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Cardinal Marx: Pope Francis’ resignation decision a ‘great challenge’Cardinal Reinhard Marx said Thursday that Pope Francis’ decision not to accept his resignation as Catholic archbishop of Munich and Freising is a “great challenge.”Marx made the comment June 10, hours after the Vatican published a letter from the pope asking the 67-year-old cardinal to remain in charge of the archdiocese in southern Germany.“I find the pope’s decision to be a great challenge. After that, simply going back to the agenda cannot be the way for me and also not for the archdiocese,” he said in a statement on the archdiocese’s website.CNA...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri police will be barred from enforcing federal gun laws that regulate weapons registration, tracking and possession of firearms by some domestic violence offenders under a bill Gov. Mike Parson, a former sheriff, announced Thursday he will sign into law. Passage of the “Second Amendment Preservation Act” represents a victory for conservatives who have pushed the legislation for nearly a decade and picked up new momentum this year by responding to the Biden administration’s vows to enact stricter gun control. It’s been met by outrage and alarm from Democrats and gun control advocates, who have slammed...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a new interview, said Russia's relationship with the United States has “deteriorated to its lowest point” in recent years, while noting that President Joe Biden is “radically different” from his predecessor. “We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years,” Putin told NBC News' Keir Simmons, in a preview that aired Friday night. When asked how he compares Biden to former President Donald Trump, Putin started by praising Trump as an “extraordinary, talented individual,” and someone who didn’t come from the standard U.S. political establishment. Biden on the other...

Russian President Vladimir Putin compares US President Joe Biden with his predecessor Donald Trump. Video

A Virginia Tech football player allegedly beat a man to death after he pretended to be a woman online to seek a sexual relationship with the player. 40-year-old restaurant worker Paul Smith was found beaten to death in his apartment on June 1. Police later arrested 18-year-old Isimemen Etute and charged him with second degree murder. Prosecutors say that Etute had met up with Smith one time for oral sex after meeting him on the dating app Tinder. They allege that the second time the two met on May 31, Etute discovered Smith was a man and not a woman...

***** Tunes For Our Troops ~ FReeper Canteen Salutes U.S. Army’s Birthday Weekend~ *****~ Support The Artists You Hear Throughout The Canteen ! ~ ***** Warning: Not all music may be appropriate for children! Please click with caution. Thank you! Tunes For The Troops This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families! Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen DJs provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday.Thanks to all the DJs for their time & effort providing...

Under Dr. Fauci NIAID Gave Wuhan Lab $826k for Bat Coronavirus Research Judicial Watch Sues Intelligence Director and State Department over Wuhan Lab Judicial Watch Sues for Information on New York COVID-19 Deaths Under Dr. Fauci NIAID Gave Wuhan Lab $826k for Bat Coronavirus Research We’re now learning that U.S officials, using your tax dollars, were more deeply involved with the notorious Wuhan Lab in China than anyone knew. The agency headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci is reluctantly revealing the details only because we sued them. Here is a progress report. We obtained 280 pages of documents from the...

Max Bernier, leader of the Peoples' Party of Canada, which is similar in policy to the Trump movement, was arrested today in Manitoba at a political rally outside Winnipeg. He had been warned by police acting under the province of Manitoba's health emergency laws that he could face arrest if he continued his political tour of the province. Stating that it was a constitutional right for him and his supporters to hold political rallies, he continued with his tour and the police made good on their threat, transporting Bernier to a jail where he is in touch with his legal...

Don’t give away the farm to appease Republicans. That was essentially the message Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., repeatedly delivered this week as the White House tried to negotiate with Republicans on a compromise to the Biden administration’s massive $2 trillion infrastructure plan, which includes many provisions that would aim to address climate change. Heinrich, during a virtual conference call hosted by Climate Power on Wednesday and a press call Thursday, went so far as to suggest that he and other Democrats may not support the president’s plan if it gets too watered down during ongoing negotiations. “We just cannot allow...

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Taking a break from the rock/metal tonight and switching up the playlist to some 80s soul. Enjoy!

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis calls Eucharist ‘bread of sinners’ as USCCB considers denying pro-abort politicians Communion'The Eucharist is not the reward of saints, but the Bread of sinners. This is why he [Christ] exhorts us: ‘Do not be afraid! Take and eat,' Pope Francis said during a Sunday June 6 homily. Next week the US Conference of Catholic Bishops will discuss whether or not a formal punishment should be laid on pro-abortion politicians like President Joe Biden, including barring them from receiving the Eucharist.VATICAN CITY, Italy, June 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) prepares...

The Department of Public Safety released video of a trooper using the Grappler Bumper to stop a reckless driver on the Loop 202 Santan Freeway.

A company representative said about 98.5% of the millions of rounds of ammo stolen earlier this week were .22 caliber, which is seldom used by Mexican drug cartels. The total quantity was not clear, but was estimated to be about 7 million rounds. The ammunition is sold in the United States under the Aguila brand. The ammunition is made in Cuernavaca, a city just south of the capital, and was being taken north on trucks to the United States when the shipment was hijacked, The drivers were later found alive.

Explanation: On June 10 a New Moon passed in front of the Sun. In silhouette only two days after reaching apogee, the most distant point in its elliptical orbit, the Moon's small apparent size helped create an annular solar eclipse. The brief but spectacular annular phase of the eclipse shows a bright solar disk as a ring of fire when viewed along its narrow, northerly shadow track across planet Earth. Cloudy early morning skies along the US east coast held gorgeous views of a partially eclipsed Sun though. Rising together Moon and Sun are captured in a sequence of consecutive...

The general public doesn’t normally look into companies like BlackRock, the largest asset management firm on the planet with over $9 trillion in assets. That’s higher than the GDP of every nation in the world other than the United States and China. We don’t normally looking into them because they’re invisible to “normies” like us. They don’t advertise or have their name on a sports stadium like most other major companies. They’re happy to stay as under the radar as is possible for a company so huge. But some in the general public is paying attention now following the resurfacing...

SANTA FE — A federal pause on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands is continuing to reverberate at the Roundhouse. Just days after a bevy of Democratic lawmakers expressed support for the moratorium, all 39 Republican legislators sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing their opposition to it. In their letter, the GOP lawmakers asked Biden to exempt New Mexico from any future fossil fuel moratoriums and blasted the letter sent by 24 Democratic legislators as misguided. “We cannot devastate our economy and our livelihoods by supporting a federal regulatory scheme that fails to recognize the...

Friends suspect that porn star Dakota Skye who was found dead in her motorhome may have been trolled to death following a controversial social media post. Cops say the 27-year-old starlet and sexxx-rated veteran died So far detectives have not released a cause of death. Her husband found her body.Wednesday in Los Angeles. So far detectives have not released a cause of death. Her husband found her body. SNIP Sources told XBIZ that the Tampa native had recently suffered through “personal struggles” and abuse from online trolls. Of particular interest to haters was the photo in front of the Floyd...

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that Taco Bell will be giving away free tacos to residents who are vaccinated. In addition, he announced, Chipotle restaurants will be offering “FREE QUESO,” while various California sports teams will be offering discounts as an incentive to encourage more locals to take the coronavirus vaccine.

Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning, testified in federal court in 1993 that she sent a threatening letter to the Forest Service warning that a local forest had been sabotaged with tree spikes. Stone-Manning told a local news outlet in 1993 that she could have faced conspiracy charges had she not struck an immunity deal with a federal prosecutor in return for her testimony. Court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show that Stone-Manning testified that her friend and former roommate John Blount, who was found guilty and sentenced to 17 months...