantine" which means you have to click past a security warning. Most likely, the plan next is to delete the page for having "Hate speech" to prevent it's nearly 1 million users from creating viral campaigns there for 2020. This was posted on the site: Quarantine. Dear Mods, We want to let you know that your community has been quarantined, as outlined...

Chapman was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2017 after having a nagging cough checked out, family spokeswoman Mona Wood-Sword said. Chapman was declared cancer-free after removing a tumor. But she was later diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Chapman was hospitalized in Honolulu Friday after having difficulty breathing and passing out momentarily. Doctors put her in a coma to spare her from pain during treatment, Wood-Sword said. The A&E series “Dog the Bounty Hunter” was canceled in 2012. The Chapmans, who live in Honolulu, later starred in other similar reality shows, including Country Music Television’s “Dog & Beth: On The...

LEBANON, Indiana -- Two grandparents went into defensive mode when a man tried to kidnap their 6-year-old granddaughter in their own home. Police say the man broke into an apartment in Indiana and claimed their granddaughter was actually his daughter. Benjamin Dillon, 37, was arrested by officers, but not before the girl's grandparents could get their hands on him. A mugshot of Dillon shows multiple bruises and scrapes on his face. Police said the girl and her grandmother were sleeping in the back bedroom when Dillion broke into their apartment. The woman who lives at the home called police as...

Brooks Falls in Alaska's Katmai National Park is the best place in the world to watch brown bears feasting on salmon as they swim upstream to spawn. Find out the best time to watch live and learn more about Katmai and its brown bears

The man accused of attacking "Pinky" the Flamingo at Busch Gardens back in 2016 was hit and killed by a truck while crossing the street in Orlando earlier this month. Joseph Corrao was walking northbound from the eastbound right shoulder onto State Road 50 from Story Partin Rd. in Orlando when he was hit by a Ford F150 pickup truck. The accident happened on June 5. He died of his injuries at the hospital. The driver has not been charged at this time. Corrao had initially been deemed not competent to stand trial, but earlier this year was ruled competent...

... One thing the USWNT never leaves home without: its American flag, which is hung up in the locker room before every game. "The flag was presented to us by four WWII veterans from the cemetery in Normandy in France back in January. We wanted something special to carry with us on this journey and we were fortunate to meet these four incredible veterans," Dell says. "And we walked through the cemetery with them as they were telling us their stories. the flag came down at 4 p.m. and the veterans presented it to the team. So, it's very dear...

Ninety-nine years ago, Democrat Sen. John Walter Smith of Maryland provided $50 of his own -- not government -- money to help erect a cross in his home state. He was responding to a request from Mrs. Martin Redman, a mother who had lost her son in World War I. To honor him and the 48 other men from Prince George's County who had lost their lives in the war, she had joined the Prince George's Memorial Committee, whose goal was to erect a memorial not far from the Maryland border with the District of Columbia. In a thank-you note,...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has received heat after it was revealed that she was wearing a $600 dollar watch during her carefully staged ‘crying’ border photo-op. The photos, which show AOC crying into her hands, were taken two days before she won her Congressional race. They show her outside a “tent city” in Tornillo, Texas which was being used to temporarily hold migrant children. Now Twitter users are dragging Ocasio-Cortez for wearing a $600 dollar watch during a protest. Eagle-eyed sleuths zoomed in on the watch and found out that it was a Mavado Museum Classic which retails at $595.

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (WPTV) — A criminal justice teacher at a high school in Fort Pierce, Florida has been arrested and accused of stealing money from students and the school. Court records show Sharonda Johnson, 47, faces grand theft, witness tampering and petit theft charges. Johnson is accused of stealing at least $2,500 from at least nine students at Fort Pierce Central High School, who were paying to go on a competition field trip. She’s also accused of stealing at least $500 from the school. Students reported paying anywhere from $100 to $400 to go on the trip, but at...

The 5-year-old Woodbury boy who survived being thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America remains in intensive care due to severe complications from the attack, his parents said in a Tuesday update on their GoFundMe page. “Up until now we have let our hopes govern what we have revealed to the public,” the post stated. “However, the injuries and severe complications have now resulted in more than 15 separate medical procedures or surgeries, including surgeries for two broken arms and a broken leg, removal of his spleen, procedures for fluid in his lungs and stomach, as well...

A MAN resembling a "mummy" has been found alive in a bear's den a month after the beast attacked him and dragged him to its lair for a future meal. A group of Russian hunters found Alexander after their dogs barked and refused to move on from a bear's den they passed in the forest, it's reported. When the hunters checked inside the lair the saw what they believed to be a "human mummy" - until they realised he was alive.

On June 21, New York Magazine published a shocking cover story, an excerpt from the new book by author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll titled "What Do We Need Men For?" Carroll described suffering sexual assault in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. The alleged assailant is named Donald Trump. When did this occur? She vaguely guesses it "has to be in the fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996" because of what they were wearing. In her telling, Carroll and Trump playfully talked about lingerie until he talked her into trying something on, and they walked back to...

I am a big fan of the American Team, and Women’s Soccer, but Megan should WIN first before she TALKS! Finish the job! We haven’t yet.... invited Megan or the team, but I am now inviting the TEAM, win or lose.

When the U.S> launched cyberstrikes at Iran's missile control systems in response to an Iranian shoot down of a U.S. drone near the Gulf of Oman, it surprised pundits. Donald Trump was widely expected by the press to bomb something in return. The political left was unprepared for the possibility that Trump would not run true to their stereotype. The Gulf of Oman was already being compared to the Gulf of Tonkin. "From the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 to the U.S.S. Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, maritime incidents, shrouded in the fog of uncertainty,...

In 2012, the last election Democrats won, a headline from their convention read: "Democrats boo God." In 2016, they heckled a preacher during the opening prayer. It's a perception they've been trying to change since, especially on the 2020 campaign trail.

On the 26th of June AD 363, the last pagan Roman Emperor, Flavius Claudius Julianus, known to history as Julian the Apostate, perished from a wound he received while fighting off a Persian ambush. The pagan historian Ammianus Marcellinus—a witness to the event and an admirer of Julian—described the scene as follows: When we marched on from this place, the Persians, since their frequent losses made them dread regular battles with the infantry, laid ambuscades, and secretly attended us, from the high hills on both sides watching our companies as they marched, so that the soldiers, suspicious of this, all...

The expert's name is Russell Barkley, MD (YouTube), Psychiatrist. The 1st principle is, 'Most people aren't against you, they're just for themselves.' You can fool them all, so they'll never guess, if you just never, never have a blowout in their presence. Just always be the same, just sit still and shut up.

This week I have purchased several books on Kindle. Emails report they have been delivered but they have not shown up. Anyone else having problems with Kindle?

It’s a common thing on the Right to point to loony-leftism in churches and go, “Ha-ha, look at the crazy people!” But this calls up a more serious response, because it’s not just some fringe parish, but an Anglican cathedral:Rev. Bingo Allison? That would be the same ordained Anglican deacon who says here that he is a married father of three who aspires to ordination, and who recently celebrated this on his Tumblr, and who said there that Christian theology is “a fundmentally queer enterprise because it also challenges and deconstructs”:How is a Christian church that gives disturbed people like...