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Speaking to the MassesPope Francis' recent attack on the traditional Latin Mass and those who attend and offer it has produced quite the outcry around the world. Yet another example of the unintended Francis Effect, slapping around faithful Catholics has blown up in the face of the Vatican. When the Jesuit, left-wing America magazine and normally anti-TLM neoconservative George Weigel both voice public criticism of restricting the freedom to offer and attend Latin Masses, clearly the Vatican roll-out of Francis' hit-job can be considered a massive communications failure based on bad policy and poor planning.To that end, we all...

Masks at outdoor gatherings, 50% of public sector employees to work from home: here is the full list of Israel's latest COVID-19 restrictions. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Coronavirus Cabinet on Tuesday decided to enact a list of restrictions aimed at reducing the coronavirus infection rate across Israel. At the meeting, the Cabinet approved a list of guidelines, which will become mandatory beginning on Sunday August 8. 1. The Green Pass program will be expanded to include locations where less than 100 people gather, an it will apply to every age, including to children too young to receive...

In different areas, in different pockets and clusters of people, there may be other reasons why people labeled “COVID” are getting sick and dying. None of these deaths has anything to with a fake virus called SARS-Cov-2

All five GOP members of Iowa’s congressional delegation voted to certify President Joe Biden’s election on Jan. 6. They actually made history and Iowa unique that day. Only two states have multiple Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives with none voting to object — Iowa and Washington. Washington, of course, doesn’t have any GOP senators, whereas Grassley and Ernst are both Republicans. This means Iowa is the only state in the entire country with multiple Republicans in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to not have one single congressional representative object to the 2020 Presidential Election. Carlin is actually...

In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the moratorium could stay in place until it expired, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh warned the ban could not be extended except by an act of Congress. Just two days before the expiration date, the Biden administration asked Congress to pass an emergency extension.

Turkey on Tuesday criticised a U.S. program to offer potential resettlement to Afghans who may be targets of Taliban violence due to their U.S. affiliations, saying the move would cause a “great migration crisis” in the region. The U.S. State Department on Monday announced a new program under which thousands more Afghans will have a chance to resettle as refugees in the United States. Afghans in the progam would have to make their own way to a third country, where they will wait 12 to 14 months for their application to be processed. A senior State Department official said Washington...

[Catholic Caucus] Now More Than Ever! Archbishop Schedules Roman Apostolic Mass at His CathedralSan Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone instituted a monthly Roman Mass at his Cathedral. It will be celebrated on the first Wednesday of the month at 3 p.m.The Mass will take place on the feast of St Dominic, August 4, and will be celebrated in the Dominican Rite.The Roman Mass was established as a response to “requests from the faithful" (= pastoral reasons) and an "overwhelming response" to a first Roman Mass which was celebrated in July in the cathedral.

The mayoral race in Sterling Heights pits an incumbent who left the GOP to vote for Joe Biden against a rival who organized rallies for Trump. They have two things in common: Both are running for mayor and running away from the state and national GOP. Sterling Heights’ Aug. 3 mayoral primary is about more than who leads Sterling Heights. It’s also shining a light on what it means to be a conservative in a Republican Party still dominated by Donald Trump. Last year Sterling Heights Mayor Michael Taylor made national news — and not the good kind, for some...

The BLM mob came to menace the McCloskeys outside of their St. Louis mansion in June 2020, which prompted the couple to appear outside of their home with firearms. Mark McCloskey is now running for U.S. Senate on the promise of taking the fight to leftist thugs.

The world first learned of Sophie Zhang in September 2020, when BuzzFeed News obtained and published highlights from an abridged version of her nearly 8,000-word exit memo from Facebook. Before she was fired, Zhang was officially employed as a low-level data scientist at the company. But she had become consumed by a task she deemed more important: finding and taking down fake accounts and likes that were being used to sway elections globally. Her memo revealed that she’d identified dozens of countries, including India, Mexico, Afghanistan, and South Korea, where this type of abuse was enabling politicians to mislead the...

South Korea has detected its first two cases of the new Delta Plus COVID-19 variant, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said on Tuesday, as the country battles with its fourth wave of infections. The Delta Plus variant is a sub-lineage of the Delta variant first identified in India, and has acquired the spike protein mutation called K417N, which is also found in the Beta variant first identified in South Africa. read more Reports of Delta Plus cases have been few, and a handful of countries, including Britain, Portugal and India, have reported some cases. "The first case...

"In North Carolina, doctors and nurses—who have heroically carried hospitals through the pandemic for well over a year without receiving the EUA COVID-19 “vaccine”—are being told they must now get the shot or will lose their job. The healthcare professionals recently spoke up after several health care providers across the state announced they would mandate all their employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. North Carolina is an “employment at will” state which means a company can fire you for any reason unless it is an illegal one. An employment attorney informed FOX46 there is no law against a private...

Texas Rep. Chip Roy is calling for the impeachment of both President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over their response to the flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border over the past six months. "Over the past several months, President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have blatantly and consistently refused to do their constitutional duty to take care that the immigration laws be faithfully executed, as required by Article II, endangering countless American and foreign lives in the process," Roy told Fox News Tuesday. After conservative radio host Jesse Kelly described the border crisis as "more impeachable than...

As a graduate of Oral Roberts University, I was blessed to spend a lot of time with Oral Roberts himself. Roberts repeatedly told me, “Go into every man’s world and meet them at the point of their need.” He was referring to Christians evangelizing throughout the world. We Christians cannot wait for people seeking God to stumble into our churches. Rather, Christians must go to them and invite them to join our movement. In a similar manner, conservatives must go! They must go to black entrepreneurs. They must go to black parents. They must go to black preachers. No more...

Via Aleteia, here’s another very interesting thing on the musical front. At the beginning of the 20th-century, archeologists working at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem discovered a set of organ pipes and a bell carillion. They have since been kept at the Holy Land Museum run by the Franciscan custody. According to the musicologist who is working on them, Dr David Catalunya, they had been brought to the Holy Land by the Crusaders in the early 12th century, and then hidden for safe-keeping during a Muslim invasion. They are in a very good state of preservation; Dr Catalunya...

Japan has carried out a threat to publicly shame people not complying with coronavirus border control measures, releasing the names of three people who broke quarantine rules after returning from overseas. The health ministry said late on Monday the three Japanese nationals named had clearly acted to avoid contact with authorities after recently returning from abroad. The announcement, the first of its kind, sparked a flurry of speculation among Twitter users about the details of those identified, such as their jobs and locations.

TOKYO—It’s common for stress to get to professional athletes, but U.S. women’s soccer player Megan Rapinoe has been dealing with a recurring nightmare: winning the gold medal and having to hear the U.S. national anthem play. “Aieee! The anthem of my most hated country!” she would hiss and scream as the anthem played. “The one that won’t pay me fairly!” “Such a horrible nightmare really takes a lot out of you,” Rapinoe told reporters. “It’s started to affect my performance... which I guess is good, so it makes sure that nightmare won’t happen.” It should all be over soon, though,...

Washington D.C.Offices of the Chief Medical Examiner submitted a request to cremate Jan. 6 Capitol protester Ashli Babbitt two days after gaining custody of the body, according to documents obtained and released Tuesday by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch.Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and San Diego native, was fatally shot by a U.S. Capitol Police officer as she attempted to climb through a broken window of a door to the Speaker’s Lobby, a room off House chambers. Among the 1,160 pages of documents obtained by Judicial Watch is a Jan. 8 application to cremate Babbit’s body that is labeled "completed successfully."

John Cleese is an international treasure and needs to be treated as such. Got that, Airbnb The actor/writer/comedian took to Twitter on Monday to let the world know a couple things. 1. He will be in and around Huntsville for the next little. 2. There’s a project with John Cleese filming in the Huntsville area soon. 3. Airbnb screwed up his reservation, gave his house to someone else and kept the actor’s money. John Cleese @JohnCleese Does anyone in Huntsville, Ontario have a nice place I can rent to live in while I make a film Airbnb took our money...

Spain's Catholic bishops warned of growing division and tension in their country over government attempts to "deconstruct and dismantle the Christian worldview." "We are in a difficult moment, not only because of COVID-19, but because we are convulsed by a deep institutional crisis, with some groups seeking to open a new constitutional phase and replace a political framework that has given Spain great stability," the bishops' conference said. "Legislative initiatives by the coalition government on education, euthanasia, abortion, democratic memory and the judiciary reflect a global deconstruction project, whose development puts freedom at risk and impedes essential unity." The warning...