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More German DissentBishop's address to politiciansThe head of the German Bishops' Conference is calling for "courageous" change in the Church. The prelate is known for his dissent from Church teaching on a host of topics such as the all-male priesthood. Church Militant's William Mahoney looks at some key points from the bishop's address.Bishop Georg Bätzing: "The Catholic Church is diversifying — but in very different ways and at very different speeds and partly with some unreconciled differences." Bishop Georg Bätzing, head of the German Bishops' Conference, spoke Tuesday evening to a room of guests and roughly 200 politicians, at the...

Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for an end to the federal debt ceiling altogether Thursday and shot down lawmakers' idea of minting a $1 trillion coin to avoid defaulting on the debt.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Thursday confirmed to reporters his topline number for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package is $1.5 trillion. During the media powwow, Manchin said the far-left “should elect more liberals” if they want a more radical package with a price larger than $1.5 trillion.

Mild cases of COVID-19 could also leave a lasting impact on the human brain, according to a recent study. In August, researchers from England’s University of Oxford and the Imperial College of London wrote that brain imaging from the UK Biobank – including the data from more than 40,000 people in the United Kingdom, dating back to 2014 – showed differences in gray matter thickness between those who had been infected with COVID-19 and those who had not. The team said that using both hypothesis-driven and exploratory approaches, with false discovery rate multiple comparison correction, they had identified respectively 68...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Gregory ‘grateful’ for Pope’s support of Communion for pro-abortion politiciansSpeaking in Rome, the D.C. cardinal said that bishops are not ‘police’ but ‘pastors’ who ‘bring people along with us.’VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Washington’s Cardinal Wilton Gregory has once again supported giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians, saying that bishops are “not there as police,” and praising the Pope’s recent restrictions on the Latin Mass.Gregory spoke to assembled members of the press on September 27, while in Rome to take possession of his titular church, Santa Maria Immacolata in Grottarossa.The cardinal characterized as “extraordinarily helpful” Pope Francis’ recent...

They’re all in bed with one another. We all know this regarding the media and the Democratic Party. It’s a massive complex. They scratch each other’s backs. They pick sides. There is bias in the media coverage as a result. You all know this, but NBC News’ Chuck Todd has insisted it doesn’t exist. Right, and Antifa doesn’t exist either, right? Well, Todd should know better than to dole out that rather bold and false statement and then did what he did last night which speaks to the whole bias that’s manufactured daily by the Democrat-media complex. He moderated the...

A handful of open Senate seats have drawn a crowd of Republicans vying to replace outgoing GOP senators. Those senators are mostly staying neutral in the primaries — at least for now. Alabama’s Richard C. Shelby is so far the only retiring senator to take sides in a primary, backing his former chief of staff, Katie Britt. While others weigh picking a favorite, the primary fields have continued to grow. In some races, vocal backers of Donald Trump are battling each other to succeed senators who have openly criticized the former president or have built reputations as legislative deal-makers. Two...

Australian Public Health Official Admits That 6 of 7 Recent COVID-19 Deaths Had Been VaccinatedAn Australian government official from the province of New South Wales has admitted that six of seven recent COVID-19 deaths came from the vaccinated. “As the minister said, tragically today, we announced the deaths of seven people who had lost their lives to COVID-19, four women and three men, one person was in their 40s, one person in their 50s, two people in their 70s, two people in their 80s, and one person who was in their 90s, all of those individuals had underlying health conditions,...

Gender Studies is a growing field with many fulfilling career opportunities! We find more and more genders every day, and we need professionals to sort through them all with their gender sorting machines so they can be placed on the correct gender shelf. That's where you come in! If you think gender studies is for you, here are nine exciting jobs you can get once you graduate: 1) Burger flipper at McDonald's, but a socially conscious one: You can spread the gospel of gender identity to your coworkers! 2) Sign spinner in front of Little Ceasars, but a socially conscious...

Animal Care and Control also needs more resources to get a handle on the city's coyotes, raccoons, skunks, rats and snakes, alderpeople told the agency's leader. CHICAGO — Could a feral cat program be the solution to Chicago’s rat problems? At a budget hearing for Animal Care and Control Wednesday, Alds. Anthony Napolitano (41st) and Andre Vasquez (40th) asked whether Executive Director Mamadou Diakhate had thought about using feral cats to combat rats. “We’ve had an incredible uptick in rodents, rats in our ward,” Napolitano said. He asked if the city could let loose feral cat colonies as an “organic”...

Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-VW) office on Thursday, ahead of when the House is supposed to vote on the “bipartisan” infrastructure bill, denies the reports that claim a deal has been made with the senator on a path to a reconciliation package. A spokesperson from the senator’s office told Politico, “There is no agreement, Manchin stands by his statement yesterday and reports of a number are completely inaccurate. He will continue to work in good faith.”

Greenyer: Nickel-hydrogen heat generator continuously working for 7 months A.G. Parkhomov 1 , V.A. Zhigalov 1 , S.N. Zabavin 1 , A.G. Sobolev 2 , T.R. Timerbulatov 1 1 OKL KIT, Moscow, alexparh@mail.ru 2 Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow A nickel-hydrogen heat generator was created that continuously worked for 225 days with a heat dissipation power exceeding the consumed electricity from 200 to 1000 W (thermal coefficient 1.6 - 3.6). Completion of the work is connected with the exhaustion of fuel energy resource. Total excess energy generation of about 4100 MJ. The fuel used in...

Former professional basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said Thursday on “CBS Mornings” that promoting the need for people to get the COVID vaccination was an extension of Black Lives Matter. Co-host Vladimir Duthiers said, “You’ve called for the NBA to insist that all players and staff be vaccinated. And if they refuse, you believe they should be removed from the team. Why do you feel so strongly about that?” Abdul-Jabbar said, “I think that when we ignore a pandemic that is killing people just because some people don’t feel like doing some research, I can’t go along with that. This COVID...

An anti-Ron DeSantis PAC released a new ad targeting Florida’s Republican governor on Wednesday that immediately backfired as critics mocked it online. Remove Ron is a PAC launched by Florida attorney Daniel Uhlfelder who gained national attention during the COVID-19 pandemic by walking along Florida’s beaches in a grim reaper outfit in a morbid protest of DeSantis’ decision to leave beaches open. Uhlfelder’s PAC released the attack ad, called the “Florever Purge,” attacking DeSantis for trusting “people to make their own decisions” regarding vaccines and COVID-19. The ad, based on the movie “The Purge,” opens with a crowd of people...

A man who shares a strong resemblance to Brian Laundrie has taken to social media to clear his name as the search for Gabby Petito's fiancé continues. The unnamed man, who is of similar build and is both balding and bearded, began posting videos to TikTok under the handle @notbrianlaundrie after a viral video surfaced mistakenly claiming to show Laundrie in a nightclub. Laundrie has been named as a person of interest in the disappearance of Petito, with multiple police departments and sheriff's offices across the country receiving information related to the whereabouts of the 23-year-old. Several individuals have also...

Marc Lamont Hill on Thursday said the notion that he developed blood clots from the Covid vaccine is “ridiculous and completely baseless.”(Snip) After my successful Achilles surgery on Friday, I was rushed to the ER on Saturday after suffering a mild heart attack. Over the previous two weeks, I had DVT (deep vein thrombosis), which was caused by my Achilles rupture. This is an extremely common outcome for such injuries.

LOS ANGELES, CA—After a judge ended her conservatorship, Britney Spears is free to leave her home and walk freely in California for the first time in 12 years. Unfortunately, she had no idea that California has become a post-apocalyptic dystopia."Wha... what happened here?" stuttered Britney as she stepped out her front door into a scorched wasteland littered with tents, burnt trees, poop."Hey kid," she said to a feral child running by. "I haven't really been keeping up with the news. What happened here?" The child screeched in an unknown tongue and skittered away behind a pile of trash.According to sources,...

Joe Biden has a well-documented history of praetorial behavior. Every action this man takes around women and children scream abuse and yet the left and so-called “woke” culture continue to give him a pass. We’ve all seen it online in photos, videos, and many women have come forward to say that Joe Biden has either raped them or made them feel very uncomfortable, thanks to how he invades personal space. And speaking of invading personal space – there’s a video from last night’s Congressional Baseball game that has a lot of people feeling very uncomfortable. Here’s a photo of the...

@RepMattGaetz Today I voted YES on the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act to remove marijuana from the list of Schedule 1 drugs, decriminalizing the substance at the federal level and enabling states to set their own policy. (1/2) Though not perfect (bad tax and spending provisions) the MORE Act is a step in the right direction as science has already proven the substance has healing properties in many chronic ailments. (2/2)

The Senate on Thursday defeated a Republican amendment that attempted to block President Joe Biden’s announced mandate for private businesses with 100 or more workers. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) introduced the amendment (pdf) to a government funding measure, blocking the usage of federal money for COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Republicans and Democrats split 50-50 on the vote, falling short of the 60 votes required to pass the amendment. “My wife and I got the vaccine. My parents got the vaccine and they’re waiting to get their booster. But whether to receive it is a personal choice between individuals and their doctor,...