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The priest defended himself against the attack using a chair, successfully resisting his assailant who then fled the premises.EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 27, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A priest quietly praying in the pews of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland, was assaulted by an unidentified man with a glass bottle Monday morning. The priest, who remains unnamed, defended himself against the attack using a chair, successfully resisting his assailant who then fled the premises, seemingly evading arrest. The attacker was said to have asked the priest to confirm that he was indeed a clergyman before launching his vicious assault. The priest...

Former Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) has died at the age of 87. The Levin Center at Wayne State University announced the late senator’s death Thursday evening, calling him "a dearly beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle, and life-long public servant.” “For those who were lucky enough to be a part of his early work in Detroit, his decades in the Senate, and beyond, he was an inspirational leader and so much more,” the statement said. “He will be remembered for his relentless intellect and work ethic, his humility, his humor, and his strength of character,” it added. Levin, the...

The traditional Latin Mass seems to be on every Catholic’s mind right now, up to and including the pope’s. The recent motu proprio Traditionis Custodes restricting the celebration of the TLM has brought the topic to the forefront. Importantly, the pope’s actions presume the TLM is growing in adherents and influence in the Church. After all, if very few Catholics were going to this Mass, why would Francis take action? But is this the case? Is TLM attendance growing? Most advocates of the TLM have assumed growth in recent months and years; Crisis Magazine even hosted a podcast in March...

Former President Donald Trump's strategy to oust Representative Liz Cheney from office is to rally Republicans around one candidate. It's possible that person will be Darin Smith, a businessman from Cheyenne. After surveying 766 likely Republican primary voters, the Remington Research Group found Smith to be the current frontrunner in the congressional race. In a head-to-head matchup with Cheney, Smith garnered 70 percent support and Cheney had 20 percent.

“Chewing gum stuck on the sole of China’s shoes.” That’s how Hu Xijin, the editor of the Chinese Communist Party–run Global Times, described Australia last year. The disparaging description is typical of the disdain that China’s diplomats and propagandists have often shown toward governments that challenge Beijing—like Australia’s. China is now the great power of Asia—or so Beijing believes—but those pesky Australians, mouthing off about human rights and coronavirus investigations, refuse to bend the knee. Beijing has turned to economic pressure to compel Australia to fall in line. “Sometimes you have to find a stone to rub it off,” Hu...

The NTT INDYCAR SERIES is coming to Nashville, Tennessee with the inaugural Music City Grand Prix. For three days in August, the streets of downtown will come alive with the sounds of music, food, and racing, all spun into an experience you just have to be there to feel. This temporary street circuit takes racers by Nissan Stadium, home of the NFL Tennessee Titans, and over the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge into downtown Nashville, the first motorsports course of its kind in the world to cross a major body of water, The Cumberland River. 80 LAPS | 173.6 MILESWEEKEND...

Former MK says he has "completely lost faith in the health care system', calls on parents not to allow their children to receive the COVID shot... "About a year ago I became convinced that 'Healthy Logic' scientists were making sense, and they convinced me that the correct way to be protected against the virus is to protect the at-risk population, which is about 15-20% and to release the rest. Later, I lost faith in the health care system.... I heard the director of Herzog Hospital say he is opening a second coronavirus ward, and all his patients are vaccinated. He...

São Paulo, Brazil – Evangelical politicians have introduced bills in states and towns all over Brazil to promote sexual abstinence among teens, boosted by a wave of conservatism in the country under President Jair Bolsonaro. Catholic reaction has been with mixed, as Charismatic Catholic Renewal movements generally support the measures while bishops have been mostly silent. The most recent, and notorious, proposition was made by a city lawmaker in São Paulo. Rinaldi Digilio, a Foursquare Church minister and a member of the Social Liberal Party (PSL) with which Bolsonaro was affiliated when he was elected in 2018, presented a bill...

The White House would never credit Donald Trump with the vaccine rollout unless there was something negative about the vaccine that is going to hit the newswires; that is a no-brainer. That baseline is why CTH said two months ago to watch for the moment when the White House credits Trump with the vaccine, because that’s the moment when: (1) the vaccine was going to be identified as dangerous; and/or (2) reports would show the vaccine did not work. Today the White House credited President Trump with the vaccine....

A Harvard-educated physician alleged she was demoted after her colleagues discovered her social media posts criticizing leftist movements and rhetoric. Dr. Tara Gustilo, who is a woman of color, claimed she was demoted from her role as chairwoman of the OB-GYN department for the Hennepin Healthcare system in Minneapolis because of social media posts she made criticizing the rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and critical race theory.... ..."Some of my colleagues saw my posts and decided that I was no longer fit to be chair of the department," she said, adding that she has spent her career trying to create...

COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths are rising again as the extremely contagious delta variant of the coronavirus takes hold as the dominant strain in the US. In some parts of the country, there are more hospitalizations and cases of COVID than there were last winter, the peak of the pandemic. The vast majority of people being hospitalized with COVID and dying from the disease haven't been fully vaccinated, according to public health officials. More than 97% of hospitalizations from COVID right now are of unvaccinated people, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, said at...

Los Angeles Unified School District will require weekly Covid-19 testing for students and staff regardless of vaccination status....

Last week we learned that — according to a group of Democratic senators — newly released materials show the FBI failed to fully investigate sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated to the court in 2018. In response, the FBI said it had received more than 4,500 tips on Kavanaugh, providing what it deemed to be relevant ones to former President Trump’s White House team. Almost immediately upon learning the news, social media was abuzz with calls for Justice Kavanaugh’s impeachment. Public outrage aside, the bar to impeach a sitting Supreme Court justice is...

I was in the virtual “green room” for LindellTV, preparing to be interviewed by Brannon Howse when MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell came on. While waiting, I got to hear Lindell tell Howse that he was cancelling his advertising spend with Fox News because they refused to air an ad for his upcoming cyber symposium on August 10-12. The symposium will reveal much of the voter fraud evidence Lindell and his team of cyber-sleuths have accumulated since the stolen 2020 election last November. But the ad he asked Fox News to run did NOT mention voter fraud. He made the ad...

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HARRISBURG — A rural Pennsylvania county formally declined to participate in a “forensic investigation” of the state’s 2020 presidential election sought by backers of former President Donald Trump, dealing another blow Thursday to prospects for a months-long spectacle of the kind playing out in Arizona. The three commissioners in Republican-controlled Tioga County had said two weeks ago that they would not allow third-party access to the county’s voting machines for fear of seeing them decertified by the state just weeks before preparations must begin for November’s election. In a Thursday letter to Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano, the commissioners declined...

Ok Gettr has been open for one month now, and there are a number of interesting people there. Including Newt Gingrich, Bill Gertz, Ben Carson, Matt Gaetz, Diamond and Silk, Steve Bannon, and even Mike Pompeo... But we now have MIKE LINDELL. Welcome Sir !

Trevor Milton, 39, is accused of claiming his company had successfully made working prototypes of electric trucks and vans that would have shaken up the industry, when he had, in fact, never built anything. “Basically, it’s a very simple case: Milton told lies to generate popular demand for his actions,” said Audrey Strauss, the US prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. prosecutors said Milton had for years exaggerated the technological developments made by the company, claiming that it had built working prototypes of its Nikola One truck and Badger pickup truck from parts that the company had made...

Check this guy out. I think it very possible we're going to see a lot of these kinds of real American candidates in the upcoming election cycles.

[Catholic Caucus] Traditionis Custodes as a Hermeneutic of EnvyWhile there have been some notable attempts to help us understand the rationale behind the most recent motu proprio, Traditionis Custodes, the published reflection on the document by Italian Professor Massimo Viglione stands out because it is the only one that recognizes the sin of envy that is driving this latest papal attempt to destroy the Traditional Latin Mass. Describing the Latin Mass as “the Holy Mass of all time,” Professor Viglione’s article points to the bitterness that is driving progressive bishops who have been facing declining dioceses and parish closures to...