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L'Osservatore Romano: Traitor Church Harbours Sympathy for the TraitorThe Good Friday edition of the Vatican’s L'Osservatore Romano celebrated on its first three pages Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Christ.Andrea Monda, L'Osservatore's editor-in-chief, writes on the first page about “Judas and the scandal of mercy” explaining that he wanted to "honour" the "most tragic and unsettling" figure of the Gospel.A picture shows a naked Christ bowing over the dead Judas ministering to him. The picture was painted by a French artist who was impressed by Francis’ praise of Judas.L'Osservatore also published a sermon by Modernist Father Primo Mazzolari (+1959) who contradicts...

Ok all...now that the NFL, MLB and NBA have became TOTALLY "woke" what is everyone's new "GO TO" sport?

Ghislaine Maxwell's prosecutors have disclosed 2.7 million pages of evidence to her lawyers in her Jeffrey Epstein trafficking case, a court filing has revealed. **SNIP** Her lawyers have repeatedly complained about her not having enough time to work on her case while in jail at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn. Now prosecutors have revealed the full scale of the mountain of evidence in the case, which stretches to within a stone's throw of three million pages. A letter by U.S. attorney Audrey Strauss reads: "As the Court is aware, the Government has produced to the defendant more than 2.7 million...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley just doesn’t want to make sure no murderers are executed, she’s also pushing the immediate release of all … fat prisoners. Yes, it’s right there, in what she proudly calls the “landmark Dismantle Mass Incarceration for Public Health Act” which she filed last year with fellow squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib and California Rep. Barbara Lee. It would “require States and units of local government to certify a commitment to release certain individuals from jails and prisons,” including those who are “diagnosed with obesity.” Would this have included the pleasingly plump Boston Mafia boss Carmen “the Cheeseman”...

Explanation: Is this just a lonely tree on an empty hill? To start, perhaps, but look beyond. There, a busy universe may wait to be discovered. First, physically, to the left of the tree, is the planet Mars. The red planet, which is the new home to NASA's Perseverance rover, remains visible this month at sunset above the western horizon. To the tree's right is the Pleiades, a bright cluster of stars dominated by several bright blue stars. The featured picture is a composite of several separate foreground and background images taken within a few hours of each other, early...

A top Biden administration medical adviser said Tuesday he did not know why COVID-19 cases continue decreasing in Texas after he and others harshly criticized the state’s governor for rolling back a mask mandate last month. “It can be confusing because you may see a lag and a delay, because often, you have to wait a few weeks before you see the effect of what you’re doing right now,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of President Joe Biden’s top COVID-19 advisers, said during an appearance on MSNBC. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s mask mandate ended on March 10. “There are a lot...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner and Publix both say a recent report by 60 Minutes on vaccines in Florida is false. ... Publix blasted the report, saying in part, "The irresponsible suggestion that there was a connection between campaign contributions made to Governor DeSantis and our willingness to join other pharmacies in support of the state's vaccine distribution efforts is absolutely false."

"Keep wearing a mask, wash the hands and socially distance – which I’m not doing," he jokes, prompting laughter from a group of people off-camera.

A heart wrenching clip from a border patrol agent’s body camera has been released, showing a young migrant child crying because he was abandoned near the US-Mexico border. The boy explained that he was abandoned by a group of illegal immigrants and was afraid of being kidnapped. “It’s that I was coming with a group and they abandoned me and I do not know where they are at,” the young boy said to the agent at the border in Texas. “You do not know where they are at? They left you alone?” asked the border patrol agent. The child, who...

.... Now Major has bitten another person who reportedly required medical attention. In the prior column, I noted that under tort law a dog is afforded (at most) “one free bite” before strict liability applies. Major could now be treated as a known vicious animal for liability purposes.... The subsection says that the dog was “off the premises of the owner . . . nor otherwise under the immediate control of a person capable of physically restraining it.” The key issue is the meaning of “nor.” It does not say “or” to clearly mean that you can be liable for...

“…and Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors”We are dependent creatures, we need our daily bread and are taught to look to God for it in the Lord’s prayer. We certainly cannot live by bread, but neither can we live without it. In the same way, we cannot live without the mercy of God’s forgiveness. We need it, daily. I cannot live without God, without communion and the sense of God in my life. But I am a sinner. I have to have forgiveness. God gives us so much more than we even realize. His giving is constant,...

Shanghai Tianshu Intellectual Semiconductor Co. (Tianshu Zhixin) announced Wednesday that it's nearing "mass production and commercial delivery" of Big Island, China's first domestically produced 7nm general-purpose GPU (GPGPU). Tianshu Zhixin said in January that BI was made using an unidentified 7nm process node and 2.5D chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging. On Wednesday, it confirmed our suspicion that BI was made using TSMC's 7nm FinFET process. It also shared a little more information about what people can expect from BI when it starts to ship. Tianshu Zhixin claimed that BI offers "nearly twice the performance of mainstream manufacturers' products" at a lower power...

Brad Keyes said he was fired from his position as Pembroke Academy’s track and field coach Monday after he informed school Athletic Director Fred Vezina that he would not allow any member of his team to compete this spring while wearing a mask. Keyes said Vezina told him last week that Pembroke Academy would require its athletes to wear masks as a COVID-19 protocol while competing in all running events plus the long jump, triple jump and the high jump. Keyes wrote a response stating his objections to the decision and posted it on Pembroke Academy’s track and field website:...

About 80 New Hampshire businesses and other organizations are seeking to block a bill that would ban public schools and other entities from teaching that America is a fundamentally racist nation, warning the measure would be bad for business in the state. The coalition sent a letter to Gov. Chris Sununu (R) and lawmakers, stating the bill would “have a chilling impact on our workplaces and on the business climate in New Hampshire,” reported New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR), which further noted the letter warned the measure, “would not only harm the ability of New Hampshire businesses to be competitive,...

God_Bless_the_USA (@GodBlesstheUS20) Tweeted: Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet identified as the killer of two Navymen in Maryland. Here is his photo. https://t.co/XMGn5iOk2x https://twitter.com/GodBlesstheUS20/status/1379549748265250817?s=20

A trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine on children in the UK has been paused while the medicines regulator investigates a possible link between the jab and rare blood clots in adults.SNIP"Whilst there are no safety concerns in the paediatric clinical trial, we await additional information from the MHRA on its review of rare cases of thrombosis/thrombocytopaenia that have been reported in adults, before giving any further vaccinations in the trial," the statement said.SNIPThe European Medicines Agency's (EMA) head of vaccine strategy has said it is "increasingly difficult" to say there is "no cause and effect relationship" between the Oxford-AstraZeneca...

Former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner is actively looking into running for California governor in a recall election to replace Gov. Gavin Newson, according to several sources. The reality television star is in discussions with GOP political consultants on the matter, indicating the former Kardashian stepfather would run as a Republican. With Newsom likely facing a recall election later this year, a challenge from Jenner, a transgender Republican, could weaken the incumbent Democrat’s support among the powerful LGBTQ lobby in California, the most populous state. Jenner is being advised by Caroline Wren, a longtime GOP fundraiser, the news site Axios reported on...

China released a propaganda musical that purportedly depicts the life of Uyghur Muslims, which fails to mention mass surveillance and systematic human-rights abuses. "The Wings of Songs," which premiered in China on March 28, follows the story of a Uyghur, a Kazakh, and a Han Chinese man who form a musical group in the Xinjiang region. In the film, the relationship between Uyghurs and Han Chinese is described as the "seeds of a pomegranate," according to The New York Times.

Originally, we were told that governments can assume unprecedented control over our lives, businesses, and even our own faces for the goal of not overrunning hospitals. A year later, as we come increasingly close to herd immunity, not only are hospitals in no danger of being overrun, but it turns out that people have likely contracted the virus at a rate that would have occurred without any of these restrictions – and their calamitous damage to society. Twelve months later, it's all pain and no gain. We've always known that the number of confirmed COVID cases in a given region...

Following faux conservative outrage at the movement of the All-Star game from Atlanta to Denver, Major League Baseball offered the following reasoning for the move: An anonymous spokesman with access to inside information said today, “We understand the disappointment of those in Atlanta and Cobb County at the movement of this game. We understand and sympathize with the hundreds of people of color who will lose tens of thousands of dollars due to our decision to move the game to a majority white city with more restrictive voting laws than Georgia,” “That said, we felt moving the game to a...