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For more than a century, the Catholic Church financed its expansion and its institutions with profits made from the purchase and sale of people they enslaved. This chapter of Church history has only recently come to the attention of the public. "Without the enslaved, the Catholic Church in the United States as we know it today would not exist," writes author Rachel Swarns. She says the priests prayed for the salvation of the souls of the people they owned, even as they bought and sold their bodies. In 1838, the Jesuits sold 272 enslaved people, which helped save what is...

Matthew 5:38-42Friends, today, in the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord exhorts us to nonresistance to evil. Martin Luther King Jr. was deeply influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s techniques, and Gandhi learned them, largely, from the Sermon on the Mount.Both Gandhi and King appreciated that the text dealing with the nonresistance to evil has nothing to do with passivity in the face of injustice, but rather with a new and distinctive type of resistance.Consider the Lord’s injunction, “When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.” I realize that this sounds like mere passivity,...

The Pope sent a statement, and the grand imam of Al-Azhar gave a video address, both calling for brotherhood. "Today’s globalized world has brought all of us closer together, yet it has not made us any more fraternal. Indeed, we are suffering from a famine of fraternity ..."The grand imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, and Pope Francis addressed the UN Security last week. The Pope’s address was a statement read by Archbishop Paul Gallagher, secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, while the imam’s address was a video message. Both religious leaders called for human fraternity, as they...

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CNA Staff, Jun 15, 2023 / 15:20 pm Franciscan priests will again serve as chaplains and ministers at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland after their contract went unrenewed in favor of a private defense contractor, provoking an outcry from prominent Catholics. “Of course, it is a source of great joy that the Franciscans have returned to the medical center and care for patients and staff there,” Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for Military Services, USA, said in a Thursday statement. The Franciscan priests and friars of Holy Name College Friary of Silver Spring, Maryland, had served...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

(Everyday for Life Canada) — The Halton Catholic District School Board director, John Klein, has issued a letter to staff and teachers titled, “Nurturing Love and Inclusion Across our HCDSB Community.” It would be more accurate to call it, “Nurturing Love and inclusion for homosexuality across the school community.” The director uses the month of June, which is devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to tell the school community it must accept and embrace pride month and its related activities. Will it include a school wide field trip to the pride parade or bringing the drag queen story hour...

YouTube said Monday that it had removed a video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking with podcast host Jordan Peterson for spreading what the company said was vaccine misinformation. The decision is the latest challenge for Kennedy as he seeks to find support for a Democratic presidential run after years as an anti-vaccine crusader. The video was removed amid a broader tug-of-war online between vaccine conspiracy theorists and prominent doctors. YouTube’s policies against hosting false medical information are long-standing. "We removed a video from the Jordan Peterson channel for violating YouTube’s general vaccine misinformation policy, which prohibits content that alleges...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine took more ground on the south | New tactics works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGbv2rQdTCU The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 18th June 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time) https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-480-summary/ *** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

Monday said Joe Biden isn’t campaigning because he “doesn’t have a serious challenger.” Joe Biden is old and feeble. He keeps falling down all over the place. 80-year-old Joe Biden simply cannot keep up with a grueling campaign schedule. The fake news pundits also completely dismissed Robert Kennedy Jr.’s popularity. Even the New York Times admitted RFK Jr. is a headache for Joe Biden. According to a recent CNN poll showed RFK Jr. with 20% support against Dementia Joe. ..... Snip..... Despite RFK Jr. being a potential problem for Joe Biden in the primaries, MSNBC brushed him off and said...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: United States Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown, VirginiaThe U.S. Coast Guard Training Center (TRACEN) in Yorktown, Virginia is one of eight major Coast Guard training facilities in the United States. There are only two similar facilities in the United States of America, one of them is in Cape May and the other one is in Petaluma. They are often referred to as the US Coast Guard A schools. Training at TRACEN Yorktown is extensive. The training is designed to instill an understanding of technical and leadership skills in order to perform duties in...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Blase Cupich Presides Over LGBTQ+ Mass In Lakeview: ‘God Brought Us Together Here As A Community’The cardinal held Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church as part of the Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach ministry's 35th anniversary.LAKEVIEW — Blocks away from the thumping bass, fishnet bodysuits and drag queens of Boystown’s Pride Fest, some gay Chicagoans celebrated queer identity in a different way Sunday: with an LGBTQ+ Catholic mass led by Cardinal Blase Cupich.As the bells rang at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and the first notes of the organ swelled, gay and lesbian churchgoers...

During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump responded to questions on why he hired so many people who he has now criticized or have criticized him by stating the overwhelming majority of people he hired were good hires, he did hire the best people, and that he “didn’t know” Washington, but does now.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated the Biden administration’s position that it would not be in “our interest” to decouple from China during a Monday press conference in Beijing held after talks with genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. Blinken’s two-day trip to China marks the first time a U.S. secretary of state has met with Xi since 2018. After his meeting with Xi, Blinken reiterated that the administration is “not about decoupling” from China; instead, they are about “de-risking and diversifying.”

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LOS ANGELES, CA—JUNE 19, 2023—Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. responded today to remarks by Secretary of State Antony Blinken last Friday in a speech in Finland, in which Blinken dismissed calls for a ceasefire in the conflict and called for further transfers of high-tech weaponry and aircraft to Ukraine. In response, Mr. Kennedy said: “Blinken’s speech highlights once again that the Biden Administration has no intention of ending this conflict peacefully. The plan, which members of the administration including Blinken have explicitly admitted on numerous occasions, is to use Ukraine to achieve the larger geopolitical goal of weakening...

You will wear the ribbon! “As we wrap up the observance celebration of #Juneteenth we switch gears in honoring all those who partake in #PrideMonth. Join us later this month as we come all together for the Respect, Service and Dignity as the Division MEO team hosts the Pride Month Observance Event,” the Twitter account for the 82nd Airborne, once known for ‘Death From Above’ now known for its delightful rainbow colors. From Juneteenth to Pride Month to a military no longer interested in winning wars. Servicemembers, past and present, were not happy. That’s when Sgt. Maj. Michael Grinston jumped...

For patients with adenomyosis, mifepristone is efficacious and has acceptable tolerability, according to a study published online June 12 in JAMA Network Open. Xuan Che, Ph.D., from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and colleagues examined whether mifepristone is effective and safe for adenomyosis treatment in a multicenter trial conducted in 10 hospitals in China. A total of 134 patients with adenomyosis pain symptoms were enrolled and randomly assigned to receive mifepristone 10 mg or placebo once a day for 12 weeks. Overall, 126 patients were included in the efficacy analysis: 61 and 65 in the mifepristone and placebo groups, respectively....

On 13 February 2023, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Equatorial Guinea declared an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) after suspected viral haemorrhagic fever deaths were reported between 7 January 2023 - 7 February 2023 and a case testing positive on 12 February 2023 for MVD.1 Six clinical experts from the Emerging Diseases Clinical Assessment and Response Network (EDCARN) were rapidly deployed to Equatorial Guinea to support the Ministry of Health in its response to the outbreak. The clinical experts in infectious diseases, critical care, and paediatrics were recruited through the Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN)....

Gay and bi men in some counties in Florida may be at greater risk of a resurgence in mpox (formerly known as monkeypox). It appears that only a minority of gay men in the state received both doses of the mpox vaccine. Since the mpox outbreak of last summer, 30,000 people in the US have been diagnosed with the infection, with the majority of infections among gay and bi men. There have been around 40 deaths. Just over half of those were in people with advanced HIV and compromised immune systems. In recent weeks, there have been concerns of a...