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Mark 16:9-15Friends, in today’s Gospel, the risen Lord commissions the eleven Apostles to proclaim the Good News to everyone. And this commission to evangelize the people of the world extends to all baptized Christians.To evangelize is to proclaim Jesus Christ crucified and risen from the dead. When this kerygma, this Paschal Mystery, is not at the heart of the project, Christian evangelization effectively disappears, devolving into a summons to bland religiosity or generic spirituality. When Jesus crucified and risen is not proclaimed, a beige and unthreatening Catholicism emerges, a thought system that is, at best, an echo of the environing...

In the last week it has been painfully clear that Emmanuel Macron wants to move on from his imposition of pension reforms including the rise in retirement age to 64 from 62. The visit to China allowed Mr. Macron to plant the notion that France should steer clear of the US-China confrontation over Taiwan take a middle ground oppose what he asserted were belligerent positions on both sides. There are those in France Left and Right who have disdain for the United States. Perhaps Macron thought he could gain popular support and traction by drawing attention... Macron's visit to the...

When Twitter banned me in August 2021 for writing that the Covid vaccines don't stop "infection. Or transmission," I was sure the federal government had played a role in my censorship. But I had no idea how far it had gone - or that a board member of Pfizer, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, had also been involved. I just knew I had to stand up for my Constitutional right to free speech. In December 2021, I sued Twitter in federal court in San Francisco. The woke media and leftist lawyers on Twitter mocked the suit. One said it was the product...

A Marine sniper serving during the Afghanistan evacuation recently gave testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Afghanistan evacuation. His pain was palpable. A revelation worth examining was his identification of the possible suicide bomber prior to the incident. After the sniper, Sgt Vargas-Andrews, confirmed the target with multiple agencies, he asked his Battalion Commander, LtCol Whited, for permission to shoot. The answer from Whited, one in which Vargas-Andrews said he’ll never forget, was, “I don’t know.” Not found in the media or Congressional testimony is that Whited, a former peer of mine, corroborated this version of events...

A new global currency just launched, but 99 percent of the global population has no idea what just happened. The “Universal Monetary Unit”, also known as “Unicoin”, is an “international central bank digital currency” that has been designed to work in conjunction with all existing national currencies. This should set off alarm bells for all of us, because the widespread adoption of a new “global currency” would be a giant step forward for the globalist agenda. The IMF did not create this new currency, but it was unveiled at a major IMF gathering earlier this week… Today, at the International...

The Pizza Shop in Middlesbrough has had people in stitches over their sarcastic and sharp responses to unhappy customers on the popular takeaway appA pizza joint owner left customers stunned after their snappy comebacks to unhappy Just Eat customer. After The Pizza Shop in Middlesbrough received some bad reviews, the restaurant's boss took it into their hands to hit back at any negative comments. The Linethorpe Road takeaway has more than 2,700 reviews, with an overwhelming amount being positive and described the shop as being "spot on" or having "great service". However, as is often the case, opinions differed...

The National Republican Congressional Committee quietly deleted a fundraising page Saturday that took aim at one of their largest donors, the parent company of Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch. The NRCC’s backpedalling follows conservatives calling for a boycott of the beer company after they partnered with transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney. On Saturday morning, the powerful committee that provides support to Republican congressional campaigns blasted out a tweet calling for supporters to donate to the NRCC and, in exchange, be given a custom drink koozie. “Thanks to Dylan Mulvaney, we can all finally admit that Bud Light tastes like water,” the NRCC...

Igor Girkin, a military blogger and former Russian commander, predicted Ukraine's future offensive, which he thinks might get the Russian President Valdimir Putin and his supporters "out of a state of being on the planet of pink ponies."Girkin's remarks came as part of an interview posted with English subtitles on Saturday by Twitter account user @TheKremlinYap, which posts segments of Russian state TV.

The next contender in Silicon Valley's AI gold rush could be a surprising one. Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is reportedly aiming to launch an artificial intelligence start-up to compete with OpenAI and its revolutionary AI chatbot ChatGPT. According to a Financial Times report(opens in new tab), Musk is in the process of bringing together a team of AI researchers and engineers to challenge OpenAI head-on. The report cites Nevada business records showing that Musk incorporated a company called X.AI on March 9, for which he's listed as the sole director. The billionaire has reportedly already initiated talks with...

(Apr. 15, 2023) — The key sentence in the original 1758 French edition written by Vattel: “Les naturels, ou indigénes, sont ceux qui sont nés dans le pays, de parents citoyens.” First let’s do a direct translation of the key sentence using this online French to English site: https://translate.yandex.com/?source_lang=fr&target_lang=en&text=Les%20naturels%2C%20ou%20indigenes%2C%20sont%20ceux%20qui%20sont%20nes%20dans%20le%20pays%2C%20de%20parents%20citoyens The key sentence translated to English by that online translation site is: “The natural, or indigenous, are those who were born in the country, from citizen parents.” ... continue reading at: https://www.thepostemail.com/2023/04/15/my-translation-of-a-key-sentence-in-emer-de-vattels-1758-treatise-on-natural-law-in-section-212-des-citoyens-et-naturels/

China’s Zhilei Zhang inflicts shock defeat on Joe Joyce to set up potential Usyk world title fight By Chris King • 16 April 2023 • 1:38 Image of British boxer Joe Joyce. Credit: Twitter@JoeJoyceBoxing British heavyweight boxer Joe Joyce fell to a shock defeat by China’s Zhilei Zhang after being stopped in the sixth round due to an eye injury. British heavyweight boxer Joe Joyce fell to his first-ever professional loss this evening, Saturday, April 15. His fight with China’s Zhilei Zhang was stopped on the advice of the doctor in the sixth round after suffering a nasty cut to...

A new bill signed into law by Russian President Vladimir Putin that allows authorities to issue electronic notices to draftees and reservists is sparking fears of a new wave of mobilization for Moscow's war in Ukraine and prompting fresh conversations among Russians about leaving the country.When the Kremlin announced a partial mobilization of reservists in September as part of a drive to call up some 300,000 new personnel to fight in Ukraine, the decision led to a mass exodus of military-age Russian men and their families. Hundreds of thousands of Russians left to neighboring countries and other locations that had...

Most of us have seen highly-skilled Shaolin monks in movies, where they punish their opponents with an array of slick moves. Well, in a recent kung fu boxing championship match in Guangdong, a Chinese man claiming to be a Shaolin monk was unceremoniously knocked out by his opponent in under two minutes. The self-claimed Shaolin monk, Shi Yongjun, was up against a boxing amateur known as Ah Jun. The match took place at a shopping mall in Guangdong last Friday (April 7), reported Chinese media. Among the participants were professional boxers, traditional martial artists and even influencers. Videos of Shi's...

IN GENTLENESS THERE IS STRENGTH The parents were devastated. Their young adopted daughter had died in an unusual accident. She suffocated when the drawstring on the hood of her jacket became caught in a playground slide. It was later learned their child was not the first to die this way. Design flaws in both the hood and the slide made this an accident waiting to happen. Some people might have viewed this tragedy as an opportunity to sue the two major corporations for a lucrative settlement. The parents, however, refused. In an interview, the mother said she would have...

As announced by his bandmates on social media this evening, Friday, April 14, Mark Sheehan, the guitarist with Irish rock band The Script passed away at the age of 46. Posting on the trio’s official Twitter account, accompanied by an image of Mark, they wrote: “Much loved husband, father, brother, bandmate and friend Mark Sheehan passed away today in hospital after a brief illness. The family and group ask fans to respect their privacy at this tragic time”. The band was formed in 2001 in Dublin consisting of lead vocalist and keyboardist Danny O’Donoghue, lead guitarist Mark Sheehan, and drummer...

Soumaya Majout Bent was inspired by ‘That ’70s Show’ to turn her 1977 Dodge into a road-tripping rideSoumaya Majout Bent, 35, who lives in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Santa Barbara, Calif., and is a student planning on opening a restaurant in Santa Barbara, on her 1977 Dodge custom van, as told to A.J. Baime. It was the week of my wedding, and my fiancé and I were driving in Chicago. We saw this van parked on a lawn with a “for sale” sign. I was always mentioning how I wanted a van to go road tripping. I yelled, “Stop the...

Lita Grey would have turned 115 years old today. If she had lived long enough. She didn't. But she survived marriage to Charlie Chaplin. Read what this babe said about his sense of humour here ........

Three major utility companies in California are looking to restructure customer billing, and part of that means customers could be charged based on how much money they make. Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric filed a joint proposal this week for a flat-rate charge based on income. The plan would break monthly bills in two parts: The fixed-income rate, plus a reduced usage charge based on consumption. Under the proposal, it would cost as little as $15 a month for low-income households and up to $85 more per month for households making more...

Neither the police nor an ambulance was called to the sceneOnce again, a unique and at the same time terrible incident occurred in Russia. Begging for alms, a man in a cassock and holding an icon beat a pensioner.The corresponding video appeared in Telegram. The reason, apparently, (to view the video, scroll to the end of the page).The footage shows how the man, despite the fact that he was in a priest's cassock, and was holding an icon in his hands, kicked a woman. It is noted that this happened near the subway.A pensioner was selling flowers, and a man...

On March 22, two boys, 13-year-old Joshua Federov and his 11-year-old friend, were attacked by a man with a knife outside of Dollar Tree in Mill Creek, Washington, located about 20 miles Northeast of Seattle, after they called the man an "NPC," an insult originating from video game parlance meaning "non-playable character." Local news reports the 11-year-old, who wants to remain unidentified, was stabbed by the suspect in his lung, which collapsed, and his liver. He was first treated at Providence Regional Medical Center and then moved to Harborview Medical Center's ICU for three days. The boy survived his injuries...