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The Story Behind the Pope’s ElectionA new book sheds light on it, focusing on the “St. Gallen Mafia.”Julia Meloni’s new book The St. Gallen Mafia provides a valuable service to readers curious about the origins of the current pontificate. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she fills in the picture of the St. Gallen Mafia, a group of influential liberal prelates who plotted for years to elect a progressive-minded pope.The existence of the group became known in 2015 after one of its prominent members, Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium, bragged about its role in the election of Pope Francis....

6. Paragraph (g) – COVID-19 Testing for Employees Who are Not Fully Vaccinated 6.A. Do unvaccinated employees who work remotely need to submit to weekly COVID-19 testing? No. The requirements of the standard do not apply to the employees of covered employers who do not report to a workplace where other individuals such as coworkers or customers are present or while working from home. This includes the testing requirements of paragraph (g) of the ETS. 6.B. If an unvaccinated employee only comes into the workplace once a month is that employee required to be tested every seven days? No. The...

Er, what?A Barnard College professor defended his use of the N-word in class last month, claiming he thought it was OK because he pronounced it with an “a” at the end, instead of an “er.”

She thought of the 40 acres Ed had bought two years ago outside Colorado Springs — “for retirement” — which had an unfinished house and … not much else. She booked a ticket out west anyway. A year and a half later, it turns out life on the Colorado Prairie isn’t quite the vacation they anticipated. “It’s brutal!” said Kate. The couple — along with their friend, musician Mary Ann Ivan, who has spent much of the pandemic with them — immediately got to work transforming the barren property into a home. Ed, 55, designed a garage and finally put...

The installed Vice President was assigned as Border Czar last year to deal with the crisis of illegal aliens flooding into this country. Since her assignment, she has done nothing. The situation has become much worse under her watch and she doesn’t seem to care. What she DOES care about is galivanting to Europe for a “summit” on the European migrant crisis. If that doesn’t make you angry, you’re on the wrong website. But it’s worse than that. As per her modus operandi, she is not going there to help them figure out how to slow the steady stream of...

He is supposed to be committed to reducing emissions – but when President Joe Biden produced a little natural gas of his own at the COP26 summit, it was audible enough to make the Duchess of Cornwall blush. An informed source has told The Mail on Sunday that Camilla was taken aback to hear Biden break wind as they made polite small talk at the global climate change gathering in Glasgow last week. 'It was long and loud and impossible to ignore,' the source said. 'Camilla hasn't stopped talking about it.' The President met the Duchess during a reception on...

Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly gathering data on an oil pipeline in Michigan to determine if shutting it down would further increase fuel prices in the region. “Revoking the permits for the [Line 5] pipeline that delivers oil from western Canada across Wisconsin, the Great Lakes and Michigan and into Ontario, would please environmentalists who have urged the White House to block fossil fuel infrastructure, but it would aggravate a rift with Canada and could exacerbate a spike in energy prices that Republicans are already using as a political weapon,” Politico Pro reported. “Killing a pipeline while U.S....

No matter how successful someone may seem from the outside, we all have our own internal struggles. During the earlier years of Anthony Hopkins’ career, he found himself in his own battle with alcoholism. RELATED: Christian Comic Chonda Pierce On Her Late Husband's Alcoholism Anthony’s addiction started “innocently.” He adopted a worldly mindset and drank because “that's what you do in theater, you drink." But as is the case too often, the social pastime soon took over his life. By 1975, Anthony’s drinking had spiraled out of control. "I was hell-bent on destruction," the award-winning actor recalled. "It was like...

Raleigh, NC: “A banner reading “Trump Won Save America” was seen hanging from the Six Forks Road overpass.”

A man stood atop the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday with a flag reading, "F*** Biden," initiating chants from protesters. The man led protesters in chanting, "F*** Joe Biden," as the crowd, holding American flags and signs, marched over the bridge during a demonstration against vaccine mandates, a tweet containing a video of the event says. **SNIP** New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has imposed strict vaccine mandates on the city, prompting fierce pushback from residents in some cases. De Blasio has previously pleaded with New Yorkers to comply with his mandate, saying that getting the vaccine will allow people “to enjoy...

OK, I'm an old Gen X-er. I recall the Trifecta of 1980s men's colognes: Drakkar Noir, Polo for Men, and Paco Rabanne. Am I missing anything? My favorite was Drakkar. I practically bathed in the stuff, thinking it would mask my cigarette and weed smoke from my parents (it didn't). Anyhow, a Twitter person I follow seemed genuinely shocked to pass someone wearing Drakkar. This begs the question. Do scents go out of style?

Police investigating a deadly crush that killed eight at a Travis Scott-headlined festival in Houston say a crazed man injected at least one person with opioids during the chaos. Houston Chief of Police Troy Finner made the shocking claim at a press conference Saturday after hours of rumors about the Astroworld Fest tragedy, and Mayor of Houston Sylvester Turner revealed the victims were aged between 14 and 27. 'One of the narratives was that some individual was injecting other people with drugs. We do have a report of a security officer, according to the medical staff that was out and...

The BMJ (British Medical Journal) a prestigious medical journal is reporting on a whistleblower that "tells all" about the shoddy and fake practices of the Pfizer trial that lead to approval of the Pfizer "so called" vaccine by the FDA. Nothing too revealing for Freepers. It was a sham! Let's hear it for "trust the science!"

The national embarrassment in the Oval Office finds new ways to make a mockery of the United States every time he talks to someone. This week, that “someone” happened to be the Duchess of Cornwall. Camilla apparently can’t stop talking about Biden “breaking wind” during a reception on Monday. He is supposed to be committed to reducing emissions – but when President Joe Biden produced a little natural gas of his own at the COP26 summit, it was audible enough to make the Duchess of Cornwall blush. An informed source has told The Mail on Sunday that Camilla was taken...

Well-known Christian pastor Francis Chan is raising questions after comments he made about the history of Holy Communion. The pastor, preaching on the "Body of Christ and Communion," pointed out that the way Catholics view communion, a sacrament evoking Jesus at the Last Supper and part of Mass, hasn't received the same attention and devotion in Protestant churches. Instead, it has been reduced to "just a symbol," Chan complained. Traditionally, Catholics view it as Jesus' literal body and blood, whereas Protestants view it as a symbol. “I didn’t know that for the first 1,500 years of church history, everyone saw...

Garrigou-Lagrange against Lutheran ErrorsFrom The Three Ages of the Interior LifeFr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.It is all the more important to recall the necessity and the true nature of the interior life, because the true conception of it, as given to us in the Gospel, in the Epistles of St. Paul and in the whole of Tradition, has been partially obscured by many false ideas. In particular it is evident that the notion of the interior life is radically corrupted in the Lutheran theory of justification or conversion. According to this theory, the mortal sins of the convert are not positively...

The Broyles of Tennessee were visiting Yellowstone National Park where they got an unexpected welcome on the park’s entrance road. A herd of bison, estimated to number around 150, sauntered down the highway stopping traffic and engulfing the Broyles’ SUV, all captured on video.

Biden's ATF obtained more than 54 million gun owner records in 2021 alone The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans who own firearms ultimately ends up in the federal government's hands, according to internal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The ATF in fiscal year 2021 processed 54.7 million out-of-business records, according to an internal ATF document obtained by the Gun Owners of America, a firearms advocacy...

New Jersey Democrat President Steve Sweeney was stunningly defeated by a truck driver named Edward Durr in last Tuesday’s elections. However, Sweeney has refused to concede the election. When questioned about why he refuses to concede, the most powerful Democrat in the New Jersey legislature said his campaign just found 12,000 ballots to help him. They don’t even try to hide the corruption anymore.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemEzra 9:55 Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the Lord my God_______________________________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS