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WATCH: Retired Swiss bishop living with the SSPX says Novus Ordo Mass is ‘departure from tradition’'The crisis of the Church is a consequence of a partial apostasy from the transmitted faith, tradition, and practice of the faith,' says Bishop Vitus Huonder.Bishop Vitus Huonder, a retired bishop of the Swiss diocese of Chur, has issued a critique of the Novus Ordo Mass as it was promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969. In his eyes, a “partial apostasy” in the Church has taken place in recent decades, and the “departure from tradition is felt most painfully in the changed rite of...

The Obama Foundation likely stored classified presidential records illegally in a private facility at Hoffman Estates in Illinois for more than a year after President Barack Obama left the White House, according to America First Legal (AFL). In 2018, more than a year after Obama left the White House, the National Archives (NARA) and the Obama Foundation entered into an agreement to permit the foundation to maintain possession of presidential records for the purpose of digitizing and overseeing them as part of the Obama Presidential Center, AFL alleges. The agreement shows the Obama Foundation kept classified documents at a private...

The former president is consolidating support among GOP members of Congress and others, even as he faces a thicket of legal woesMANCHESTER, N.H. — Former president Donald Trump, fighting criminal charges in New York and multiple other ongoing investigations by federal and local prosecutors, is pitching Republican elected officials to get behind him as the inevitable nominee — and many of them are buying it.Trump is finally seeing the response he was hoping for when he announced his candidacy almost six months ago, in a moment of political weakness, as many Republicans were openly blaming him for the party’s disappointing...

Spain’s government has decided to cut water brought from the Tagus River to irrigate crops in the bone-dry southeast of the country. Spain is one of the EU’s biggest fruit and vegetable producers. Almost half of the country’s exports are grown by farmers like Juan Francisco Abellaneda, co-founder of farming cooperative Delior. His salads and watermelons fill the shelves of Europe’s supermarkets throughout the year. These crops are irrigated by water brought from the River Tagus, hundreds of kilometres to the north of Abellaneda’s 300 hectares of fields near Murcia. But, as Spain faces the realities of climate change with...

The Naval Postgraduate School hosted a two-day Department of the Navy Climate Tabletop Exercise last week to tackle climate and sustainability initiatives. The event – held April 27-28 – was the department’s second climate tabletop exercise and was held in partnership with the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. The Naval Postgraduate School signed an education partnership agreement with the school in December in an effort to tackle climate change.

Democratic ballot harvesting operations have reached such heights of sophistication that they can parachute into decisive battlegrounds and scare up enough votes among ignorant and unmotivated citizens to overcome the natural enthusiasm of informed and self-motivated voters...We need to demand leadership from the leaders we do have. Remember, successful political action is about organizing, not merely about grassroots willpower. For decades, the Left has used the Democratic Party as a vehicle to do little more than redistribute taxpayer largesse to unions and other special interest groups that do their organizing for them. On the Right, far too many of our...

San Francisco Pride has cut Twister Sister front man Dee Snider from their line-up next month after the legendary rocker endorsed a tweet slamming sex changes for kids. Snider's 1984 hit We're Not Gonna Take It had been slated to be the 2023 theme song of the event. The singer was also expected to perform. However, after Snider retweeted and liked a message from Kiss star Paul Stanley, plans have changed. On May 1, Stanley tweeted a post titled 'My Thoughts On What I'm Seeing.' 'There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in...

Antoinette Hodge, the treasurer of Uniontown who was charged last year by then-Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro for allegedly stealing $106,000 in taxpayer funds while in office, is now facing more charges. Fayette County District Attorney Richard Bower said Hodge “substantially depleted” the funds of the Youghiogheny Western Baptist Association, where she was a chair of the trustee board, with the first incident happening in July 2018 and continuing through the pandemic. The YWBA is an organization that represents some Baptist churches in Fayette, Westmoreland, Greene, and Allegheny counties, as well as a church in Morgantown, W.Va. Bower announced 38...

The latest New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey illustrates the massive toll that COVID-19 took on the city since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. According to the data, about one in four New Yorkers, or nearly 2 million residents, lost at least one person — defined as a friend, family member, colleague or neighbor — to the illness, and more than one in 10 New Yorkers, almost 900,000 residents, lost three or more people. Among about a million essential workers, the survey found that 29 percent lost one or more person to COVID-19. The survey also shed...

A mother says she believes her child's preference for eating raw green vegetables supports them being transgender. She made the comments while appearing before the Louisiana State House's Health and Welfare Committee to speak against HB 463 ahead of a vote. A Louisiana legislative committee advanced the bill, which calls for a ban on all treatments which fall into the category of 'gender-affirming' for minors. These include procedures like top surgery, which removes or adds breast or chest tissue, and seeks to create a more masculine or feminine appearance. It also extends to the use of pharmaceuticals, including medications known...

Researchers have identified four important signs and symptoms that signal an elevated risk of early-onset colorectal cancer. These red flags may be key to earlier detection and diagnosis of early-onset colorectal cancer among younger adults. The number of young adults with colorectal cancer has nearly doubled in recent years. Studying health insurance data with early-onset colorectal cancer—cancer that occurs before a person turns 50—the researchers found that in the period between three months and two years before diagnosis, abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, diarrhea and iron deficiency anemia each indicate an increased risk in those under age 50. They found that...

The mayor of Jacksonville, Florida has refused to succumb to 'wokeism' and order the city's lifeguards to cover their chests, after a transgender person hoping to be employed at a city pool exposed their breasts. The transgender person, who has not been named, attended a trial session for lifeguard hopefuls at the Cecil Aquatic Center on April 27. During the course of the tryout, the female-born person, who identifies as male but has not had top surgery, exposed their breasts and did not attempt to cover themselves. Children were within 15 to 20 feet from the lifeguard training and the...

Satellite detection of atmospheric pollutants offers an independent look at what is going on with Russia’s economy In particular, QuantCube tracks the amount of nitrogen dioxide, produced by the burning of coal, gas and diesel, as is common in factories ...pollution in industrial regions has continued to drop, off 1.2% over the six months ended in April and down 6.2% over the past year—more than during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. By contrast, Russia’s official measure showed industrial production rose 1.2% in March from a year earlier.

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been spotted for the first time since Bud Light disavowed gifting her a special can, with an LGBT activist saying the brand's latest decision has angered gays as well as conservatives. Mulvaney, 26, was seen in a Burberry check outfit she's sported on multiple previous occasions as she arrived at a hotel in West Hollywood, California. She didn't many any comment, with LGBTQ activists now joining right-wingers in boycotting the brand after it disavowed the Mulvaney stunt. Stacey Lentz, who co-owns the famed Stonewall Inn gay bar in NYC, said parent company Anheuser-Busch had 'missed...

Concerns over the impending end of Title 42 are highlighting rifts among Democrats on either side of Pennsylvania Avenue as the party hunkers down to await the political ramifications of the policy’s termination. The Trump-era policy changing the way officials can process migrants they encounter crossing the border will conclude along with other pandemic emergency measures on Thursday, forcing officials to return to regular processing — and potentially prompting hundreds of thousands of migrants camped along the border to attempt to enter the United States. Sen. Bob Menéndez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has led the charge...

Ron DeSantis, the rightwing Republican governor of Florida and a likely 2024 presidential candidate, has handed favors to his big-money donors in the insurance industry at the expense of cash-strapped residents of his state, a new report claims. The report, “How Ron DeSantis sold out Florida homeowners”, draws on contributions from the American Federation of Teachers union, the non-profit Center for Popular Democracy, the voting rights group Florida Rising and the dark money watchdog Hedge Clippers. [cut] the report’s authors suggest, that DeSantis’s administration has put the insurance companies’ interests ahead of Florida’s own citizens, who are battling homeowner insurance...

A Texas rancher witnessing the border crisis firsthand slammed the Biden administration for a “bad situation” that has “not improved at all” as the end of Title 42 looms. “We have people coming through our property 24 hours a day, seven days a week now,” Stephanie Canales said on “Mornings with Maria” Wednesday. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s claim that illegal migration was “down by more than 90%” made Canales “want to laugh,” she added. “And those of us that live down here every day that are dealing with this, it has not improved at all,” she argued.

Antibiotics administered before and during surgery should be discontinued immediately after a patient's incision is closed, according to updated recommendations for preventing surgical site infections. Experts found no evidence that continuing antibiotics after a patient's incision has been closed, even if it has drains, prevents surgical site infections. Continuing antibiotics does increase the patient's risk of C. difficile infection, which causes severe diarrhea, and antimicrobial resistance. "Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2022 Update," provides evidence-based strategies for preventing infections for all types of surgeries from top experts from five medical organizations led by the Society...

Long-time readers of CTH research will remember a very specific agency inside government, the Dept of Justice Community Relations Service (DOJ-CRS). This little-known, quasi legislatively authorized, Eric Holder weaponized, silo inside the justice system operates to control information that would be deemed ‘adverse to the peace and tranquility interests of the nation.’ In non-pretending terms, the DOJ-CRS controls any information in the criminal justice system that doesn’t fit the agenda of the radical communists and left-wing activists within it. The CRS controlled the George Zimmerman case. The CRS controlled the Darren Wilson case (Ferguson). The CRS controlled the Baltimore-Six case....

Microsoft recently announced a slew of new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features for its Bing chatbot and Edge web browser. Chief among the changes, Bing users now have full access to the GPT-4 model — the same underlying engine that powers ChatGPT’s “Plus” subscription service. Previously, Microsoft held access to the GPT-4 version of the Bing chatbot to a “limited preview.” It’s now announcing open availability through the Bing app, web access and the Edge browser. Aside from giving Bing, Edge and Windows users free, unfettered access to the GPT-4 model, Microsoft also announced upcoming support for multimodal outputs, chat history...