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December 14th, 2021 Memorial of St. John of the Cross Church of the Savior, Xishiku Cathedral, Beijing, People's Republic of China Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingZephaniah 3:1-2,9-13 ©All peoples shall invoke the Lord's name and serve himTrouble is coming to the rebellious, the defiled,the tyrannical city!She would never listen to the call,would never learn the lesson;she has never trusted in the Lord,never drawn near to her God.Yes, I will then give the peoples lips that are clean,so that all may invoke the name of the Lordand...

Quirky China news: man uses sleeping woman’s irises to access Alipay app and a new blogger who films himself doing mundane activities is a hit. South China Morning Post artwork A man was found guilty of having stolen 150,000 yuan (S$32,000) from his ex-girlfriend by lifting her eyelids while she slept to use her irises to get past the facial recognition check on the Alipay app. A court in Nanning, in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, southern China, sentenced the man, surnamed Huang, to three and a half years in jail recently, the Beijing Evening News reported. At the end of...

A pair of newly-discovered 2,200 year-old copper Buddhas statues found in China are the oldest of their kind to be discovered in the country The small figurines were part of a trove of artifacts found among a group of ancient tombs from the Eastern Han Dynasty. One statue, known as Shakyamuni, shows Buddha standing on a platform while dressed in a long cloak and the other is for Five Tathāgatas, which highlights the five great Buddhas. These figurines are 200 years older previous Buddha statues found in China and were fashioned in Gandhara style. That is a style of Buddhist...

Chris Wallace is DONE! He’s gone from Fox News and running to his ideological comrades at CNN! The announcement of Wallace’s departure, see why so many believe that Tucker Carlson is actually behind The REAL reason why the media is so up in arms over this! [9 minute video]

Liz Cheney read subpoenaed text messages from FOX News personalities to Mark Meadows tonight during the sham January 6 Committee hearing. So these leftists subpoenaed Mark Meadows text messages from AT&T or another carrier, or maybe he turned them over to the sham committee. Now they are releasing them publicly.

What a remarkable sight to see the reunion of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss gathered around a couple of microphones in Nashville. It's been 14 years since their surprising and remarkable album Raising Sand and now they're back at Sound Emporium, the studio where they recorded some of that first record and the entirety of their new album Raise The Roof. Huddled in the control room are an all-star cast of musicians, with Jay Bellerose on drums, JD McPherson on guitar, Dennis Crouch on upright bass, Stuart Duncan on guitars and ukulele, and Viktor Krauss on electric bass and guitar....

“A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones” (Proverbs 14:30).

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to hear arguments Wednesday over whether a Health and Human Services mandate can force religious-based hospitals to perform sex-reassignment procedures that could cause "harm" to patients, plaintiffs say. Earlier this year, President Joe Biden's administration restored federal protections for gay and transgender people, allowing them to sue for "sex discrimination" in healthcare. The Religious Sisters of Mercy, along with other faith-based hospitals and medical providers, argue its facilities "routinely provide top-notch care to transgender patients," contending the HHS mandate should not force it to provide potentially "harmful" procedures such as sex-reassignment surgery...

One out of every 100 American seniors has died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic according to a report from The New York Times. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/one-percent-of-all-us-seniors-have-died-from-covid-since-beginning-of-pandemic-nyt/ar-AARLNl2?ocid=uxbndlbing

Pakistan: Mosque gives girls lessons in how to behead a person accused of blasphemyWhy not? The Qur’an says to do it. Shouldn’t people know how?“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)Anyone who finds this revolting or otherwise objectionable is a greasy Islamophobe with a “white savior complex.”Beheading Training Video“‘Beheading’ training being imparted to girl students in mosque, Video goes viral,” by Arpit Birtharia, NewsTrack, December 11 2021:…Meanwhile, a video has now surfaced from Pakistan that exposes Pakistan’s violent, hardcore Islamic, and chaotic face in blasphemy. The video is said to be from the Red Mosque in Islamabad.The...

....According to the FBI and Department of Justice, Xu had since 2013 used multiple aliases to target US and third-country aviation companies and experts in that field. He would invite them to China on academic pretexts and then slowly lure them to espionage. Xu's arrest and conviction are unique and shed light on a shadowy conflict in which Beijing is trying to wrestle global supremacy from the US using any means possible. Military secrets aren't the only target. The US's top counterintelligence agency estimates that Beijing steals $200 billion to $600 billion worth of economic secrets from the US every...

The recently released book A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity, does what it says on the tin. Described as “a crucial account of the lived experiences of this hidden population”, its author Allyn Walker makes an argument for de-stigmatising adults who are sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children. Walker gives a resounding pat on the back to those Minor-Attracted People (MAPs) who choose to not rape children. They (because Walker identifies as transgender) said in one interview that it is important to say “MAP” out of respect for the terminology that “members of that group want...

Over 150 Hamas Muslim Brotherhood accounts with 407,000 followers have been removed from social media. Many posed as young women, with the intent to “manipulate public debate for a strategic goal where fake accounts are central to the operation.

President Biden's senior adviser for migration Tyler Moran is leaving the White House at the end of January, despite having only taken over the role in July.... ...The White House said that Moran never intended to stay on for more than the first year, noting that she had been commuting by plane since taking up her post. But the White House made similar statements about the previous person to serve in the role, Amy Pope, after Moran replaced Pope in July.... ...Moran's departure is yet another change for Biden's border team, which also saw "border czar" Roberta Jacobson leave in...

So is every top Democrat who accused President Trump of Russian collusion. “A single, ominous question now hangs over the White House: What could possibly cause President Trump to put the interests of Russia over those of the United States?” Senator Schumer insinuated in 2018. Why is Schumer putting Russia’s interests ahead of those of the United States by blocking Nord Stream 2 sanctions on Putin’s pet pipeline into Europe? Schumer, along with a number of other top Democrats, is a beneficiary of campaign contributions from top Democrat fundraiser Vincent Roberti whose lobbying firm was paid over $8.5 million by...

Judicial Watch announced today that it received a 6-page incident report and bodycam footage from the Delray Beach, FL, Police Department, detailing the turnover of records related to the diary and/or other property of Ashley Biden, daughter of President Joe Biden. According to the incident report, an attorney turned in “possibly stolen luggage” to the Delray Beach PD which contained “documents and envelopes in folders” with the name Ashley Biden. The Delray Beach PD included bodycam footage of an attorney handing over the items. The Delray Beach PD also noted in the incident report that the FBI had said it...

A lack of transparency over the UK's first Omicron death prompted fury today, as a doctor told the Government to release more details to stop 'unnecessary alarm'. Experts are demanding answers about the UK's first Omicron fatality, such as the individual's vaccination status, if they were part of group vulnerable to Covid, and if the virus was the leading cause of death. Professor of medicine and consultant oncologist Karol Sikora said the Government was not providing the nation with enough information about the death, and that this was causing 'unnecessarily alarming'. Were they in hospital for Covid or were they...

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney on Monday argued that allowing Congress to subpoena his client’s financial records and revealing them "to the whole world" would give the Upper Chamber too much power over the president. "The committee says it needs a detailed understanding and full accounting of President Trump's finances in order to legislate," attorney Cameron Norris said on Monday... "No prior Congress has demanded this kind of information, but every future Congress will if this Court upholds the subpoena. There's no principled way to limit the fallout to President Trump."....

Hospitality businesses could be shut within weeks under Government plans to halt the spread of the Covid variant as Boris Johnson faces the biggest revolt of his premiership today, with a third of Tory backbenchers preparing to vote against controversial 'Plan B' vaccine passports. Whitehall officials have drawn up proposals to limit the number of people allowed in pubs and restaurants across the country amid mounting concern over the so-called 'Omicron' strain, according to The Sun. The plans could trigger a wave of New Year's Eve party cancellations and further decimate the industry, with MPs now privately warning that they...

It wasn’t a good day for the National Football League’s draconian Covid-19 policies. They should be the shining example of how to handle the coronavirus with over 94% of their players and nearly 100% of their coaches and staff “fully vaccinated.” But being the shining example would require the vaccines to actually work at stopping Covid-19, which they do not. As a result, the league has become the perfect example of the opposite conclusion: Medical tyranny within private industry is a path to failure.On Monday, the league recorded their highest number of Covid-19 positive tests ever with 37. Of those,...