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The fallout from the financial scandal continues with Cardinal Becciu in the midst of his corruption trial and denying all wrongdoing.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – The Vatican announced Friday that it sold the London property at the center of an ongoing corruption trial involving prominent Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu. In a July 1 press release, the Holy See announced the sale of the London property that has been the subject of a Vatican financial scandal rumbling for some years and involving high-level members of the Roman Curia. The Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See> (APSA) wrote it had “completed...

he Columbus Dispatch reported on Wednesday that police arrested a 27-year-old undocumented Ohio man, Gerson Fuentes, after he confessed to raping a 10-year-old girl, which resulted in pregnancy. The viral story of the child who needed to seek an abortion out of state after Roe v. Wade was overturned was reported vaguely by the Indianapolis Star and was used as a political weapon to go after Republican legislators who advocate for abortion restrictions. I reported on glaring errors and omissions in the reporting in the Indianapolis Star, which led to fact-checks by multiple news organizations, including Snopes and the Washington...

Hochul said the money will be distributed in two grants — with $10 million made available to 13 organizations with 63 facilities and clinics in New York. An additional $15 million in a second phase of grants will be given to independent clinics. The new bills also prohibit misconduct charges against healthcare practitioners for providing reproductive services to patients who reside in states where such services are illegal and disallow medical malpractice insurance companies from taking adverse action against an abortion provider who provides legal care.

The Francis Pontificate: Dialogue with Disaster The Pope continues, day by day, to dismantle Catholic authority and legitimacy. EWTN's World Over Live provides an expert regular round up of what is going on in the Church. It has become a kind of cataloguing of the weekly errors coming out of Rome.The episode below covers some of the things I have not had a chance to post on over the last couple of weeks. Indeed, I haven't really had the heart!The Pope's long interview with Reuters is covered along with his lack of continuity with regard to abortion and Holy...

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the surging inflation tearing through the economy is how little the White House and Congressional leaders seem to care. The latest inflation report is brutal. Prices are up 9.1% over the past year — the highest rate since 1981. While many experts keep predicting inflation to slow down, the June rate soared at an annualized rate of nearly 17%. Nearly all parts of the economy are buckling under rising prices. Price increases in the past year have leaped for groceries (12%), gas (60%), electricity (14%), new cars (11%), and flights (34%). Over the past...

Uber rides in New York City are getting uber expensive. The average Uber trip costs more per mile in the Big Apple than any other US city, according to a new study shared with The Post. Uber riders in the five boroughs have to shell out an average of $34.74 for a 6.2-mile ride, making New York the most expensive city to grab a ride in America, according to the study by NetCredit. The study comes as Uber has hiked prices around the world, citing surging gas prices and a persistent driver shortage. New York also has a minimum wage...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis convened recently with several prominent Republicans as he considers a possible presidential run in 2024. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa sat down with Daniel Lippman, a White House reporter for Politico, to discuss what he knows about the meeting.

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Federal health officials in the US are warning doctors and parents that a dangerous virus is spreading across the US causing fevers, seizures, confusion and other "sepsis-like" issues that can be life-threatening for young infants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday that parechovirus is currently circulating in "multiple" US states. So far, the CDC has only collected positive samples of PeV-A3, which is the specific type of parechovirus that is most often associated with severe disease. At least one newborn is dead in Connecticut.

Now It’s the “Ninja” Variant of Covid They Want You to Be Scared Of: WILL IT EVER END? It almost reads like satire, but the corporate-controlled media claims that a brand new variant of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), which they are hilariously calling “ninja,” is on the move – and it is the most dangerous one yet, we are told. BA.5, as they are also calling it, is said to be a “subvariant” of the “Omicron” variant, which is an anagram for the Moronic variant. Yes, they really expect people to believe that a Moronic Ninja will kill us all...

The Hunter Biden Laptop story is the Biden family selling out America to China. Fox News host Tucker Carlson spent the first half of his show on Monday connecting the dots on President Joe Biden's financial enrichment from China and the policy decisions he has made that are crippling America while benefiting China. Carlson outlined the case that the Biden family is a criminal organization selling out America’s interest to China while being protected by “one corrupt system the Biden’s sit at the top of”. Carlson emphasized China’s control over America’s corporate media apparatus, social media platforms, and law enforcement...

There was no return to normal for Ray Epps, a man who became the hingepoint of a right-wing conspiracy to pin the Capitol riot on the FBI. Before the Capitol riot ended, supporters of former President Donald Trump were manufacturing stories as a way to ease the pain of the cognitive dissonance they were experiencing. The first story claimed that the Capitol police invited the protesters inside. The second was that Antifa was actually behind the riot, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. When those stories didn't stick, MAGA-world tried another. That one told the tale of an FBI informant...

If you don’t want to watch the video on twatter then here is a synopsis. It appears to be a debate in Australia. A typical, low-IQ, fugly female climate change advocate is slaughtered by an old white man. He asks what percentage of the atmosphere consists of CO2. The female as no idea, she isn’t a scientist. It is 0.04%. Of that, only 3% is man made CO2. And of that, Australia produces 1.3%. For that, the fugly wench wants to ruin Australia’s economy.

Who are the women appointed to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops?María Lía Zervino. Credit:Screenshot from Giornata mondiale di preghiera contro la tratta/YouTube channel.Pope Francis named three women as members of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops on Wednesday.The appointments, which the pope previewed in an interview last week, mark the first time that women have served as members of the Vatican department responsible for the world’s episcopal appointments.Who are the pioneering trio? Take a look:ShareMaría Lía Zervino is the Argentine president general of the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations (WUCWO). The umbrella body representing almost 100 groups worldwide was founded...

Ring can hand over footage in 'emergencies' - despite advertising that their policy is to not share anything without permission or a judge intervening. In a statement he said: 'So far this year, Ring has provided videos to law enforcement in response to an emergency request only 11 times,' 'In each instance, Ring made a good-faith determination that there was an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to a person requiring disclosure of information without delay.' Despite the 'good faith belief' being included in their fine print, this is the first time the company has admitted to actually...

Promotional nights have been a part of baseball games for years, but there will never be anything like what happened at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979. On that night, a radio promotion led to an on-field storming, a forfeit for the White Sox and a longtime debate on what the night really represented. This is Disco Demolition Night: A promotion featuring popular WLUP disc jockey Steve Dahl and his quest to destroy records featuring disco music — a genre he despised and made fun of on the air during his shows. Josh Harrison stops by after the White Sox...

President Biden appeared to quickly drop his "no handshake" policy during his Middle East tour, leading some to speculate that the White House adopted the policy merely to avoid a politically uncomfortable encounter later in the trip. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced Wednesday that the president would avoid shaking hands during the four-day trip out of an abundance of caution due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The president appeared to abide by the policy when he arrived in Israel, greeting Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and other officials with fist bumps. But not long after that Biden shook...

Father packed a phone and a change of clothes then dumped the boy at his kindergarten and never came back Teachers found the family home abandoned with no sign of the boy’s family, relatives contacted by the school refused to come and take himA five-year-old boy has been abandoned at his kindergarten in China after his father discovered he was not his biological son. The little boy, identified in local media reports by the pseudonym “Xiao Rui”, was abandoned at the kindergarten last week by his father after he dropped the child off for the day. When no one arrived...

The U.K. climate group whose members deflated tires on an estimated 40 vehicles in New York City last month recently announced similar actions in cities nationwide. The Tyre Extinguishers, which encourages activists to deflate tires of parked sports utility vehicles (SUV) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, said it has already spread to Chicago and the San Francisco area this month. Individuals affiliated with the group have deflated the tires of 20 SUVs in Chicago, another 20 SUVs in Scranton, Pa., and 12 SUVs near San Francisco this month, according to the group.

Had COVID? You might want to clean your freezer out. A new study suggests that cousins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can survive on frozen meat and fish for up to 30 days. The research -- prompted by COVID outbreaks in Asia in which packaged meat was suspected as the virus' source -- was conducted on frozen chicken, beef, pork and salmon. The findings were published recently in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. "Although you might not store meat in the fridge for 30 days, you might store it in the freezer for that...