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Chicago Franciscan condemns African bishopsCHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Franciscan professor in Chicago is denouncing African prelates for upholding the Church's teaching on homosexuality. The Duns Scotus Chair of Spirituality at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Fr. Daniel Horan, exploded in an opinion piece Wednesday — setting his sights on the Ghanaian Catholic Bishops' Conference (GCBC) and calling them "homophobic." "The Ghanaian bishops have unequivocally participated in and promoted the dehumanization of LGBTQ persons, which has resulted in increased discrimination and violence," charged the friar. Horan is specifically attacking a January letter from the GCBC — demanding the shutdown of...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said he believes Communist China is America’s biggest adversary. In a recent interview, the Alabama senator said China has taken advantage over the U.S. economy and used its trade and investment revenues to build up its military. Tuberville said we must not allow U.S. businesses and the federal government to invest in China. Last month, the senator proposed a bill to limit U.S. investment in China, which amounts to $700 billion each year. Tuberville stressed Beijing does not play by the rules and it’s using America’s own money to threaten U.S. national interests and security. He...

We're getting a real-world economics lesson in rip-your-face-off increases in prices, and the tuition is about to go up--way up. Inflation will be transitory, blah-blah-blah--I beg to differ, for these reasons. There are numerous structural sources of inflation, which I define as prices rise while the quality and quantity of goods and services remain the same or diminish. Since the word inflation is so loaded, let's use the more neutral (and more accurate) term decline in purchasing power: an hour of your labor buys fewer goods and services of lesser quality than it did a decade ago or a generation...

I’m a news junkie. I tend to watch five hours of cable news programming just about every day. While viewing I also read, or at least scan, five to six newspapers a day thanks to the internet, mostly from the Northeast, but sometimes from across the country. My addiction to news started decades ago, so of course I was familiar with the cases of famous whistle-blowers such as Chelsea Manning, Eric Snowden and – here’s a blast from the past – Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the infamous Pentagon Papers to newspapers back in 1971. I also know the stories of...

Brescello, the ancient municipium of Brixellum, is a small town in northern Italy near Modena. Originally, it was a Gallic settlement on banks of the Po River that was romanized after the area was annexed by the Roman republic...It was in this city that in the year 1714 one of the most remarkable numismatic discoveries ever recorded took place. A peasant, while ploughing a field, accidentally found a vessel containing about 80,000 republican aurei, that is, approximately 650kg of pure gold!The treasure was composed entirely of only 32 varieties of types coined between the years 46 and 38 BC, so...

The administration hopes to transfer a handful of the remaining terrorism suspects to foreign countries, the people familiar with the discussions said, and then persuade Congress to permit the transfer of the rest — including 9/11 suspects — to detention on the U.S. mainland. Biden hopes to close the facility by the end of his first term, the people familiar with the discussions said.

@seanhannity BIDEN’S BIG TRIP: Biden’s first presidential trip abroad is off to a bad start! Jill announced on Twitter that she’s “prepping for the G-7.” Is she worried that Joe isn’t up to the challenge? Sen. @TedCruz weighs in TONIGHT on “Hannity.”

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Gruff! Leave This To The Experts! U.S. Army Spc. Jamal Grier, 701st Military Police Battalion, Delta Company, military working dog handler, and his dog BBrian participate in the 37th Training Wing showcase military working dog demonstration, May 14, 2021, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Thomas A. Coney) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Don’t Drop It! SAN DIEGO (June 8, 2021) – Tilly, an aircraft...

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., called for the upper echelon of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to be fired for "their constant stream of lies" about the coronavirus pandemic. "If the government response to this virus has taught us anything, it’s that everyone at the top of @CDCgov needs to be fired. It’s being far too generous to characterize their constant stream of lies as ‘misinterpretations’ and ‘typos,’" Massie wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. Massie linked to a March op-ed from four medical researchers criticizing the CDC for its school reopening guidelines. "Keeping schools closed or even partially closed,...

It comes as no surprise to readers that dozens of Baltimore City businesses, located in the Inner Harbor, in a stretch called “Fells Point,” are threatening the new city government, run by Mayor Brandon Scott, with not paying their taxes because they’re “fed up and frustrated” with the outburst of violence. In a letter titled “Letter to City Leaders From Fells Point Business Leaders,” addressed to Mayor Brandon Scott, Council President Nick Mosby, Councilman Zeke Cohen, Madam State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, and Commissioner Michael Harrison, the 37 restaurants and small businesses are threatening to stop paying city taxes and other...

Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn, Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton are calling on Dr. Anthony Fauci to resign, saying he has "lost the confidence of the American people" amid controversy surrounding the origins of COVID-19 —and if he won’t step down, the Republican senators are urging President Biden to fire him. "Fauci needs to step down," Blackburn told Fox News in an interview this week. "And the Biden Administration should ask him to step away from his post." "For 16 months we have seen Dr. Fauci withhold information, dismiss plausible explanations of COVID’s origin, and outright lie to Congress," Rubio told...

Twitter is drawing backlash over its apparent inconsistencies as it allows an article detailing the secret tax records of billionaires to spread freely after censoring articles about Hunter Biden's laptop. ProPublica refused to disclose how it obtained the tax data published on Tuesday, saying only said it was given the IRS data in 'raw form' by a party it did not identify. In October, Twitter blocked users from sharing a New York Post article revealing damaging information from Hunter's laptop, which had been abandoned in a repair store. The social media site said at the time that the article violated...

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the Wisconsin pharmacist, who destroyed 500 Covid-19 vaccine doses "during a national public health emergency" tothree years in prison.Back in January, Steven Brandenburg agreed to plead guilty to two counts of attempting to tamper with consumer products with reckless disregard.

A $9 billion oil pipeline that became a symbol of the rising political clout of climate change advocates and a flash point in U.S.-Canada relations was officially canceled on Wednesday. Keystone XL, which was proposed in 2008 to bring oil from Canada's Western tar sands to U.S. refiners, was halted by owner TC Energy Corp (TRP.TO) after U.S. President Joe Biden this year revoked a key permit needed for a U.S. stretch of the 1,200-mile project. Opponents of the line fought its construction for years, saying it was unnecessary and would hamper the U.S. transition to cleaner fuels. Its demise...

<p>MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature voted Wednesday to eliminate a $300-a-week federal bonus for unemployed people, a measure that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has made clear he's likely to veto.</p><p>The federal payment, approved to help the unemployed during the coronavirus pandemic, is scheduled to end on Sept. 6. Twenty-five other states have already approved ending it early, saying it has exacerbated worker shortage problems.</p>

In the world of crops, angst over the weather has reached a fevered pitch. Global inventories are shrinking and demand is on a tear as drought plagues farms in key producers from the U.S. and Brazil to Russia. As a result, every rain shower and dry spell is coming under extreme scrutiny. Grain prices have touched near-decade highs, and whether they rally to further heights or retreat depends in large part on the condition and quantity of plants over the next few months. In the U.S., traders and investors usually focus their attention on giant corn and soybean growers like...

Vice President Kamala Harris passed out cookies with her likeness on them to reporters aboard Air Force 2 on Sunday The treats featured a bust of her drawn in frosting without the details of her face USA Today reporter Courtney Subramanian shared a photo of one of the cookies on Twitter - sparking an onslaught of criticism from conservatives 'I never even imagined this level of narcissism,' Republican congressional candidate Buzz Patterson tweeted 'Handing out cookies with her face as the border crisis rages… The modern-day equivalent of "let them eat cake,"' GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel added The cookies were...

Former Trump official who spearheaded government ban offers guide By Art Moore Published June 9, 2021 A think tank led by a former Trump official is offering a comprehensive toolkit for educators, parents and school-board members concerned about the implementation of the Marxist-based Critical Race Theory curriculum in their schools and communities.

A former Tennessee governor's administration helped fund a contract murder of a key federal witness decades ago while embroiled in the state's largest political scandal, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday. The new details revealed for the first time Wednesday have elements that ring of a movie: a trusted ally of union boss Jimmy Hoffa gunned down after testifying about a corrupt governor selling prison pardons and a gunman who donned a wig and blackface to throw authorities off the scent. Investigators in Hamilton County, which encompasses Chattanooga, have been chipping away at the 42-year-old cold case of Samuel Pettyjohn since...