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APARECIDA, Brazil (AP) — Inside, there was nothing massive about the Mass: Just 1,000 people were spaced carefully across the pews of a vast basilica that normally holds 35,000 as the Roman Catholic Church tried to protect parishioners from the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet such caution wasn’t apparent outside the doors. Thousands of people found themselves unable to stay away from Aparecida on one of the most important weekends of the Brazilian church’s calendar, the celebration of the country’s patron saint. A similar scene played out far to the north in Belem, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where even...

Archbishop Viganò responds to new film in which Pope endorses homosexual civil unions 'One does not have to be a theologian or a moral expert to know that such statements are totally heterodox and constitute a very serious cause of scandal for the faithful.' ROME, October 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The Vatican News website [1] has reported the news that today at the Rome Film Festival a documentary film will be screened called Francesco made by director Evgeny Afineevsky. This documentary – according to what has been reported by Catholic News Agency[2] and America Magazine[3] – makes public several pronouncements of...

The archbishop of San Francisco performed an exorcism where dozens of protesters had toppled the statue of a controversial saint. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone sprinkled holy water and said prayers in Latin Saturday at the site of the fallen statue of Father Junipero Serra, the 18th-century father of the California mission system accused of brutality against Native Americans, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “This sacred site has been desecrated, so we know there is evil here,” Cordileone said before the ritual outside St. Raphael Catholic Church in downtown San Rafael, according to the report. “Be gone, Satan, inventor and master...

All seven partners who have agreed to the accords with the US are natural collaborators on the Artemis Program and will easily adhere to the stated principles. Japan is keen to engage in lunar exploration. Luxembourg has dedicated legislation allowing for space mining and has also signed an additional collaborative agreement with the US. The UAE and Australia are both actively trying to establish collaborative links with the broader space industry, so this represents a perfect opportunity for them to build up capacity. Italy, the UK and Canada all have ambitions to develop their space manufacturing industries and will see...

In a new interview with Metal Hammer magazine, LINKIN PARK's Mike Shinoda spoke about how the band's debut album, "Hybrid Theory", which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, defied easy categorization and helped diversify metal's appeal beyond its core audience with its blend of hip-hop swagger, screaming, irresistible pop hooks and circuit-bending. "At the time, if you asked somebody what they were listening to, they'd say... 'Rock. I listen to hip-hop. I listen to jazz,'" Shinoda said. "It wasn't until five years later they'd say, 'Everything.' 'Hybrid Theory' did some of that work. It was part of the progression towards...

In the short term, should Joe Biden win the election and move into the White House, he would take office with a Democratic Party unified in its opposition to all things Trump. The question is how long would that last before leaders of every liberal interest group circling the new administration begin to get restless. In answer to this question, Carter Eskew, a top strategist on Al Gore’s 2000 campaign, wrote by email that Biden became a unity candidate in response to an overwhelming, almost feral desire to limit Trump’s damage to one term. When Trump leaves, Democratic unity, I...

CNA Staff, Oct 16, 2020 / 12:31 am MT (CNA).- A federal judge on Wednesday ruled unconstitutional a mandatory 48-hour waiting period for women seeking abortion in Tennessee, which had been in effect since 2015. In the legal challenge brought by Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights, Judge Bernard Friedman wrote that most women are already certain about their decision to have an abortion when they go in for their first appointment. The judge cited testimony from abortion providers that abortion does not increase risk of negative psychological outcomes. He said the regulation placed an “undue burden”...

Axios media reporter Sara Fischer told a BBC Radio 4 panel discussion Wednesday that tech companies who had suppressed news about Hunter Biden’s emails had done their civic duty. Fischer praised the “defense systems” that were used to suppress last week’s New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s emails, which suggested that former Vice President Joe Biden had met in 2015 with an adviser to the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma, on whose board Hunter served. Joe Biden had previously denied ever discussing his son’s foreign business interests. Fischer applauded the media’s reluctance to cover the story, and the suppression...

Anyone that reads my articles knows I’m a bit of a natural cynic. That’s not necessarily bad in politics, but it’s not always an asset either. I’ve certainly gotten my share of ribbing in the comments over it, sometimes deservedly so. When I look at the 2020 race, my first impression is that Trump’s last debate performance hurt him and that Biden is in a decent position to win the race. Yet, I’ve also noticed that things are starting to look a lot like 2016, especially on the state level, which is the most important, yet most ignored part of...

Ten years before Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the landmark Second Amendment opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller crystallizing the Constitution’s guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms as an individual right, he was welcoming a young clerk to chambers by the name of Amy Coney Barrett. There were no Second Amendment cases before the Supreme Court that term. In fact, before Heller, the court had not taken up a Second Amendment case since 1939 — and before then, only twice in history, both in the 19th century. The court has decided three Second Amendment cases since Heller...

There is nothing more terrifying to a Democrat than a person of color who refuses to abide by the leftist narrative. That’s why Kimberly Klacik is such a threat to their narrative. It’s also the reason Twitter is censoring an article about her from the Wall Street Journal. While some may note that “censorship” is too strong of a classification since Twitter isn’t completely blocking the article, it’s fair because it reduces the reach dramatically. The story has been Tweeted by a dozen or so people and retweeted by hundreds. Considering the subject matter, it’s very likely that without the...

Elections officials in Maryland’s most populous jurisdiction held an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss a viral video alleging that an election worker attempted to tamper with a mailed-in ballots ... Montgomery County officials said, they’re concerned that the video may have spread some damaging misinformation. “Something like this just feeds into people who believe mail-in voting is fraudulent,” said the county’s elections board chair, Jim Shalleck, a Republican appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan (R). “It’s very unfortunate.” Elections officials in the liberal suburb of 1 million were alerted Tuesday afternoon to the video, which was posted on YouTube by a...

With the Nov. 3 election looming, hundreds of women marched downtown Saturday morning to make their case against electing President Donald Trump for a second term. “This is the most crucial election of our lifetime,” organizer Gianna Gizzi told a crowd of several hundred who gathered at Federal Plaza in the yearly event meant to empower woman and encourage equality. “We’re marching for the people here and those who can’t be here,” Gizzi said. Though this year’s march paled in comparison to the 2017 gathering that drew tens of thousands, the rally also attracted first-timers, including Michele McGowan, who said...

U.S. Senate Republicans pledged to go ahead with a vote on Thursday (22 Oct) on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, despite Judiciary Committee Democrats pledging to boycott a proceeding that they called “a sham.”... All 12 Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have indicated they will support Barrett, a favorite of Christian conservatives, while all 10 Democrats are opposed. Graham is thus thought to have enough votes to prevail, but might have to circumvent some committee rules on doing business with no Democratic members present. Assuming the Judiciary Committee sends the nomination to the full Senate with...

Hollywood celebrities, including actors Jason Alexander, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jon Cryer, Mayim Bialik, Richard Kind, Tim Daly, Dascha Polanco, and Patina Miller, dress up in chicken costumes for a bizarre new get out the vote public service announcement ahead of the presidential election. “So, how’s everybody doing,” asks Alexander at the beginning of the two-minute video, where the celebrities — all of whom are wearing yellow chicken costumes — appear to be having a video call with one another. “Handling it, or starting to feel…” “Please don’t,” Bialik interrupts. “Cooped up,” continues Alexander

The FBI’s subpoena of a laptop and hard drive purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden came in connection with a money laundering investigation in late 2019, according to documents obtained by Fox News and verified by multiple federal law enforcement officials who reviewed them. It is unclear, at this point, whether the investigation is ongoing or if it was directly related to Hunter Biden. RATCLIFFE SAYS HUNTER BIDEN EMAILS, LAPTOP 'NOT PART OF SOME RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN' Multiple federal law enforcement officials, as well as two separate government officials, confirmed the authenticity of these documents, which were signed by FBI Special...

Explicit photos and emails purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden were circulating in Ukraine last year at the same time that Rudy Giuliani was searching for dirt there on former Vice President Joe Biden, two people approached about the material during that period tell TIME. The emails’ alleged availability, which has not been previously reported, comes to light in the wake of Giuliani’s recent claims that he obtained private photos and emails of Hunter Biden from a broken laptop abandoned in Delaware. Giuliani, who is President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, has passed this material to right-wing news outlets, which began publishing...

Cruise ship news today has cruise lines looking at the possibility of having to cancel all of their sailings out of North America for 2020 and 2021 because they could be sailing at only 30% to 40% occupancy with about 5% of their fleets to start according to a Wall Street analyst. The cruise lines would then re-schedule their itineraries for cruises they could actually deliver on and notify all of their customers when they can take their delayed cruises. There are millions of customers who have booked their cruises from as far back as 2018 for 2020 and 2021...

Just days before Halloween, a Florida resident spotted a witch in the shape of a cloud floating in the sky above the Orlando area. Phyllis Sheridan said she was driving to work early Tuesday morning when she saw the spooky shape and snapped this picture.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ IT'S FROSTY U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Godson Bagnabana puts up an inflatable snowman on the flight deck of the USS Ronald Reagan in Yokosuka, Japan, Dec. 17, 2015. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan Burke Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. AIR POWER Two CH-47F Chinook helicopters take off en route to retrieve air assault troops to prepare for an air assault mission as...