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Move violates First Amendment Right to Free Exercise of ReligionWASHINGTON, DC – Walter Reed National Military Medical Center has issued a “cease and desist order” to Holy Name College, a community of Franciscan Catholic priests and brothers, who have provided pastoral care to service members and veterans at Walter Reed for nearly two decades. The government’s cease and desist order directed the Catholic priests to cease any religious services at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. This order was issued as Catholics entered Holy Week, the most sacred of days in the Christian faith, in which they participate in liturgies...

* Sources say King's desire for multi-faith ceremony risks clashing with canon law* Commentator claims wrangle has delayed Coronation's Order of Service releaseKing Charles has been at loggerheads with Church leaders over the role other faiths should play in his Coronation, The Mail on Sunday understands. Church sources say the monarch has been told that his desire for a ‘diverse’ ceremony, including participation by non-Christians, risks clashing with centuries- old canon law, which bars Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and other faith leaders from reading out prayers during the service. Religious affairs commentator Catherine Pepinster claims today she has been told that...

Anheuser-Busch has been having conversations with NASCAR teams about its plans for next year after Kevin Harvick retires, according to people familiar with the matter, and Trackhouse Racing is said to be a favorite to land the brewer’s business. A-B has a long history of sponsoring drivers, races and NASCAR itself, and began partnering with its current team, Stewart-Haas Racing, when Harvick joined in 2014. With Harvick set to retire after this season and join the Fox Sports broadcast booth full time, SHR and its sponsors are now sorting out their futures as it relates to the No. 4 Ford...

Louisville police have released dramatic body camera footage from Monday's bank shooting, showing officers arriving, being ambushed and then shooting dead the 25-year-old disgruntled employee who murdered five colleagues. Connor Sturgeon, 25, was seen entering the Old National Bank on East Main Street in Louisville at 8.33am with his legally-purchased AR-15 in hand. Over the course of six minutes, police are then seen driving up to Old National Bank as gunshots are echoing through the building, and then charging at the doors. One officer is shot in the head in an ambush: Sturgeon was then killed. The footage was released...

Dmitry of WarTranslated today posted a translation from the Pro-Russian Military Blogger known as Murz, an active duty soldier and blogger in the LPR, and a friend of the infamous Igor Girkin (Strelkov), responding to propaganda claims by Anna Dolgaryova. He discusses "Meat Battalions", Russian soldiers sent to die in mass numbers, stating that Russia is now running low on infantry--not just "good" infantry now, but infantry in general. He asks her near the end how she plans to explain away the imminent shifting of the frontline to the East once Ukraine begins its offensive.The true believers in Mother Russia...

At what is clearly a critical time for confirming good federal judges, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) increasingly prolonged absence from the Senate is apparently holding up the process for a number of President Joe Biden’s judicial picks this year. Feinstein, who was hospitalized in early March for shingles and has remained in her San Francisco home since March 7, has missed 60 votes of the 82 taken in the Senate in 2023, per the San Francisco Chronicle. And as the Senate, which has been on recess since March 31, prepares to return on April 17, Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin...

MOSUL, Iraq — In Mosul, Iraq, Christians held the first Divine Liturgy inside St. Michael Monastery on Sunday after suspending services there for over 20 years due to violence and insecurity. The Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul and Aqrah Najib Mikhael Moussa presided over the Divine Liturgy and expressed happiness about the event, hoping that Christians can continue to pray in all the churches and monasteries destroyed and abandoned due to displacement. Hamid Touzi, one of the participants, mentioned that Christians had deliberately stayed at home since 2003 and avoided churches and monasteries due to security threats. “Christians were repeatedly targeted,...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia is going to announce a new BIG MOBILIZATION | But it is too late https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_UAYWYvDc0 ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 412 – Summary April 11, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-412-summary/

CNA Newsroom, Apr 6, 2023 / 13:00 pm A statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe was smashed in half at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Corona, California, on April 1. “It was very heartbreaking, especially coming at the beginning of Holy Week,” Maria Bravo, the parish office manager, told CNA in a statement Thursday. “A lot of parishioners were very emotional about it. They brought flowers. Many offered to help in whatever way they could,” she said. The vandalism occurred at about 11:30 p.m. on the Saturday on the eve of Palm Sunday. The vandal, a male, was caught on...

“Get woke, go broke,” has become a rallying cry of the political right whenever they see a brand make the slightest effort to align itself with liberal or progressive values. It’s a meme that allows MAGA country to believe that there is ongoing, massive backlash to products that acknowledge and celebrate marginalized communities. But the supposed boycotts never seem to be reflected in the bottom line. Besides, by the time we would expect to notice any effect, conservatives have already moved on to the next outrage. Kid Rock and Travis Tritt declared war this week against brewer Anheuser-Busch for a...

Should U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, seek re-election next year? The issue divides registered Utah voters, according to an O.H. Predictive Insights poll released earlier this week. While Utahns have a net positive approval rating of the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, that does not mean most want him to seek re-election. Romney has a 51% approval rating in the state, while 43% disapprove of him. Even so, just 38% of voters said Romney should run again, while 42% said no; 20% said they were unsure. Republicans generally oppose a second Romney term; 36% think he should...

Maybe if his name was something a little flashier and show-business friendly like Billy Thunderman, Bill Quateman might have been much bigger than he was. What if Elton John stuck with his original name Reginald Dwight? Would he have been the star that he was? Sometimes it's all in a name. Anyhow, fifty years ago at this very time, the spring of 1973, a 21-year-old singer named Bill Quateman burst into the Billboard HOT 100 with a song called "Only Love". Bill Quateman - Only Love (1973) Discovered and signed to a recording contract by Clive Davis, then the president...

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin briefed reporters on the leaking of dozens of sensitive and highly classified documents Tuesday, saying they were "somewhere in the web." "Well, they were somewhere…in the web and where exactly and who had access at that point, we don't know. We simply don't know at this point," Austin said. Fox News learned earlier Tuesday through conversations with a variety of American defense and intelligence officials that as many as 53 documents were posted online, which were dated between Feb. 23 and March 1. The documents, officials told Fox News, may have come from outside...

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's request for a restraining order against Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was declined by a judge on Tuesday. The judge ordered Bragg to send the material to Jordan by 9 p.m. Wednesday so the court could have a hearing on the situation on April 19. Bragg requested the order in an attempt to block Jordan from interfering in the Stormy Daniels hush money case that former President Donald Trump was charged in last week. Jordan has subpoenaed an investigator previously involved in the case. The lawsuit was filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern...

Commercial Real Estate (CRE) includes, among others, office buildings, data centers, hotels, apartment complexes, warehouses, industrial properties, retail spaces, and malls. The U.S. commercial real estate sector is valued at $20 trillion. The total amount of commercial real estate loans outstanding is approximately $4.5 trillion, with a loan-to-value ratio of 25%. Mortgage Bankers Association data shows that banks hold the largest share of the debt, accounting for 39%. CRE faces a perfect storm because of a combination of factors, including the rise of work-from-home jobs, rising interest rates, and the weakness of the banking system. There is a real fear...

Call it the under-reported story of the year.But if you're in Taiwan, you'd be mighty nervous, given that the Chinese navy is surrounding your entire island -- just as a military exercise, of course.

Italy's coast guard said difficult sea conditions were affecting the rescue. The boat is one of two vessels carrying migrants currently being assisted by the Italian coastguard. The second is carrying around 800 people and is said to be overcrowded. The country's coastguard has already rescued around 2,000 people in other operations since Friday, after a number of boats arrived at the Italian island of Lampedusa, one of the main arrival ports for people wanting to reach Europe, over the weekend. At least two migrants died and around 20 others were missing after their boat sank on Saturday night, German...

Just two years into the Joe Biden presidency, it has become abundantly clear that the only people actively trying to destroy this country are the Democrats and the cult that has overtaken them. How much worse could it possibly get than a former President of the United States indicted in the city that made him on a case that no one believes in good faith was legitimate? No government that believes in America would ever do such a thing to rip this country apart, especially after COVID, after the Summer of 2020, and after January 6th.