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[Catholic Caucus] FSSP In Denial, “We Are Not Addressed”The application document from the Congregation for Liturgy “does not directly address the former Ecclesia Dei communities such as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter who possess their own proper law”, writes the Fraternity (Fssp.com) in a December 18 statement.The members of the Fraternity remain committed to their “fidelity to the Successor of Peter” but also to “the faithful observance of the ‘liturgical and disciplinary traditions’ of the Church in accordance with the provisions of the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei of July 2, 1988.”However, the Successor of Peter has decreed that this...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday said Floridians know that he will not "let anybody lock them down" or take their jobs away. "At the end of the day in Florida, Floridians know we will not let anybody lock them down. We will not let anyone take their jobs," DeSantis said. "We will not let anyone ruin their businesses, and we will not let anyone close their schools, so people are going to be able to live life. They're going to be able to make their own decisions." The Republican governor made the comments on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures"...

LEAGUE CITY, TX — The League City Police Department is investigating a robbery that occurred at The Coyote Mart convenience store, 3026 W Marina Bay Dr, where a bystander found the store clerk unconscious outside the store. On Sunday morning around 7:10 a.m., a customer arrived at the convenience store and found the clerk unconscious outside on the ground. The clerk’s hands were taped behind his back and tape covered his mouth. The clerk was unresponsive and was transported to the hospital. Surveillance video shows the suspect, who was wearing dark clothing, approach on foot from the east, and enter...

NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- New Jersey Senator Cory Booker has tested positive for COVID, he said on Sunday.In a statement, Booker said he first started feeling symptoms on Saturday, and his symptoms are relatively mild.

Former President Donald Trump was given a hero’s welcome at First Baptist Church in Dallas as thousands of Christians welcomed him with fierce applause.The former president praised Dr. Robert Jeffress and the congregation for the impact their ministry has had on the nation.“The love in this room is incredible,” he said.The president told the crowd of thousands that he was going to deviate from prepared remarks and instead “speak from the heart.”He quoted briefly from the New Testament about how an “angel of the Lord appeared to humble shepherds and proclaimed the reason for our Christmas joy.”“For unto you his...

Christina Pushaw is not afraid to get down in the dirt with reporters who go after her boss. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary has repeatedly called out the press for “bad-faith coverage” and “skewed” or biased reporting, such as when the Associated Press implied in August that DeSantis was promoting monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 cases out of his own financial interests. “They’re afraid of the governor,” Pushaw said in an interview with The Daily Signal, pointing to national media focusing their attention on Florida news. “The left-wing elites, the establishment, and the corporate media are very much afraid...

While its actresses (Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Lady Gaga) have been big screen gold, A Star Is Born's multiple incarnations have also boasted an honor roll of leading men: Frederic March in the 1937 original, James Mason in 1954 and Bradley Cooper, who also directed the 2018 version. Kris Kristofferson, meanwhile, won a Golden Globe for his performance as the declining rock star John Norman Howard — a role for which he owed thanks to Elvis Presley and, more specifically, Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Presley was co-producer Streisand's first choice when she optioned rights for the film...

Danny Tommo (Robinson) is a freedom fighter who has spent many months reporting and sharing the truth that the mainstream media has failed to do. Tommo has the tagline of “Bringing you the Uncomfortable Truths Straight from the Heart” which is exactly what he has done today.Danny Tommo is a freedom fighter who has spent many months reporting and sharing the truth that the mainstream media has failed to do. Tommo has the tagline of “Bringing you the Uncomfortable Truths Straight from the Heart” which is exactly what he has done today.During the week Danny has interviewed a nurse from...

In the final decade of the nineteenth century, well-to-do New Yorkers had begun to arrange new and larger kinds of Christmas visitations to the poor and these gala events reeked - strongly - of exploitation. During the 1890s some New Yorkers began to treat charity, almost literally, as a kind of spectator sport, performed on a large scale in arenalike spaces before a paying audience. On Christmas Day, 1890, a midday dinner was served to 1,800 poor boys (many of them newsboys) at Lyric Hall, a theatre at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street. A newspaper account made...

The traitor ten Anthony Gonzales (Ohio) - FIRED Jamie Herrera (Washington) - 8/2 (challenged by Joe Kent) John Katko (New York) - 6/28 (challenged by Tim Ko) Adam Kinzinger (Illinois) - FIRED Peter Meijer (Michigan) - 8/2 (challenged by John Gibbs) Dan Newhouse (Washington) - 8/2 (challenged by Loren Culp) Tom Rice (South Carolina) - 6/14 (challenged by Russell Fry) Fred Upton (Michigan) - 8/2 (challenged by Steve Carra) David Valadao (California) - 6/7 (challenged by Chris Mathys) Liz Cheney (Wyoming) - 8/16 (challenged by Harriet Hageman) A list of the traitor 10 house members that voted to be Pelosi...

Professor says it’s likely because the patient primarily died with Omicron and not from it.The UK government has refused to divulge any details about the first ever death of someone infected with the Omicron variant, leading one professor to assert that the person likely died with Omicron and not from it.Health Secretary Sajid Javid revealed news of the death yesterday, which is apparently the first of its kind in the world, prompting another round of media-driven fearmongering about the Omicron variant.However, when asked to provide vital information about the age, medical condition and vaccination status of the victim, the government...

The IEA is calling on China and India to put their climate pledges into action. The agency argues that there is a disconnect between the commitments made by both countries, and their continued reliance on coal energy. Global power generation from coal is expected to jump by nine percent in 2021 to a new high. ... The International Energy Agency has called on China and India to reduce coal power generation and put their climate pledges into action, describing both countries as “holding the key to future coal demand”. The world’s two largest coal producers – with economies that account...

Chris Christie is trying to regain political respectability with a road map for a post-Trump Republican Party amid countless media appearances. The former New Jersey governor, once a prime GOP presidential hopeful, wrote the book “Republican Rescue” to save the party from its craziness, the lie about the stolen presidential election, the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol and right-wing nuts such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.).

It’s hard to think of anything more symbolic of America’s gilded and decadent ruling class than elected officials owning pieces of the very economy they’re officially charged with managing. All told, it’s difficult to imagine something more darkly symbolic of a decadent ruling class than a multimillionaire member of Congress mounting a transparently self-interested defense of political insider trading. Nonetheless, that’s exactly what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did this week when asked about a proposed ban on members and their spouses holding and trading stocks while in office. “This is a free market, and people — we are a free...

God Bless you Rush, we'll take it from here our friend. See you on the other side.

I regularly test for COVID & while I tested negative earlier this week, today I tested positive with a breakthrough case,' Warren wrote. 'Thankfully, I am only experiencing mild symptoms & am grateful for the protection provided against serious illness that comes from being vaccinated & boosted.' In April 2020 Warren announced that her brother, Don Reed Herring, had died of the virus.

On Sunday, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appeared on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo to discuss issues related to COVID-19. During the segment, Bartiromo spoke with DeSantis about the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals dissolving the stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine and test mandate for private employers. “…an appeals court on Friday allowed President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private employers to take effect as New York and California are reimposing these mask mandates,” Bartiromo said. “It looks like this is going to the Supreme Court.” DeSantis responded, saying that he thought the 6th Circuit made...

[Catholic Caucus] Brezhnev Papacy Gregory Dippipo at New Liturgical Movement nails this latest move in the war against traditional Catholicism by Pope Peron:Secondly, with permission, I share a reflection written by an Italian friend, followed by an elaboration of my own.“The pontificate of John Paul II produced a generation of Wojtylian priests, that of Benedict XVI a generation of Ratzingerian priests. The current pontificate has inspired no such school or movement. Gentlemen of a certain age, who had already taken hold of positions of power, have consolidated their power, but there is no ‘Bergoglio generation.’ This pontificate, with all its...

DEAR AMERICAN PEOPLE, DEAR FRIENDS, for two years now, a global coup has been carried out all over the world, planned for some time by an elite group of conspirators enslaved to the interests of international high finance. This coup was made possible by an emergency pandemic that is based on the premise of a virus that has a mortality rate almost analogous to that of any other seasonal flu virus, on the delegitimization and prohibition of effective treatments, and on the distribution of an experimental gene serum which is obviously ineffective, and which also clearly carries with it the...

[Catholic Caucus] Additional Notes from @FatherZ on the Dubious Dubia concerning “Traditionis custodes”My first reactions are HERE.Note One. The timing of these “responsa“… Merry Christmas everyone! It’s as if they wanted to hurt people even more by making these changes close to such an important day, bound up with Midnight Masses and so forth. Ed Pentin pointed out that the day that Francis signed off on them, 18 November, was the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter and Paul, and on that very day there was a massive power outage that reduced St. Peter’s to darkness.Note...