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Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEcclesiastes 11Invest in Many Ventures 11 Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return. 2 Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. 3 If clouds are full of water, they pour rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie. 4 Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap. 5 As you do not know...

Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time Luke 11:37-41 Friends, Jesus concludes today’s Gospel by prescribing giving alms as a key to holiness. I’ve quoted to you before some of the breathtaking remarks of saints and popes about almsgiving: Leo XIII says, "Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest of your money belongs to the poor." John Chrysostom says,"The man who has two shirts in his closet, one belongs to him; the other belongs to the man who has no shirt." The deepest root of all of this is in the prophets, who continually rail against those...

Scientists are beginning to paint a clearer picture on just how many people will be affected by climate change if current warming trends continue. About 85% of the world's population already lives in areas experiencing the affects of human-induced climate change, according to a study published in Nature on Tuesday. Researchers in Berlin compiled data from more than 100,000 impact studies analyzing detectable environmental signals of human-induced climate change, finding that the evidence for how climate change is impacting communities is continuing to grow. The new research is allowing scientists to attribute with near-certainty that global temperatures are increasing because...

With Joe Biden in the White House, the People's Republic of China ("America's #1 Adversary") is on a winning streak. America's cold war with the PRC is a 12-round fight still in the early rounds. But the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping are certainly emboldened by resident Biden's self-inflicted foreign policy disasters. The Afghanistan debacle proved Biden to be a weak and undependable ally. This perception has, in turn, opened the door to PRC aggression. The PRC won the first round of the cold-war fight in 1972 when it made a secret deal with Pakistan to help them...

Signs that soaring energy prices are putting a dampener on economic growth kept a lid on global stock market gains on Tuesday, while inflation and policy-tightening fears sent short-dated U.S. Treasury yields to 18-month highs. Oil prices rose further, with Brent crude above $84 a barrel. Coal has scaled record peaks and, while gas prices are off recent highs, they remain four times higher in Europe than at the start of the year. The impact of supply crunches in power and manufacturing components is showing up in data - figures on Tuesday showed Japanese wholesale inflation hit 13-year highs last...

Almost a quarter of the nation's roads and other critical infrastructure — from hospitals to police and fire stations to wastewater treatment plants — are at risk of becoming overcome by climate change-exacerbated flooding, a new report from the nonprofit First Street Foundation finds. The report examines risk over the next three decades, including every mile of road and major infrastructure in nearly all U.S. counties. It also examines risks for commercial and residential flooding as well as "social infrastructure" like government buildings, churches and schools. After a summer of outsized floods across the nation — from Louisiana to Michigan...

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Multiple congresswomen recently shared their personal stories about abortion. The media focused on three of them. But a fourth – a story about choosing life – should be told too. On September 30, three Democratic representatives made headlines after telling their abortion stories during a House hearing on “Examining the Urgent Need to Protect and Expand Abortion Rights and Access.” Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, and Rep. Barbara Lee of California delivered their testimonies. Of the three, the media led with Rep. Bush’s story. After graduating high school at 17, Rep. Bush remembered joining a...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has publicly called for the annexation of Taiwan. Chinese warplanes have entered Taiwan’s air defense space with increasing frequency. Reuters reported on October 11, 2021, that China carried out beach-landing military exercises in a province opposite Taiwan. We may be drifting toward war... The German political geographer Friedrich Ratzel once wrote that, ”great statesmen have never lacked a feeling for geography... When one speaks of a healthy political instinct, one usually means a correct evaluation of the geographic bases of political power.” One hundred twenty years ago, the American naval historian and strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan...

Biden is doing all he can to damage America. When attacks begin remember that Biden did this to America. The Democrat Party is the evil that is doing all it can to destroy our nation, on purpose. NO ONE can be this stupid, it has to be by design. It is impossible to be this stupid.

WASHINGTON, Friday, Oct. 11. The explanation of the employment of the steamer Fanny in the service of the Government, without her being connected with the Navy Department, is perfectly clear. She was engaged by the Quartermaster's Department of the army, as all transport service is done by that branch. Ridiculous as it may appear, it is nevertheless a fact, that the naval expeditions are made up in this way, -- the Navy Department furnishing the fighting vessels, but having nothing whatever to do with the vessels that carry the lighting men. If there is any hitch in the movements of...

The wife of a Navy submarine engineer-turned-into-spy is a leftist who supports 'The Resistance' and Hilary Clinton and posted about 'stopping Donald Trump', according to her social media posts that reveal the couple organized a babysitter on Facebook so they could make their last secret drop of stolen intelligence before they were caught by the FBI. She then posted an update to the original post, only visible to friends, with the word '*FOUND*', implying a babysitter had been organized. She and her husband Jonathan Toebbe, 42, then left their home in Annapolis, Maryland, unaware they were being watched by the...

With each passing week, it looks like World War III -- between America and China -- is coming sooner than we think. It's not going to be fought with bullets or aircraft carriers, although the Chinese are building up their military in an aggressive and threatening way. This will more likely be an all-out economic war for global supremacy. The yuan versus the dollar. The Nasdaq versus the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Meanwhile, America is asleep at the switch -- at least, the Biden administration is. This is the worst possible time to be raising tax rates on American companies (Our...

The trend is likely to continue into 2022, as patient acuity in both COVID-19 and non-COVID cases rises, new report says. KEY TAKEAWAYSThe Delta variant and employee shortages are cutting into hospital profitability.The nursing shortage will be intensified as employees leave because of burnout, family obligations, contract opportunities, and more.Worker shortages may open the door to unionization or lead to more difficult union negotiations, contributing to higher expenses. An ongoing shortage of hospital workers, particularly nurses, caused by the surge of the Delta variant, will place additional strain on not-for-profit hospitals' profitability in the long run, says a new report...

Powerful testimonies of those in the homosexual community who have come to Jesus for ETERNAL Salvation and whose lives have been FOREVER changed by the love of Jesus (John 3:16-17, 1 Cor. 6:9-19-11; 2 Cor. 5:17-21, Gal. 1:4, 1 John 4:10)!

October 12, 2021 Tuesday of week 28 in Ordinary Time St Wilfrid's Catholic Church, York Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingRomans 1:16-25 ©These people knew God and failed to honour himI am not ashamed of the Good News: it is the power of God saving all who have faith – Jews first, but Greeks as well – since this is what reveals the justice of God to us: it shows how faith leads to faith, or as scripture says: The upright man finds life through faith. The anger of God is being revealed from heaven against all the impiety and...

The Biden administration talks a great game about conservation, but is intentionally misleading Americans about their agenda. Take the 30X30 push. Stemming from a January 27th Executive Order 14008 entitled “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad,” Biden’s Interior Department has pledged to “protect” 30 percent of lands and water by 2030 through their “America the Beautiful” plan. While nice-sounding on the surface, many questions remain. Why is true conservation not clearly defined? What’s the federal government’s role here? And do we already conserve 30 percent of waters and lands in the U.S.? That’s what the jointly-released “Western Conservation...

The real heretics continue to rule while Robert Reeder is off to jail. When politics is your religion and government is your God, a public building is your church. The four-hour disturbance at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, according to Beltway aristocracy and the media, wasn’t a legitimate protest that turned violent in some areas—it was a sacrilege. Never mind that the building itself sustained minimal damage—early reports estimated $30 million for repairs but the actual figure is around $1 million—the real vandalism occurred when thousands of Americans wearing MAGA hats invaded the cathedral of government power occupied...

Schools across the United States reportedly handed out laptops to pupils for distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic — and then spied on them with the very same electronic device, according to a Monday report from The Guardian. What are the details? According to recently released research from the Center for Democracy and Technology, 86% of teachers polled said their schools provided electronic learning devices — such as tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks — for students to use at home at nearly double the rate when compared year over year. Many of those devices, however, were reportedly being used to monitor...

Two GOP officials urged voters to make sure "rational Republicans" don't lose the "GOP civil war." The op-ed was written by Miles Taylor, a Trump-era Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, and Christine Todd Whitman, a former Republican Gov. of New Jersey. They highlighted the need to elect a "strong contingent of moderate Democrats" in 2022. Two GOP officials have urged Republican voters to vote Democrat in the 2022 midterm elections, suggesting that this might be a way for the GOP to "battle pro-Trump extremists." Miles Taylor, a Trump-era Department of Homeland Security chief of staff, and Christine Todd...