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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - A Jesuit high school that the Indianapolis Archdiocese no longer recognizes as Catholic because it refused to fire a teacher in a same-sex marriage says it’s appealing that decision to the Vatican. Brebeuf Preparatory School President Father Bill Verbryke sent a letter to the school community Sunday saying the head of the Jesuits’ Midwest Province has asked the Congregation for Catholic Education in Rome to overrule a decree issued by Archbishop Charles Thompson in June saying the school “will no longer be identified or recognized” as Catholic. “In the end, we hope that the decree is overruled;...

Democrats Are the Ones Who Have Been Inciting Violence against Their Political Opponents By Christopher Skeet After the spectacle of Robert Mueller’s real time crumbling apart like a stale cookie, pundits took to the air to voice their frustration that Democrats are simply not tough enough to take on the Trump machine.  For what it’s worth, recurring mosquito Joe Scarborough buzzed, “If you want to stop Donald Trump, it is time to ... roll up your sleeves and go after him and do whatever it takes to win”.  Michael Moore tweeted that Trump wins because “he understands that Dems aren’t street fighters”.  It’s a...

Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt the process of "legalization" of Christian places of worship built in the past without the necessary permits is proceeding at a fast pace. In recent days, the ad hoc governmental committee set up to subject churches to controls has confirmed that it has verified the compliance of 88 Coptic churches regarding the requirements for their "legalization". To date, 1109 churches and buildings annexed to them have been screened and regularized by the ad hoc Committee. The verification and regularization process began with the approval of the new law on construction and site management of...

The Second Amendment is why we can’t go to school, or work, or a house of worship, or a nightclub, or a movie theater, or a music festival, or pretty much any public gathering without fear of getting shot to death. The Second Amendment is why you can’t be immediately arrested for openly carrying around an assault rifle in a public place, and why you can’t be immediately arrested for smuggling a hand-cannon in your gym shorts. The Second Amendment is how law enforcement justifies the need for military-grade armaments—to match the “firepower” they meet in the streets. The Second...

Full Headline: Twitter locks McConnell campaign account after posting video of protester shouting threats, profanities Twitter has locked the account for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) campaign after the account shared a video of a protester's profanity-laced rant outside the senator's home. A Twitter spokesperson told The Hill that the @Team_Mitch account was locked because a tweet "violated our violent threats policy, specifically threats involving physical safety.” McConnell campaign manager Kevin Golden told The Hill that the account was locked Wednesday morning "for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell." The McConnell campaign on Tuesday...

FULL TITLE: Nearly 700 people DETAINED in ICE raids at Mississippi food processing plants in the largest workplace sting in a decade U.S. immigration officials have raided numerous Mississippi food processing plants and arrested 680 mostly Latino workers in what marks the largest workplace sting in at least a decade. The raids, which took place on Wednesday, happened in small towns near Jackson with a workforce made up largely of Latino immigrants. The towns hit include Bay Springs, Carthage, Canton, Morton, Pelahatchie and Sebastapol. About 600 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounded the perimeters of a Koch Foods Inc....

The war of words continues between President Trump and 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, who on Wednesday declared Trump a "white supremacist" and said that the United States "has been racist since it's been a country." As the president visited O'Rourke's hometown of El Paso, Texas, following the mass shooting there last weekend that left 22 people dead, the former congressman ratcheted up his attacks during an interview on MSNBC. He insisted another shooting will occur because of Trump's rhetoric, which some say influenced a manifesto that investigators suspect was the El Paso gunman's. "What happened in El Paso is...

Racism is racist. That is to say, an observer’s own racism defines whether he accuses another of racism. And the Left is racist in a way that the conservative right cannot even fathom because the conservative right simply does not operate on racial terms. Among the conservative right, capitalists seek to profit, national defense advocates seek to protect, domestic protection advocates seek to defend. Black capitalists are as welcome as White, and Blacks who can master the marketplace are sought in industry. When thugs threaten, conservatives are as excited to see an approaching Black police officer as a White, and...

Andrew Cuomo has panels of both repubs and dems in a very bi partisan discussion. Great discussion.

With leftists seeking to blame the El Paso shooting on President Trump, guns, white people, and whatever other boogieman will help score political points, a simple fact should be understood: Murder is a Democrat thing. We can start with the striking statistic that 68 percent of all homicides occur in just certain parts of 5 percent of America's counties — and all, or virtually all, of these are Democrat areas. Also striking is Democrats' devolution on prenatal infanticide. The line always was, though the savvy never believed it, "We want abortion to be safe, legal, and rare." Leftists also insisted...

His hiking partner tried to help him but also fell down the mountainside. By the time the partner was able to safely reach him, he found Casey dead. Other hikers witnessed the fall from across the lake and went to an area with cellphone service to report the incident. A search and rescue volunteer from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office was first to respond and provide aid. Alpine search and rescue members from the Mono County Sheriff’s Office and a California Highway Patrol helicopter later responded to the location when weather conditions permitted. In July, a 28-year-old hiker from the...

MORTON, Miss. – U.S. immigration officials say raids at seven food processing plants in Mississippi resulted in 680 arrests. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Matthew Albence told The Associated Press that the arrest count from Wednesday’s raids may make it the largest workplace sting in more than a decade and probably the largest ever for a single state. Authorities say about 600 agents fanned out across the plants, surrounding the perimeters to prevent workers from fleeing. They targeted several companies. The raids happened in small towns near Jackson with a workforce made up largely of Latino immigrants. The...

“I prayed the St. Michael prayer while moving into the toughest missions I faced,” Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Edward C. Byers Jr. said in his acceptance speech for the Medal of Honor, “and it does start by saying ‘St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection…'” The Medal of Honor is the U.S. military’s highest honor, given for acts of braver above and beyond the normal call of duty. Byers received the award for “his valiant rescue efforts during a hostage situation in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in December 2012.” He explained...

For PA leaders, individual Palestinians are invisible; they exist only as tiny pieces of the large nationalist agenda. American leaders visited Israel this week, following up on the US-sponsored Bahrain economic workshop. The goal of America’s continued expenditure of diplomatic time and energy has been to create financial backers to invest $27 billion-$50b. in the floundering Palestinian economy. While many were surprised when the Palestinian Authority condemned, boycotted, and even arrested Palestinians who participated in the event intended to jump-start the economy and benefit thousands of individual Palestinians, the rejection was consistent with ongoing PA strategy. For PA leaders, individual...

For the first time since February 2018, Emily Infeld embraced the hard effort of competing in a race. Paying no mind to the clock, she trusted the cues her body provided her as she continued to battle her way through the final hill all the way through the finish line at TD Beach to Beacon 10K on August 3. Just seven months after her last hip surgery, Infeld had the rush of racing again, a feeling that she missed. The 2015 world bronze medalist covered the 10K course in 32:39 as the fourth overall finisher and top American in Cape...

Should you ever have the misfortune to cross paths with a fearsome cougar, one hiker has discovered a survival hack that could end up saving your bacon. The trick? If the cougar starts getting to close to your position, use your phone to start blasting some Metallica at full volume. That’s what 45-year-old Dee Gallant did while on a recent hike with her dog Murphy on Vancouver Island. She’d gotten a few miles into the woods when she made the scary and life-threatening discovery that a terrifying mountain lion was stalking them. In an interview explaining what happened next, Gallant...

Corey Roper was sentenced today to 13 years in prison for sex trafficking of minor females. Roper previously pled guilty to one count of sex trafficking minor victims. As part of his plea, Roper acknowledged that he trafficked three minor females, and also trafficked another female by force. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman stated: “Self-proclaimed pimp, Corey Roper, perpetrated awful acts against young women. Roper subjected his victims – some as young as 13 years old – to what he called ‘pimp rules,’ and punished them through cruel physical violence and depriving them of food and sleep if they...

“Comparing Palestinian human rights advocates to terrorist white nationalists is fundamentally a lie,” tweeted the Democratic representative on Monday. @RashidaTlaib Comparing Palestinian human rights advocates to terrorist white nationalists is fundamentally a lie. Palestinians want equality, human dignity & to stop the imprisonment of children ⬇️. White supremacy is calling for the *domination* of one race w/ the use of violence. https://twitter.com/SanaSaeed/status/1158193791213477888 … Sana Saeed This is the height of unethical journalism @jaketapper - you invoke Palestinians & Arabs as a comparison to white nationalist violence in the US? This is blatant anti-Arab bigotry & Islamophobia. @CNN needs to take...

Former MK Michael Oren: Delegation is part of Democrats fight for the "soul of the party.” The 41 US House Democrats who arrived in Israel on Monday on a trip sponsored by an AIPAC affiliated charity are doing more than “just” showing mainstream Democratic support for Israel, they are wresting control of the party from the high-profile Progressive wing trying to hijack it. A part of this wing – embodied by congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandira Ocasio-Cortez – despises Israel and AIPAC with a venom that sometimes crosses the line into antisemitism. And two organizations identified with this...

Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden strongly advocated for a ban on new sales and national buyback of military-style rifles in an interview with Anderson Cooper, and he didn’t blink when the CNN host confronted him with the “come for your guns” talking point he’s likely to hear from conservatives: “Bingo. You’re right if you have an assault weapon.” 5 minute video