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[Catholic Caucus] Viganò on Liturgical Revolution and the Holy Week Reforms of Pius XII Dear Monsieur…,Thank you for sending Abbé…'s question to me regarding the reform of Holy Week.I agree with him that the reform can effectively be considered a sort of trial balloon with which the architects of the subsequent conciliar reform introduced an entire series of modifications – which in my opinion were entirely questionable and arbitrary – to the Ordo Majoris Hebdomadæ as it existed up until that time.I would say in fact that this modification may have appeared almost harmless, albeit bizarre, because the mens...

A handful of pro-choice demonstrators protested outside the San Francisco home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday afternoon, accusing her and her fellow Democrats of being “complicit” in the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. The small group held several signs, some depicting caricatures of the conservative justices on the high court. Others blasted pro-life moderate Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) while delivering brief speeches targeting the party. The signs featured images of Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. The word “Liar” was printed above their faces. All five...

WASHINGTON—Federal regulators are investigating Elon Musk’s late disclosure last month of his sizable stake in Twitter Inc., TWTR -2.48% according to people familiar with the matter, a lag that allowed him to buy more stock without alerting other shareholders to his ownership. The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Mr. Musk’s tardy submission of a public form that investors must file when they buy more than 5% of a company’s shares, the people said. The disclosure functions as an early sign to shareholders and companies that a significant investor could seek to control or influence a company. The Tesla Inc....

Pennsylvania’s Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman is expected to announce on Thursday that he is dropping out of the governor’s race and will be endorsing Lou Barletta to be the Republican gubernatorial nominee, according to a source familiar with the campaign. Corman, whose rankings in the polls have been lagging in the crowded nine-person field for the GOP nomination, wants to see the party come together and elect a candidate who can beat presumptive Democratic nominee Josh Shapiro in November for the open governor’s seat, the source said. In Corman’s mind, that is Barletta, a former Hazelton mayor and...

What if we’re stuck with Lori Lightfoot? Not just for another year, but for another term. Would it really be so bad? Let’s think this through. Like you, I was hoping one of the usual suspects - Paul Vallas, Mike Quigley - would come charging into the mayor’s race, someone significant we could get excited about. And no, Willie Wilson tossing away fistfuls of cash doesn’t count. But each potential savior took a long look at our churning municipal disaster, then fled. Another kick to prostrate Chicago: a city so broken nobody even wants to run it. Except Lightfoot, though...

With Russia demanding ruble payments for its natural gas supplies, German utility giant Uniper plans to continue paying in euros for its upcoming bill at the end of May, and it won't be a breach of sanctions, the company announced Wednesday. The Kremlin has demanded that European gas buyers create two accounts with Gazprombank, one for euros and one that converts the currency into rubles. The European Union, however, said complying with this mechanism would violate its wartime sanctions. According to a Uniper spokesperson, the company remains confident it can keep paying in euros, though it remains unclear whether it...

President Joe Biden got angry during a speech to unions on Wednesday, yelling about the long lines of people trying to get food during the coronavirus pandemic. “Remember those long lines you’d see in a television and people lining up in all kinds of vehicles just to get a box of food in their trunk? How quickly they forget people were hurting,” Biden said, raising his voice.

Kathy Barnette has just sent me her photos of her military records, both Army Reserve and National Guard...

Researchers have reported that supplementing a diet with the sea organisms Ascidiacea, also known as sea squirts, reverses some of the main signs of aging in an animal model. These sea organisms contain substances called plasmalogens, which are vital to our body processes. Plasmalogens are found all over our bodies naturally, particularly in the heart, brain and immune cells, but as we get older, the amount in our body decreases. This loss is also a characteristic of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. The researchers studied the effects of adding plasmalogens to the diet of aged mice....

The most recent macroeconomic figures show that the Chinese slowdown is much more severe than expected and not only attributable to the covid-19 lockdowns. The lockdowns have an enormous impact. Twenty-six of 31 China mainland provinces have rising covid cases and the fear of a Shanghai-style lockdown is enormous. The information coming from Shanghai proves that these drastic lockdowns create an enormous damage to the population. Millions of citizens without food or medicine and rising suicides have shown that the infamous “zero covid” policy often disguises mass population control and repression. It is easy to use the covid-19 lockdowns as...

LOS ANGELES -- A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that California's ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 is unconstitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday the law violates the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms and a San Diego judge should have blocked what it called "an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles" for young adults.

A congressional panel is planning an investigative hearing into the worsening shortage of infant formula. The House Energy and Commerce Committee said Wednesday it will hold a hearing on May 25 to examine the causes of the shortage as well as efforts to increase production and access to safe formula.

A writer's essay explaining why she plagiarized parts of what would have been her debut novel has been deleted after it was revealed she copied that as well. Jumi Bello's book The Leaving was scheduled to come out on July 12 and had appeared on several 'most anticipated' lists, according to Publisher's Market, when its publisher Riverhead Books suddenly scrapped it in December. The 30-year-old has now revealed the reason the book was abruptly canceled when it was in its final stages was because she admitted to the New York City-based publishing company - an imprint of Penguin - she...

California plans to hire “water cops” to monitor people and businesses wasting water as statewide usage soared in March despite Gov. Gavin Newsom declaring a drought emergency last July and parts of Southern California under water restrictions, according to The Mercury News. The Santa Clara Valley Water District, south of the San Francisco Bay Area, encompassing 15 cities and more than 2 million residents, is considering “water cops” to police neighborhoods and business districts for water wasters. People who are wasting water could be fined up to $500. Water cops may slap citations for people watering their yards for long...

A new study suggests that controlling blood sugar levels within the first year of diabetes diagnosis reduces the incidence of major cardiovascular events. Furthermore, the team also found that the more a patient's blood levels varied 12 months after diagnosis, the more likely they were to experience dangerous cardiovascular events. Dr. Martin Whyte, co-author of the study and Reader in Metabolic Medicine at the University of Surrey, says that "the conventional wisdom has been to slowly and steadily treat type 2 diabetes with diet and medicine dose-escalation over years—the period over which it took people to reduce their sugar levels...

The doctor is in. In the lead, that is.According to a new Fox News poll, Dr. Mehmet Oz has now taken a slight lead in the U.S. Senate Republican primary in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Oz currently has 22% support, while opponents David McCormick and Kathy Barnette are close on his heels, with 20% and 19% respectively.Former president Donald Trump endorsed Oz early last month, and that endorsement seems to be the difference-maker so far. McCormick had a nine point lead back in March, but he now trails Oz by two points. Though McCormick sought Trump’s endorsement, Trump called him...

Explanation: Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, published over 100 years ago, predicted the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. And that's what gives these distant galaxies such a whimsical appearance, seen through the looking glass of X-ray and optical image data from the Chandra and Hubble space telescopes. Nicknamed the Cheshire Cat galaxy group, the group's two large elliptical galaxies are suggestively framed by arcs. The arcs are optical images of distant background galaxies lensed by the foreground group's total distribution of gravitational mass. Of course, that gravitational mass is dominated by dark matter. The two large elliptical "eye" galaxies represent...

...Mr. Manchin, No. U.S. Senate BLOCKS Abortion Rights Bill, 49-51.

The Santa Clara Valley Water District is considering plans to hire “water cops” for the first time in its history to write tickets of up to $500 for people who are wasting water. Meanwhile, the state water board has scheduled a May 24 vote to require local agencies to increase conservation, including a ban on watering lawns with potable water at office parks and industrial sites. The lack of conservation is becoming a growing political embarrassment for Newsom, whose call for 15% conservation so far has been voluntary. During California’s last drought, from 2012 to 2016, former Gov. Jerry Brown...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Several prominent conservative groups are getting involved in Pennsylvania’s race for U.S. Senate and backing candidate Kathy Barnette as an alternative to Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump. The anti-tax Club for Growth endorsed Barnette on Wednesday and has begun airing TV ads on her behalf. That follows the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List’s decision on Tuesday to back Barnette over Oz. “Kathy is a courageous advocate for life who exposes the human cost of abortion,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of Susan B. Anthony List, said in a statement. It’s...