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[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Viganò Responds to Cdl. Cupich’s Alleged Shutdown of ICK in ChicagoEditor’s Note: Beginning last week, rumors have been spreading that Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, has decided to shut down the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago, where the Institute’s U.S. provincial headquarters is located. Last week Friday (July 15), Fr. John Zuhlsdorf reported on his popular blog (without naming any sources):Cupich of Chicago has told the members of the Institute of Christ the King in Chicago, that he is effectively shutting them down as of 1 August. This will...

Cher has opened up about her experience with miscarriages for the first time, telling fans that she suffered three, with the first one occurring when she was just 18 years old. The pop icon took to Twitter on Monday night to reflect on the miscarriages which happened during her marriage to Sonny Bono. "When I was young I had 3 miscarriages.1st at 18.I was alone in our house.son came home & I was sobbing,& rocking on our floor," she tweeted. The 76-year-old singer said one of her miscarriages resulted in her being rushed to the hospital as she hit out...

In the movie The Right Stuff, flight control in Houston gets a warning that astronaut John Glenn's Mercury capsule has a possible loose heat shield. "What are we going to tell him?" voices an anxious member of flight control. Astronaut Alan Shepard, who is part of flight control for this first orbital flight, speaks up and says, "He's a pilot. You tell him the condition of his craft." In other words, Alan Shepard says, tell him the truth. "A wise man is hungry for truth, while the mocker feeds on trash," says the Living Bible translation of Proverbs 15:14. Why...

Gun control activist David Hogg disrupted a congressional hearing on Wednesday on the topic of gun control.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas / Getty Images The Palestinian government is complicit in "rampant, wide-spread, and systematic torture of Palestinian nationals" and Israelis, according to a landmark legal complaint filed this week with the International Criminal Court (ICC). The International Legal Forum (ILF), an advocacy group representing more than 3,500 lawyers and civil society activists across the globe, is pressing the ICC to investigate the Palestinian Authority for war crimes in the first ever case of this nature presented to the court, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The organization is demanding that...

As we know, the sum total of human scientific endeavor must be judged by the question: Is it good for the gays?You think: that just has to be the Babylon Bee, right? Nope -- it's part of the Microsoft News network, same as MSNBC. From the story:NASA has shared the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first high-resolution images of deep space, including some galaxies pictured 13 billion years ago—not long after the Big Bang. But despite this remarkable achievement for science, the JWST continues to stand as a bitter reminder of our country’s willingness to tolerate and even memorialize queerphobia.The...

LIVE: **8th** January 6 Committee Hearing 7/21 I know most don't care but if you do want to watch the fiction, Breitbart now streams many live events on Rumble

The Norwalk-LaMirada Unified School District in Southern California planned to vote on a program that would allow Planned Parenthood to open a facility at John Glenn High School in Norwalk. But they didn’t anticipate the overwhelmingly negative response from parents. Originally, the school district planned to have a vote on the issue during a school board meeting on July 18th. But in a short press release, they announced the vote would be postponed, with no rescheduled date given. It is believed that the widespread anger from parents over the plan may have led to the proposal being abandoned. If the...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican-approved journal suggests Pope Francis might soon contradict Church’s birth control ban‘It is legitimate to ask if Pope Francis will give us a new encyclical or apostolic exhortation on bioethics that might be called ‘Gaudium Vitae,’’ wrote La Civilta Cattolica.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A Vatican approved publication has published an article asking if Pope Francis might write “a new encyclical or apostolic exhortation on bioethics” in line with a recent document from the Pontifical Academy for Life which undermines certain aspects of Catholic morality.On July 2, Father Jorge José Ferrer, S.J. published an article in Jesuit-run publication La...

After she was told last year that the fetus did not have a heartbeat and she no longer had a viable pregnancy, the Texas woman asked her doctor to perform a dilation and curettage, or D and C — a standard procedure to remove the fetus following a miscarriage to help prevent infection or long-term health problems. Stell had the procedure after her first miscarriage in 2018 in Washington state, when she felt so much pain that she could not walk, and she wanted to go through with it again before trying again for a second child, she told The...

Planned Parenthood has freshly scrubbed its website in light of the media’s attempts to convince women that ectopic pregnancy treatments and other lifesaving procedures are actually abortions. Induced abortion, however, is the intentional killing of a human being before birth. What did Planned Parenthood purge? A sentence that read, “Treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion.” The clear distinction that abortion is not necessary to treat dangerous ectopic pregnancies was present on the Planned Parenthood website in 2020, 2021, and most of this year — even as late as July 14, 2022. Since the Supreme...

We are now living in a post-Roe v. Wade America, and women are already being bombarded by heavy-handed pro-abortion messages suggesting that abortion bans will block access to authentic medical care and treatments. Women in states that enact legislation protecting life, fear-mongering pro-abortion voices shout, won’t be able to receive treatment for pregnancy complications that thousands face every year—from ectopic pregnancy to miscarriage. Recent news articles predict rising maternal mortality rates, describing a world in which doctors, hands tied by austere abortion restrictions, have no choice but to look away while their patients die of sepsis or hemorrhage. Fortunately for...

Today, Robert Barnes came out and said the Trump/DeSantis ticket is already decided. I've read comments from people that the president and VP cannot be from the same state. That is not true, however, there is an issue with electoral votes under a scenario like this. I read this same situation arose with Bush/Cheney as they were both living in TX at the time. Right before the election, Cheney moved back to Wyoming and resolved the issue. Below is an article that shows Trump moved to NJ. This sure seems like he's preparing to negate the problem of both candidates...

... A détente with Russia and China that accepts China’s dominance in global high-technology manufacturing and its corresponding rise as a dominant military power would be a surrender in slow-motion. It would mean the end of America’s aspirations, and a British-style decline into strategic irrelevance. But a détente that takes grim inventory of our own failings and buys us time to rebuild our technological edge is another matter. The idea will not be popular among American politicians who find it easier to denounce Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping than to remedy our weakness at home. But it is the only...

If you've followed my writings over the years, you know I have never gotten overly excited about any (if ever) of the numerous Rapture theories floating across the Internet. That means I intentionally missed out on the: 2011 Craze (2018 - 7 years), 2012 Mayan Calendar hysteria, 2014-16 Blood Moon hype, 2017's September 23rd Revelation 12 frenzy, et cetera. Maybe I'm just jaded like that, but when one holds to a doctrine of imminence (as I do) I've learned early on not to get swept up with the latest and greatest hysteria that comes and goes with increasing frequency. But...

Recently, a reader named Kim sent me an email in which she speculated about the possibility of the Jewish day of mourning known as Tisha B'Av (the Ninth of Av) being connected with the Rapture. She seemed pretty excited about the idea, and she just wanted to get my response. Although I had seen mention of the Ninth of Av in regard to the First and Second Temples before, I confess that I was only marginally aware of the significance of the date to the Jewish people and the gravity with which it is observed. And needless to say, I...

Covenant between humanity, environment needed, pope saysVATICAN CITY (CNS) — Humanity can no longer ignore the cries of the earth that is suffering due to greed and the excessive consumption of its resources, Pope Francis said.In his message for the World Day of Prayer for Creation, the pope said the current climate crisis is a call for men and women, especially Christians, to “repent and modify our lifestyles and destructive systems.”“The present state of decay of our common home merits the same attention as other global challenges such as grave health crises and wars. Living our vocation to be protectors...

A Swiss court has found a 28-year-old man guilty of inventing a hate crime after the man had falsely claimed to have been attacked but actually carved a swastika into his own face. The 28-year-old mixed-race man had claimed in January to have been attacked by a group of German-speaking individuals who approached him in the city of Neuchâtel, pushed him to the ground, beat him and carved a swastika into the side of his cheek and made monkey noises toward him in an apparent hate crime. The man posted a picture of the alleged result of the attack on...

PORTLAND, OR- Ah yes, the good old days of summer camp. Some arts and crafts, a little fishing and boating, some field games, late night campfires…yes, good times. Now, the 2022 version of summer camp in a far-left hellhole, this time in the home of far-left extremist wackos, Portland, Oregon. The Post Millennial tells us that bastion of American values, Antifa, is hosting a summer camp for future terrorists. Seriously. PM says a Portland-based Antifa group called “Budding Roses” will (seriously) host an “Antifascist social justice summer camp” for children aged 10 to 14 starting on July 25. Kids...

The happiest place on Earth devolved into a slugfest Wednesday as two families engaged in a violent brawl at the Magic Kingdom in Disney World. Captured on video, the Jerry Springer-like incident — which took place in Fantasyland — appeared to involve two families throwing punches and dragging each other on the ground while shouting profanity. Watch below: A family wearing matching outfits pushed a guest from the other family when in line for Mickey’s PhilharMagic, according to a report from WDW News Today. After exiting, the family in matching shirts allegedly waited outside the theater to confront the other...