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Call for more ‘synodality’ is another chance for liberal activists to drive green agendaThe quest for synodality is a key theme in the teaching of Pope Francis. But the truth is that no one has a very clear understanding what 'synodality' means. And maybe that’s the point.2 June, 2021 (CatholicCulture.org) — As an editor, a writer, and a reader, I cherish clarity of expression. As a Catholic, I am appalled by the abuses of language — the pretense, the confusion, the obfuscation, and even the outright deceit—that I see in many recent pronouncements from our Church leadership.Last week the Vatican...

Last night, Rand Paul told Laura Ingraham that a bipartisan panel should look into the origins of COVID and whether the gain of function studies financed by Fauci had anything to do with it. As enVolve reported yesterday, newly released emails from White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci prove that he knew the Wuhan Institute of Virology was carrying out dangerous gain-of-function research. Sen. Rand Paul took Fauci to task over this on Wednesday night. “The emails paint a disturbing picture, a disturbing picture of Dr. Fauci, from the very beginning, worrying that he had been funding gain-of-function...

Montgomery County is being sued in County Circuit Court over its recently-passed ghost gun law. Bill 4-21, passed by the Montgomery County Council on April 6, restricts the possession, use, sale, and transfer of ghost guns, undetectable guns, and certain other firearms within 100 yards of places of public assembly; restricts the possession, use, sale, and transfer of ghost guns, undetectable guns, and certain other firearms with respect to minors;... Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., a leading 2nd Amendment rights organization in the state, gun retailers, and several Montgomery County residents are plaintiffs in the suit. They seek to overturn the...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) government courted by President Joe Biden with hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars released a music video last month encouraging Palestinians to step on the U.S. and Israeli flags. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), a watchdog organization that monitors the Palestinian media, reported Tuesday: During the recent violent Arab riots in Jerusalem and mixed Jewish-Arab cities, and Hamas’ launching of thousands of rockets against Israel from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Culture released a song against “normalization” with Israel. Part of the music video shows different people marching in protest and stomping on...

It’s been over a year since the WHO declared the coronavirus a pandemic after originally downplaying the threat. It is no secret that both the disease and the response to combat it following this SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in late 2019 have turned our world upside-down. Mandates, lockdowns, and guidelines seem to change every time Dr. Fauci opens his mouth. All of these unprecedented rules were put into place, we were told, to slow down the spread of a disease that today is linked to the death of over half a million Americans and 3.7 million global citizens in the last year....

The Pentagon defended the department’s diversity and inclusion efforts rolled out during the Biden administration, characterizing it as a matter of defending the nation. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said what the department is “really focused on” is defending the nation. “That means putting in place the right resources, the right strategies, the right operational concepts to do that around the world. Now, in order to do that, you need good people.” He added: "The secretary has been very clear about the fact that we want to get all the best talent that we can. If you meet the standards...

Fighting Woke CapitalOur biggest institutions are blocking us from pursuing a good American life. I thought I’d start today by sketching out a vision for what we should be about in the conservative movement in the twenty-first century, because I think it’s useful to anchor ourselves, not just in first principles but in the lives of the people affected by those principles, and then I’ll talk about why I think “woke capital” is such a problem.I think that we should fight for the right of every American to live a good life in the country they call their own, to...

A radical Black Lives Matter leader has laid out fresh demands for reparations that must be made in the form of land reapportionment from "wealthy white people."BLM activist Bree Newsome, a notorious Marxist and advocate for abolishing the police, slammed white Americans whose families committed "atrocities" by allegedly stealing property from black people earlier in the nation's history.

[Catholic Caucus] THE GRUNT PADRE: A Military Chaplain Who Died a HeroFrom RTV on Memorial Day:Long before the spirit of Vatican II had reinvented the Catholic priest in the image and likeness of Jimmy Martin, there were so many heroes numbered among Catholic priests that even Hollywood used to make movies about them.Whether it was the more than 2,500 Catholic priests who were murdered by the Nazis at the Dachau concentration camp, or the thousands killed or tortured alongside József Cardinal Mindszenty under the Soviet regime, or the untold numbers of military chaplains who gave their lives on the battlefields...

Evidence that the coronavirus might have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been in plain sight since the start of the pandemic. Why did Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, ridicule and dismiss it? Why did mainstream media attack anyone who pointed it out?There is still much we don’t know about Covid-19. I tried not to be critical of officials forced to make tough decisions with limited, imperfect information. But as new information becomes available, it’s a matter of life and death to integrate what we learn into future policy decisions.It’s often hard to admit being...

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s forthcoming book, “Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward,” was pulled from Amazon and Barnes & Noble on Wednesday. The 80-page book had been listed for $18 on pre-sale, but has now been removed. It was scheduled to be released Nov. 2 by National Geographic Books. According to the publisher, Fauci will not receive royalties—a clarification that comes after accusations that the highest paid government employee would be profiting off the pandemic. “The book was prematurely posted for pre-sale, which is why it was taken down,” the publisher told The Daily Mail...

President Joe Biden asserted Tuesday that terrorism from white supremacy was “the most lethal threat” facing the United States. Biden spoke about the threat of white supremacy during a speech in Tulsa marking the 100th anniversary of the 1921 race massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood. “According to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today,” Biden said. “Not ISIS. Not Al Qaeda. White supremacists.” Biden was likely referring to a statement from acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, who told members of Congress that white supremacy was “the most persistent and...

President Joe Biden condemned US Senators who were open members of the Ku Klux Klan during a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Tuesday, but did not mention the role of the Democrat party in the racist organization. Citing a book from historian Jon Meacham, Biden said at least five or seven members of the United States Senate were open members of the KKK in the 1920s. (Meacham’s book, The Soul of America actually cites 16 members of the United States Senate who belonged to the KKK) The vast majority of Klan members at the time were overwhelmingly white Democrat politicians...

The arguments made by conservatives skeptical of critical race theory need to be addressed and met on their actual merits.The Washington Post’s Christine Emba claims conservative opposition to critical race theory has less to do with intellectual concerns and more to do with emotivism and fear. She accuses conservatives of “disguising” their “discomfort with racial reconsideration as an intellectual critique,” asserting conservative skepticism of critical race theory reflects a “psychological defense, not a rational one.” The irony, however, is that Emba’s argument relies on a textbook logical fallacy.That fallacy is the ad hominem, and more specifically “bulverism,” a term coined...

Kamau Bobb, Google’s global head of “diversity strategy and research,” and senior director of the “Equity in Computing” research center at Georgia Tech, claimed that Jews have an “insatiable appetite for war and killing” in a 2007 blog post on his personal website. The post, titled “If I were a Jew,” slams Israel for an alleged “insatiable appetite for vengeful violence” and goes on to say “if I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself.” Noting the various atrocities that have been committed against Jews throughout history, Bobb...

I originally came to Christ in one of the darkest times of my life. I left Islam once I removed my head cover and was told I would spend an eternity in hellfire, hanging from my hair. After more than twenty years, I could no longer worship a God that was that cruel and unpredictable. I resolved to a life without a relationship with God, but it was not long before my personal and professional life was in utter chaos. I turned to prayer for help. I no longer knew or had a personal relationship with the God I was...

Banner photo: Mike Newbert via Facebook. As part of a middle school project, an enterprising young man embarked on a journey to handcraft his own stainless steel shotgun-- and succeeded.After the local paper apparently turned up its nose to the youth's accomplishment, one of his family members took to social media on Wednesday to boast of the young man's homebuilt shotgun, which looks to be a clone of an old-school H&R/NEF break action single shot model. Within hours, the post was shared and liked over 2,000 times, with some 200-- overwhelmingly positive-- comments logged. This is Hunter Newbert and for...

Dr. Anthony Fauci is admitting that the coronavirus could have come from a “lab leak” — as emails released through the FOIA show he was told of “unusual features of the virus” at the beginning of the pandemic — but is blaming criticism of his shifting positions on “people out there” who “resent” him. “There is no doubt that there are people out there who, for one reason or another, resent me for what I did in the last administration, which was not anything that was anti-Trump at all,” Fauci, a top adviser on the coronavirus to President Biden, said...

Fireworks won’t fly at Mount Rushmore July 4 weekend despite a lawsuit against the Biden administration from Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota.Judge Roberto A. Lange called the idea of an Independence Day celebration at the iconic national monument “appealing.”“However this Court is not called upon to determine whether such a fireworks display is a good idea,” he said in his 36-page ruling, posted on yourbasin.com.Lange said the country could “use a good celebration of its foundational principles of democracy, liberty, and equal protection of the law” after the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol...

Without David Ralston exerting his influence as Georgia House speaker, the likelihood of the Republican caucus installing a hard-right leader is high Georgia House Speaker David Ralston is exploring a run for the U.S. Senate, a prospect that promises to change business at the Capitol. The Georgia Capitol, not the one in Washington, D.C. Ralston's chances against Sen. Raphael Warnock in 2022 aside, he can't challenge for both a federal and a state post at the same time. Without Ralston exerting his influence at the statehouse, the Georgia House Republican caucus could go rogue. Especially with Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan...