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“It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones" (Proverbs 3:8).

The Germans could scarcely conceal their delight. According to Olaf Scholz, the socialist poised to succeed Angela Merkel as Chancellor of Germany, we can blame the shortage of lorry drivers, our half-empty supermarkets and closed petrol stations squarely at the feet of Brexit. Some might describe this as 'schadenfreude' – taking pleasure in the misfortune of others. It is, of course, a German word. But Herr Scholz's assessment is shared by a troubling number of people in Britain. People who should know better. Wherever we look, captains of industry are demanding we reopen our gates to the cheap foreign labour...

A group of Point Park University students in Pittsburgh launched a petition to have their fellow classmate banned from campus after he criticized the school's pronoun policy. Campus Reform Correspondent and Point Park University student Logan Dubil was met with a petition from his classmates to school administrators that demanded his removal from campus for criticizing the university's "Misgendering, Pronoun Misuse, and Deadnaming Policy," which Fox News previously reported. The petition, which has now been deleted and was created by "Max," appeared on Change.org and claimed "Dubil and others like him are the scum of the Earth," according to Campus...

Following a dramatic week on Capitol Hill, a moderate Democratic senator from Arizona slammed leaders of her own party over their 'inexcusable' failure to hold a vote on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema — one of the key holdouts on the budget bill — took to Twitter Saturday, calling the canceled vote 'deeply disappointing' and a betrayal of the trust of the American people. 'The failure of the U.S. House to hold a vote on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is inexcusable, and deeply disappointing for communities across our country,' Sinema wrote.

A casually dressed President Joe Biden acknowledged frustrations as Democrats strain to rescue a scaled-back version of his $3.5 trillion government-overhaul plan and salvage a related public works bill after frantic negotiations failed to produce a deal. 'Everybody´s frustrated, it´s part of being in government, being frustrated,' Biden told reporters before leaving the White House for a weekend stay at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. He pledged to 'work like hell' to get the two pillars of his domestic agenda passed into law, but refrained from laying out a new deadline.

Protesters and political activists rowed towards US Sen. Joe Manchin's yacht this week, demanding to know why the senator refuses to support President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill. In a video capturing the exchange, Manchin, aboard his $700,000 house boat named Almost Heaven, assured the kayakers that Democrats were working to pass a reasonable bill. West Virginians waived signs saying 'don't sink out healthcare, and shouted at the Senator while he was aboard the vessel, which was moored on the Potomac River in Washington DC.

It’s an oft-told tale that, given Friday’s developments in Washington, bears repeating. As Joe Califano describes it in “Triumph and Tragedy,” his revealing memoir of his time in Lyndon Johnson’s White House, the president summoned civil rights leaders during racial unrest in the explosive summer of 1967. Detroit and Newark were burning and Democrats were sharply divided over several issues, including how to respond to the ­rioters. LBJ was using his famous arm-twisting methods with NAACP leader Roy Wilkins and Urban League executive director Whitney Young, but without much success. Frustrated, he launched an attack on the left-wing of his...

Allegations that Pfizer are conducting experiments on six-month-old orphans to test their Covid-19 vaccine have been made by whistleblowers in Poland leading to a group of lawyers, medical professionals and activists demanding members of the Polish parliament and Senate organize an urgent conference on Saturday 2nd October. Children’s Health Defense was recently alerted by Polish whistleblowers that Pfizer is conducting experiments on orphan babies 6 months old to test their new vaccines. Babies and children do not die from Covid and rarely transmit the disease. This alone should be enough to refuse any kind of clinical trials with experimental vaccines....

As a former Division I college football player for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, Justin Moon faced many challenges on the field. But more than a decade later, the 36-year-old step dad may have met his toughest opponent yet, when coronavirus left him fighting for his life earlier this summer just days before he was set to get his first dose of vaccine, he said. “There's only one other step beyond where I was at, and that's cremation or going in your box,” Moon, who is still hospitalized but on the road to recovery, told ABC News. “I actually...

Defense Minister Benny Gantz told Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas during their recent meeting that he wants to be “the new Rabin”, Channel 12 News reported on Friday. According to the report, PA cabinet leader Mohammad Shtayyeh relayed details of the meeting between Gantz and Abbas in a recent meeting with Arab Israeli activists and journalists. Gantz told Abbas, according to Shtayyeh, “I believe in the two-state solution and believe is the appropriate solution. I want to be the new Rabin, but this government has limitations.” Abbas, for his part, told Gantz that “if the current [Israeli] government does...

ou may have seen that map of nearly half the states in the union resisting Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate. It almost feels like the GOP, finally realizing its true power, decided to man up. But, don’t be fooled. Their largely symbolic actions should only make all America Firsters demand more. From the outset, we should be clear that any and all state and local pushback against the vaccine mandate is welcome. Even symbolic action can strengthen popular support and morale. The real point, however, is that without the rightful and duty-bound exercise of power on top of what’s already in...

Earlier this year emails were released that revealed Dr. Fauci repeatedly lied to the American public while telling a different story to his close associates. Fauck lied about the fact that most all of COVID victims had comorbidities. Fauci lied on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine when he knew it was very effective in treating the disease. After 440,000 Americans are Dead – Facebook and American Journal of Medicine Admit Their Stand on HCQ was Wrong — These People Should be Prosecuted! Fauci lied about the origins of the virus and his funding of the Wuhan laboratory. Now the UK government...

Both today’s first reading and the Gospel speak to us of the miracle of marriage. If your marriage is working even reasonably well, it is a miracle! We live in an age that is poisonous to marriage. Many people look for marriage to be ideal, and if there is any ordeal, they want a new deal. Our culture says, if it doesn’t work out, bail out. Marriages are also a miracle because they are, ultimately, a work of God.Today’s readings bring before us some fundamental teachings on marriage. Let’s look at today’s Gospel in five stages.I. Rejection – The Gospel...

Dr. Fauci on Friday was grilled on CNBC about so-called Covid ‘breakthrough’ cases. “Dr. Fauci, you guys have been pushing the vaccine and I understand why – I’m vaccinated, but I also have Covid and it spread through my entire family in the past few weeks,” CNBC host Sara Eisen said from her home office. She continued, “And I just wonder about the public messaging around vaccinations. Three vaccinated people got Covid in my house, two unvaccinated children got it. Are you too casual about the limitations of the vaccine? Because it does feel to me that breakthroughs are happening,...

October 3rd, 2021 Basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Délivrande de Popenguine, Senegal Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingGenesis 2:18-24 ©A man and his wife become one bodyThe Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.’ So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and...

Australians took to the streets for another protest in Melbourne in the state of Victoria on Saturday after the government announced a sweeping COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all “authorised workers.” Victorian residents took to the streets and congregated in a group that marched along Southbank Boulevard and the track around Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. Participants carried a large white banner with the word “Freedom” and voiced their dissent against vaccine mandates, lockdowns, and the current state government. A video from citizen journalist Rukshan Fernando showed the protesters marching peacefully and yelling slogans such as “my body my choice” and “freedom!...

The Supreme Court has been a lightning rod of politics in recent times where Republicans and Democrats vie to fill seats to gain an advantage.And even as several Supreme Court Justices have said that the court is not political, some of what they have said in public has only added to that perception among some, CNN reported.Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. defended some of the recent Supreme Court decisions on Thursday at a speech at Notre Dame, The New York Times reported.He went off on the perception that some in the media made the “false and inflammatory claim that we...

LEESBURG, Va. – Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia rallied on Saturday in support of having a stronger say in classroom curricula, encouraging people to take their grievances to the ballot box in November. The rally, held outside the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors’ building in Leesburg, welcomed roughly over a hundred parents, activists, and community organizers to speak on what’s at stake in the governor’s race. “The Virginia election is going to be the first election where politicians are held to account over what we’re seeing, not just here, but across the country,” said Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org, which...

CommentaryWith China facing a shortage of professional talent, a specific conference was held to address the situation, which indicated a fundamental problem of the Chinese government.From Sept. 27 to 28, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a Central Talent Work Conference. The importance of the conference was shown by the participation of all seven members of the Standing Committee of the Central Political Bureau of the CCP.Given that its technology companies have been sanctioned one after another, the senior members of the CCP put forward the slogan of “independent innovation in science and technology.”Despite this, Xi’s speech at the conference...

Messy tents line the streets. Bottles, plastic bags, and all kinds of trash fly in the breeze. People with shabby clothes wander and sit. It is Boston’s “Methadone Mile,” an area that is only a few miles away from the city’s downtown and Financial District.The epicenter of Boston’s opioid crisis and homelessness earned its nickname due to the concentration of service providers, who usually incorporate methadone into treatments of drug addiction. For years, the area has attracted a large number of homeless and addicted people, especially after the closure of Boston’s Long Island treatment facility in 2014.Shelter and service shutdowns...