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Bishop on trial for sex abuse leaves judge’s chambers with a smile on his face ORAN, Argentina - Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, an Argentine prelate whom Pope Francis transferred to Rome after accepting his resignation due to what he acknowledged was “despotic” behavior, presented himself in court today in the diocese he once led, where he faces charges of “aggravated continuous sexual abuse.”The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. As the pope revealed in an interview earlier this year, the bishop is also being investigated by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that deals...

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe Come on in, we're open Need a place just to hang out? This is it. It's casual FRiday here at the Canteen. Pull up a seat and relax. We serve coffee, tea, margaritas, conversation and music. Our AWESOME military, our AWESOME allies, and their families are welcomed and honored here. This is the chillin' placeNo worries in the FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe. Grab a...

President Donald Trump announced Thursday night that Joseph Maguire, the leader of the National Counterterrorism Center, is his new pick to be the acting director of national intelligence. "I am pleased to inform you that the Honorable Joseph Maguire, current Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will be named Acting Director of National Intelligence, effective August 15th," Trump tweeted. The announcement came not long after Trump tweeted that Sue Gordon, the country's number two intelligence official and an intelligence veteran of more than 30 years, would resign. White House officials had been signaling such a move for days, saying Trump...

Three years ago we warned about the UK’s foolish embrace of Islamic banking – in particular, David Cameron’s welcome. The Times’s investigation on Monday into Al Rayan Bank, clients of which include ‘terror’ groups and Abu Hamza’s former mosque, into Qatar’s export of political Islam to the West and the concerning ‘values’ of the bank’s management, shows just how naive Cameron was. Did he ever bother to find out what Islamic finance was and what it meant? We repeat Tim Dieppe’s explanation here. It was first published on November 11, 2016. In 2013, then Prime Minister David Cameron said: ‘I...

The accurate name for "criminal justice reform" is pro-crime. According to Garden Grove cops, the Hispanic gang member who stabbed and slashed 4 people to death, in California was a thug with a history of violence who should never have been freed, and was only set loose due to Assembly Bill 109. Also known as the The Public Safety Realignment Act. "This suspect is identified as Zachary Castaneda, who has been identified as a documented gang member," the Garden Grove police chief announced. "This person should have been imprisoned and not allowed to be in our community committing these violent...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Eight months after he sought sanctuary from a Colorado Springs church to avoid deportation, Miguel Ramirez Valiente stands accused of careless driving with a revoked license in a crash that claimed the life of a father of five. Now, those who know Ramirez Valiente say he never should have been driving. "It took people saying, 'You need to say something about this to get that family help and justice,' and that’s when we made the call," said a close acquaintance of Ramirez Valiente, who asked to have her identity protected for her safety. "My heart broke...

Navy Says Africa Mission More About Building Partnerships, Less About Countering China By: Otto Kreisher August 7, 2019 4:30 PM Master-at-Arms 1st Class Michael Welch, a tactical supervisor assigned to the Embarked Security Team deployed from Task Force 68 aboard the Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Carson City (T-EPF 7) stands watch as the ship departs Tema, Ghana, July 26, 2019. US Navy Photo THE PENTAGON — The current African Partnership Station mission in the Gulf of Guinea aboard the USNS Carson City (T-EPF-7) seeks to help partner nations improve their security and prosperity, not to rival the economic...

The Child Victims Act goes into effect Aug. 14ALBANY, N.Y. (ChurchMilitant.com) - One attorney in Albany, New York, already has 515 lawsuits for clergy sex abuse ready to file against the diocese of Albany once the Child Victims Act goes into effect Aug. 14. Jennifer Freeman, a senior counsel at Marsh Law Firm with 515 lawsuits lined up to be filed, recently appeared on New York NOW with one of her clients, Gordon Smith, who says he was abused by two priests in the early 1960s. One of those priests, Fr. Donald Starks, appears on the diocese of Albany's list...

NTSB: Lack of Navy Oversight, Training Were Primary Causes of Fatal McCain Collision By: Sam LaGrone August 6, 2019 6:22 PM • Updated: August 6, 2019 8:45 PM Almost two years after the collision between a U.S. destroyer and a merchant ship off Singapore, the first in-depth independent investigation has determined the most probable cause for the incident that killed 10 sailors was lack of adequate Navy oversight and training. The National Transportation Safety Board found that the most likely cause of the fatal collision of guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) and chemical tanker Alnic MC on Aug....

More details have emerged about President Trump’s $5,000 donation to Sen. Kamala Harris nearly a decade ago. Court records reviewed by Fox News show disgraced former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman solicited the contribution from Trump and his daughter Ivanka in 2011. “Mr. Schneiderman’s former transition committee leader asked my daughter Ivanka if she would arrange for me to make a contribution to a fundraising event sponsored by Mr. Schneiderman for newly elected California Attorney General Kamala Harris,” Trump wrote in an affidavit. “In response, I made a $5,000 contribution to Ms. Harris’ campaign — the highest level of...

Funny how truth will out sometimes. Here's news of a new documentary out that's being promoted by the left-leaning Daily Beast: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and premiering in select theaters on August 9 courtesy of Amazon, directors Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's heartrending documentary examines their native China's one-child policy, which functioned as a systematic attack on its female population—and which resulted in collateral damage on an international scale. In effect from 1979 to 2015, China's policy placed strict guidelines on reproduction in order to curb population growth, which Wang's mother proclaims...

[Catholic Caucus] Polish archbishop vows to resist 'LGBT ideology' WARSAW, Poland -- The president of the Polish bishops' conference confirmed the country's Catholic Church will resist "LGBT ideology" as equality campaigners demanded the dismissal of an archbishop who branded gays and lesbians a "rainbow pestilence." "People belonging to so-called sexual minority circles are our brothers and sisters for whom Christ gave his life," Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan said in a statement Aug. 8."But respect for specific people cannot lead to accepting an ideology which aims at a revolution in social norms and interpersonal relations. This revolution in custom and...

Contractors Fixing Hurricane-Damaged Marine Housing Went Months Without Being Paid By: Ben Werner August 7, 2019 7:27 PM Blue tarps line the roof of a home in Paradise Point on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C. on Feb. 1, 2019. US Marine Corps Photo After Hurricane Florence dumped more than two feet of rain on Camp Lejune, N.C., last year contractors from across the East Coast came to repair damaged buildings and infrastructure on the Marine Corps base. However as the work has gone on, companies contracted to do the housing repair work have gone months without pay. One contractor,...

History of Jihad, a thriller The germination of Jihad and how it spread across the world is a historical fact that needs to be told. by Koenraad Elst History of Jihad, a thriller Posted On: 06 Aug 2019 Policy-makers faced with a major challenge, one that their successors may still have to deal with if they themselves don’t solve it, will first of all need to know the nature of that challenge. An urgent challenge for the contemporary world leaders is Jihād, literally “effort (in the way of Allah)”, effectively “Islamic war against the Infidels”. For their use, and for...

Banana Republic Can’t Cover Up Women Fast Enough to Sell Them Hijabs It went into the hijab business and learned covering up women is hard work. August 8, 2019 Daniel Greenfield 51 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. When a company runs into trouble, it tries to go forward or backward. And when Banana Republic faced a 3% decline in sales, it decided to go all the way back to the 7th century. Hoping to tap into the lucrative market of concealing...

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it filed an Access to Public Records Act (APRA) open records lawsuit against the City of South Bend, Indiana, for records of communications between Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s office related to the creation of a municipal ID card for illegal aliens that was created by La Casa de Amistad, a local not-for-profit corporation (Judicial Watch v. City of South Bend (No. 71C01-1908-Ml-000389)). On December 16, 2016, the South Bend Tribune reported that, “A nonprofit Latino advocacy group … unveiled a new identification card it hopes will make life easier for undocumented immigrants who live...

Rosie Ruiz, whose name is notoriously synonymous with marathon cheating, died on July 8, from cancer, according to an obituary posted by her family in Palm Beach, Florida. She was 66 and known as Rosie M. Vivas. Ruiz infamously jumped into the 1980 Boston Marathon in the final stretch of the race and claimed the women’s win ahead of the true champion, Jacqueline Gareau of Québec. Runners and fans have always resented that Ruiz basked in acclamation for her supposed come-from-behind victory and refused to admit guilt. Gareau had to cross the finish line with no recognition of her course...

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released 34 pages of “302” report material from FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, who was removed from his position as U.S. Associate Deputy Attorney General in December 2017. The newly declassified documents were produced to Judicial Watch this evening. These documents were obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the Justice Department for failing to respond to an August 6, 2018 FOIA request seeking Form 302s for a number of interviews with Ohr concerning his interactions with Steele (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-02107)). A Form...

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Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) announces on Thursday night he has started formal impeachment proceedings against President Trump. see video