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ROME — Pope Francis told financiers Thursday they must help calculate the “ecological debt” the global north owes to the global south. We cannot overlook “the ‘ecological debt’ that exists especially between the global north and south,” the pontiff said in a letter to participants in a meeting of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund.

God has promised us, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (Psalm 46:1). The phrase “very present” means “always here, always available, with unlimited access.” In short, the abiding presence of the Lord is always in us. And if he’s ever present in us, then he wants continual conversation with us. He wants us to talk with him no matter where we are: on the job, with family, with friends, even with non-believers. You may ask, “So how does God bring us help in our troubles?” His help comes in the gift of his Holy...

Last week, Raffensperger, who is not a party to the suit, filed an amicus brief in an attempt to block the effort to unseal and examine the ballots. a Republican who has resisted demands by former President Donald Trump and others to investigate claims of vote-counting mischief in the state's 2020 presidential vote, In the months following the November election, Raffensperger unbendingly defended the validity of the ballots cast in Georgia. In the process, he emerged as a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump, who repeatedly told Raffensperger that if his office scrutinized the ballots in Fulton County, they...

Citing an “informed source,” Jake Tapper tweeted that “MLB officials made the decision (to move the All Star Game to Denver) because if they didn’t then the decision would be left to individual players, individual All-Stars, some of whom no doubt would have individually boycotted the game themselves.”In short: There was no way to avoid this becoming political.— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 7, 2021 Tapper’s “informed source?” NOTE: Loudmouth Stacy will deny this and CNN will report accordinglyTapper explained. "So MLB did what they thought was taking one for the team, as it were, trying to protect the individual players...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) have filed suit against The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for “sanctuary country” policies that prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting, detaining, and deporting most illegal aliens. In February, top DHS officials announced sanctuary country policies that prevent ICE agents from arresting and deporting about 9-in-10 illegal aliens who would otherwise be deported. These policies require that ICE agents only prioritize arrest and deportation for illegal aliens who have been recently convicted of aggravated felonies, terrorists, or known gang members. As a result, convicted...

A year into a global pandemic has been good for gun sales, but the fear isn’t just Covid-19, warned Wahl. “First of all, the government has scared the people,” Wahl told the Fergus Falls Journal. “Everyone is real afraid they won’t be able to find it so they are stocking up. They walk into stores and buy everything they can see. You’ll find it on the Internet at about four times the normal price.” As first-time buyers rushed to purchase a firearm they also bought ammunition, and the downside for shooters is that it drove up ammunition prices to levels...

The Octave of Easter Luke 24:35–48 Friends, in today’s Gospel, the risen Jesus appears to his eleven disciples. That the Resurrection is a literary device, or a symbol that Jesus’ cause goes on, is a fantasy born in the faculty lounges of Western universities over the past couple of centuries. The still-startling claim of the first witnesses is that Jesus rose bodily from death, presenting himself to his disciples to be seen, even handled. It is a contemporary prejudice that ancient people were naïve, easily duped, willing to believe any far-fetched tale—but this is simply not the case. They knew...

Sorry for the vanity, but I have been watching the news on this for a week and have not seen an article. I noticed at some point last week that I can not longer get to Parler.com while at home. It does not connect on my computer, or on either of my two phones while using my home wi-fi. When I connect to a VPN on either phone (I have a work and personal cell phone), or if I use cellular data Parler.com and the Parler app work just fine. The error I get is "server not found". Has anyone...

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The total National Instant background Check System (NICS) checks In March of 2021 were an all-time record for the month. The total checks done were reported at 4,691,738. The next highest month was January of 2021, with 4,317,804. The third highest month was 3,937,066 in December of 2020. Those numbers are very large. They reflect the continuing expansion of the use of the NICS system for purposes other than firearm sales. Most of the increase is in carry permits and carry permit rechecks. NICS All-Time Record for March 2021, Gun Sales Down 20% from Record Set in 2020 There were...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Psalm 28Psalm 28 Of David. 1 To you, Lord, I call; you are my Rock, do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you remain silent, I will be like those who go down to the pit. 2 Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place. 3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak cordially with their neighbors but harbor malice in their hearts. 4 Repay them for their...

"A crony anti-infrastructure plan" is, sadly, the best description of the Biden administration's proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. It's insanely expensive and unnecessary, especially coming, as it does, on top of last year's fiscal insanity. Over the past year, our leaders have spent $6 trillion in bailout and COVID-19 relief funds. They've driven local, state and federal government spending up to 43.5 percent of GDP, meaning that we're already in financial trouble. Now they want to top it off with trillions more of wasteful spending, describing it as "infrastructure" spending, which arguably everyone likes. But once you look at what's...

EXCLUSIVE – Saying that "to save New York, Andrew Cuomo’s gotta go," Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin on Thursday morning declared his candidacy for governor of the Empire State. Zeldin becomes the first Republican to launch a challenge against New York’s embattled three-term Democratic governor, who faces allegations of sexual harassment from 10 female accusers, which has triggered an independent investigation by the state attorney general and an impeachment investigation in the State Assembly. Cuomo’s also facing a federal probe into the state’s handling of COVID deaths at nursing homes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Zeldin, a staunch ally of former President...

Was the Capitol building attack — where one police officer was killed and another injured — last Good Friday by Noah Green, a Nation of Islam member, a jihad attack? Most would say no: the Nation of Islam, they would argue, is a heterodox group that has little to do with mainstream Islam as it focuses on placing a wedge between "superior" blacks (Allah's people) and "inferior" whites (Satan's people). Although this is largely true, it overlooks two important facts: the Nation of Islam, as well as countless other groups regularly dismissed as out of the Muslim mainstream, traces its...

Airline pilot is one of those jobs, along with brain surgeon, that used to be used as an example of the type of position for which affirmative action was obviously unsuited. Airline pilot is one of those jobs, along with brain surgeon, that used to be used as an example of the type of position for which affirmative action was obviously unsuited. Who wants to board an aircraft or go under the knife with someone in charge chosen for factors other than ability? Lives are at stake, after all. Anything less than the absolute best should be unacceptable. Yet, in...

Me: Making it easier to vote, without the security of ensuring that only those legally eligible to vote are casting votes and not dead people or illegals or those casting multiple votes makes the system corrupt. Liberal: Spoken like a McConnell & Paul voter. Me:Rand Paul, sure. He’s a libertarian. It can’t be helped that liberals are traitors to their countrymen and would gladly sell their countrymen into slavery for their ideals. To protect the vote, I’d remove a liberal’s right to vote if it were up to me. Anybody who believes in slavery, through socialism, should never be allowed...

The Commissioner of "MLB" should be immediately fired by the the "MLB" team owners and the Major League Baseball Game should be immediately returned to Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta, & the great state of Georgia did nothing wrong in revising their state election laws. Fake Democrat Incompetent, Demented, POTUS, Joe Biden should be removed from office by the Democrat Party for calling the Georgia legislation, "Jim Crow" law. Biden should resign!!! Delta Air lines should fire its CEO for not standing by the great city of Atlanta, the Great State of Georgia. Hartsfield International Airport which is the "Home" airport and...

Ok, so, Keystone XL is not ‘infrastructure’ in the minds of the depraved Democrats, but this stuff is? – NY Senator and miserably failed presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand got the award for most ridiculous tweet of the day on Wednesday with this little gem: Paid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Caregiving is infrastructure. Holy crap. You just can’t make this stuff up, folks. The idiotic tweet naturally attracted an array of pithy responses, but this one is the best: Perfect. All pithiness aside, though, it is important to understand exactly what Gillibrand and other Democrats who are offering...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14567615/brazil-covid-plague-biological-fukushima-mutant-strains/ Headline: ‘BIOLOGICAL FUKUSHIMA’ Brazil Covid plague ‘spawning super-mutations every week that could destroy world’s fight against pandemic’ The article has images of graves being dug up to make room for all the newly dead. In the article it is called “the largest human tragedy in Brazilian history”. Other quotes “Brazil...threat to entire effort...to control the pandemic on the planet”. “It’s a nuclear reactor that has set off a chain reaction and is out of control. It’s a biological Fukushima." Also - “Reports say 92 variants...”. “Hospitals are reported to be at the breaking point.”...

I’m old enough to remember when China Joe Biden put Kamala Harris “in charge” of dealing with the crisis at the border. – That was 15 days ago, and since then the fake Vice President has essentially disappeared from performing any apparent duties at all (not that she was doing much before that time) and people – like GOP establishment darling Nikki Haley – are starting to talk.