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[Catholic Caucus] Hope Down Under? Australian Bishops Slow to Implement Traditionis CustodesVidens civitatem flevit super illam[1]Every serious Catholic on the planet is by now aware of the Pope’s recent Motu Proprio which is designed to severely restrict access to the Latin Mass. For Catholics in Australia, the timing of the document’s release could not have been worse, as many traditionalists were among the 18,000,000 Australians then living under COVID stay-at-home orders and so were unable to access the sacraments or to seek solace in their parishes.Our distress, like that of traditional Catholics everywhere, has been acute and many have questioned...

@JacquiHeinrich NEW: Afghan refugees to come to Quantico & Fort Pickett, per Senate source who’s office was informed the two sites were formally added. Separately - DoD had refused to comment on planning docs I have had for days, detailing plans to house refugees at Picket & 2 other locations

In Magliulo v. Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, ((WD LA, Aug. 17, 2021), a Louisiana federal district court issued a temporary restraining order barring a medical college from conditioning plaintiff students' enrollment on their receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. The students had requested an exemption from the college's requirements for religious reasons-- they believed the vaccine was derived from aborted fetal tissue. The college would grant the exemption only if the objecting students complied with extensive restrictions. The court held that Louisiana statutes allow students to assert religious or philosophical objections to the vaccine requirement. It also concluded that the...

Fr. Omar Sánchez Portillo, secretary general of Cáritas Lurín, stated Monday that he has been the victim of death threats, several cyberattacks on his social media, and the theft of a debit card. “They sent me a bullet again. It’s the third one since Monday, May 24. It’s the first time that I have posted on this subject,” Fr. Sánchez wrote Aug. 23 on his Facebook page. “What person or persons are the authors? I have no idea. I only pray to God for them and their souls, for peace in their hearts. I have always considered that I have...

@AnnastaciaMP BREAKING: A dedicated regional quarantine facility will be built at Wellcamp Airport near Toowoomba. As we contend with the dangerous Delta variant, we need fit-for-purpose quarantine facilities. #covid19 That’s why we’ve taken decisive action to build this new 1000-bed, dedicated facility under a joint agreement between the Palaszczuk Government and the landowner @Wagner_Corp Wagner Corporation expects the first stage of the facility to be delivered for use by the end of 2021.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday sanctioned Sidney Powell and other lawyers who sued in Michigan to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory over Donald Trump, and suggested they might deserve to lose their law licenses. In a highly anticipated written ruling, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in Detroit said the pro-Trump lawyers, including Powell and prominent litigator Lin Wood, should have investigated the Republican former president's voter fraud claims more carefully before filing what Parker called a "frivolous" lawsuit. Parker, who dismissed the Michigan suit last December, formally requested that disciplinary bodies investigate whether the pro-Trump lawyers...

Holy Theophany Church in the Tatar village of Krugloe Pole was closed by the godless Soviet authorities in 1932, leaving it without Divine services for several decades. And the last episcopal service was held there in 1914. However, the rebirth of the church is now underway, and the Divine Liturgy was joyously celebrated there on Saturday, August 21, for the first time in 89 years, reports Orthodoxy in Tatarstan. The service was headed by His Grace Bishop Innokenty, vicar of the Kazan Diocese, together with the local rector Archpriest Vitaly Staheev and other local clergy. Restoration work is currently underway...

In virtually every realm of public policy, Americans embrace policies which they know will kill people, sometimes large numbers of people. They do so not because they are psychopaths but because they are rational: they assess that those deaths that will inevitably result from the policies they support are worth it in exchange for the benefits those policies provide. This rational cost-benefit analysis, even when not expressed in such explicit or crude terms, is foundational to public policy debates — except when it comes to COVID, where it has been bizarrely declared off-limits. The quickest and most guaranteed way to...

@Breaking911 Vice President Kamala Harris lays flowers in Hanoi where John McCain’s Skyhawk dive bomber was shot down. "Extraordinary American and hero...John McCain loved our country. He was so courageous and really lived the life of a hero." Clip...

Jack Posobiec Flag of United States @JackPosobiec·1h BREAKING: Democrats Subpoena Private Communications of Trump Family, Top Trump Supporters Timcast IRL Live

Graham Hetrick has made a career of signing off on cause of death reports as Dauphin County coroner. But lately, he’s been authoring an evolving minority report if you will on the coronavirus pandemic, one that clashes loudly with the medical establishment on issues such as the effectiveness of vaccines and the usefulness of masking. And the more he speaks up about it, the more pushback he’s getting. “I’m a little surprised that a public official would think he knows better than all of these organizations,” a UPMC infectious disease specialist told ABC27 Wednesday. “A result of these kinds of...

I was just fascinated with that dog that kept running in front of them while they were walking to and from the Russian supermarket which is actually pretty much a liquor store.

CHICAGO (CBS) — Nearly 54 percent of Chicagoans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to city data, while more than 70 percent of adults in the city have received their first shot. Now, as CBS 2’s Marissa Parra reported Sunday, a growing number of city businesses are starting to require proof of vaccination before entry.(snip) Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted St.; Roscoe’s Tavern, 3356 N. Halsted St., and D.S. Tequila, 3352 N. Halsted St., all require visitors to get vaxxed to enjoy the perks. Sidetrack and Roscoe’s will also accept a negative COVID-19 test within the past 72 hours, but D.S....

Up to 100 Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan and seeking to resettle in the United States have been “flagged” by Defense Department terrorism watch lists, according to a new report. As President Joe Biden’s administration looks to fast-track tens of thousands of Afghans into the U.S. interior over the next few weeks, Defense Department officials are reportedly sounding the alarm over the potential for fraud.

Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) on Tuesday demanded answers from the Biden administration on whether ex-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani stole US aid before fleeing to the United Arab Emirates. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday indicated she's not aware of whether or not it's true that Ghani fled to Dubai with millions of dollars. https://twitter.com/stevennelson10/status/1430669793267494913

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14

By now, every witting person on earth knows the credibility of the United States has been disastrously damaged by events in Afghanistan. Thousands of American civilians are stranded and being held hostage by radical Islamic terrorists. Tens of thousands of brave Afghan allies are being hunted down and brutally murdered. President Joe Biden is singularly responsible for this catastrophe. His incoherent press conference on Friday, Aug. 20, was a frightening example of the alternative reality Biden inhabits. He claimed the U.S. went to Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaida, and has done so. Yet less than an hour later, a Pentagon spokesman...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says President Joe Biden’s administration must resettle at least 200,000 Afghans across the United States as part of its withdrawal from Afghanistan. In an interview with The Independent, Ocasio-Cortez urged Biden to set a floor of 200,000 visas for Afghans to be evacuated from Afghanistan and brought to the U.S. for permanent resettlement and eventual naturalized American citizenship. Should Biden implement such a plan, resettling 200,000 Afghans would be the equivalent of bringing 4.5 percent of the total number of Afghans residing in Kabul, Afghanistan, to the U.S. Ocasio-Cortez stated: “I believe we need to move...

This is the horrific moment a woman attacked an Asian couple in their 60s over an $11 purchase after they refused to give her the items because her pre-paid card was declined. Ebony Afzal, 25, has been charged with two counts of felonious assault and one count of vandalism after police say she was recorded by surveillance cameras violently hitting the owners of Chic Plus Beauty Supply on Lorrain Avenue in Cleveland. The Cleveland Division of Police has not mentioned if they also plan to pursue hate crime charges. Afzal was arraigned in court on Friday July 30, and appeared...

With all of the various experiments in play regarding Covid-19, the Pfizer “vaccine” experiment should have already been declared a complete and utter failure. It performs the worst against the Delta Variant. Data indicates it’s the first to require a “booster shot” in order for it to keep delivering the questionable protection it allegedly offers. According to VAERS, it’s the deadliest of the shots available in the United States.For all of this failure, Pfizer was awarded this week with FDA approval.The question we need to answer if we’re going to understand what’s happening around us is why Pfizer, of all...