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[Catholic Caucus] After 14 Years, Pontifical North American College (Rome) cancels all Traditional Latin Masses, and all TLM training Announced today to the NAC community -- the PNAC is the National College of the United States in Rome, and the most influential American seminary in the world. It is under the direction of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).This is a very important piece of the puzzle of the systemic cultural genocide Francis is imposing on Traditional Catholics. Our only options are to resist or to die and disappear.Please, mention Rorate when reporting this piece of news.

Long research paper. To read comments, I recommend going back to the forum and clicking on the 'comments' link for this article.DOWNLOAD LINK: Toxicity of graphene-family nanoparticles: a general review of the origins and mechanisms (biomedcentral.com)Rights and permissionsOpen Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies...

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2017Kenry[Opens in a new window]Show author detailsArticleFiguresMetricsSave PDF Kenry. (2018). Understanding the hemotoxicity of graphene nanomaterials through their interactions with blood proteins and cells. Journal of Materials Research, 33(1), 44-57. doi:10.1557/jmr.2017.388AbstractThe successful applications of graphene nanomaterials in nanobiotechnology and medicine as well as their effective translation into real clinical utility hinge significantly on a thorough understanding of their nanotoxicological profile. Of all aspects of biocompatibility, the hemocompatibility of graphene nanomaterials with different blood constituents in the circulatory system is one of the most important elements that needs to be well elucidated. Once...

spent taxpayer money on hidden cams, undercover officers to assist abortion clinic New York attorney general Letitia James's office deployed hidden cameras and undercover operatives against a pro-life Brooklyn pastor and his flock, but the year-long legal campaign hit a snag Thursday when a federal appeals court unanimously affirmed the protesters' right to gather. James and her two Democratic predecessors have pursued various harassment charges against Rev. Kenneth Griepp and worshippers of his Brooklyn church since 2017, going so far as to pay for and install hidden security cameras at a local abortion clinic. The impressive array of taxpayer-funded surveillance...

[Catholic Caucus] Revenge of the Rigid: On Rejecting Grillo, Primitivism, and the Electric SlideI often like to imagine how the radical liturgical reforms after Vatican II would have proceeded in the internet age. Certainly the quick availability of information and the means by which to network globally in seeking answers would have made the position of the extreme wing of reformers more precarious, and certainly the analog “fog of war” which the Bugniniites hid behind would have been more easily penetrated. A great example of what things may have looked like come from our own Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, who has...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has increased the COVID threat level to level 4, signifying a high risk of COVID-19, for two additional cruise destinations on August 30. Puerto Rico and St. Lucia have both been added to the list. The list of cruise destinations that have been given a Level 4: Very High Level of COVID-19 designation is steadily growing. Besides Puerto Rico and St. Lucia, the list includes the Bahamas, St. Maarten, Aruba, Dominica, Curacao, St. Barts, Martinique, the US Virgin Islands, and the British Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico and St. Lucia at Level 4 The...

Pictures of Taliban fighters waving American M4 carbines and M16 rifles in military Humvee jeeps will give you a sarcastic grin, but the White House is no laughing matter. The United States lost the 20 Years War. And comparisons with the Vietnam War are inevitable. But the situation is even worse now. Afghanistan has become a disgrace to the Biden administration and the Pentagon in a matter of months. And the point is not only that the Americans fled in haste and panic - never before in wars did the enemy receive such a huge arsenal of the defeated without...

To the “woke” crowd, teaching civility and manners favors artificial concepts that reinforce power structures and control behavior. This Marxist perspective reduces everything to the class struggle terms of oppressor and oppressed. For this reason, manners must be eradicated and never taught to vulnerable children. So many things today reflect this anti-manners mentality. This trend can be seen in brutal and obscene speech or texting. It is found in ugly, dirty and torn clothing. Coddled children absorb this lack of manners from uncouth adults, who fail to impose rules lest they hurt feelings. Indeed, in the Marxist worldview, Western civilization...

Former President Trump wanted equity in Gettr, the new social media app launched by former Trump aide Jason Miller, sources tell Axios. Why it matters: The former president has yet to join the app, although sources say that conversations about his participation are ongoing. Discussions about equity are likely part of those conversations, and everything is a negotiation point.

The War in Afghanistan has always been a black box, but the Biden administration just made matters worse. According to an admission obtained from the State Department, Biden officials recently directed federal agencies to scrub their websites of official reports detailing the $82.9 billion in military equipment and training provided to the Afghan security forces since 2001.The scrubbed audits and reports included detailed accounting of what the U.S. had provided to Afghan forces, down to the number of night vision devices, hand grenades, Black Hawk helicopters, and armored vehicles. Reports further quantified 208 aircraft and helicopters; 75,000 war vehicles –...

The US Marine Corps officer who was relieved of his command over a battalion for chastising his bosses over the botched Afghan withdrawal has revealed that he was ordered to undergo a mental health screening. “When I went into work this morning, I was ordered by my commanding officer to go to the Hospital for a mental health screening,” Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller wrote on Facebook on Monday. “I was evaluated by the mental health specialists and then sent on my way. My CO is a standup guy, and I understand why he did it,” he added. A day earlier,...

Valerio Ciriello SJ highlights the importance of involving young people in efforts geared toward ecological transition, and stresses that they can influence a better way of development and lifestyle for future generations.In light of increasing calls for communal efforts to be directed toward the protection of our common home amid widening ecological degradation, hurricanes, flooding and other natural disasters, the “Eco Summer Camp for Young Adults” is doing something to urge young people to take a stand for themselves and for generations to come. Organized by the Lassalle-Institut in collaboration with Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund, Fastenopfer and the Center for...

"This is effing ridiculous," we grumbled to each other as we eased our sedan onto the Autobahn. I was a newly minted 2nd lieutenant, accompanied by an enlisted squad leader, team leader, and rifleman from my platoon. My company commander had just ordered us to drive 200 miles from our base near Frankfurt, Germany back to the Hohenfels Training area to retrieve a small piece of a Javelin Missile Simulation Round the young rifleman had lost during a recent training exercise. … my company commander learned of this missing item. Summoning the four of us to the arms room, he...

Moscow, August 30, Interfax - The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed the main investigation department for the Moscow Region to check media materials about plans to build a so-called "eco-settlement" called Aminovka in the village of Nechyosovo in the Shakhovskoy District of the Moscow Region, the IC website reports. "There are fears in the media that a religious enclave is planned to be created in this territory and that some threats are already being received by residents of nearby territories. One of the publications also suggests that this village is being created for a religious...

I kept my answer to all, "no's, regardless of what the questions were. She then wanted to give me Pfeizer, which I told her that was not going to happen. I choser Moderna, as I've read it is the least problematic. Once I got the vaccine, I got and left immediately, despite being advised to sit for 15 minutes.

VANCOUVER -- A Catholic church in Prince George has been vandalized, and not for the first time, according to the local RCMP detachment. The latest instance of vandalism at Sacred Heart Cathedral on Patricia Boulevard happened sometime between 11 p.m. on Tuesday and 1 a.m. on Wednesday, according to a news release from Prince George RCMP. Police said they were notified of the graffiti that had been spray-painted on the church's front doors shortly before 4 a.m. on Wednesday. Responding officers saw the phrase "Every Child M" painted on the doors, police said. The phrase seems likely to be the...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a settlement to Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, who kept their doors open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic despite L.A. County’s health order. The county settled for $400,000, which will come from the county Health Department’s budget and will go to pay the church’s legal fees. The state will reportedly pay an additional $400,000 under the agreement. “It appears that the county wants to settle this because they do not want a trial,” the church’s pastor, John MacArthur, said from the pulpit in a video posted on Aug. 30. MacArthur said the...

American Presidents must make hard decisions, and we’re inclined to support them when they do so overseas in the national interest. But President Biden’s defiant, accusatory defense on Tuesday of his Afghanistan withdrawal and its execution was so dishonest, and so lacking in self-reflection or accountability, that it was unworthy of the sacrifices Americans have made in that conflict. The charitable interpretation is that this is what Mr. Biden really believes about Afghanistan in particular, war in general, and how to defend the U.S. The uncharitable view is that he and his advisers have decided that the only way out...

Proponents of the beatification of Venerable Fulton Sheen are still searching for answers about the cause, nearly two years after that process was paused. “I don’t know much,” Bishop Louis Tylka, Coadjutor Bishop of Peoria, told CNA in an interview. “Basically, the cause was put on hold, and there really hasn’t been movement.” Venerable Sheen, an American evangelist and television personality who died in 1979, was set to be beatified in Peoria, where he had served as a priest, in December 2019. The ceremony was indefinitely postponed by the Vatican just weeks before the scheduled ceremony, at the request of...

President Joe Biden, pictured in the White House last week, tried to meet Sunday with survivors of service members who died in Thursday's bombing attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan. Most of the family of one Marine, however, left the room. On Sunday — three days after explosions wreaked havoc outside of Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai International Airport — President Joe Biden flew to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to receive the flag-draped remains of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the attack. Before receiving these heroes who had returned home at last, Biden decided to meet with their families. In...