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US bishop: Choir members, Communion ministers must be ‘fully vaccinated’While Arkansas rescinded its mask mandate, Bishop Anthony B. Taylor of Little Rock declared masks ‘obligatory’ and vaccines required as churches have their ‘own dynamics.’LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 9, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The first bishop in the United States to cancel all public Masses has now barred lay people from delivering Communion to the sick, and choir members from singing in Mass, unless they are “fully vaccinated” with an experimental coronavirus vaccine. He also still requires everybody to wear masks.Bishop Anthony B. Taylor of Little Rock, Arkansas, issued a letter to...

Pope Francis on Sunday argued that having received mercy, Jesus’ apostles became merciful themselves, sharing ownership over everything, calling such an arrangement “not communism, but pure Christianity.” “The Acts of the Apostles relate that ‘no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.’ This is not communism, but pure Christianity,” he said. The pope’s words came as he marked Divine Mercy Sunday in a Roman church dedicated to the devotion. Given COVID-19 restrictions, the Church of Santo Spirito was half empty, yet filled with a group of male and female prisoners from three...

“The chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, in order that they might put Him to death” (Matthew 26:59). The only evidence of guilt against Jesus was man-made and contrived. The essence of the Jews’ ancient legal system is found in the Lord’s words to Moses and Israel: “You shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial” (Deut. 16:19). Therefore, it is truly amazing to consider what twisted measures the Jewish leaders resorted to in their trial of Jesus. The Council, or Sanhedrin, was authorized to judge only those cases in which...

Newly released footage shows the chilling moment a New Mexico cop is gunned down during a traffic stop. The video from the dashcam of state police Officer Darrian Jarrott’s squad car shows the state cop approaching a Chevy pickup truck on Interstate-10 on Feb. 4 and questioning the driver, who was pulled over for having overly dark tinted windows. During a peaceful exchange that lasts several minutes, the driver identifies himself as Omar Felix Cueva and admits he has a firearm in the vehicle, according to news reports. New Mexico State Police shows Officer Darian Jarrott. New Mexico State Police...

Our nation is in anguish. It has been since at least the turn of the century 21 years ago. It is apparent that we live in two separate countries. Each within a country. We have attempted to coexist, but one of them has since decided they can no longer live with freedom, a traditional American culture, and a free market economy. They will no longer honor the lifestyle of the other as expressed and accomplished these last 245 years.

Officials with the New Mexico State Police gave more details about the fatal shooting of an officer in February. On February 4 New Mexico State Police officer Darian Jarrott initiated a traffic stop on a white Chevrolet pickup on Interstate 10 eastbound, near mile marker 102 east of Deming, New Mexico. During the traffic stop, Jarrott asked the driver, identified as 39-year-old Omar Felix Cueva of Deming to exit the vehicle. Cueva exited the driver’s side holding an AR-15-style rifle and fired at least one shot at officer Jarrott as he was walking to the rear of the vehicle. Officer...

The first 80 days of the Biden administration have been a nightmare for Americans who love our constitution and appreciate limited government. On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced another batch of executive orders, in this case, dealing with expanding gun control. It follows a blizzard of executive orders he has issued since his inauguration. Biden is proving his “woke” credentials by pursuing a full-fledged progressive agenda. Although all leftist dreams have not been realized, dramatic action on their agenda has occurred in the first 80 days of the Biden administration.

In a shockingly transparent power play, major corporations now enforce leftist political positions in a craven ploy to placate Democrats, woke employees, and the public. Most Americans don’t realize using private companies for government goals is a pillar of Fascism. Social media titans Twitter and Facebook enforce woke speech codes while deploying kill lists on anti-liberals. Now, massive corporations like Levis, Coca-Cola and MLB join the widening purge against the GOP and conservatives. Where will it all end? In absolute tyranny – if left unchecked. So conservatives must fight back now or certainly lose America to fascist socialism as liberal...

New York City is now a place to “kill or be killed,” says the grandmother of a 12-year-old boy shot in Brooklyn. The boy was part of a group that had been involved in a fight earlier in the night and then later targeted in the gang-related shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Sunday. “The neighborhood is the neighborhood. It happens all the time,” said the shot boy’s grandmother, Evette Lilly, to The Post of the crime.

...My original post included my disagreement with Tyler’s insistence on discounting the fact that Covid reserves its dangers overwhelmingly for the very old. James Markels believes my criticism of Tyler to be mistaken. One of Mr. Markels’s points is this one: First, the fact that COVID-19 disproportionately killed the elderly was not something that was readily apparent right out of the box, when the virus was spreading rapidly. This claim by Mr. Markels is incorrect. (Other of his claims also strike me as being either incorrect or inapt, but here – save for a brief point made below in closing...

Last June, Hunter became incensed when the staff of Pier 1 refused to allow her to return an item she didn’t have in her possession. “I’m a mother of ten, and currently a brain tumor patient at Mayo Clinic. Obviously, I don’t get out much right now,” Sprague explained in a Facebook post that went viral last June. “I had an appointment in the Town Center area, so I donned my mask and ducked into a store to escape the heat while I waited for my appointment time.” While Sprague was at the store she noticed “two small children wandering...

On that long ago Halloween Night when I was nine years old, I pinched myself in order to be convinced that I really WAS in an orphanage. I could not believe that I was there when both my parents, though separated, were alive; could not believe that I could no longer run up the street where we lived to visit my much beloved, cookie-dispensing Aunt Edie.

Only people who are vaccinated can evacuate on cruise ships as the La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted on Friday. This creates a “two-tier” society where vaccinated people have already fled the island on cruise ships while non-vaccinated folks are choking on volcanic ash. And just like that the ‘COVID passport’ slippery slope has been amply and frighteningly demonstrated with great clarity in an ongoing life-and-death situation. As the below CBS clip from this weekend confirms, we’re now already far past some imagined theoretical ‘Brave New World’ slippery slope – indeed we’ve blown past...

I mailed an old friend some usb drives with audio and pdf and word doc files. She is even more of a techtard than I am and cannot plug usbs into the only devices she has, which are an Iphone and Ipad. I am trying to assist her long distance to access the info I sent her and have searched to no avail as I do not even know the model numbers of her devices, or whatever they're called. If knowing the model numbers would help I can get them from her. So..does anyone know if there is some device...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said "it would be serious mistake" for China to strike at Taiwan and expressed "real concerns" about Russia's massing of forces on the border with Ukraine. In addressing concerns about America's two great Cold War rivals, Blinken stopped short of promising U.S. military intervention — "I'm not going to get into hypotheticals" — but did vow there would be "consequences." Speaking to host Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet the Press," Blinken said of Chinese belligerence toward Taiwan, "We have a commitment to Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act, a bipartisan commitment that's existed...

During this episode, the cast spoofed a Minneapolis morning news show to discuss the trial over George Floyd’s death in custody. “Sounds like we all agree there’s no way Derek Chauvin walks away from this,” Kate McKinnon said. Two black cast members, Keenan Thompson and Ego Nwodim, immediately began to express doubt. McKinnon goes on to discuss how the defense has been arguing that Floyd’s cause of death was actually the fatal amount of drugs in his system. “And there’s no way the jury is gonna fall for that,” McKinnon says. The black actors continue to express doubt that a...

An old soldier who has taken up the tailor's trade and rooms with an old woman, takes pity on a dissolute alcoholic. The drunkard steals from him, initially denies it; guilt-racked, the drunkard disappears for a long time, at the end, comes back to die after nearly starving himself and nearly freezing on the street, seeking redemption - "The Honest Thief". Divine Mercy. What is it? (After a life spent without developing a relationship with Jesus, He will come to a dying soul three times to offer His mercy.) A short story by Dostoevsky, in the Librivox collection of audio...

As of Friday, 259,847 doses of vaccine have been administered in the province, including 192,131 first doses and 67,716 second doses. But just how safe are you on a single dose of the vaccine? A letter by two Canadian experts published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) earlier this year stated that with a 92.6 per cent efficacy, the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine was “highly protective.” ... Dr. Joss Reimer, the medical lead of Manitoba’s vaccine implementation task force, said they based that decision on studies in British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, the U.K. and Israel. “All...

In modern America, we periodically offer up white men as human sacrifices to the PC gods. Among our benefactions: Jake Gardner, Kyle Rittenhouse, Darren Wilson, the Duke lacrosse players, University of Virginia fraternity members, Stacey Koon and Mark Fuhrman. The rest of us just keep our heads down and pray we won’t be next. At least the Duke and UVA human offerings were sufficiently upper-crust to have a few journalists and lawyers defending them. But policemen, bar owners, military veterans and a Midwest teenager? Definitely not our crowd, darling. Currently, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is on trial for killing...

RAVENEL, S.C. - The owner of a Ravenel butcher and taxidermy shop says his team found five dog tags, a shell casing, turtle shells and even a spark plug inside the stomach of a 12-foot alligator killed by a Lowcountry hunter.. The gator, which weighed in at 445 pounds, was killed by Ned McNeely, who owns the Adams Run property where he found it. He then took the animal to Cordray’s in Ravenel for processing, where the discovery was made. I’ve got several alligator tags you apply for with the state,” he said. South Carolina bases the number of tags...