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Pope Francis and global activists are pictured in a banner for the new YouTube Originals film on the pope's encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home." The film launched Oct. 4, feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the same day the Holy See acceded to the Paris Agreement. (CNS photo/YouTube Originals)VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican hosted the global premiere of a new documentary on the urgent need to address climate change on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the same day the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 2015 Paris Agreement entered into force...

As someone who has never voted Republican, I am deeply troubled by the New York Democratic Party. I strongly oppose its environmental policies, including its anti-nuclear stance; its agenda making it harder for the police and prosecutors to do their jobs, including by passing excessive bail reform; and its resistance to any educational reforms that the teachers’ union oppose, including charter school expansion. None of these policies are necessarily supported by the median Democratic voter, but all have been imposed by a determined left-wing that Gov. Hochul has for the most part been unwilling to confront. [cut] Zelin says he...

WASHINGTON (CNS) — A federal court in Indiana sided with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and one of its Catholic high schools in a lawsuit filed by a former guidance counselor who said her contract was not renewed because of her same-sex union. The Sept. 30 ruling in Fitzgerald v. Roncalli High School and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, relied on previous Supreme Court rulings that have emphasized a ministerial exception protecting a religious school’s hiring and firing practices from government intrusion. The recent decision echoes a nearly identical ruling from a year ago based on a lawsuit filed against the same...

According to Public TV's official Telegram channel, the blasts in Zaporozhye were confirmed by city administration head Alexander Starukh MOSCOW, October 12./TASS/.Ukraine's public television channel reported that blasts were heard in the Ukrainian cities of Nikolayev and Zaporozhye in the early hours of Wednesday, while air raid sirens went off in the capital Kiev...

Villanova University has decided to pressure its faculty, staff, and students into complying with a view of gender identity out of step with its Catholic mission. The decision undermines both Villanova’s purpose as a university and its desire to create an inclusive community in which everyone is treated with respect. In an email to faculty on August 11, the university administration announced a Gender Inclusive Practices Guide, which states that “gender inclusivity is fundamental to Villanova’s mission” and cites the school’s diversity statement. No mention is made of its Catholic and Augustinian identity. The best-practices guide envisions a transformative impact...

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii announced Tuesday that she's leaving the Democratic Party because it's "now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness." In a video statement posted on social media, Gabbard, 41, accused Democrats of dividing the country "by racializing every issue, stoking anti-white racism" and "actively working to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution." "The Democrats of today are hostile to people of faith and spirituality," she continued. "They demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans. The Democrats of today believe...

So what will the world's final end-time religion look like? Will it start out with Satanists running around after the Rapture in red tights and pitchforks, sacrificing everything they can lay their grubby hands on? Will it be the New Age 'crystal wearing' hippies announcing the long-awaited Age of Aquarius? Will it be the final manifestation of Chrislam? Unfortunately, there are as many opinions about this subject as there are phony religions out there masquerading as the truth. While we can't say definitively what the Harlot religion will actually look like at the outset, we know by the mid-point of...

A tree trimmer was killed Tuesday in the San Francisco Bay Area after he fell into a wood chipper, authorities said. The man, whose name has not been released, was working in the city of Menlo Park shortly before 1 p.m. when he fell, police said. Officers arrived to find the man dead from injuries sustained after his fall. The state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the man's death. Menlo Park is about 25 miles (40.23 kilometers) south of San Francisco.

Summary: Activists and academics have been misusing data from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) in studies claiming that illegal immigrants have relatively low crime rates. These studies do not appreciate that it can take years for Texas to identify convicts as illegal immigrants while they are in custody. As a result, the studies misclassify as native-born a significant number of offenders who are later identified as illegal immigrants. Facts About the DPS Data: Due to delays in identification, the number of illegal immigrants arrested or incarcerated in Texas is undercounted at any given time. Recently convicted illegal immigrants...

I thought this was a good landing video to post here. Spectacular views from a plane approaching LaGuardia airport on March 6, 2020. This was exactly a week before the city shut down for the stupid COVID scam. It would have been a Friday afternoon and I would have been in my office on Lexington Avenue (almost dead center behind the UN Building at 3:33 of this video). Exactly a week after that, I had to tell my people to take their laptops home as I was informed we were shutting down for a couple weeks (remember 15 days to...

The man who went on an ax-wielding rampage at a Manhattan McDonald’s has been busted again — this time for allegedly spraying-painting graffiti in Brooklyn and then swiping a pricey bike to try to flee cops. Michael Palacios — who was caught on video smashing up the crowded fast-food joint on the Lower East Side during a beef with other patrons in September — was approached by police around 5:40 p.m. Sunday after he was seen spraying graffiti behind 69 Second Ave. in Gowanus, according to police sources. The 31-year-old messenger ran and snatched a bicycle from in front of...

The promotion of synodality comes days before an influential document is set to be released to guide the next stage of the process.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has called for a “Church open to everyone” which is marked by a “synodal style,” claiming that “this is what God expects” of the Church today. The Pontiff made his comments as part of the “Pope Video” project, which released a new video and prayer intention every month. October’s intention is for a “Church open to everyone,” and focuses on the Synod on Synodality – linked in part to the key document...

It’s a widely held belief that monogamy comes more naturally to women than it does to men. A lot of people subscribe to a narrative that says the sexes are just “wired” differently, with women having evolved to be monogamous and men to be promiscuous. There’s just one problem with this line of thinking—it’s not true, according to author Wednesday Martin’s latest book. In UNTRUE: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free , Martin offers a provocative read based on the latest research studies and interviews...

The U.S. Coast Guard witnessed a scene straight out of ”Jaws” on Sunday, Oct. 9, when it found the crew of a sunken fishing boat fighting off sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. All three men were plucked from the water “just in the nick of time” and rushed to a hospital, the Coast Guard said in a news release. Two of the three suffered shark bites to their hands, with one showing signs of hypothermia, officials said. Identities of the men were not released. The rescue happened 25 miles off Empire, Louisiana, as the Coast Guard was searching for...

Officials from White House, CDC, FBI and 11 other federal agencies are being added to the litigation. Officials from the White House, Centers for Disease Control, the FBI and 11 other federal agencies are being added to a lawsuit alleging collusion with social media companies to censor speech. Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Monday the filing of a 164-page second amended complaint against 47 additional defendants, bringing the total to 67. The two are seeking authority to take depositions of the defendants. Schmitt and Landry filed a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against...

***Democrats make much of the fact that Warnock is a pastor and he’s come out in the past condemning evicting people during the pandemic.***Warnock is the senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Church ... gives him a salary [and] a $7,417-a-month housing allowance. ...*** A dozen eviction lawsuits were filed against Columbia Tower residents over the course of the coronavirus pandemic .... The total sum of past-due rent cited in the lawsuits is just $4,900, a figure that could have been covered by one of Warnock’s monthly housing stipends from the church.***… the building has gotten $15 million...

Angela Lansbury, a massive star of movies, television, and theatre, died at the age of 96. Through her legendary career, Lansbury won an Academy Award, 6 Tony Awards, 6 Golden Globes, and was nominated for a Grammy Award, and 18 Primetime Emmy Awards. Her Academy Award came as the 2013 Academy Honorary Award, and her Golden Globes were for The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Manchurian Candidate, and Murder, She Wrote. She recently served as the narrator for the 2022 performances of Beauty and the Beast stage plays at the London Palladium, and will appear posthumously in the Netflix film...

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Residents, which includes illegal immigrants, of Cook County, Illinois, will be eligible to apply. To receive the assistance, applicants must be adult residents of Cook County, which includes parts of Chicago, and make an income of below 250% of the federal poverty level. ***** The government's press release state’s that 36% of county residents are eligible to apply, and the program is funded through the American Rescue Plan, which was launched to help struggling Americans dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nearly 50 longtime Idaho Republicans, including a former governor and dozens of other past and current officeholders, on Tuesday endorsed the Democratic candidate for attorney general in November’s election. Republicans attended a news conference at the Statehouse with Boise attorney Tom Arkoosh, who has said he has no political ambitions other than to run the office fairly. “Tom Arkoosh is the first candidate on the Democratic ticket I have supported in my 66 years of work with the Republican Party," said Republican Sen. Patti Anne Lodge, the powerful chairwoman of the Senate's State Affairs Committee who is retiring this year....