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[Catholic Caucus] Francis' Tank Runs Over Another NunneryMary Temple of the Holy Spirit Benedictine Monastery in Pienza received an Apostolic Visitation in November. In February, Francis imposed a new superior and forcibly joined them to a monastic federation without informing the nuns of the visitation's outcome.Now, the nuns are fighting back, according to media reports. The convent was founded in Macerata, Italy, then moved to the Netherlands and finally settled in Pienza in 2017, welcomed by Montepulciano Bishop Stefano Manetti. Some of the nuns belonged to the Neocatechumenal Way. Most of them are young.Bishop Manetti was appointed to Fiesole in...

A 73-year-old rancher accused of killing an illegal alien on his property has had the charge downgraded from first- to second-degree murder. George Alan Kelly was charged after a Mexican national was found shot dead on his Arizona ranch last month. The property is roughly a mile and a half from the border with Mexico. Fox News reported that the charge was amended Friday in Santa Cruz County Justice Court. Brenna Larkin, Kelly’s court-appointed attorney, entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of her client. Larkin addressed the decision to downgrade the charge. “That’s a significant change in the...

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Russia has launched an unmanned rescue craft toward the International Space Station to rescue two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut who are stranded aboard. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin have been stuck on the station since December after a micrometeorite impacted the external radiator of their spacecraft and caused a leak, according to The Hill. The Soyuz capsule launched from Kazakhstan filled with supplies for the three spacemen. It is expected to dock with the station on Sunday. NASA observers were present at the launch in a rare instance of Russo-American cooperation amid...

He is one of at least four journalists being investigated for reporting or commenting on the earthquake. Press freedom groups say dozens more have been detained, harassed or prevented from reporting. Mr Koçer was touched by the influx of volunteers and rescue teams coming from Western Turkey, and he shared their stories on Twitter. Some of the survivors told him they received no aid for days. Similar complaints were cited across pro-opposition media outlets. Visiting the earthquake-affected areas, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the people he would rebuild their cities. But he also warned that those spreading "fake news" and...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he plans to meet China's leader Xi Jinping to discuss Beijing's proposals on ending the war in Ukraine. Speaking on the first anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, he said the proposal signalled that China was involved in the search for peace. ... China's plan calls for peace talks and respect for national sovereignty. However, the 12-point document does not specifically say that Russia must withdraw its troops from Ukraine, and it also condemns the usage of "unilateral sanctions", in what is seen as a veiled criticism of Ukraine's allies in the West. The Chinese...

Maya Angelou famously once said, "When people show you who they are, believe them." This quote came to mind when Democrats on social media actually became upset over former President Donald Trump delivering hundreds of bottles of water to the residents of East Palestine, Ohio. Whatever criticisms one has of the former president, getting angry over him distributing water is ridiculous. And just as Angelou said, this disdain showed the country exactly who these people are: unhinged fanatics with an irrational hatred of Trump. ... Many left-wing social media accounts spread an unsubstantiated claim that Trump distributed "expired water." Obviously,...

It appears that the Biden franchise is about to follow a new vision for the male scion of President Joe Biden. Just as Christopher Nolan introduced a darker Batman, a new team of political advisers and lawyers have reinvented Hunter Biden in a new and more menacing image. Biden is threatening lawsuits and reportedly preparing a scorched Earth campaign against political and media critics. He is even in court trying to prevent his own daughter from using his name. Welcome to the new Dark Biden. Hunter Biden has long been a reclamation project for the media and the Biden team....

O'Neill, however, pushed back on the generals' confidence and their plan for achieving victory. "Generals never seem to have an answer [to] what is winning,"..."But just like anything from war to the vaccine, there's no money in the cure..."So why is this money that we're sending to Ukraine going where we want it?...We're giving the best tanks in the world to people that can defend with them, but then they can also go to the Red Square like they're saying,"...It's a self-licking ice cream corner,..."There's no game plan. There's no preparation."

Link only - USA Today But here's a reader comment: "Volkswagen Car-Net would not track the car while the 2 year old was still in it without a re-activation fee. I won't ever own a VW as a result. Unbelievably convenient for them to leave that out." And here's a different reader responding to that comment: "Agreed. It’s part of the official statement from the Lake County sheriff’s office but it’s not surprising on the part of VW. The people who answer those calls are NOT allowed to make judgment calls. “Follow the script” has been writ in corporate stone...

The nation's largest grid operator is warning it may face a major coming shortfall in electric generating capacity as utilities retire more and more traditional fossil fuel power plants. It's a challenge facing grid operators across the country as power generators mothball coal and natural gas-fired plants for various reasons, such as reducing high maintenance and regulatory compliance costs or cutting greenhouse gas emissions. ... PJM Interconnection, which manages grid operations across 13 states and the District of Columbia, published new analysis Friday showing retirements outpacing new additions in the coming years that could leave its service area short of...

David Boliek, chairman of the Board of Trustees at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discusses the school’s recent decision to form a school of civic life and leadership. The University of North Carolina (UNC) moved against encroaching woke culture and voted to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) statements and politically preferential hiring. UNC voted to ban DEI statements and compelled speech from admission, hiring, promotion and tenure at its Board of Governors meeting Thursday. The board stated the university "shall neither solicit nor require an employee or applicant for academic admission or employment to affirmatively ascribe...

A Georgia woman slammed her SUV into a Popeyes restaurant because her order was missing biscuits, according to police. Around 7:45 p.m. on Saturday, a woman ordered food at the Popeyes restaurant in Augusta, Georgia. The woman claimed that her order at the fast food restaurant was missing biscuits. A Popeyes manager informed authorities that the order was corrected and the customer was given biscuits. However, the woman was reportedly "still not happy." The woman instructed the restaurant staff to hurry up with the order "because she was coming back," according to the Popeyes employees.

We are only 20 months away from the next Presidential election, and at this stage, the Republican party should be starting to whittle down its field of contenders. Yet here we are with most of the people expected to run still sitting it out, silent. It’s true that Nikki Haley has started her campaign, as have a few outriders like Vivek Ramaswamy, to whom I wish much luck. But the serving or former officials who should have started their campaigns by now are still sitting it out. Leaving the ground open for Trump to do stunts like his Ohio trip...

*US Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro voiced concern in remarks on Wednesday *Said China has 340 active warships, compared to about 280 for the US Navy *Claimed US naval shipyards can't match the output of Chinese ones The US Secretary of the Navy has raised the alarm that China's naval fleet surpasses America's in number of ships, and is growing faster than the US has current capacity to match. 'It is no secret that the People's Republic of China seeks to upend our dominance on the oceans across the globe,' said Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro in remarks at the...

Russia became the most sanctioned nation in the world in 2022, as it was targeted in an unprecedented NATO campaign.Nearly one year later, not only has the Russian economy not been “devastated,” but it’s actually expected to see more growth than Germany and Britain in 2023...It has been nearly one year since Russia became the most sanctioned nation in the world, and not only have the predictions from the Western politicians implementing those measures not become a reality—but now even the establishment media outlets that were once cheering for the complete isolation of Russia are now starting to admit that...

[Catholic Caucus] "Why take away from traditionalists what John Paul II and Benedict XVI had granted?"(From Le Figaro, February 22, 2023) -- While Pope Francis drastically reduces the freedom of traditionalists, historian Christophe Dickès recalls the richness and fruitfulness of these minorities within the Catholic Church. Author of numerous works, Christophe Dickès has notably published "Saint Pierre" (Perrin, 2021), which received the François Millepierres prize of the French Academy 2022.The Lenten season for traditional Catholics begins with sorrow. The one in charge of liturgical matters at the Vatican, Cardinal Roche, who has never hidden his opposition to the work of...

France secretly owns 14 countries through it's banks.

U.S. government documents reveal that the Department of Defense (DoD) partnered with a pharmaceutical company linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in developing and distributing the Pfizer / BioNTech “biological warfare agents marketed as ‘Covid-19 vaccines,’” according to a prominent researcher. “It is curious that the US DoD awarded $10 billion … to a venture whose substantial equity (and IP) holder is the Chinese Communist Party,” wrote Sasha Latypova in a December 28 substack article. Latypova is a former pharmaceutical executive with more than 25 years’ experience in the industry specializing in research and development. She has been a...

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon has suspended the attorney who prosecuted a 26-year-old trans child molester who was accused of identifying as a woman only after DNA evidence linked her to a cold case crime, according to law enforcement sources. Shea Sanna, who had been the lead prosecutor for part of the case, is accused of misgendering and "deadnaming" the convicted child molester Hannah Tubbs, who is now accused of beating a man to death in the woods with a rock in Kern County. Sanna has argued in the past that jailhouse phone calls show Tubbs, now 27, was...