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Posted on April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope http://blog.adw.org/2020/04/what-does-jesus-mean-when-he-tells-mary-magdalene-not-to-cling-to-him-because-he-has-not-yet-ascended/ As the Easter Octave unfolds, we have in the Gospel this enigmatic statement of Our Lord Jesus to Mary Magdalene:Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God” (John 20:17).There is much to ponder and distinguish here.First, we should set aside certain previous translations that rendered “Do not cling to me” as “Do not touch me.”The latter sounds...

Abbott Laboratories says it is ramping up production of its coronavirus test kits, including a new tool that could enable mass Covid-19 screening, as President Donald Trump seeks to reopen parts of the U.S. economy as early as next month. The company is on track to ship 4 million this month of its new antibody tests, which indicate whether a person has had Covid-19 in the past and was either asymptomatic or recovered, Abbott CEO Robert Ford said during an earnings conference call with investors Thursday. It plans to ramp up to 20 million shipments per month, beginning in June,...

China committed an 'act of war' by covering up the scale of its early coronavirus outbreak for six weeks, a leading economist has claimed. Danielle DiMartino Booth, an author and chief executive, said Beijing officials were aware of the deadly disease spreading in Wuhan last November and allowed it to snowball into a global pandemic. She said Chinese officials had countless lives on their hands and should be hauled before an international court as their 'under-reporting' did not afford the rest of the world time to prepare for an onslaught. The economist points to a 'pandemic clause' in the January...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. - Skateboarders who couldn’t resist kickflipping during stay at home orders and calls for social distancing will be forced to carve elsewhere after city officials dumped 37 tons of sand on the San Clemente skatepark. Officials filled the bowls and covered the concrete at Ralph’s Skate Court with nearly four inches of sand after skaters ignored “no trespassing” signs, the Orange County Register reported.

t age 13, Montez King took a machine shop class at a Baltimore high school that later landed him a job at what was formerly Teledyne Inc., earning $10 an hour. Back in 1991, that was pretty good money for a teen. A few years later, King was earning $16 an hour as a full-time apprentice machinist, while Teledyne paid for him to attend community college two nights a week. At age 18, he had saved enough to buy his own home. King credits that apprenticeship with giving him the opportunity to make a solid living. But he acknowledges that...

The Russian government has authorised the use of an anti-malarial drug to treat coronavirus patients despite international concerns over its safety and effectiveness. The government published an order late Thursday allowing the use of hydroxychloroquine on patients after China donated more than 68,000 packs of the tablets to Russia. The order was published after President Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday evening. It said the drug would be distributed to hospitals that are caring for patients who have tested positive for coronavirus or are suspected of having it. It said the drug’s safety...

A lead virologist and her team at a Wuhan lab warned of the possibility of SARS-like coronavirus outbreaks in China 11 months before the novel coronavirus epidemic ravaged the city. The ominous prediction came from a study carried out by Shi Zhengli and her colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology when they stressed the importance of conducting investigations of viruses from bats. Shi, nicknamed the 'Bat Woman', allegedly sequenced the genes of the new coronavirus in three days after the epidemic emerged, but was silenced by her boss.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf sure is a leader, all right. He appears on TV a couple of times a week from his bunker, dispatching orders on how Pennsylvanians are to live and behave. Other governors appear daily and take questions from reporters. Wolf, when he does deign to grace us with his presence, only takes carefully screened questions submitted to his office and are read by an employee of his office. We wouldn’t want to tax the governor’s sensitive ears, or make him answer a tough question. Better to hand the daily chores of taking to citizens to some lady...

"Sweden's suffering very, very badly" according to President Donald Trump. Nope, says Denmark's former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who suggested April 7 that Denmark should have followed the cautious Swedish way of responding to COVID-19. Views diverge on Sweden's unique strategy of not closing borders and shutting down schools, workplaces, restaurants, libraries, gyms and shopping centers. The Swedish government has declared no state of emergency and no orders to shelter in place. Young Swedes are even encouraged to continue with their sports training and events. Some Brits think that we Swedes are crazy, The Spectator's Fraser Nelson told Swedish...

Those few who have paid attention to China Joe Biden’s recent TV appearances and live-streams will have noticed that his wife has now become a constant presence at his side. Whether on-camera or remaining off of it, she is there. Why do you think that’s the case? Do you think she is there because the campaign has some nifty new polling information that shows that the American public just can’t get enough of [checks notes for name] Jill Biden? Please. Isn’t it much more likely, given China Joe’s obvious advancing impairment, that she literally hangs on his arm during these...

Announces dedicated webpage related to Committee oversight efforts WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), today released declassified confidential human source transcripts related to the Crossfire Hurricane operation. In addition to the transcripts, the Committee released other material related to the Committee’s investigation into Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) actions leading up to and during the Crossfire Hurricane operation, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant process. “I’m committed to being as transparent as possible about the circumstances surrounding FISA abuse. The goal is to make sure it...

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, which has already killed more than 120,000 people worldwide, is a manipulated virus, accidentally released from a Chinese laboratory in search of an AIDS vaccine. This is the incredible revelation that Professor Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008 for the "discovery" of HIV, made today to Pourquoi Docteur au micro du Dr Jean-François Lemoine.

An international team found that during this period, crops were being cultivated in a remote location in what is now northern Bolivia. The scientists believe that the humans who lived here were planting squash, cassava and maize. The inhabitants also created thousands of artificial islands in the forest. The end of the last ice age, around 12,000 years ago, saw a sustained rise in global temperatures... Researchers have previously unearthed evidence that crops were domesticated at four important locations around the world. So China saw the cultivation of rice, while in the Middle East it was grains, in Central America...

Friends, Today’s Gospel (John 21) tells of the appearance of the risen Jesus to seven disciples by the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Peter and six other Apostles were in a boat on the sea. Seeing Peter and the disciples in a boat, we are meant to think of the Church, and the peculiar number of seven —evocative of completion or fulfillment—is meant to make us consider the eschatological Church, the community of Jesus approaching the end of its journey. On the shore (though they don’t recognize him at first) is the Lord Jesus. At his command, they lower...

Contrary to the narrative that is being pushed by the mainstream that the COVID 19 virus was the result of a natural mutation and that it was transmitted to humans from bats via pangolins, Dr Luc Montagnier the man who discovered the HIV virus back in 1983 disagrees and is saying that the virus was man made. Dr Luc Montagnier Image Courtesy of Prolineserver Professor Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, claims that SARS-CoV-2 is a manipulated virus that was accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Chinese researchers are said to have used coronaviruses in their...

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman (D) has slammed the shutdown of "nonessential" businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic, demanding that "we must reopen" now.Mayor Goodman, a Democrat, blasted the coronavirus crisis measures as "total insanity."Goodman argues that shutting businesses down is "total insanity."

The mission of the New York University-ISAW at the Temple of Ramses II in Abydos, led by Sameh Iskander, discovered the temple's foundation deposits during excavation work carried out at the temple's southwest corner. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the deposits were buried in 1279 BC at the time of the construction ceremony. They include food offerings, plaques inscribed with Ramses II's throne name painted in blue or green, small copper construction tool models, pottery vessels decorated with hieratic inscriptions, and oval shaped quartzite grindstones. The mission also uncovered 10 large mud-brick storerooms attached to...

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The Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office has announced that five men from Philadelphia have been charged with first-degree murder stemming from a 2019 triple homicide in Spotsylvania. James Christopher Myers, 30, Durward Anthony Allen, 27, Jamal Kelvin Bailey, 30, Hugh Cameron Green, 30, and Montel Jaleek Wilson, 26, have been charged in the deaths of Michael Coleman, 39, Rachel Ozuna, 34, and Ozuna’s son, 14-year-old Kyrrus Ozuna, the Sheriff's Office said in a release Thursday. The release did not include any information about a suspected motive for the slayings. All of the suspects are currently in custody in various locations in Pennsylvania,...

House Democrats aren't planning on coming back to Washington D.C. until May, but they're still scheming from afar about how to recklessly spend your money during the Wuhan coronavirus crisis. Republican Congressman Jim Jordan is warning his leftist colleagues want to use taxpayer money to pay states to let criminals out of prison, including felons. "Use of Grant Funds --- A grantee shall use amounts provided as a grant under this section for programs that provide for the following: "(1) Adopting and operating a cite-and-release process for individuals who are suspected of committing misdemeanor and felony offenses and who do...