Free Republic

ROME – A top Vatican official in charge of organizing a major symposium on the priesthood next year has said the discussion will touch on several controversial hot-button issues such as priestly celibacy, the women’s diaconate, clericalism, and the clerical sexual abuse crisis. Speaking to journalists during the April 12 presentation of the event, Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet said, “the question of celibacy is important.” “We have all spoken about it, and it will be discussed, but it will not be the central theme of the symposium,” he said. “It is not a symposium on celibacy, like it needs to...

Tune in via Roku/AppleTV/AmazonFire with the America’s Voice App PM tennmountainman, if you want On/Off this list https://pluto.tv/live-tv/americas-voice https://americasvoice.app Past episodes: https://rumble.com/c/BannonsWarRoom

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s gubernatorial campaign paid at least $62,500 in a settlement with a former aide, who alleges the Democrat lawmaker engaged in sexual misconduct towards him.

MyPillow CEO and liberal media target Mike Lindell is launching an online store to combat Big Tech giant Amazon’s hold over e-commerce. Lindell stated in a video promotion of his venture — called MyStore — on the MyPillow website: “For years entrepreneurs and inventors have came to me with products and ideas, and they don't know how to market them. Or I haven't had the time even to show them.” In addition, “I am going to put vetted products from great entrepreneurs up here, like you see a sampling of them here today, that are going to change this country.”...

When Major League Baseball decided to relocate the All-Star Game and Draft from Atlanta due to alleged “restrictions to the ballot box," our country recoiled and our politicians -- from the President on down to local activists -- backpedaled. The fallout from the misinformation campaign means Georgians and small businesses will strike out. A Rasmussen poll showed a plurality of African American respondents disagreed with MLB’s decision and a majority agreed it was a bad idea to combine sports and politics. The great American pastime can do without a partisan power struggle.For years, Stacey Abrams and her Democrat allies have...

BRUSSELS (AP) — President Joe Biden urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to “de-escalate tensions” following a Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s border in their second tense call of Biden’s young presidency. Biden also told Putin the U.S. would “act firmly in defense of its national interests” regarding Russian cyber intrusions and election interference, according to the White House. Biden proposed a summit in a third country “in the coming months” to discuss the full range of U.S.-Russia issues, the White House said. The Biden-Putin relationship has been rocky in the early going of the new U.S. administration. Biden...

Former Officer Derek Chauvin was justified in pinning George Floyd to the ground because of his frantic resistance, a use-of-force expert testified for the defense Tuesday, contradicting a parade of authorities from both inside and outside the Minneapolis Police Department. Taking the stand at Chauvin’s murder trial, Barry Brodd, a former Santa Rosa, California, police officer, said officers don’t have to wait for something bad to happen; they need only to have a reasonable fear that there’s a threat and then adjust their actions accordingly. “It’s easy to sit and judge … an officer’s conduct. It’s more of a challenge...

Pre-clinical research by Israeli scientists, published in Microbiome, indicates that Kefir could be used to treat cytokine storms caused by coronavirus. Can a cup of probiotic yogurt help save the lives of people with COVID-19? Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev say they have identified molecules in kefir that are effective at treating various inflammatory conditions, including “cytokine storms” caused by COVID-19.

Women seeking an abortion pill will not be required to visit a doctor’s office or clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday in the latest reversal in an ongoing legal battle over the medication. The Food and Drug Administration announced the policy change in a letter to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, one of several medical groups that has sued over the restriction put in place under the Trump administration. The FDA’s acting head, Dr. Janet Woodcock, said an agency review of recent studies “do not appear to show increases in serious safety concerns,” when...

He talked about the teams he put together for Absolute Interference and how he wanted to.... “I said, ‘You know what? I want you to take some [cyberattacks] specifically where it came out of China… take like 20 of them… I want those attacks that came direct out of China, I want a team on the ground, a separate cyber-team.'” What were they looking for? “They checked out physically where the attacks came from, the longitude-latitude, the IP addresses of the machines, the IDs of the computers, who did it?” he said. His team cross-referenced the timestamps of the cyberattacks...

This week, President Joe Biden made good on a campaign promise by signing an executive order creating a commission to examine Supreme Court reforms. The most obvious “reform” which Biden has consistently refused to rule out is adding seats or “court-packing.” This particular reform has a long history of being wielded as a political sword. Every discussion of court-packing includes the phrase, “the number has been nine since 1869,” but the court was actually first expanded to nine justices in 1837. In 1866, Radical Republicans in Congress lowered the number to seven in order to guarantee that Andrew Johnson wouldn’t...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is raking in huge fundraising sums in preparation for his 2022 re-election bid, reportedly raising nearly $6 million in just the last two months. DeSantis had shut down fundraising efforts at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but began fundraising again in October. Since then, he has raised more than $11 million. DeSantis has even out raised the Florida Republican Party. Politico reported on Monday that it had raised $3.65 million the first three months of 2021.

* U.S. FDA OFFICIAL SAYS ONE DEATH REPORTED DUE TO RARE BLOOD CLOT AFTER J&J VACCINE, ONE PATIENT IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION * U.S. FDA OFFICIAL SAYS HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS WHO SEE WITH EITHER A LOW BLOOD PLATELET COUNT OR BLOOD CLOTS SHOULD ESTABLISH WHETHER INDIVIDUAL HAS RECENTLY BEEN VACCINATED * FOR PEOPLE WHO GOT J&J COVID-19 VACCINE MORE THAN A MONTH AGO, RISK OF BLOOD CLOT EVENTS IS VERY LOW AT THIS TIME- FDA OFFICIAL * WE ARE NOT SEEING CLOTTING EVENTS WITH LOW PLATELET COUNT WITH COVID-19 VACCINES FROM PFIZER/BIONTECH AND MODERNA - CDC OFFICIAL * U.S. FDA...

In an attempt to better track users and predict their search habits, Google Chrome has developed FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). FLoC provides visibility into user data to any website that desires this information. In fact, FLoC places each user in an ID group to help websites recognize and target individuals. In response, the alternative search engine DuckDuckGo has come out with an extension for Chrome that can block FLoC tracking. Furthermore, users now have the option of using either the DuckDuckGo application or extension to entirely opt out of FLoC monitoring. Google first implemented FLoC in order to offer...

The Biden administration has abandoned women by supporting the removal of the Food and Drug Administration requirements surrounding the distribution of the mifepristone abortion regimen. Based on extreme lobbying efforts of the pro-abortion movement on this issue, Americans might conclude these regulations—the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies, otherwise known as the REMS—were overly protective and put into place by the pro-life Trump administration; however, that is not the case.The REMS are the product of the pro-abortion Clinton administration’s effort to ensure that the abortion regimen—which carries life-threatening and health-endangering risks such as hemorrhage, infection, incomplete pregnancy, retained fetal parts, the...

Voters are not letting go of their belief that the 2020 presidential election was a fraud-filled nightmare. The latest evidence from Rasmussen Reports: By a margin of 51%-44%, voters said it is “likely” that cheating affected the outcome. That included 74% of Republicans and 30% of Democrats. Some 47% said it is likely Democrats stole or destroyed ballots for former President Donald Trump. That included 75% of Republicans and 30% of Democrats. An even 50% said that it is unlikely ballots were destroyed. It is the latest survey to show that much of the nation is stuck in neutral when...

video posted to TikTok has apparently captured a radio exchange between Taiwanese and Chinese warships, with the latter asserting "Taiwan is part of China" and "has no navy." The rarely heard conversation played out on the maritime distress frequency 156.8 MHz, according to the island's radio scanner listeners. The footage dated March 21 was captured by a Chinese merchant sailor and shared online nine days later. In the 30-second video, Republic of China Navy warship ROCS Chi Kuang (PFG2-1105) can be heard hailing Shuozhou (610), a surface vessel with the People's Liberation Army Navy's East Sea Fleet, which operates in...

Fewer Americans are attending traditional church services. Fewer are attending Catholic schools, too. According to Gallup, the number of Americans who belong to a church, synagogue or mosque continued to decline last year, dropping below 50 percent for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend. And thanks to the COVID pandemic, ABC News says enrollment in Catholic schools has seen the largest single-year decline in at least five decades. I’m not sure what this rapid secularization of America means for our future. But I do admit I wish more of today’s children could experience the memorable upbringing I enjoyed growing...

Dr. Anthony Fauci defended the decision to pause the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday. “I don’t think it was pulling the trigger too quickly,” Fauci said, adding “[W]e’re ruled by the science, not by any other consideration.”

As I was scrolling through my newsfeed recently I came across a link to a CNN chyron that read “Fox’s Biggest Stars Have Not Shared Vaccine Selfies.”Despite it coming from Brian Stelter’s“Reliable Sources,” my initial reaction was that it was parody. Even CNN, the network that shamelessly pushed the Russian collusion hoax, the Charlottesville “very fine people” hoax, and tried to make a story out of then-President Trump eating two scoops of ice cream, wouldn’t beclown itself this way, would it?But, alas, beclown themselves this way they did. Stelter, while speaking with Matt Gertz of Media Matters, said that "[I]t’s...