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'In order to understand we have chosen the path of dialogue,' said Pope Francis when asked about China.(LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has described Communist China as “not undemocratic” and refused to support Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen as he prepares to go on trial in the country on September 19. Speaking to reporters on board the papal plane from Kazakhstan to come on Thursday, Pope Francis fielded questions about China and the Vatican’s relation with the Communist state. “To understand China takes a century, and we do not live for a century,” he said vaguely. He described the Chinese mentality...

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Nur-Sultan, September 14, Interfax - Modern-day challenges and attempts to build the world order without relying upon moral values as a pillar have resulted not only in the loss of the notion of justice in international relations, but have also led to severe confrontation and military conflicts, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said. "Food, energy and economic problems stemming from attempts to build the world order without relying upon moral values have added to the challenges spawned by the pandemic of the coronavirus infection. Over the past two decades, these attempts have resulted not only in the loss...

Biden: American troops would defend Taiwan if invaded by China. Whitehouse tried to walk it back later

Actor John James, who depicted President Joe Biden in the film My Son Hunter, considered in an interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow if he would be blacklisted by Hollywood and the broader entertainment industry for his role in the film dramatized events related to Hunter Biden’s life. “Will I ever work again?” James asked in a discussion aired on Monday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast. “I don’t know. I really don’t know. I don’t know if I’m toxic, now. Even if they don’t want to cancel me — whether or not I’m toxic because of this...

Queen Elizabeth did not want a “long, boring” funeral. The late monarch – who passed away at the age of 96 on Sept. 8 following a 70-year reign – is set to be laid to rest on Monday in an hour-long service, but the former Archbishop of York said Queen Elizabeth did not want a “long, boring” funeral. He has insisted that mourners will be “lifted to glory” as they attend or watch the funeral on television. He said: “The Queen does not and did not want what you call long, boring services. You’re not going to find boredom, but...

Jake Tapper: So you're struggling to process the 2,500 migrants sent to you from Texas. Meanwhile, the El Paso sector of the border seeas an average of 1,700 migrants crossing every single day. A record 1.9 million migrants have been apprehended on the south-west border this fiscal year alone. Even if if you think what the Governors are doing is horrific, it seems like you agree that this is a crisis that needs more attention from the Biden administration. Eric Adams: No, I believe...

It was only June when unvaccinated Canadians were finally allowed to leave the country, for reasons unclear to anyone. The vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission, so how did it make sense to keep the unvaccinated behind the frozen curtain? It didn’t. But that’s Canada. It’s completely lost the plot with COVID and chucked all its previously freedom-loving ideals out the nearest window, eh? America wouldn’t behave like that, right? Except we are. Tennis player Novak Djokovic couldn’t travel to America to compete in the US Open in August because he’s unvaccinated. No foreigner may enter the United States without being fully...

CNN — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking in Kansas on Sunday, gave every indication he intends to capitalize on the latest wave of attention that has followed from him sending migrants to Massachusetts last week. “This is a crisis. It’s now getting a little bit more attention,” DeSantis said, earning a standing ovation as he talked about the southern border and nodding to the headlines he instigated when he flew 50 migrants from the border to Martha’s Vineyard. The reception DeSantis received in Kansas enforced the perception that last week’s ploy accomplished more than raising awareness for the border crisis...

Outgoing Arizona state House Speaker Rusty Bowers slammed Republican candidates who back former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Bowers, who lost his bid for the state Senate last month, shared his concerns regarding the slate of GOP nominees, as well as proposed legislation he says would make it easier for the state legislature to reject election results. "The legislature, after the election, could dismiss the election ... And I said, welcome to fascism,” Bowers told CNN for its documentary American Coup: The January 6th Investigation. As House speaker, Bowers effectively killed the bill by...

May 27 was a dark day for Ukraine. That was the day Lyman, the last free town north of the Donets River in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas River, finally fell to Russian forces. Capturing Lyman helped the Russian army to consolidate its position in Donbas and secure supply lines across the region. Lyman was a domino. As it fell, it knocked down Severodonetsk, the last free city east of the Donets. And as Severodonetsk fell, it toppled Lysychansk, its twin city on the opposite side of the river. Nearly four months later, the dominos are falling in the opposite direction. A...

Business owners on Martha’s Vineyard have spent years begging for more mass immigration to the United States in the hopes of filling summer jobs with foreign workers. When 50 illegal aliens were flown onto the elite coastal island, home to the nation’s wealthiest and most well-connected, officials declared a “humanitarian crisis” and Gov. Charlie Baker (R) swiftly deported the new arrivals to a military base on Cape Cod. The reaction to just 0.001 percent of the nation’s border crisis arriving on the doorsteps of Martha’s Vineyard residents comes after business owners spent years pleading with the federal government to import...

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 16:1–13 Friends, today’s Gospel focuses on prudence. Luke gives us the parable of the dishonest steward, who seeks the favor of his master’s debtors by reducing what they owed him. And the master even “commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently.” In the Middle Ages, prudence was called “the queen of the virtues” because it was the virtue that enabled one to do the right thing in a particular situation. Prudence is a feel for the moral situation, something like the feel a quarterback has for the playing field, or a politician for the...

Lawmakers are frustrated about being kept in the dark as Democratic leaders strategize how to jimmy an energy deal struck with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) behind closed doors through Congress — while also averting a government shutdown. Democratic leadership is aiming to use a must-pass government-funding bill to advance an energy permitting proposal by Manchin by the end of the month. But with roughly two weeks standing between Congress and the critical funding deadline, tensions are simmering over the closely-kept negotiations.

Explanation: If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun's position change? A more visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite image taken from the same spot at the same time over the course of a year. The featured analemma was composed from images taken every few days at noon near the village of Callanish in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, UK. In the foreground are the Callanish Stones, a stone circle built around 2700 BC during humanity's Bronze Age. It is not known...

Our Troops Rock! Thank you for all you do! 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 ~Jeremy Church Medic Earns Silver Star on Deadly Road He didn’t have to go back out into the kill zone. He had barely made it through the ambush, and people would have understood. But Jeremy Church’s friends were still out there, bleeding and dying, in a maelstrom of mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, roadside bombs and machine-gun fire. So he...

The Most Censored News with Lee Camp hosted by comedian/ writer/ raconteur/ provocateur/ saboteur Lee Camp is a twice-weekly look at the most censored stories within corporate media hosted by the new video platform Behind the Headlines – a MintPress video project that is 100% viewer supported. Camp both brings to light stories that are (intentionally) ignored by the corporate media and digs deeper when the mainstream media only reports on the surface-layer reality. Having been a professional stand-up comic for 20 years, a writer for The Onion, and the host/head writer of Redacted Tonight, Camp is also uniquely suited...

Martha's Vineyard, Mass. – Playground of the powerful Martha’s Vineyard lacked the resources to care for the 50 migrants who landed there unexpectedly on Wednesday, local residents told Fox News Digital this weekend. But real estate data and Massachusetts state resources show otherwise. Island towns are flush with cash and plenty of extra beds to help needy people. Edgartown, for example, boasts $9.8 million in free cash — budget surplus — according to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. It would have cost only $9.1 million to give all 50 migrants their own room for an entire year at Edgartown’s swanky...

Republican Blake Masters is neck and neck with [the Democrat incumbent] in Arizona’s U.S. Senate race, while Republican Kari Lake has expanded her lead in the governor’s race, according to a poll.The Trafalgar Group poll, released Sunday, shows Masters just 1.2 percentage points back of [his Democrat opponent]. Of the likely voter respondents, 45.4 percent say they support Masters, who is backed by former President Donald J. Trump, versus 46.6 percent who back [the Democrat]. Another 5.3 percent are undecided, and only 2.7 percent plan to vote for [the] Libertarian candidate ....***The numbers are consistent with a recent Emerson College...