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Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Mark 9:41-50 Friends, in our Gospel, Jesus speaks, with incredible bluntness, about cutting off one’s hand and foot and plucking out one’s own eye. If these things are a block to your salvation, get rid of them, for it is better to enter life maimed than to enter Gehenna with all of your limbs and members. The hand is the organ by which we reach out and grasp things. The soul is meant for union with God, but instead we have reached out to creatures, grasping at finite things with all of our energies. The...

@VideoMattPresents shares a video of how @Joe Biden White House speaker Jen Psaki was lying through her teeth when she said the"Safe Smoke Kits" didn’t have in it Free Crack Pipes & Heroin needles. Video doesn’t say where they are made. But I will bet they are Made in ChYna. He paid $1.2 billion to Beijing for his free Covid tests. I’ll bet the Crack & Meth pipes were made there too. ...

A Republican Party primary will take place on March 1, 2022, in Texas' 32nd Congressional District to determine which Republican candidate will run in the district's general election on November 8, 2022.

Surveillance video captured the shocking moment when a thief kneeled next to an elderly churchgoer and prayed with her while an accomplice went through her wallet, later using her credit cards on a $7,000 shopping spree at Sam's Club. Linda Morrow, 78, arrived early for the 6.30pm service at Hilldale Baptist Church in Clarksville, Tennessee on February 9. The victim was sitting in the mostly empty pews when a younger woman with waist-long dreadlocks sat in front of her and started a conversation. Video shows her kneeling down next to the woman, holding her hands and bowing her head in...

If you hadn’t heard, Democrats and “the experts” have decided it’s time to return all the things they took from you. For your own good. Well, some of it. At least for a little while. President Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said Wednesday (surely after careful consideration of “The Science”) that Americans have earned a treat. “We want to give people a break from things like mask-wearing when these [Covid hospitalization] metrics are better,” she said, “and then have the ability to reach for them again should things worsen.” That same day, Saint Anthony Fauci...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has spelled out a nationalist rationale for his country’s military incursion into two restive provinces in eastern Ukraine largely controlled by Kremlin-backed separatists, but it is primarily about protecting Moscow’s energy interests. That was true in 2014, when Russia seized Crimea and I was a Moscow correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, for which I wrote dozens of stories about the insurgency in Donetsk and Luhansk that Russia helped foment. And it remains true now. To understand the Kremlin’s motivations in regard to its smaller, and relatively impoverished, neighbor, the key fact to know is that...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Three former Minneapolis police officers have been convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights. Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane were charged with depriving Floyd of his right to medical care when Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes as the 46-year-old Black man was handcuffed and facedown on the street on May 25, 2020. Thao and Lane were also charged with failing to intervene to stop Chauvin. The videotaped killing sparked protests in Minneapolis that spread around the globe as part of reckoning over racial injustice....

While the world watched in horror on Thursday as war ripped through Ukraine, American actor Sean Penn was meeting with the country's president and attending government press briefings for part of a VICE documentary he is filming. Drama-chasing Penn, 61 - who found himself in the cartel's firing line in 2016 after getting in touch with fugitive drug lord El Chapo - sat with his sunglasses on for the press briefing at the Ukrainian government offices on Thursday evening local time. He then met with President Volodymyr Zelensky, who posted a video of their meeting on his Instagram account. Their...

Americans were manipulated and turned against each other to hide government mismanagement, while many died unnecessary deaths. In July 2021, President Biden, members of his administration, and the rest of the Covid cartel – federal health agencies, Big Pharma, legacy media, and Big Tech – began blaming the unvaccinated for the prolonged pandemic and calling it a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” On July 16, 2021, Salvador Rizzo, writing as the Washington Post’s fact-checker, and therefore an esteemed member of the Covid cartel, awarded Johnson four Pinocchios for stating what was objectively true: the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)...

The Ukrainian capital of Kyiv is expected to fall to Russian forces within days and the country's resistance effectively crippled, US security officials fear. Troops are already closing in on the seat of Ukrainian power after taking control of the strategic Chernobyl nuclear power plant today, and will seize it within 96 hours, bringing a 'new Iron Curtain' down on Europe, Volodymyr Zelensky warned. Officials said Vladimir Putin plans to encircle Ukrainian forces in Kyiv and force them to either surrender or be destroyed, and the leadership of Ukraine will then fall in a week.

However the conflict in Ukraine now unfolds, it has already revealed how deeply and extensively America’s ruling factions have failed. For many, the revelation is a shock; for many others, an all too accurate forecast come true—and a long-delinquent bill come due. Every faction vying for control of our country shares in responsibility for the present situation and everything that will come with it. Neoliberals, convinced “soft” economic power could be used to weave a “rules-based international order” that would pacify the world, refused to recognize the flaws and shortcomings of their approach, rooted in an optimism that careened from...

Does anyone know of a site where I can volunteer to take in refugees fleeing the situation in Ukraine? I have room for 1 female, age 18 to 36, preferably blonde and shapely. I have a spare room, too, so if she has a sister, she can come, too.

Plant-based meat company Beyond Meat said Thursday that its sales dropped in the fourth quarter due to weak U.S. retail demand. Beyond Meat said restaurant sales are showing promise as its products roll out to more locations. Panda Express began selling Beyond Meat orange chicken at 70 U.S. locations in October, for example. Beyond Meat’s U.S. food service sales rose 35% for the quarter. But the company said that couldn’t make up for a 19.5% decline in sales at U.S. groceries and other retailers. In a statement, Beyond Meat President and CEO Ethan Brown said the company believes weak retail...

Massive protests erupted on Thursday in Russian President Vladimir Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg, as people voiced their opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. Videos posted to Twitter show a sea of people gathered in a section of St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, chanting and holding signs to object to Russia's offensive in Ukraine.

BETHESDA, MD—Sources within Lockheed Martin confirmed today that loud cheering was heard coming from the defense contractor's executive board room. The cheers coincided with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, as multiple voices within the U.S. condemned the attack and suggested that America intervene in the dispute. "YEEEEEAH!!!!" came a cry echoing through the building. The sounds of high-fives, pounding on the conference table, and a loud, thumping chest bump were also heard. At one point, a chant erupted of, "WAR! WAR! WAR!" Some employees claim they heard the sound of a champagne bottle being opened, while others say confetti...

JUST IN - Ukraine orders general mobilization per decree: Zelensky— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 24, 2022

Malta: Catholics Ask Francis To Cancel VisitSocialists set to exploit apostolic journey in the wake of general elections ALLETTA, Malta (ChurchMilitant.com) - The faithful are asking Pope Francis to cancel his April apostolic journey to the traditionally Catholic country of Malta, as it comes five days after the general elections, which pro-LGBTQ+ socialists are expected to win. Francis welcomes fake-Catholic Maltese prime minister "Should Pope Francis' visit proceed as per the scheduled dates, the new, incoming government will, in some way, be 'canonized' by His Holiness," warned Philip Beattie, president of Pro Malta Christiana, in a Monday letter to Malta's...

By focusing on bomb threats against HBCUs and ignoring other bomb threats, the FBI & legacy media cater to the radical left’s racist agenda.Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been targets of “bomb threats” according to the partisan Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and their allies in the legacy media. But bomb threats are nothing new and are targeting non-HBCUs, as well.“The FBI is investigating these cases as racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and hate crimes,” a press release dated February 23, 2022, declared. It does not take much digging to poke holes in the “racism” narrative. On...

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Chefs and home cooks alike are renewing their passion for humanity’s oldest culinary pursuit.Danny Childs is offering pawpaws to a surprised couple in a park on an early afternoon in suburban New Jersey. "They're like a mix between a banana and a mango," he explains. "You just rip the skin open and eat the flesh." He demonstrates how by slurping the tender insides and handing each person one of the peanut-shaped fruits from his basket. They take them, dubious at first, their hesitancy quickly melting away as they take a taste, emboldened by his enthusiasm. Childs is used to this...