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“But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:18). The Holy Spirit’s transforming work is a central part of the believer’s sanctification. The children’s fable The Ugly Duckling wonderfully illustrates the Holy Spirit’s transforming work in believers. The story is about an ugly young bird who can’t fit in with any of the other animals. It’s not until he encounters the beautiful swans that his life starts changing. The swans are an...

Dozens of Afghans evacuated in the final days of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan have been flagged over potential ties to the Taliban or other terror groups. Two flagged Afghans were shipped to Kosovo to undergo stricter scrutiny, according to NBC News. The warnings come as U.S. officials are vetting tens of thousands of Afghans extracted from Afghanistan under the belief that the evacuees were at high-risk of retribution at the hands of the Taliban. “A lot of people were moved very quickly and the intelligence community has been working hard to evaluate whether any of them pose a threat,”...

President Biden announced a “whole-of-government effort” on Thursday to fight the latest Texas ban on aborting a child who has a heartbeat.“I am directing that Council and the Office of the White House Counsel to launch a whole-of-government effort to respond to this decision,” Biden wrote in a statement sent to reporters.In his statement, Biden proposed using the Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department to challenge the Texas law and ensure women’s access to abortions.Breitbart News @BreitbartNewsNancy Pelosi is triggered because more innocent babies with beating hearts won't be destroyed in Texas. Really let how sick...

Australians shrug at their government’s draconian pandemic response. Riot police firing rubber bullets into lockdown protesters. Rescue dogs being shot to prevent volunteers travelling to collect them. Nighttime curfews and one hour of exercise per day. Five-kilometer travel limits. Soldiers patrolling suburbs to enforce lockdowns. Health bureaucrats advising the citizenry not to stop and talk to their neighbors while walking their dog. What the hell is happening Down Under? “Totalitarianism,” says Tucker Carlson. “Australia has lost its collective mind,” according to Ben Shapiro. “If we invade Australia we will be greeted as liberators,” argues Jack Posobiec. Has Covid-19 really turned...

In Jeremiah 5, God pleaded, “Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; see now and know; and seek in her open places if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth, and I will pardon her” (Jeremiah 5:1, NKJV). The Lord was saying, in essence, “I’ll be merciful, if I can find just one person who’ll seek me.” During the Babylonian captivity, God found such a man in Daniel. When the Holy Ghost came to Daniel, the prophet was reading the book of Jeremiah and asking why God was not...

God Loved Us And Gave Us ♫ Sarah Brightman ♫ And Many Other Blessings Too. By JAG September 3, 2021 Gave us Sarah Brightman . . . to brighten our lives with songs like the beautiful "Canto Della Terra" duet with Andrea Bocelli, and the lovely captivating "Sarai Qui" sung with Alessandro Safini. Sarah Brightman, her voice and her music, makes us happy. . . . as does the delightful personality and voice of the beautiful Russian operatic soprano Anna Netrebko. To see and hear Anna sing "Dammi tu forza, O Cielo" from Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, deeply moves our...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (The peak seems to have passed. Delta Wave Cases and Hospitalizations still noticeably lower this week. - Vaccinations Extremely Strong on this report (1.4M) - Over 175 Million Americans now Fully Vaccinated - Almost 3/4 American Adults (74.7%) have had at least a first shot of vaccine) Administered: 373,516,809 (14,420,976 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 206,461,869 Fully Vaccinated: 175,538,025 Boosters: 1.25 Million

Even in the midst of deep humiliation, there are still signs of the exceptional nation I’ve loved since childhoodIt’s an extraordinary story.One that saved not only hundreds of Afghans, but some of America’s creed and honor.Yet it has received little coverage in the press, outside of the United States.So here it is, from my perspective—that of a French philosopher who has loved America since he was a child.I don’t have all the pieces of the puzzle.But on Aug. 28 The New York Times published an op-ed by Elliot Ackerman, a highly decorated Marine veteran of five tours in Afghanistan who...

Explanation: These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away, in the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus. Called the Iris Nebula, NGC 7023 is not the only nebula to evoke the imagery of flowers. Still, this deep telescopic image shows off the Iris Nebula's range of colors and symmetries, embedded in surrounding fields of interstellar dust. Within the Iris itself, dusty nebular material surrounds a hot, young star. The dominant color of the brighter reflection nebula is blue, characteristic of dust grains reflecting starlight. Central filaments of the reflection nebula glow with a faint reddish photoluminesence as some dust grains...

GoDaddy, the web hosting service, has notified Texas Right to Life that it has 24 hours to find a new hosting service because the organization's anti-abortion "whistleblower" website violates the company's terms of service regarding people's privacy. "Last night we informed prolifewhistleblower.com they have violated GoDaddy's terms of service and have 24 hours to move to a different provider," GoDaddy told Newsweek in a statement. The website, prolifewhistleblower.com, allows people to leave anonymous tips reporting doctors, clinics or other individuals that may have helped women get an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. However, GoDaddy's policies said that its...

Five of the six apartments where people died were illegal conversions The deaths of 11 people who lived in basement apartments during New York City's catastrophic flooding this week have renewed attention on the oftentimes illegal dwellings, with city officials looking to bolster evacuation efforts for vulnerable residents in extreme weather. A record 3.15 inches of rain fell in one hour in the city Wednesday, all but stalling the city's subway system and prompting dozens of water rescues. At least 13 people have been reported dead in New York City after the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through the...

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Medicaid enrollees are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at far lower rates than the general population as states search for the best strategies to improve access to the shots and persuade those who remain hesitant. Efforts by state Medicaid agencies and the private health plans that most states pay to cover their low-income residents has been scattershot and hampered by a lack of access to state data about which members are immunized. The problems reflect the decentralized nature of the health program, funded largely by the federal government but managed by the states. It also points to the difficulty in getting...

It's time for The Jesse Kelly Show! Let's have some fun! Listen live at the link below. Jesse's show is now on over 200 radio stations across the nation, replacing Buck Sexton. Those of us who miss Rush very much know that no one could ever replace him, but if you give Jesse a chance, you'll find him to be a very intelligent, refreshing, naturally funny truth teller.Jesse is a former Marine. He and his beautiful wife live in the Houston area with their two young sons. He's a self-deprecating historyphile with an infectious laugh. His time slot is later...

Jen Psaki's job of cleaning up after Joe Biden just got even tougher. She now has to try to explain away Biden's claim to have visited the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the 2018 anti-Semitic massacre there that killed 11 people. There's just one problem with the claim: the synagogue says Biden never visited. CNN called Biden out on it this morning. Reporter Daniel Dale, CNN's resident Biden fact-checker, said Biden's statement "appears to be just false." Not "just" in the sense of "barely" false. "Just" in the sense of "flat-out" false! Get the rest of the story...

Warming of the Arctic caused by climate change has increased the number of polar vortex outbreaks, when frigid air from the far north bathes the central and eastern United States in killer cold, a study finds. The study in the journal Science Thursday is the first to show the connections between changes in the polar region and February’s Valentine’s Week freeze that triggered widespread power outages in Texas, killing more than 170 people and causing at least $20 billion in damage. The polar vortex normally keeps icy air trapped in the Arctic. But warmer air weakens the vortex, allowing it...

President Biden on Friday toured damage from Hurricane Ida in Louisiana as the state struggles to restore power and rebuild after the Category 4 storm. Biden was greeted by local officials after stepping off Air Force One in New Orleans. The tarmac welcome party included Democratic Gov. John Edwards and Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, a Democrat, also welcomed Biden. Biden walked to the Marine One helicopter with a cheat-sheet of officials’ names and photos, along with what appeared to be a script of remarks, sticking...

Poop Video For Sept 2021 Urges Servitude To Mother Earth IdolBelow is the Poop Video for September 2021. As he lays aside his propaganda campaign for the ingestion of the sinful corona vaccines, he resumes another topic from what I call the "new world punch list", that is, Twisting centuries of Catholic theology in an attempt to quash the death penaltyGun control and nuclear disarmament, as if evil people would divest themselves of their weapons"Immigration reform", thinly-veiled language for removal of national boundariesEnvironmentalism, climate-change hysteria - whatever they want to call their de facto earth-worshipRacism, unless it's directed at...

While Johnny Mandel sang “suicide is painless,” it is apparently also ethical. Duquesne University Psychology professor Derek Hook is under fire this week after arguing in class that white people may find that the ethical option for the dismantling of white culture is suicide. As will likely come as little surprise to many on this blog, I oppose calls for Hook’s termination as a matter of academic freedom. In a class to Baltimore-based American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work in June available on Twitter, Hook used a quote by South African philosophy professor, Terblanche Delport, that “White people...

Wherein a priest alumnus of the North American College responds. Wherein Fr. Z rants.From an alumnus of the North American College (US seminary in Rome) … edited so that the style of writing can’t be traced to any one priest by those who might recognize it.As a NAC grad, I read your article [HERE] with interest.I disagree that a student will get in trouble for googling the Latin Mass and related material.Things that will get a seminarian in trouble are wearing a cassock, biretta, or bad mouthing Conciliar theology or the Vatican II liturgy in public.Men who show openly an...