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The statue of slave trader William Beckford will be replaced and stashed in a car park at a cost of £300,000, under City of London plans to remove his marble monument, The Telegraph can reveal.Beckford, who owned plantations and up to 3,000 slaves in Jamaica, is honoured with a memorial in the City of London Corporation’s Guildhall headquarters where he served as Lord Mayor in the 18th century. Snip

University of Dayton students will pray the Stations of the Cross through an LGBT 'lens.'DAYTON, Ohio, March 16, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A Marianist-run Catholic university in Ohio is offering students an opportunity this Lent to create a pro-LGBT “Stations of the Cross” and then pray them along with other students who support the normalization of homosexuality. Participants at the University of Dayton’s “Ally Stations of the Cross” are given the opportunity of “praying the Stations of the Cross through an LGBTQ+ and allyship lens,” a poster for the event states. The poster includes a picture of a rainbow-colored road leading...

Washington D.C., Mar 16, 2021 / 06:00 pm MT (CNA).- A D.C. Knights of Columbus chapter removed satanic graffiti from outside a parish on Capitol Hill this past Saturday. On Saturday morning, Patrick Abbott, an officer in local Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle Council 11302 of the Knights of Columbus, received a text message from a fellow Knight. He was asking about an image that had appeared on the sidewalk outside of the church of St. Joseph’s on Capitol Hill. The image in question was an encircled white chalk pentagram, with the letter “T” in the middle and numbers and symbols on...

Active between the fourth and eighth centuries A.D., the vast site housed multiple churches, monastic cells and other structuresExcavations in Egypt’s Western Desert have unearthed the ruins of an early Christian monastic site, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Highlights of the discovery include three churches and a set of monks’ cells, or living quarters. Per a statement from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, a joint French-Norwegian team found the basalt and mudbrick structures at Tel Ganub Qasr Al-‘Aguz in the Bahariya Oasis, some 230 miles southwest of Cairo. Some of the buildings were carved directly into the bedrock. Ancient Egyptians...

He’s polite as always in his criticism here, but this is a quietly brutal assessment of the CDC’s lethargy in adjusting its guidance to help the public navigate the dangers of COVID. And it could have been harsher: The word “schools” never leaves his lips even though students are among the biggest casualties of the six-foot rule.. The CDC began the pandemic operating on the assumption that the coronavirus transmits the way the flu does, he notes, and they never quite abandoned that assumption despite the data to the contrary gathered over the past 12 months. Six feet of distance...

Any mother will tell you that infants love staring at faces. It isn't just parental wishful thinking, either; studies show that babies, even those less than an hour old, tend to stare at face-like images longer than at any other pattern. At as early as four months, babies' brains already process faces at nearly adult levels, even while other images are still being analyzed in lower levels of the visual system. The results fit, Farzin pointed out, with the prominent role human faces play in a baby's world.

[Catholic Caucus] Denied the SacramentsTrespassing for having kneltParishioners walking into church: "We just want to go fulfill our Sunday obligation. We want to go to Mass." The usher responds, "Yeah, but if you don't have a mask, you're not allowed in, sir."Members of a Catholic group were denied entry into church last Sunday in the archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas. Lay members working for the archdiocese first prevented the group because they were not wearing masks, then, the usher says, "You were asking for the Eucharist in the mouth last time? Y'all are not allowed in the church. Y'all need...

Earlier this month, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced what sounded like a pretty smart idea. (I know… I was shocked too.) Working through the non-profit Mayor’s Fund, ridesharing giant Uber was donating half a million dollars to set up a system whereby anyone with an appointment to get a vaccination could get a free ride to and from the pod by summoning an Uber. One of the many complaints with the vaccine rollout in the City of Angels was that impoverished, underserved communities weren’t receiving enough opportunities for vaccinations, sometimes because people simply couldn’t afford to travel to get...

It has been said that the whole of Orthodox theology and teaching can be found in a single, well-executed icon. I believe it to be true. Over the years, I have found that certain icons have been invaluable in efforts to teach a class of inquirers or catechumens about certain aspects of the faith. Those “certain aspects” could easily be expanded until, time permitting, the whole of the faith would be expounded. I daresay that some evenings in such classes, the students probably thought that time was permitting. My thoughts turn to this understanding each year as we approach the...

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While Joe Biden shows an inability to climb stairs, having face-planted no less than three times yesterday trying to board Air Force One, his wife is hitting the road to promote the latest COVID “relief” bill. Why a first lady is taking on the role of political propagandist is an interesting question. Traditionally, first ladies head up some mostly non-partisan, pet project and stick to that. To the extent that they have any role in governance, it’s extremely unusual for them to involve themselves with highly political matters. Melania Trump had her no-bullying campaign. Michelle Obama made school lunches taste...

Austrian bishop condones sodomy: Active homosexuals have a ‘spiritual home’ in Catholic ChurchThe bishop was reacting to the Vatican's rejection of blessings for homosexual couplesINNSBRUCK, Austria, March 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – An Austrian Catholic bishop, reacting negatively to the Vatican’s rejection this week of blessings for homosexual couples, stated that the Church must welcome and provide a spiritual home for active homosexuals.“As a church, we would like to offer all people who are gay, lesbian, or insecure about their sexuality a welcome and a spiritual home in the church – and not only at the point when they are celibate,”...

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Finally! The eruption comes following more than 40,000 earthquakes in the past four weeks, a huge jump from the more normal 1,000-3,000 earthquakes per year since 2014. The volcanic eruption began in southwestern Iceland near the capital Reykjavik on Friday, the country’s meteorological office said. A red cloud lit up the night sky after the eruption began in Fagradalsfjall, a mountain about 40km (25 miles) south west of Reykjavik. The Icelandic Meteorological Office said all inbound and outbound flights from Keflavik airport in Reykjavik have been halted. It is the area’s first volcanic eruption in nearly 800 years (some say...

Summer holidays overseas are "extremely unlikely" because of the risk of travellers bringing coronavirus variants back to the UK, a scientist on a government advisory body has said. The UK faces a "real risk" if people travel abroad, Dr Mike Tildesley said. Foreign holidays are currently not allowed and returning travellers have to quarantine. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was "too early to tell" when holidays abroad would be allowed. Under the current road map for easing restrictions, the earliest date people in England could holiday abroad would be 17 May. People can currently travel abroad for a limited...

Dozens of top companies in New York City are on the verge of departing for Florida, and the exodus may increase if the state legislature passes a proposed $7 billion tax hike, business leader say. At least 20 finance and tech companies are already poised to leave the Big Apple for the Sunshine State, Kathyrn Wylde, CEO of the business-backed Partnership for New York City, told the New York Post. Among those considering a move to Florida are JetBlue Airways, which has been headquartered in Queens since its founding two decades ago, and Goldman Sachs, which maintains its head office...

Florida continues to report fewer new cases of the Chinese coronavirus than New York State, despite the absence of lockdowns or a statewide mask mandate, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows. The CDC’s March 19 data shows Florida reporting 143.5 cases per 100,000, or 30,820 cases total, in the last seven days. As Breitbart News has observed, CDC data routinely separates New York City’s data from the remainder of the Empire State. Even so, both areas, taken separately, exceed Florida in new cases per capita in the last seven days. New York State, excluding the city, reported...

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There’s a meme circulating on social media that goes like this… If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen. However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other. The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. This is exactly what’s happening in society today. Liberal vs. Conservative....

In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Kash Patel, a former Obama-era DOJ prosecutor, who was essential in uncovering the Spygate scandal. Personally recruited by Congressman Devin Nunes, he spearheaded the investigation into the FBI’s handling of the Russia probe. And later as Principal Deputy to the Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, he pushed forward the release of numerous documents, transcripts, and text messages—so the American people could finally see it all for themselves. What was it like to spearhead this investigation, facing obstacles at every turn?