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Pope Francis Rebukes EWTN as Work of the Devil: What would Mother Angelica Say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYX9uNNXUnI&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1_LlRlPIYlC2MMAYRjrIcaFYqjfIL79KTBu2w9RXu1wHghukmO7o9on4A Dr Taylor Marshall Streamed live on Sep 22, 2021 In this video Dr Taylor Marshall says: “In a meeting with Jesuits in Slovakia, Pope Francis said: “There is, for example, a large Catholic television channel that has no hesitation in continually speaking ill of the Pope .... I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the Church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil." (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of...

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FORTRESS MONROE, Saturday, Feb. 8. A flag of truce from Craney Island, to-day, brought over several ladies, to go North. A lady passenger by the flag of truce reports that Gen. HUGER to-day informed her that he had received a dispatch from Roanoke Island, to the effect that the National forces had advanced to Roanoke Island and had been twice repulsed. The attack commenced at 7 o'clock, yesterday morning, and the fight was still going on when the latest news was received. NORFOLK, Saturday, Feb. 8. A messenger, arrived to-day from Roanoke Island, reports that four Federal steamers were off...

Pushing back on recent pro-worker populism on the Right, the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Strain writes that "workers need a growth-and-participation agenda." The addition of the word "participation" to traditional pro-growth ideas is especially important today. Millions of pages of study and commentary have rightly made the case that economic growth lifts all boats. But while necessary, economic growth without the removal of existing government barriers to work and entrepreneurship won't be sufficient. It can't cure the participation crisis that traps many workers and lower-income Americans. In addition to the money we make through our jobs, most of us find...

Why do so many of our politicians run interference for criminal aliens rather than protect our own citizens? uper Bowl Sunday and the week preceding it has become a time of excitement and amped-up expectations. In the last few years, however, Super Bowl Sunday has also become a grim anniversary. It will be four years ago this month that Edwin Jackson had his life snuffed out in a completely preventable tragedy. On February 4, 2018, the morning of Super Bowl LII, Jackson, a rising 26-year-old linebacker with the Indianapolis Colts, was killed along with his Uber driver Jeffrey Monroe in...

The transition from tracking terrorism to chasing thought crime has a major advantage. It exonerates U.S. counterterrorism officials from the meddlesome job of catching actual terrorists. he Department of Homeland Security, which under the Biden Administration routinely lets watch-listed terrorists cross the southern border unmolested, and which approved entry to the United States for Colleyville Synagogue hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram despite his being known to British authorities as a terror risk, has taken upon its broad bureaucratic shoulders an even more challenging job. Stopping the flow of MDM. MDM isn’t the latest flavor of fentanyl, produced by the Communist Chinese...

10 February 2022 Saint Scholastica, Virgin on Thursday of week 5 in Ordinary Time St. Scholastica Monastery Chapel, Chicago Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Kings 11:4-13 ©For the sake of my servant David, I will leave you one tribeWhen Solomon grew old his wives swayed his heart to other gods; and his heart was not wholly with the Lord his God as his father David’s had been. Solomon became a follower of Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians, and of Milcom, the Ammonite abomination. He did what...

In recent days and weeks, the national media has attempted to create a feud between Trump and DeSantis, trying to foment discord between the two politicians. It’s a game as old as the hills: pitting two people against one another for whatever reason. It can be done in jest as it was when I was a young army dentist stationed in Da Nang, RVN, in the early seventies. We had a mischievous dental assistant named Miss Cong (no relation to the elusive enemy, Viet Cong.) One day, Cong approached me and told me that she didn’t care what Miss Liu...

The American government is extremely unlikely to do it. But there may be another entity that will. It is a safe assumption that few Americans know about the December 6, 2021 filing with the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing 16 high-ranking individuals of genocide and other related crimes against humanity due to their actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ICC filing is on behalf of the people of the United Kingdom (U.K.) who have suffered nearly 160,000 COVID-19 deaths and serious adverse reactions to mandated experimental vaccines. Among the accused 16 individuals are Dr. Anthony Fauci; Dr. Peter Daszak; Bill...

When President Donald Trump, in October 2019, ordered a successful takedown of top Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Democrats and even the anti-Trump media celebrated the death of the terror leader. But top leaders of the Democratic party still chastised Trump for failing to notify top congressional Democrats of the impending strike. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement: "The House must be briefed on this raid, which the Russians but not top congressional leadership were notified of in advance, and on the administration's overall strategy in the region. Our military and allies deserve strong,...

Tom Marazzo, an organizer of the Freedom Convoy 2022, just spoke, 6:45 AM Ottawa time. He said he expects police action today. If so they will be arrested and continue peaceful protest. They have lawyers. He reiterated that vaccine mandates must end and the federal government must do it in a way that is final. The talk is about 20 minutes. There are no news reports or transcripts to post. This is straight from the horse's mouth. No MSM filter.

The ultimate lesson from sports and life is already in play — do not be afraid. According to Aristotle, courage is the "first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others." Courage is the one virtue that ensures all other virtues, which explains why "Do Not Be Afraid" defined the papacy of John Paul the Great. This wisdom is being borne out today by everyday people — Canadian truckers, parents at school board meetings, inquisitive celebrities, and Turkish basketball players. And female swimmers at the University of Pennsylvania. Last week, sixteen team members finally expressed their...

WASHINGTON — Caught seemingly off guard by the rapidity with which Democratic elected officials in states on both coasts have rolled back pandemic restrictions in recent days, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky urged continued caution on Wednesday, even as she acknowledged that approach is falling out of favor. “We’re not there yet,” Walensky said at a briefing of the White House pandemic response team during which she and others faced a series of questions about how long mask mandates — the most potent symbol of pandemic life — would remain in place. The CDC said last...

Prefix-obsessed activists have commandeered education, advancing radical ideologies as fact on young minds. Prefix-obsessed activists have commandeered education, advancing radical ideologies as fact on young minds. The National Education Association promotes anti-racist teaching to disrupt white supremacy. The designated prefix provides perfect PR: why wouldn’t one be anti-racist? Just like anti-racism ideologues, current anti-fascists love to hide behind their label. "There is an ANTI- prefix, therefore we are against Fascism just like our grandfathers in World War II who fought against Fascism!" is a common cry attempting to debase those who dare question the intentions of anti-fascists. North Carolina State...

Every single time you think the media has bottomed out, they break out a shovel and dig even deeper. There is no “bottom” for the left, everything is about their obtaining power, anything else is secondary. It goes without saying that they’ll lie to get their way, dishonesty is like water to the left, but they have moved beyond lying. Now, leftists will go so far as to make themselves look unbelievably stupid, turn themselves into clowns, to protect the left-wing narrative. Nothing illustrates this like the coverage of the Freedom Convoy in Canada. Did you know there were Nazis...

The military should be upset with how things turned out. It took a few months but we are finally getting the story of what happened in Afghanistan. As some of us suspected, it's not a pretty story. The New York Post is reporting this: An Army investigation into the Biden administration’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan last year found the White House and State Department were too late in reacting to the Taliban’s final offensive, according to a new report Tuesday. Senior officials failed to understand the significance of the Taliban’s push toward Kabul and resisted efforts by military commanders to...

French “freedom convoy” motorists protesting against COVID-19 restrictions will be blocked from entering Paris, the French capital’s police authority said on Thursday. Protesters set out from southern France on Wednesday in what they call a “freedom convoy” that will converge on Paris and Brussels to demand an end to COVID-19 restrictions, inspired by demonstrators who have gridlocked the Canadian capital Ottawa. Departures are expected from more cities across France on Thursday.

Whether at the Department of Homeland Security or U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the changes are not subtle and the results can’t be good. Two odd little reports appeared in the past couple of days, both of which involve the federal government redefining things that, before the Biden administration, had mostly agreed-upon definitions that were not hostile to ordinary Americans and that recognized American sovereignty. One report concerns a changed terrorism definition from the Department of Homeland Security, while the other redefines the mission of the Department of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Department of Homeland Security promulgated a...

Here are six reasons why you should think before you speak -the last one is great! Have you ever spoken and wished that you could immediately take the words back... Here are the Testimonials of a few people who didn't.... FIRST TESTIMONY: I walked into a hair salon with my husband and three kids in tow and asked loudly, 'How much do you charge for a shampoo and a blow job?' I turned around and walked back out and never went back My husband didn't say a word...he knew better. SECOND TESTIMONY: I was at the golf store comparing different...

The South African doctor who discovered the Omicron strain has revealed she was 'pressured' into describing the variant as more dangerous than it really is. Dr Angelique Coetzee was one of the first to report the new variant in November last year and said it caused 'mild' symptoms for those in her country. But she claims she was told by scientists and politicians from around the globe that her description was wrong. 'Because of all of Covid's mutations, all of these scientists and politicians who aren't from South Africa were contacting me telling me I was wrong when I spoke...