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[Catholic Caucus] The Church's Troubling View of the Laity Throughout his pontificate, Pope Francis has frequently spoken out against "clericalism", which he views as one of the preeminent problems in the Church today. The irony is that the Franciscan pontificate evidences a profoundly clericalist mindset, especially in how the pope has dealt with the traditional Catholic movement.For example, in the letter that accompanied Traditiones Custodes, Pope Francis directed bishops "to discontinue the erection of new personal parishes tied more to the desire and wishes of individual priests than to the real need of the 'holy People of God.'" I...

In one five-year period, teens and preteens in the US may have lost about 200,000 years of life to unintentional drug overdoses, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, may be one of the first to calculate lives lost to unintentional drug overdoses among young people. Researchers looked at overdose data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2015 and 2019 to calculate the total number of years of life lost for 10- to 19-year-olds who died during that time. If the data is expanded to include people up to 24 years...

The Latest News At The Bottom Of The Post "an insult to memory and truth" Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Characterizes Ottawa COVID policy protest-1/31/2022 Canadian Prime Minister appeared today continuing the steady stream of government and media disparagement of the trucker led protest that has engulfed Canada's capital city and led to a blockade at a US border crossing in Alberta. Trudeau wanted to put the message out... The Protests In Germany Continue On Monday Night Tens Of Thousands Involved... News Alert: Second Day Of Protest In Canberra, Australia Its 1115 am in Canberra Tuesday morning, 715 pm Monday...

Kyle Kemper — son of Fried Kemper and Margaret Trudeau and half-brother to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — describes himself as a visionary strategist, technologist, artist, and family man. https://youtu.be/hzuDTmBe6YQ

The media cannot stand the fact that the narrative about the Canadian trucker convoy protest has gotten away from them and you can see how they feel about it by taking a look at how MSNBC is reacting. The trucker convoy protest has been making its way through Canada’s capital city of Ottawa and has become the largest in history spanning an astounding 45 miles. At the center of the protest is the message that Canadians are rejecting the government vaccine, mask, and lockdown mandates, and the desire to be treated as free westerners, not subjects of a single man...

ERLANGEN, Germany — A German school not registered with the government, where children were being taught in a mask-free environment, was closed following a raid by heavily armed police on January 20. The school had been set up by parents in an effort to protect their children from some of the most traumatic and long-term damaging effects of COVID restrictions such as mask mandates currently imposed on school children in Germany. According to local reports, the raid took place after the police was tipped that school-aged children were being taught at a private property in a small town near Erlangen...

I’ve watched this three times and have no idea what she’s getting at. But I bet the Nazis would be surprised to hear that the Jews whom they tried to exterminate were part of the same racial group as the Nazis themselves. The panel was discussing the decision made by one Tennessee school district to remove Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” from the eighth-grade curriculum due to, of all things, language and nudity. Evidently a story about people (represented in the novel by mice) being sent to Auschwitz wasn’t too mature for 13-year-olds to handle but a drawing of a nude anthropomorphic...

Ottawa’s police chief says “all options are on the table” to bring the ongoing truckers’ protest in downtown Ottawa to an end. Chief Peter Sloly said Monday that police have seen a significant decrease in the number of truckers and protesters downtown, but the protests have been “fluid, ever-changing and increasingly more difficult to manage.” The ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests against COVID-19 vaccination mandates and other public health measures have caused gridlock downtown and major headaches for area residents and business owners.

Participants in the Canadian trucker convoy protest against vaccine mandates are slamming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after he claimed they were “racist” and that participants defaced war memorials. Establishment media outlets attempted to paint the truckers as racist, antisemitic, and Islamophobic, citing “experts.” Rebel News founder Ezra Levant addressed the crowd on Saturday: noting it was both diverse and non-violent: The protesters briefly decorated a statue to Terry Fox, a Canadian runner and cancer research activist, with flags and signs. They later cleaned the statue, though media reports claimed they had vandalized it. They also cleaned up the protest site:...

A South African woman suffering from “poorly controlled” HIV who also had COVID-19 for nine months saw the CCP virus develop at least 21 mutations while in her body, a recent preprint study found. The woman, 22, was able to overcome the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus which causes COVID-19, within six to nine weeks after she started taking anti-retroviral medication that is used to treat HIV, according to researchers at Stellenbosch and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. They concluded that “increased vigilance is warranted” among HIV patients who contract COVID-19 to “prevent the emergence” of COVID-19 variants. Notably, the Omicron...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -(Ammoland.com)- Congressional Representative Michael Cloud (R-TX) and 51 other Republican Congress members recently sent a letter (embedded below), to ATF questioning the Bureau’s growing database of personal information about American’s gun purchases.“We are concerned that this Administration is leveraging its power in a way to establish a federal gun registry. Moreover, we are opposed to a recent(sic) proposed regulation that would require federal firearms licensees (FFLs) to facilitate the creation of a federal gun registry.”.According to a response letter (embedded below), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) acknowledged it has over 920 million firearms records,...

OTTAWA—Socialists around the world are condemning the trucker freedom protest in Canada as the working class unites to defend their human rights. "When workers of the world unite against overbearing government mandates, that's literal fascism," said a sobbing socialist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from deep within his top-secret bunker underneath Washington, D.C. "True, compassionate socialism is when the government partners with private corporations to force experimental drugs on the populace and threaten their very livelihoods if they don't. Everyone knows that." According to sources, socialists were initially thrilled by the trucker convoy, as they had mistaken it for a bread...

What they can do in Canada, so can we. That seems to have been thought by a group of Dutch truck drivers and farmers. In protest against the corona measures, they drive their trucks and tractors in a column through Friesland on Sunday. The demonstration is inspired by the so-called Freedom Convoy of about 2700 Canadian truck drivers.

Whenever the Vaccinocrats get challenged with contrary evidence, all they can do is yell “DISINFORMATION, MISINFORMATION.” They seldom have an honest rebuttal, but rather call on their cancel culture pals to censor alternative evidence. They just expect everyone to fall in line. So, here’s their chance to meet the challenge of the best collection of “misinformation” on the web: The Emperor Has No Clothes. 100+ Reasons for Concern about the VaccinesGo for it, Vaccinocrats! Let’s hear what you have to say about the evidence!

Trump = Hitler is the political catnip that liberals just can't stay away from. Examples abound, including this item from 2019 quoting MSNBC's Donny Deutsch warning that if Trump were re-elected, another Holocaust could happen. And Joe Scarborough describing a Trump rally as a "Nuremberg" rally, and suggesting that things are beginning to "look like Germany in 1933." On Monday's Morning Joe, MSNBC historian Michael Beschloss, commenting on Trump's rally in Texas over the weekend, became the latest liberal to pencil-draw the little mustache on Trump. While piously prefacing his remarks by proclaiming that Trump isn't Hitler, he proceeded to...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an organization that claims to have a non-partisan agenda against hatred and discrimination but is actually a partisan, far-left outfit that regularly smears conservatives, changed its definition of “racism” in 2020 to exclude white people. The update borrows the language of critical race theory, suggesting that only “people of color” can be victims of racism, and that a system that prioritizes people who aren’t white is not racist. AD People hold up signs during a rally against “critical race theory” (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June...

The concept of a simulated reality or an alternative reality has been popular in science fiction since the earliest days of the genre. Either the protagonist falls though a portal into an alternative reality, usually similar to his own, or he discovers that he is living in a simulated reality controlled by others. The goal in both scenarios is to discover the actual reality and who is behind the deception. Inevitably, that is the point of the alternative reality. The point is to deceive people so they do not notice something important to the deceivers. The movie The Matrix put...

General Motors is going electric, so you can expect to start seeing more and more of its internal combustion engines falling by the wayside in the coming years. The LS7 crate motor can be purchased with all the components necessary for it to operate in a custom car build. The LS7 crate motor can be purchased with all the components necessary for it to operate in a custom car build. (Chevrolet) The latest is the monster 7.0-liter V8 that powered the 2006-2013 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, but has also been available as a crate motor for custom car builds. The LS7...

In an interview with Fox News, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) pushed back against being labeled as a “moderate” and “Never Trumper” for saying that “the stakes are too high” to risk another Donald Trump presidency. Hogan told Fox News on Sunday, “With America on the wrong path, the stakes are too high to double down on failure.”

Hugh Hefner and His Physician Dr. Mark Saginor Were in Relationship for 4 Decades, Doctor's Daughter Says(Only a link to be allowed)