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The European Union is a liberal’s dream: no pesky national sovereignty, an attenuated democracy, a government of, by, and for self-appointed elites. Just what America’s liberals aspire to. How could it go wrong?For starters, it could be corrupt. It turns out that Qatar handed out a lot of cash to members of the European Parliament in connection with the current World Cup tournament. The London Times reports:Police have seized more than €1 million as part of an inquiry into alleged corruption in the European Union under which a vice-president has been arrested.The scandal, described as one the biggest corruption investigations...

Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church Luke 7:18b–23Friends, today we celebrate the memorial of the great Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross.We find ourselves, St. John of the Cross taught, in the midst of a good and beautiful world, but we are meant finally for union with God. Therefore, the soul has to become free from its attachments to finite things so as to be free for communion with God.This purification first involves what John called "the night of the senses"(the letting go of physical and sensual pleasures), and it continues with...

BREAKING: Trump teases “Special Announcement” tomorrow, says “America needs a Superhero” Donald J. Trump @realDonalTrump AMERICA NEEDS A SUPERHERO! I will be making a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT tomorrow. Thank you!

The Buffalo Bills and wide receiver Cole Beasley are reuniting after Beasley retired earlier on in the season. Mike Garafolo of the NFL Network announced Tuesday on Twitter that Beasley will begin on Buffalo’s practice squad and then will likely move to their main roster in “short order.” Beasley abruptly retired back in October as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to “be a full-time dad and husband,” according to his agents, Justin and Joel Turner. Beasley’s change of mind to come back to play will hugely benefit Buffalo’s offense. Beasley is a very reliable slot receiver that is...

The city of Richmond, Virginia, has dug up the remains of Confederate General A.P. Hill as it continues to purge Confederate symbols and monuments from public spaces.

[Catholic Caucus] Neither Mother nor Goddess. Even Gregorian Chant Is Against the New Idolatry of the Earth> Italiano > English> Español> Français > All the articles of Settimo Cielo in EnglishIf you want to receive (or go back to receiving) a notification for every new article, click HERE and subscribe to the Newsletter from Settimo Cielo!*(sm) All the more so in this season of Advent, the great liturgy of the Catholic Church is literally at the antipodes of the rampant new religion of nature, with the earth as mother goddess.Let the heavens “rain down the Just One” and the earth...

Dead woman only described as likely middle-aged Pilar AriasBy Pilar Arias | Fox News Facebook Woman's body found wrapped in trash bag, floating off coast of Egmont Key Joneé Lewis reports for FOX 13 Tampa Bay A woman's body was found wrapped in a trash bag off Florida's Gulf Coast over the weekend. The discovery about 12:40 p.m. Saturday off the coast of Egmont Key at the mouth of Tampa Bay was confirmed by the U.S. Coast Guard to FOX 13. Crews responded to recover the body, which was first found by fishermen. Witnesses said they were spearfishing when they...

Atchison, 52, "lost his temper" in the couple's Fruitland Park home Monday evening after his wife asked for help and put a spoon in the sink, accidentally splashing him with water, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by FOX 35 Orlando. Atchison packed his things and went outside to his vehicle, before returning home because "he had been drinking" and told his wife to leave instead. When the wife tried to go, deputies say Atchison shoved her, picked up a Christmas tree that was in the corner of the room and threw it at her, striking her. He then allegedly...

This won't take long. You may have noticed that I really don't like Joe Biden. I may even have written about what a dirtbag he is. He is a plagiarist, a liar and a pervert. He took "inappropriate" showers with his daughter. He fondles little girls. He raised a perverted corrupt child and then he lectures us about how we should raise our children. On top of all that, he is galactically mendacious. Worse, he makes it so easy to prove. The Twitter files revealed that the Biden campaign routinely demanded that certain tweets and people making those tweets be...

Somewhere in some far-left think tank located in some parent’s basement of an unemployed Antifa member or possibly the classroom of an angry women’s gender study professor at the University of Michigan, a group of self-appointed word police Nazis got together to discuss the critical importance of forcing individuals to use sexual preference pronouns when addressing themselves. If this sounds like a story that only a right-wing extremist would make up to discredit the LGBTQRSTVWXYZ movement, whose primary function is to indoctrinate our youth into believing there is no such thing as a male or female and that God mistakenly...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Knestout, Who Expelled A Faithful Priest, Appoints A Pervert Priest As Pastor George Neumayr published the account of Bishop Barry Knestout of the Diocese of Richmond (VA) appointing as pastor of St Augustine a public sex offender without notifying the parishioners. The criminal priest in question is Father Wayne Ball. He pled guilty to "lewd acts" with another male in a car in a parking lot. At the time of the incident and subsequent hearing, he was at another parish. Those parishioners petitioned for his removal and hence he left.The excuse being proffered for this appointment...

While there has been much public attention on the U.S. Supreme Court’s present consideration of the “independent state legislature” theory in Moore v. Harper involving North Carolina’s redistricting, that case would not immediately upend the 2020 Presidential Election. In contrast, a little-known case that appeared recently on the Court docket could do just that. The case of Brunson v. Adams, not even reported in the mainstream media, was filed pro se by ordinary American citizens – four brothers from Utah — seeking the removal of President Biden and Vice President Harris, along with 291 U.S. Representatives and 94 U.S. Senators...

Iran sentences Belgian aid worker to 28 years: Family Belgium and Olivier Vandecasteele’s family insist he is innocent, effectively held as a hostage in Tehran’s efforts to force Belgium to release an Iranian agent convicted of terrorism. Published: 14 December ,2022: 03:42 PM GST Updated: 14 December ,2022: 05:53 PM GST Iranian authorities have imposed a 28-year sentence on jailed Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, a spokesman for his family said Wednesday. The 41-year-old was arrested in Iran at the end of February and was at one point being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, reportedly suspected of spying. Advertisement...

President Joe Biden said Tuesday at the White House that Republican bans on transgender surgeries were transphobic and connected to anti-semitism. “Folks, racism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia — they’re all connected,” he said. The president spoke about laws passed by Republican states to make irreversible gender transitioning procedures for children illegal, arguing they were transphobic and inspired by hate. “We need to challenge the hundreds of callous and cynical laws introduced in the states targeting transgender children, terrifying families, and criminalizing doctors who give children the care they need,” he said.

around 11:15 AM -- paramedics got a call for a medical emergency at an L.A. hotel ... and they found Stephen there, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

America’s Lebanese fantasy hits a road-bump Lebanon Follow Tony Badran Published: 13 December ,2022: 12:39 PM GST Updated: 13 December ,2022: 01:25 PM GST For the past two years, the Biden administration has been hell-bent on getting Saudi Arabia to underwrite the US project of administering Lebanon. And for two years running, the Kingdom has refused, having no desire to bankroll an Iranian equity run by Hezbollah. The administration, however, is demanding US allies suspend disbelief and pretend that Lebanon is in fact a real, normal state. In the latest iteration of its Lebanese project, the Biden team is trying...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)And Jesus said to them in reply, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them.” Luke 7:22One of the greatest ways that the transforming power of the Gospel is proclaimed is through the works accomplished by our Lord. In this Gospel passage, Jesus points to the works He has done to answer a question about His identity. The disciples of John the Baptist came to ask Him...

Elon Musk is performing a great public service by releasing the Twitter Files, which show how the social media company he recently purchased suppressed news about the Biden family’s foreign dealings. While the company’s actions, which occurred weeks before the 2020 election, raise knotty questions about free speech, they are a distraction. The more urgent issue is the conduct of our own government, specifically the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which created the landscape where censorship and disinformation could thrive and possibly change the outcome of the presidential contest. Here is a brief chronology which focuses on the bureau’s key role...

One by one, they go to start their business day only to find a baffling message from their payments app informing them: “You can no longer do business with PayPal.”There is little or no explanation. They have somehow offended the sensibilities of someone somewhere deep inside the bureaucracy. They are simply told via an email from PayPal’s Risk and Compliance Department that, after an internal review, “we decided to permanently limit your account as there was a change in your business model or your business model was considered risky.”In case there is any doubt, the email adds: “You’ll not be...

“‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also. The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, “Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?” And he said to them, “An enemy has done this!” The slaves said to him, “Do you want us, then, to go and gather them...