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[Catholic Caucus] Francis' Motu Proprio contradicts the Second Vatican CouncilFrancis' Motu Proprio Traditiones Custodes is "not a good example of the synodality that is so often spoken of" - Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller told EWTN last week. He said the Old Mass was not just about discipline, but about "the apostolic tradition" and the revealed faith. Müller cites the Second Vatican Council, which expressly did not want a rigid uniformity of liturgical rites. Several times Müller opposes Francis' plan to create a uniformed, "rigid" liturgy. By contrast, Müller declares, "We have different rites and a different history of rites in...

Critical Race Theory and its related philosophies may push independent suburban voters away from Democrats, according to a Politico report Monday. Politico highlighted California mother Elina Kaplan: An immigrant who came to the United States from the Soviet Union, she is a registered Democrat from San Mateo County, Calif. And she’s alarmed over her state’s new model ethnic studies curriculum, which cites critical race theory as a “key theoretical framework and pedagogy.” “I firmly believe that if the vast majority of Californians and Americans knew about this, and about the content of this type of curriculum, this would not be...

The U.S. Senate has unanimously confirmed two LGBTQ women to top military positions.~~~On Thursday, Gina Ortiz Jones was confirmed to be the next undersecretary of the Air Force — the first out lesbian to serve in the position. Her vote came exactly one month after the Senate Armed Services Committee advanced her nomination.She follows in the footsteps of Eric Fanning, who became the first out LGBTQ person to serve as undersecretary of a military branch when he was confirmed as undersecretary of the Air Force in 2013.Three years later he became the first openly gay leader of any U.S. military,...

The recent felony conviction and eight month prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless of political persuasion should be terrified of a court system so beholden to politics instead of justice. We’ve seen this movie before and it does not end well. Worse than this miscarriage of justice is the despicable attempt by the prosecutor in the case to label Hodgkins – who has no criminal record and was accused of no violent crime –...

[H/T Cathi]ransomnote: Only the first table is subtitled in English. Note: 80% of deaths following Covid vaccination published to the CDC's VAERS database occur within 7 days of vaccination. The combined category in the table below, 'not fully vaccinated,' can be used to obscure the fact that the vaccines are responsible for some of the deaths, and instead count those deaths as the result of not being 'fully vaccinated'.Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson·9h Israel now has 108 patients severely ill, five times as many as a month ago. 71% are fully vaccinated, a proportion that keeps rising. And remember the percentage of...

Dr. Ron Paul has warned of Soviet-style political persecution of conservatives amid detention and torture of January 6 protesters. In an article on Monday, Paul wrote the conviction of protester Paul Hodgkins was a miscarriage of justice. “He said the words Joe Biden’s Justice Department wanted to hear,” he explained. “Words reminiscent of the sort of Soviet-style confessions beaten out of political dissidents the world over: ‘Joseph R. Biden is rightfully and respectfully the president of the United States.'” Paul went on to say Hodgkins did not commit any violence and he was punished for his political views. “The saving...

It is no secret that PayPal is and always has been a “woke” company. For years, they have engaged in financial censorship, banning users based solely on ideological differences. Invariably, they have gone after those on the right, particularly those they consider to be “fringe” and therefore dangerous. Today’s announcement of their partnership with the far-left Anti-Defamation League is not really introducing anything new. It’s simply expanding what they already do. That expansion will reach more conservatives than before, allowing them to cancel accounts based on loose associations. In the phrase “extremist and hate groups,” they want everyone to focus...

This is the moment cops confronted the leader of Rise of the Moors and he refused to drop his weapons when the citizen militia refueled at the side of Massachusetts interstate - sparking a nine-hour armed stand-off. Police body camera footage showed Massachusetts State Police approaching two cars with their hazard lights on parked on the shoulder of Interstate-95, near the town of Wakefield, around 1.30am on July 3. The group of heavily armed men were refilling gas tanks with their own fuel and told law enforcement that they were headed to Maine for 'training.' Bodycam footage taken by a...

Labour leader Keir Starmer said Monday he'd be open to the prospect of government-enforced vaccine passports at large events, but cautioned against their use 'on an every day basis.' Sir Keir added that vaccines alone are 'not enough' to prevent the spread of Covid at sporting events and other large gatherings and should be accompanied by negative coronavirus tests. ‘I will look carefully at what the government puts forward,' Mr Starmer said after last week Prime Minister Boris Johnson said proof of double vaccination would be a ‘condition of entry' beginning in September for nightclubs and other 'crowded venues.' 'I...

A late-night snack run led to an all-out brawl at a Brooklyn pizza shop. One man was hurt in the wild incident while another faces charges, CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported Monday. This was no pizza party. Cellphone video shows the brawl inside Joe’s Pizza on Bedford Avenue near North Fifth Street in Williamsburg. It happened around 3 a.m. on July 17, according to police. At least six men got into an argument that escalated. Multiple punches were thrown, one man hit another with a pizza paddle. “Oh my God, that’s horrible,” one person said after watching the video. “I would...

The jury in the federal trial of political donor Ed Buck is set to begin deliberations on Tuesday. Buck faces charges of supplying methamphetamine that killed two men, years apart, who were at his apartment in West Hollywood. That includes 26-year-old Gemmel Moore, who died from a meth overdose in 2017. At the time, his death was ruled an accident. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies investigated the case and gave then-District Attorney Jackie Lacey several possible charges to file against Buck. She chose not to pursue charges, saying there wasn’t enough evidence. Community activists argued Buck was responsible for the...

Gaslighting getting you down? Feel like the regime has dialed the Megaphone up to, and past, eleven? You’re not crazy. It’s definitely happening and likely to get worse as our masters’ ability to cope with reality further worsens—or worse, they gain the complete and absolute control they seek. They’re both scornful and terrified of dissent, which explains why they incessantly shriek at us and lie to our faces. So, to help you navigate the storm, I present a guide to seven of the regime’s most common, oft-deployed lies.

Big Tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, Verizon, Airbnb, and Mailchimp will expand a project of collusion on “counterterrorism” efforts that target domestic right-wing organizations. The organization, which initially focused on building a database on content shared by Islamic extremists linked to Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban, will now shift focus to right-wing groups including the Proud Boys. Via Reuters: A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down...

Georgia’s corrupt Secretary of State Raffensperger, his corrupt CFO Sterling, and his corrupt deputy secretary of state Fuchs weren’t upset about Democrat election wins in Georgia, they wanted it that way. Instead, they slandered President Trump for calling out obvious fraud in their state. A report at the Georgia Record this weekend uncovered the many connections between top Republicans in Georgia who were connected to a firm that groomed Democrats for Republican jobs. No wonder these individuals did all they could to prevent President Trump from winning reelection. Landmark Communications of Atlanta, GA bills itself as the ‘go to’ firm...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Former California Senator Barbara Boxer was assaulted in Oakland's Jack London Square on Monday. Her personal Twitter account said, while she was not seriously injured, Boxer's cell phone was snatched by an assailant who managed to get away. The tweet was confirmed via email by Boxer's son, Douglas Boxer, an attorney.

As a long time member here, I am asking; wouldn't it be better to put the City/State in Parentheses at the end of the title when we all post? ie: Shooting leaves 4 dead over the weekend (Detroit, MI) Just a thought, as it would make it easier to know where it happened without having to go to the link for that info only.

The Battle of Appomattox Courthouse is considered by many historians the end of the Civil War and the start of post-Civil War America. The events of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to General and future President Ulysses S. Grant at a small town courthouse in Central Virginia put into effect much of what was to follow. The surrender at Appomattox Courthouse was about reconciliation, healing, and restoring the Union. While the Radical Republicans had their mercifully brief time in the sun rubbing defeated Dixie’s nose in it, they represented the bleeding edge of Northern radicalism that wanted to punish the...

Joe Biden delivered remarks at the Rose Garden on Monday for the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. While speaking at the occasion in front of Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Biden tripped up repeatedly. Biden forgot a Congressman’s name and also if his mother was in attendance.

Corporate media and Big Tech colluded with the Democratic Party to gaslight the country into electing Joe Biden as a return to normalcy. Six months in, the country is getting that normalcy, and they’re getting it good and hard — but without any of the Barack Obama packaging of “hope” that sold it in the first place... According to the latest Gallup poll, America has already tired of the Biden agenda. His approval rating among his own party has slipped by near double-digits, and among Independents, he has fallen from 61 percent to 48 percent. This marks a slide the...

But here’s where the problem comes. In a virus, in a Coronavirus, that spike protein becomes part of the viral capsule. In other words, the cell wall around the virus, called the viral capsule. But it’s not in the virus. It’s in your cells. So it therefore becomes part of the cell wall of your vascular endothelium. Which means that these cells that line your blood vessels, which are supposed to be smooth so that blood flows smoothly, now have these little spikey bits sticking out. So it is absolutely inevitable that blood clots will form. Because your blood platelets...