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Today's Gospel focuses on a God-centered life.The Sermon explains why Martha's anxiousness in the Gospel becomes distracting for her and for us. Christ is there to straighten us out. 13 min YouTube video link below:Focus On The One Thing Necessary

​Sen. Rand Paul blasted President Biden over his controversial trip to Saudi Arabia — accusing the commander in chief of “begging and bowing down” to the royals to increase the supply of oil. “Rather than traveling to Saudi Arabia, [Biden] should be traveling to Texas or North Dakota, and he should be … asking our country to ramp up [oil] supply instead of begging and bowing down to the Saudis and asking them to bump up their supply,” the Kentucky Republican told host John Catsimatidis on his WABC 770 AM radio show in an interview that aired Sunday. ​ “It’s...

Most politicians and activists have strong views on every political issue. Those views grow from their fundamental political philosophies and beliefs. The best politicians know how to balance their political ideals with a keen watch on how they affect the lives of everyday Americans -- those who voted them into office. Go too far with your ideological preferences in the face of evidence that it's hurting the American people, and you will not go far in politics. The Democratic Party seems poised to take a beating for forgetting this fundamental maxim when it comes to energy and climate change. They...

New York City now has three mass vaccination sites set up to combat the growing monkeypox outbreak in its five boroughs. NYC Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan toured one of the sites in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on Friday to highlight how the city is addressing the spread of the virus that has infected almost 500 people, many of them gay men, the demographic that is seeing the highest number of infections. The health commission tweeted on Friday about the outbreak: As of July 15, 490 confirmed orthopoxvirus/monkeypox cases have been identified, with 461 in NYC, 16 in Westchester Cnty, 4 in Suffolk,...

Ivana Trump’s funeral will be held Wednesday at a historic Catholic church in the Upper East Side neighborhood where she lived. Ivana’s three children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, plan to attend the service at Manhattan’s St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church — though it’s unclear if her ex-husband, former President Donald Trump, will also be in attendance, sources told The Post. “Donald talked her regularly and sent flowers on every birthday and other occasions,” a source told The Post. “I’m told he’s very upset.” The source added that if the former commander in chief does attend the service, he will...

BAGHDAD — Last Friday morning, the Peter and Paul Chaldeans Church celebrated the Holy Communion for 15 youths in Dawra, Baghdad. The celebration was attended by Patriarchal Vicar Archbishop Basilius Yaldo, priest of the church Father Thomas Tammo, Father Firas Kamal, Evangelist Deacon Jose, the Nuns of Mother Teresa, and a large crowd of believers. Amid a spiritual and joyful atmosphere, 15 youth of the parish took the body and blood of Christ for the first time. During the sermon, the archbishop urged the youths and their families to make Jesus Christ the center of their lives, serve with love...

GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said.

Moscow, July 12, Interfax - An absolute majority of members of the Russian Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civil Society Development (HRC) are opposed to lifting the existing moratorium on the death penalty in Russia, council head Valery Fadeyev said on Tuesday. "As regards the HRC, we discussed this subject, not recently, some time ago, and a majority [was] against death penalty. This wasn't formal, we didn't vote, but it became clear during the discussion that an absolute majority is against it," Fadeyev told reporters. He went on to say that he himself has repeatedly said that it is...

‘For now, it’s up to the states to determine whether women get reproductive health care, and in North Carolina they still can, thanks to my veto and enough legislative votes to sustain it,’ said Democrat governor Roy Cooper.RALEIGH, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews) – Democrat Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina signed an executive order Wednesday that he claims is designed to protect abortion “rights” in the state following the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade last month. Provisions of the order include having cabinet agencies protect abortion providers and seekers from criminal liabilities and protecting them from extradition, insofar as...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said all the speeches he has prepared for his trip to Canada “begin and end” with asking forgiveness. In an early July interview, he acknowledged the “cruel way” the Catholic Church collaborated with the Canadian government in “colonization” by uprooting Indigenous children from their families, cultures and spiritualities and forcing them to attend residential schools where many suffered emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Cutting children and young adults off from their cultures “is diabolical, it is to kill life and richness,” the pope said in the interview that aired July 11 on Univision. Pope...

Alec Baldwin relaxed by the shore while on a shirtless stroll on the beach in The Hamptons, New York after recently celebrating his 10-year wedding anniversary with wife Hilaria Baldwin. The 64-year-old actor walked by the water wearing a pair of navy swim trunks with a black polo shirt in his hand as he enjoyed a quiet afternoon. Alec also carried a bright red and yellow beach towel to the sand, and was seen capturing photos on his iPhone.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said that he believes the U.S. Supreme Court was “clearly wrong” when it legalized same-sex marriage in 2015. In Obergefell v. Hodges, The Court chose to legalize gay marriage in a 5 to 4 ruling in June 2015. The Supreme Court decision made it illegal for any state, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories to deny a marriage certificate to same-sex couples. Much like the Dobbs decision, the ruling cited the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. In a recent episode of his Verdict+ podcast, Cruz...

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Queens, New York – NYPD is looking for three black women who attacked a white woman on a bus on July 9. According to reports, the black women approached a 57-year-old woman riding a bus near Jamaica Avenue and hit her on the head with a sharp object while shouting anti-white slurs.

[Catholic Caucus] Savannah Bishop announces end of Latin Masses, cowardly blaming the Vatican Reader: "The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Savannah was the first Cathedral in the US to have a TLM starting in December of 2007. After almost 15 years we are being moved out of Cathedral and all of the Masses in the diocese (three monthly Masses in addition to the weekly Savannah Mass) will be shuttered as of May 2023, as per the orders of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments."***July 15, 2022Memorial of St. Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor...

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Stephen Holden Doane Info from here. Stephen Holden Doane (October 13, 1947 – March 25, 1969) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.Doane joined the Army from Albany, New York in 1967, and went through Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning. By March 25, 1969 was serving...

Hunter Biden allegedly used the Naval Observatory as his hub to meet foreign political and business leaders while Joe Biden was vice president for eight years.. Hunter Biden met with his father at least 30 times at the White House or the vice president’s residence, often just days after he returned home from overseas business jaunts. The breakfasts, lunches and other gabfests between 2008 and 2016 raise questions about whether Hunter was relaying messages to his father on behalf of foreign clients, and cast new doubt on the president’s repeated denials that he had any role in his son’s shady...

GREENWOOD, Ind. — Police are investigating a shooting at Greenwood Park Mall reported around 6 p.m. Sunday. Greenwood Police confirm two people are dead and three others wounded in the shooting. Police tell 13News the shooter has died, but it is not clear if the shooter is included in the two dead or an additional death.

The “Summer of Mostly Peaceful Fiery Violence” is two years in the rearview mirror now, and much of the country has moved on. The super woke commie blue cities that Granny Boxwine and the rest of the Democratic elite embraced are — SURPRISE! — facing a bit of a cop shortage, though. It turns out that His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama is the only Democrat who can routinely crap on law enforcement and still receive adequate armed protection.Athena wrote yesterday about the sorry state of affairs in one of the showcase progressive hellholes from two years ago:Progressive American...