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For Catholics of 1950s Australia, the formal prayers said as the Rosary were very familiar. Families knelt in homes at night and together prayed the Rosary—set around five decades of “Hail Marys” interspersed with an “Our Father” and a “Glory Be”. A full Rosary, rarely said at one time, involved fifteen decades, including meditation on the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries (moments in Jesus of Nazareth’s life on earth). It was a well-entrenched ritual and, for children, the usual five decades were something of chore to get through. But it helped keep belief in the Catholic Church. The beads themselves...

‘Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump.’ So said CNN’s Brian Stelter on his Sunday program, Reliable Sources. Stelter was apparently handed his own TV show based on the principle that at least one CNN host ought to resemble the network’s target audience. Nevertheless, he is correct. Progressivism needs Tucker to be Trump, and so for the moment, he is. To work in cable in the age of Donald Trump was to live life on easy mode. For years, channels tried desperately to hook viewers with endless updates on missing white women, murdered white women or murdering white women. Suddenly,...

In respect of the filibuster, Senator Mitch McConnell certainly put the hay down where us mules can get to it. The Republican leader unloaded after a hapless Ben Cardin, senator of Maryland, while talking on Monday with Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, “accidentally” got caught by a hot-mic and, as the New York Post retailed the story, “outed plans to pass an infrastructure bill without Republican votes.” Mr. McConnell responded today with a prediction of the kind rarely heard in the upper chamber. “Let me say this very clearly, for all 99 of my colleagues,” the Kentuckian rasped. “Nobody serving in this...

They also discovered a partially mummified 6,000-year-old skeleton of a child.For the first time in 60 years, archaeologists have discovered a new fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a cache of ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts uncovered in the Qumran Caves on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. The Israel Antiquities Authority, which carried out the excavations, believes the new scroll, written in Greek, is actually a missing part of the “Book of the 12 Minor Prophets” scroll, first discovered in 1961. It contains verses from Zechariah 8:16-17 and Nahum 1:5-6. The minor differences in the wording compared...

The French government announced Monday that it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938. The colorful 1905 oil work by the Austrian symbolist painter titled "Rosebushes under the Trees" has been hanging in Paris' Musée d'Orsay museum for decades. French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin told a Paris news conference that "the decision to return a major work from the public collections illustrates our commitment to the duty of justice and reparation vis-à-vis plundered families." The oil work will be...

President Biden on Tuesday urged migrants not to make the journey to the U.S. as his administration struggles to get a handle on a surge at the southern border. "I can say quite clearly don't come over," Biden told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News in an interview scheduled to air Wednesday morning. "Don't leave your town or city or community." Biden conceded the surge "could be" worse than the one that prompted a significant crackdown from the Trump administration and threats to close the border in 2019 but said it was not there yet. Biden echoed what other administration officials...

The Washington Post is walking back claims that former President Donald Trump told Georgia’s elections investigator to “find the fraud.” It issued a correction on March 11 to a story it published in January. It said the original story about the call included quotes that didn’t exist in the audio recording. In his lengthy response, Trump said he appreciated the correction but he’d also appreciate further investigation into Fulton County.

New Jersey is a wonderfully diverse place. Though a relatively small state, it has the highest population density in the U.S. It's also brimming with an immense amount of Italian-American residents. I'm half-Italian, but I didn't grow up speaking a lick of the mellifluous tongue. From pizza and pasta to "The Sopranos," I was raised in a place where the notion of Italy is celebrated. However, it took me some time to note that this was not Italian culture, per se, but a slightly different "sect" altogether — an Italian-American history and culture that's rich in and of itself. It...

President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he does not plan for now to visit the southern border of the United States amid a surge in illegal immigrants. Asked before boarding Marine One in Washington whether he has plans to visit the border, Biden told reporters: “Not at the moment.”

The U.S. has seen some progress in its battle against COVID-19, but experts are worried some Americans are easing up on restrictions too early. A report by CNN Health reveals that experts fear this is a critical time. There are looming dangers and rising cases of a dangerous variant, which are threatening to wipe out the progress the country has made thus far. Despite the fact that cases of a dangerous variant are on the rise, this month at least a dozen state leaders have eased COVID-19 restrictions, citing the increase in vaccination numbers as well as “improving COVID-19 trends.”...

UPDATED: March 16, 2021 at 3:00 pm (Campaign Website Photo) PHOENIX – Former Nogales Mayor Marco Lopez became Arizona’s first formal candidate for governor in 2022, announcing his plans Tuesday. Lopez, 42, a small business owner, served in the Obama administration and won the mayoral election in the border town when he was 22. “I’m running for governor because I believe in the promise of Arizona—that Arizona is a place where anything is possible and every family has the chance to succeed, no matter who you are or where you come from,” the Democrat said in the press release announcing...

Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) said on Monday that entering the United States illegally must have consequences or criminals will continue to exploit the system and profit from smuggling and transporting illegal immigrants across the southern border.

This news is certainly being kept under the cover. The media is certainly not on the Democratic Party’s side, right? I would have never known this occurred if I had not seen a Press Release from State Representative Matt Hall’s Office. It started when the Allegan County Clerk-Register of Deeds Bob Genetski with the Republican Party sued Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson in her official capacity and Jonathan Brater, Director of Elections in his official capacity. They sued her because they believed she violated Michigan’s Administrative Procedures Act when she solely decided the voter ballot signature matching guidelines prior to...

President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should resign if an investigation confirms claims he committed sexual harassment. "I know you said you want the investigation to continue," Stephanopoulos told Biden, referring to a probe by New York's attorney general into allegations Cuomo had harassed several women. "If the investigation confirms the claims of the women, should he resign?" "Yes," the president replied. "I think he'll probably end up being prosecuted, too."

Something very creepy and un-American happened outside the congressional office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). During remarks at CPAC, Greene mistakenly said that Guam was a foreign land. In response, Guam's representative in Congress led a large contingent of Guam National Guard troops - in uniform - to her office. Rep. Michael F.Q. San Nicolas, Guam's only representative, and the troops briefly met with one of Greene’s aides, who said the congresswoman was not at her office. The congressman has yet to explain why he summoned military troops to escort him to the Georgia congresswoman's office. In 2010, Rep....

Members of the gun control group Moms Demand Action are threatening DoorDash with an organized boycott campaign, simply because the company does not have a policy requiring their contracted drivers to be disarmed in their own vehicles while on the job

Two people died after a massive explosion set off by fireworks at an Ontario house rocked a residential neighborhood Tuesday, prompting a large response from firefighters and law enforcement. Ontario Fire Chief Ray Gayk said in a news conference that commercial-grade fireworks set off the fire at a roughly 1-acre residential lot. The Ontario Fire Bomb Squad is clearing the area, and several agencies, including the FBI, are investigating the incident. “They are commercial grade,” Gayk said, “like you would normally see in the fireworks show.” Gayk said a horse was also injured in the explosion. Video from ABC-TV Channel...

Heretofore ignored by the legacy press and mainstream media, in February, federal authorities invaded a neighborhood in the Flathead Valley with militarized police and terrorized its occupants with what appears to be Waco-level tyrannical overreach. In 1992, a federal siege occurred in Boundary County, Idaho, at a location known as Ruby Ridge. The eleven-day siege lasted from August 21-31 and resulted in the deaths of one U.S. Marshall, and the wife and son of Randy Weaver, the target of the siege. This event captured the attention of the nation. To secure the land around this seven-person home composed of three...

Traces of Earth’s early magma ocean identified in Greenland rocks New research led by the University of Cambridge has found rare evidence – preserved in the chemistry of ancient rocks from Greenland - which tells of a time when Earth was almost entirely molten.It’s astonishing that we can even hold these rocks in our hands – let alone get so much detail about the early history of our planetHelen WilliamsThe study, published in the journal Science Advances, yields information on an important period in our planet’s formation, when a deep sea of incandescent magma stretched across Earth’s surface and extended...

Russian President Vladimir Putin knew of and likely directed a Russian effort to manipulate the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign to benefit former President Donald Trump with "misleading or unsubstantiated allegations" against challenger Joe Biden.That's according to a report released Tuesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.The report underscored allegations that Trump’s allies were playing into Moscow’s hands by amplifying false claims about Biden in the run up to the November 3rd election.