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October 15, 2021 Saint Teresa of Ávila, Virgin, Doctor on Friday of week 28 in Ordinary Time Saint Teresa of Avila Catholic Church, Los Angeles Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingRomans 4:1-8 ©Abraham was justified not by his actions but by faithWhat shall we say about Abraham, the ancestor from whom we are all descended? If Abraham was justified as a reward for doing something, he would really have had something to boast about, though not in God’s sight because scripture says: Abraham put his faith in God,...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope successfully arrived in French Guiana Tuesday (October 12, 2021), after a 16-day journey at sea. The 5,800-mile voyage took Webb from California through the Panama Canal...The world's largest and most complex space science observatory will now be driven to its launch site, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, where it will begin two months of operational preparations before its launch on an Ariane 5 rocket, scheduled for December 18.

As his two terms as New York's mayor approach their end, and long after his presidential campaign ended with a whimper, Bill de Blasio has chimed in with one last act of destruction: a proposal to end the public schools' entry-by-exam gifted and talented program for first graders. De Blasio's gripe is that selection by tests results in a student body that is, as New York Times reporter Eliza Shapiro slyly put it, "widely criticized for exacerbating segregation." Of course what de Blasio, Shapiro and the anonymous critics she repeatedly references are complaining about is not actually segregation, which means...

A guy was getting ready to tee off on the first hole when a second golfer approached and asked if he could join him. The first said that he usually played alone, but agreed to the twosome. They were even after the first few holes. The second guy said, "We're about evenly matched, how about playing for five bucks a hole?" The first guy said that he wasn't much for betting, but agreed to the terms. The second guy won the remaining sixteen holes with ease. As they were walking off number eighteen, the second guy was busy counting his...

As it happens, there are a lot of suspects. The one thing that remains constant is the motive. When a Roman magistrate investigated a crime, he asked cui bono, who benefits? It turns out that, when it comes to COVID-19, lots of people and institutions benefit. Perhaps the most startling aspect of the COVID story is that the National Institute of Health, headed by Anthony Fauci, financed research to genetically engineer coronaviruses at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. The research was aimed at making the viruses more infectious in humans. The NIH used the Eco-Health Alliance, headed by Peter Daszak,...

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain recently endorsed the idea that inflation and supply-chain struggles Americans are struggling with are "high class problems." I'm in no position to comment on whether the inflation spike we're experiencing is "transitory" or not (though, metaphysically speaking, isn't everything!). Maybe it will be a short-term problem sparked by supply shocks and pent-up post-COVID demand, or maybe inflation will linger for years and become a self-fulfilling prophecy due to expectations. Whatever the case, a president who feels comfortable with taking credit for "creating" millions of jobs after state-compelled shutdowns is likely going to be...

Absolutely sobering about our EXPONENTIAL days! Jan Markell spends the hour with Leo Hohmann. One expert says the vaccine mandate and passports spell the end of human liberty in the West. This is part of the agenda of the World Economic Forum and their great Reset plans to change the world as we know it. How does this line up with what the Bible prophecies?

"When sorrows come," said King Claudius, "they come not single spies but in battalions." As the king found out. So it seems with resident Joe Biden, who must be asking himself the question Merle Haggard asked: "Are the good times really over for good?" Consider the critical issue with voters today: the state of the economy. Inflation in September stood at 5.4% year on year. With prices of food and fuel rising, the supply chains for goods entering the country and headed for stores, shelves and showrooms before Thanksgiving and Christmas are clogged. Container ships are backed up in ports,...

In a press briefing Thursday, United States Department of State spokesperson Ned Price made a plea for the cessation of incursions between Turkey and Syria. The two countries have escalated their cross-border attacks.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem2 Chronicles 6:4-114 Then he said: “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hands has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David. For he said, 5 ‘Since the day I brought my people out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city in any tribe of Israel to have a temple built so that my Name might be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over my people Israel. 6 But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I...

Police officers have a choice -- serve the law, or serve those in power. Many Conservative Americans have been supportive of our men and women in blue, in response to Leftist attacks of “systemic racism” and the “murder” of “innocent” black men (and women); Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Alton Sterling, Brianna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and more recently George Floyd. Policing is difficult. It is significantly more difficult when confronted by persons who are seemingly willing to go to any length to avoid prison, or resist arrest. SNIP The interactions listed above, while tragic, were efforts by police to enforce the...

But White House officials are still planning for the Kentucky Republican to climb down as yet another deadline approaches in December, after he convinced 10 Republican colleagues to break the logjam last week. Inside the White House, aides don’t view McConnell’s insistence as a hard “no.” Instead, they consider the recent vote in the Senate to raise the debt limit for two months a harbinger for the future, underscoring that Republicans could easily join Democrats though regular order if need be. Such a conviction suggests that Washington is girding for another exasperating and potentially costly game of chicken, only this...

This is one of a series of detailed accounts of bear attacks found with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by AmmoLand. On September 7, 2010, a pair of archery hunters were stalking moose in a remote part of Wyoming near Pinedale. A large boar grizzly bear attacked them. Fortunately, they were able to shoot the bear and stop the attack. In the morning, one of their guides had been scouting the area. He had seen two bull moose and what he thought was a large black bear. When he told the hunters about the moose and the bear, the...

The retail giant has taken a deep dive into pushing virulent anti-White Critical Race Theory onto its employees I’m not a fan of Walmart because buying from Walmart means buying from China. Therefore, I try to shop there as infrequently as possible, although sometimes there are no alternatives (as happened today when I spilled 20 ounces of iced tea onto my ergonomic keyboard, necessitating an emergency Walmart run). When I returned from Walmart, I learned of yet another reason I want to avoid the place: Beginning in 2018, Walmart went all-in on Critical Race Theory, teaching its low-paid hourly workers...

The elites' responses to the pandemic have destroyed countless careers, bank accounts and businesses. The mandates and lockdowns have destroyed many lives and have spawned loneliness, hopelessness, depression, and even madness in millions more. The pandemic — and governments' reaction to it — has caused us to lose our sanity, our humanity, and even our ability to distinguish between the sacred and the profane. Mask mandate apostates and vaccine mandate infidels are being mocked, abused, and threatened. They are having their livelihoods taken from them along with basic freedoms. We are replacing a religion founded on love and the promise...

It is increasingly obvious that modern Americans universities, which are less institutions of unfettered intellectual pursuit than they are "madrasas of wokeness," to borrow from the Independent Women's Forum's Inez Feltscher Stepman, are unsalvageable in most present manifestations. Though there are notable exceptions, many American universities are actually worse than unsalvageable. On-campus debauchery spoils matriculants' lingering senses of virtue and propriety, and woke classroom indoctrination and divisive intersectional poison vitiates the mutually interdependent bonds of citizenry without which no people can cohere. As Arthur Milikh soberly concluded in a 2020 National Affairs essay, "Preventing Suicide by Higher Education": "Universities that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters held a sit-in Thursday at the Interior Department building in downtown Washington and clashed with police as they challenged fossil fuel projects and called for the declaration of a climate emergency. Multiple arrests were reported. An Interior Department spokeswoman said a group of protesters rushed the lobby, injuring at least one security officer who was taken to a nearby hospital. Police and protesters clashed outside the building, and officers used Tasers against several unarmed protesters,...

When leftists are doing it to demand “climate justice. During the Kavanaugh hearings, hundreds of hysterical leftist activists stormed the Capitol and even managed to break into the Senate chamber. They were arrested and that was the end of it. On January 6, crowds of pro-Trump people, along with undoubted provocateurs and, almost certainly, FBI agents, entered the Capitol. Once in, they wandered around reverently and left—except for Ashli Babbitt, whom a Capitol Police Officer killed in cold blood. January 6 was called an “insurrection,” and Biden’s DOJ is using it as an excuse to hold political prisoners and terrorize...

Washington (CNN)US Central Command, which oversaw the US evacuation from Afghanistan, disputed an Air Force account of an attempted hijacking of a commercial flight from Kabul international airport during the final weeks of the evacuation from the country. In a statement to CNN on Thursday afternoon, a spokeswoman for Central Command said they are "unaware" of an attempted hijacking.... ...The Air Force account which detailed an attempted hijacking of a commercial airliner was published Tuesday on the Air Force's website and was written by Lt. Col. Kristen Duncan, a public affairs officer for the 23rd Wing... .In describing the frenetic...

FDR, patron saint of the welfare state: "If anything happens in politics, you can bet is was planned that way." With the advent of the Wuhan virus in early 2020, the country has been severely disrupted, metaphorically turned upside down. We've gone from ubiquitous mask wearing to locking down the economy to the release of untested vaccines to now harsh vaccine mandates. And all though this torturous process, freedoms that were once taken for granted in the U.S. have been steadily chipped away. We've even witnessed the 2020 presidential election being stolen. by increasing mail-in voting, extended time for voting,...