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“Holy mother church”—historians are not certain who first said it. The statement has been attributed by some to Cyprian, by others to Augustine. The assertion has survived since the early centuries of Christian history—“Who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.” From its earliest days, the church was given the appellation “mother.” The use of paternal and maternal language is an intriguing phenomenon in religion. We cannot deny the virtual universal tendency to seek ultimate consolation in some sort of divine maternity. We have all experienced the piercing poignancy that attends the...

After years of watching the "news" programs, I have come to the conclusion that whenever a statement is started with the word "look," especially by a politician, everything that follows will be a lie.

ALABAMA, November 4, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Republican Tommy Tuberville unseated pro-abortion Democrat Senator Doug Jones in Alabama on Tuesday, a major win for pro-lifers. The affectionate “Coach” moniker refers to Tuberville’s former career as a college football coach. Tuberville is the only coach in Auburn University football history to beat rival University of Alabama six times in a row. College football is a huge part of the state’s culture. The southern state is generally very pro-life. When former Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) resigned to become Attorney General, he was replaced by Senator Doug Jones in a close special election in...

Terror gunman Kujtim Fejzulai was revealed as a 20-year-old dual citizen of Austria and North Macedonia A TERRORIST shot dead in Vienna after opening fire on drinkers near a synagogue had announced his attack on Instagram and pledged allegiance to ISIS. Terror gunman Kujtim Fejzulai was revealed as a 20-year-old dual citizen of Austria and North Macedonia who had previously been jailed for trying to travel to Syria. The Austrian government confirmed that the suspected Vienna attacker had previously been sentenced to 22 months in prison in April 2019.Interior minister Karl Nehammer said the terrorist had been released early due...

The corrupt media was predicting a blue wave. We were defending many more senate seats than the libs and we held! We added a few of seats in the HoR. I'm going to give thanks and keep praying that by Friday we will have overcome the evil that will always be striving to drag us down.

Submitting my weekly column on the morning of the 2020 presidential election was surreal. But not as surreal as walking to work through an apocalyptic cityscape of boarded-up buildings. No, this isn't communist Cuba; this is Washington, D.C., the supposed center of the free world. Even more disquieting than the scenery is the knowledge that my own organization, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (UrbanCURE), has been targeted by ShutDownDC, a left-wing group promising to execute vigilante justice if the election doesn't play out to its liking. According to The Daily Signal, a daily online newsletter from The Heritage...

It’s well known that the Democrats have announced their plan to delay the counting of votes in the November presidential election as long as possible. Some think they want it to go to the US Supreme Court, where John Roberts might again abandon conservatives and stick it to Donald Trump. Remember, despite the polls, increasingly the murmurs coming from the Democrats are that they will drag the vote-counting out until 2021 and/or put the matter into the courts. Can they do this? Is it possible? The fact is, almost no one knows. In the 1876 presidential election, the electoral counts...

The Epstein house came on the market in July for $21.995 million. Mr. Glaser said that the deal is slated to close in December, after which he plans to tear the property down and replace it with a 14,000-square-foot Art Moderne home. Mr. Glaser is known for building elaborate spec mansions, such as a home on Miami’s Star Island that recently sold for about $49.5 million. He was also one of the developers of the One Thousand Museum tower designed by the late Zaha Hadid in downtown Miami. Mr. Glaser declined to comment on what he and his partners are...

Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Radio show, is putting this election crises into perfect perspective and it should calm you down. Bottom line: Donald Trump WON and the Democrats are trying to manufacture the votes. However, Brian is certain they will FAIL in this attempt. I urge everyone to either listen to Brian Craig on the Steve Kane Show. He is on right now (6 AM to 9 AM ET weekdays) or watch him explain what is really going on at his YouTube Channel HERE.

In a stunning scene in the middle of the night, news organizations rebuked President Donald Trump after he falsely said on live television that he had won reelection even as votes were still being counted. With reporters and supporters gathered at the White House at 2:20 a.m. Eastern, the president said it was “a major fraud on our nation” that he hadn’t been declared the winner. “As far as I’m concerned, we already have won this,” he said. The words were barely out of his mouth before television anchors rushed to refute him. CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell said Trump was...

US Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s victory could speed up the dream of Emmanuel Macron to form a European Union army alongside NATO, a political expert has warned. Funny thing, just yesterday a reader wrote to me with a link to the Muslim terror attacks in Europe, showing the current trouble Emmanuel Macron is having with all that and told me “sorry, he’s not your guy.” Amazing how much things can change in a day or two, isn’t it? You can rest assured that nothing will stop the upward path of Emmanuel Macron as he negotiates, plots and strategizes his way...

Call in Wray, call in Esper, and Fauci, and others, and tell them they are fired emeditly!

Prelates lead a protest over the continued killings of Nigerians in Abuja, Nigeria, on March 1, 2020. Nigerian bishops called on the international community to help the West African country push back against ethnic insecurity and terrorist groups such as Fulani militants, the so-called herdsmen, and Boko Haram. (Photo: CNS/Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters) WINDSOR TERRACE — A priest and a nun, both Nigerian-born, say their homeland’s government deserves the blame for more than 13,000 murders of Christians since 2001.Father Cosmas Nzeabalu and Sister Elizabeth Ogbu, both assigned to the Diocese of Brooklyn, told The Tablet that they believe the Nigerian government,...

MONTERREY, Mexico - In a makeshift refugee camp just across the border from Brownsville, Texas, Oscar Borjas and a few friends are planning to gather on Tuesday night to watch anxiously as results from the U.S. presidential election roll in. Borjas, a Honduran asylum seeker who has spent the last year living in a cold and unsanitary encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, is not a U.S. voter. He is among the tens of thousands of migrants whose lives have been upended by the Trump administration’s immigration policies – and who are now praying for Republican President Donald Trump’s Democratic challenger, Joe...

On the night before Halloween, Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted a video of a socialist sermon he delivered to "The Squad" of new socialist congresswomen, touting a "Green New Deal" and the banning of private health insurance to have a "Medicare for All" system. Their goal is to make Biden the most socialist president imaginable -- or, in safer terminology, "the most progressive president since FDR." Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, signed on to Bernie's socialist health-care bill in the Senate and proposed a Climate Equity Act with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So, it is comical that the "independent fact-checkers" at...

I’m the silent majority. Optimistic. Law-abiding. Just looking to have a life. Hoping my son has a better future than me. Tolerant when warranted and looking for the humor in things. I don’t need to be a millionaire or be part of the cool group. Not very religious. My sports team loses, and I get over it the next day. Yet somewhere along the line a coterie of groups decided that made me a chump. Deplorable. Even a Nazi or Fascist. All because I saw a man who wanted to do better for a slice of this country that had...

I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Roughly 73%, or 3,446, were black people, and 27%, or 1,297, were white people. Many whites were lynched because they were Republicans who supported their fellow black citizens and opposed the lawless act of lynching. Tuskegee University has the best documentation of lynching. It records an 1892 high of 69 whites and 161...

If, God forbid, Trump ends up with the election being stolen from him, can the Senate block all of the crazy ideas Progressives promised to implement if Biden won, like adding 2 more states, severely limiting the 2nd Amendment, packing the SCOTUS, etc?

Kyle Rittenhouse On 31 October, 2020, there was an extradition hearing for Kyle Rittenhouse in the Lake County courthouse in Waukegan, Illinois. The Judge ruled that Kyle should be extradited to Wisconsin, for the self-defense shootings of people who followed and attacked him in Kenosha, during the riots in that city. Kyle worked as a lifeguard in Kenosha. His home in Illinois is about 15 miles from Kenosha. The hearing was held on Friday morning. The judge issued his ruling Friday afternoon. John Pierce, Kyle's attorney, had said he would appeal the extradition. It was implied that Kyle would stay...

Psalm 93 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.