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We Must Obey Francis - Especially When It Comes To the Traditional Latin Mass. By Father Franz Paprovich*By now everybody knows it. The Traditional Latin Mass is as good as abolished. Of course, I will obey the Pope and make his directives my own. He is a role model for me, especially in the liturgy - and therefore I will act entirely in his spirit.The Pope has been telling us many times that we should be freed from the rigidity of the law and also from idealisms that do no good. We are not servants of the letter, but enjoy...

The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed state regulators' key approvals of Enbridge Energy's Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project, in a dispute that drew over 1,000 protesters to northern Minnesota last week. A three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the state's independent Public Utilities Commission correctly granted Enbridge the certificate of need and route permit that the Canadian-based company needed to begin construction on the 337-mile (542-kilometer) Minnesota segment of a larger project to replace a 1960s-era crude oil pipeline that has been deteriorating and can run at only half capacity. Pipeline opponents can appeal the decision to the...

G-7 nations are calling for a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation into the origins of COVID-19 in China, according to a new joint statement released Sunday. The summit, made up of the world’s largest democracies, focused this year’s talks around building back better in the wake of the global pandemic. China was one focal point of the discussions, with President Joe Biden pushing leaders to compete against the country. Leaders of the G-7 nations also focused on COVID-19 and emphasized “strengthening transparency and accountability” with “the International Health Regulations 2005.” “This includes investigating, reporting and responding to outbreaks of unknown...

Cardinal Defends Latin Mass Against Francis’ CrusadeHong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, 89, is worried about possible restrictions Francis may impose on the Traditional Latin Mass.On his blog OldYosef.hkdavc.com (June 12), he makes a point in stressing that he is "clearly not considered an extremist" of the Roman Rite and that he has worked actively for the Novus Ordo as a priest and bishop.Nevertheless, Zen cannot deny the good that came from the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. Through the Roman Rite, many young people of Hong Kong have "rediscovered the sense of adoration and reverence we owe to God, our Creator.”Zen...

Joe Biden’s Department of ‘Justice’ is desperate to stop the Arizona 2020 election audit and with good reason: Once the the massive voter fraud that occurred there is revealed, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan might be next in the queue. Over the last seven months, have you been snookered by the Leftist media machine, the DNC, big tech (particularly Twitter, Google, and Facebook), Hollywood, and the TV pundits? They insist that not much was wrong with the November 3rd election. If you only paid attention to these sources, you would conclude that anyone who voted for Donald Trump and believes that...

If this reporting turns out to be accurate, this will be an explosive development. However, that said, if this report is accurate… this is likely the reason why Maricopa County officials have been fighting the audit, hiring lawyers and positioning themselves in an attempt to undermine the chain-of-custody of the ballots. Remember, the county Board of Supervisors would not let the State Senate audit take place in their tabulations center. In an effort to block and stall the audit, the county officials forced the audit organizers to transfer the tabulation machines and truckloads of ballots to the Veterans Coliseum. Then...

PORTLAND (WGME) -- Eight Mainers have died with COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated, according to the Maine CDC. While it's a rare occurrence, it can leave families in shock and heartbroken. Eager and ready for normalcy, Arthur Mitchell got his second dose of the Moderna vaccine on March 8. “Counted out his two weeks to be fully vaccinated, was very excited about that,” daughter Margaret Staggs said. Staggs says once the family was fully vaccinated, they finally relaxed after a year of restrictions. “We probably all took a deep breath and let our guard down a little bit,” Staggs said....

The kidnapping of a cafe’s beloved garden gnome in the Portobello area of Edinburgh, Scotland, has locals mesmerized. The gnome went missing in early June from the Butternut Squash Café, which was soon sent a bizarre ransom note demanding no money, but cheesecake. The cafe posted a pic of the note on its Facebook page which read: “We have your gnome. If you want to see him again leave 2 cheesecakes when you shut the cafe, We will be watching.” The cafe refused to bow to the specific demands and instead left two pieces of shortbread outside the eatery with...

Sea level rise isn’t the only way climate change will devastate the coast. Our research, published on May 20, found it is also making waves more powerful, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere. We plotted the trajectory of these stronger waves and found the coasts of South Australia and Western Australia, Pacific and Caribbean Islands, East Indonesia and Japan, and South Africa are already experiencing more powerful waves because of global warming. This will compound the effects of sea level rise, putting low-lying island nations in the Pacific — such as Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands — in further danger,...

We’re hearing horrific stories of side effects, not just from the COVID Vaccine, but simply from being around people who have gotten the shot. Is there a second-hand smoke effect, not for the injectees, but for those in close contact with them? Social media is reverberating with multiple stories of people, women in particular, who are getting unusual side effects from just being around people who have been injected. There seems to be something in the injections that carries over to people in close contact, including unusual vaginal bleeding in women, even among those who are post-menopausal, and even miscarriages...

The United States government is assessing reports of a leak at a Chinese nuclear power plant, after warnings of an "imminent radiological threat" by a French company that helps operate it, CNN reported on Monday. Framatome, the French construction engineering company, sent a letter to the US Department of Energy warning that the Chinese safety authority was raising the acceptable limits for radiation detection outside the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in the Chinese Guangdong province in order to avoid needing to shut it down, according to the report. The letter warned that the nuclear reactor is leaking fission gas, adding...

As of Saturday, the Murphy Administration had DELETED 45,352 Covid-19 cases going back March 1, 2020 according to our friend @AWokeZombie. In New Jersey, case numbers more than any other indicator were used to lock down your kids, schools/camps, businesses, restaurants, jobs, vacations, friend’s weddings, family funerals, etc. Other states primarily leaned on measures like spot positivity and/or the effective reproduction number. Not Trenton. Cases were king. – To put things in perspective, the number of deleted cases is now roughly equivelent to the population of South Brunswick (Middlesex County) or Evesham Township (Burlington County). That’s a shit ton of...

Endgame, Set, Match It’s common knowledge, at this point, that artificial intelligence will soon be capable of outworking humans — if not entirely outmoding them — in plenty of areas. How much we’ll be outworked and outmoded, and on what scale, is still up for debate. But in a new interview published by The Guardian over the weekend, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman had a fairly hot take on the matter: In the battle between AI and humans, he said, it’s going to be an absolute blowout — and humans are going to get creamed. “Clearly AI is going to...

The Code 9 Project, preventing PTSD and suicide during PTSD awareness monthJune is PTSD awareness month. A national nonprofit organization is educating and training professional front-line workers, veterans and their families on preventing PTSD and suicide. "The wear and tear is real, and if they aren't receiving the training and the resources to prevent a breakdown and injury like PTSD or aren't receiving the resources and the support, things like suicide happen. And that's just not OK with our organization," said Brandielee Baker, founder and president of The Code 9 Project. Advertisement Brandielee Baker is a former first responder, PTSD...

In recent years, orange wine-wine made with white grapes that have contact with their skins during production-has emerged as a trendy alternative to the usual red versus white debate in a similar vein to rosé. And whether you're personally turned onto orange wine or not, here's a sign that at least one wine professional thinks the trend has staying power: A permanent store dedicated exclusively to orange wine is opening in Manhattan. Beyond her credentials as an orange wine expert and natural wine sommelier who's worked at places like the Michelin-starred restaurants Aska and Aldea, Doreen Winkler has also proven...

Two GOP lawmakers announced Monday that they have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of fines issued against them for failing to complete security screenings to enter the House chamber. Republican Reps. Louie Gohmert (Texas) and Andrew Clyde (Ga.) both tried to appeal the fines — which are $5,000 for the first offense and $10,000 for the second — earlier this year before the House Ethics Committee but were unsuccessful. The lawmakers argued that the fines amount to "a means of harassing democratically-elected representatives who are members of the opposition party in the House of Representatives." In their lawsuit filed...

Does anyone know what that pin on Biden's right lapel is?

All 19 workers at a fast food restaurant in Pakistan were detained after refusing to give a group of police officers free burgers last week. Staff at the chain Johnny & Jugnu in Lahore were rounded up at 0100 (2000 GMT) on Saturday and held overnight. "This is not the first time something like this has happened" a statement by the burger chain said. Nine police officers involved in the incident have now been suspended. Senior provincial police official Inam Ghani announced the suspensions on Twitter, saying: "No one is allowed to take the law into his own hands. Injustice...

The biophysical modeling study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, challenges outdated public health guidance that discourages fan use in temperatures higher than 35 degrees Celsius / 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Based on human studies carried out at the University of Sydney's Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, the researchers developed a model to determine the humidity-dependent temperature thresholds at which fans could become detrimental, providing conditions that exacerbate heat stress. "The effectiveness of a fan depends on temperature and relative humidity and our previous human studies have shown that it is only when the air temperature is very high and humidity is extremely...

Just curious if anyone else listens to the Markley, van Camp and Robbins talk radio program. I've been listening to them during the past year. Their ability to discuss current events while injecting some humor during these bleak times has been appealing. I don't think they consider themselves to conservative ideologues but they are right-of-center with some libertarian leanings, perhaps. They describe themselves are just regular guys "trying to make sense of it all" and that's how their show comes across to me. Just curious what you guys think. You can hear their program here at: https://www.markleyvancamprobbins.com/category/markley-van-camp-robbins/