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[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Had Doubts About Francis' FernándezThe new Prefect for the Dicastery for the Destruction of the Faith, Victor Fernández, owes his career to Cardinal Bergoglio. On December 15, 2009, Bergoglio appointed him rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina.However, Fernández was not able to take the oath of office until May 20, 2011, after answering objections to his appointment raised by the Vatican, which expressed concerns about his orthodoxy (CatholicNewsAgency.com).Among his unacceptable writings was his trash theology book Incarnated Spiritual Theology (2004), which is mentioned in Esperanza Mía, an Argentinian soap opera about a love affair between...

The mayor of Wichita, Kansas, is calling for his city to "stand united against the alarming rise in gun violence" following a shooting at a nightclub over the weekend that left nine people injured with bullet wounds and another two hospitalized after being trampled. Wichita Police Lt. Aaron Moses said investigators believe several shooters opened fire inside the City Nightz club just before 1 a.m. on Sunday. At least one suspect so far is in custody and police are investigating four guns recovered from the scene to determine if they were the weapons the shooters used. "We will not tolerate...

Investigative journalist and Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer revealed on Sunday that Hunter Biden was paying for a secret global burner phone from AT&T at $300 per month. “We know from the laptop that Hunter Biden’s business paid for a private phone line that Joe Biden used while he was vice president,” Schweizer told Fox News’s, Maria Bartiromo. “It was from AT&T; it was $300 a month, and it was a global phone where you could access somebody anywhere around the world.” “We shared that phone number and that account information with people in the House Oversight Committee. My hope...

Explanation: Why is Venus so different from Earth? To help find out, Japan launched the robotic Akatsuki spacecraft which entered orbit around Venus late in 2015 after an unplanned five-year adventure around the inner Solar System. Even though Akatsuki was past its original planned lifetime, the spacecraft and instruments were operating so well that much of its original mission was reinstated. Also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter, Akatsuki's instruments investigated unknowns about Earth's sister planet, including whether volcanoes are still active, whether lightning occurs in the dense atmosphere, and why wind speeds greatly exceed the planet's rotation speed. In...

Hunter Biden took a photo driving at excessive speeds and while smoking crack behind the wheel during two separate trips in 2018, the Daily Mail reported. Biden photographed the dashboard of his Porsche clocking his speed at 172mph during a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada, according to photos released by the Daily Mail. He also reportedly took a picture of himself smoking crack while driving through a residential area in Arlington, Virginia, on his way to the airport that same year. Biden was reportedly on his way to meet multiple prostitutes in Las Vegas, and texts recovered from his laptop...

Among the many trends the pandemic accelerated, one of the least noted has been the increase in so-called cashless toll roads—highways where electronic fee-collection systems have replaced human toll collectors. Now, as traffic returns to pre-pandemic levels, another trend is plaguing these new systems: fare evasion. Around the country, turnpike authorities and bridge and tunnel operators are logging hundreds of millions of dollars in losses as scofflaws find increasingly inventive ways to outfox the systems. Though advocates say that the losses represent a small portion of total revenues, some officials are contemplating raising tolls to account for the shortfalls—in the...

The measure (SB 1416) includes doing away with what is known as permanent alimony. DeSantis' approval came a year after he nixed a similar bill that sought to eliminate permanent alimony and set up a formula for alimony amounts based on the length of marriage. The approval drew an outcry from members of the "First Wives Advocacy Group," a coalition of mostly older women who receive permanent alimony and who assert that their lives will be upended without the payments.

Major benefactors to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – Morteza ‘Mori’ Hosseini and his wife Forough – have donated tens of thousands of dollars to a political action committee (PAC) funding the Democratic Party leaders, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the lead impeachment manager against former President Donald J. Trump, Jamie Raskin.Hosseini’s donations to the Iranian American Political Action Committee – Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) span from 2004 to 2011, under his name, as well as aliases “Morteza Hosseini Kargar”, and “Morteza Hosseini-Kargar“. During the same period, the PAAIA PAC funded various Democrat groups, including Friends...

Bud Light is now selling for less than water in some places following weeks of declining sales after the brand's disastrous partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. America's former number one selling brew is now down almost 50 percent from its sales numbers a year ago. The brand has lost upwards of $20billion since generating a massive wave of controversy over its partnership with trans influencer Mulvaney in early April.

Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle; John 20:24–29 Friends, today’s Gospel tells of Thomas’ doubting the Resurrection. Indeed, Catholicism has a rich tradition of questioning, seeking understanding.Aquinas, another great St. Thomas, spent much of his life asking and answering hard questions about the faith.Do you remember Hamlet’s great line, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio”? If we stubbornly said—even in the area of science—that we will accept only what we can clearly see and touch and control, we wouldn’t know much about reality.There is, in most areas of life, a play...

A fundraiser for a French policeman who 'executed' a teenager during a traffic stop has reached more than €1million (almost £900,000) - dwarfing the €189,000 donated to the victim's devastated family. Nationwide riots were sparked after the cop shot Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old with an Algerian background, at point blank in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday. Many – including members of Nahel's family – said the killing was symptomatic of widespread racism towards ethnic minority groups in France, and Nahel's grandmother said she was 'heartbroken' by the support shown for the policeman.

A prosecutor who signed off on the documents charging Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes previously worked with one of the First Son's business partners, DailyMail.com can reveal. Delaware US Attorney David Weiss officially filed charges against the president's son last Tuesday after a near five-year probe into his alleged tax crimes and foreign financial dealings. Weiss's deputy, Assistant United States Attorney Derek Hines, signed off on the charging documents alongside his boss and two other assistant US attorneys – indicating he has a central role in Hunter's criminal prosecution.

It is that time of year again: when the United States Supreme Court ruins everyone’s summer with its sociopathic rulings. Last summer, on June 24, the top judicial body overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling that legalised abortion nationwide in 1973. Hardest hit by the decision were poor women of colour, such being the institutionalised inequality that prevails in the world’s self-appointed paragon of justice.

The bold move by Bud Light to align with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney has backfired, leading to an internal shakeup with numerous executives being dismissed from the brand. Retailers are being hit hard financially as they struggle to sell their stockpile of Bud Light. Factories associated with the Anheuser-Busch brand have started shutting down.

Mess around, find out: [Language warning] Moms for Liberty thinks schools shouldn't be teaching kids about sex and gender ideology, and recently they've been falsely maligned as fascists for a Hitler quote on their website used to characterize the anti-freedom Left. This event in Philadelphia was with Billboard Chris, a dad who thinks that sterilizing kids is bad and goes around the US and Canada wearing a billboard saying that kids can't consent to puberty blockers. If you want more video of the insane clowns who line up to protest against sanity and decency, here it is: VIDEO AT LINK.......................

Amidst the ongoing riots in France, an old video of Islamic cleric Mohammad Tawhidi, warning against the import of migrants to the country, has gone viral on the social media. The ‘Imam of peace’ in an interview dated September 9, 2022, can be seen talking about how Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) cannot operate in Muslim countries but freely operate in nations such as the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Mohammad Tawhidi while speaking on combating extremism, Islamism and political Islam said that terrorism is being executed in two manners. First, it is done within the Muslim world and...

Former President Donald J. Trump was one of the first global leaders to acknowledge the migration-driven social unrest in France, telling the media that ‘France is no longer France’ and predicting that things would only worsen. Trump’s 2016 comments came after the murder of Catholic priest Jacques Hamel at the hands of two Muslim men.Trump said at the time:“You see what happened to the French priest. A friend of mine, he said he was going to France like three or four months ago. I saw him yesterday. I said how did you like France? He said, I wouldn’t go to...

A couple allegedly squatting in a Bronx public housing complex abused and neglected their two young girls so severely that the starving youngsters were forced to eat their filthy foam mattress, prosecutors charged on Monday. The girls — three and four years old — were bruised, naked and covered in feces when cops and city workers finally rescued them May 3 from a “house of horrors” at NYCHA’s Mitchel Houses, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office said. Now, their mom Stephanie Grabowski and her beau, Mark Russell, have been indicted on a slew of criminal charges, including kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and...

We told you it was looking bad for Indy's new feminist romp... ...and boy oh boy were we right. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny did a belly flop from 10,000 feet this weekend as the Mouse House's LucasFilm killed the last piece of intellectual property that it hadn't yet destroyed. The movie only made $130 million total on opening weekend (a holiday weekend, no less!). That's $60 million domestically and $70 million internationally against a budget of more than $300 million (not including marketing). That is less than half of the $272 million that the subpar Kingdom of...

Chicago tried something new this year. For the first time ever, on the weekend before Independence Day, the city of Chicago hosted a NASCAR street race – yes, in downtown Chicago, one of the best known business, shopping and entertainment districts in the world. This isn’t something that the voters chose consciously; it’s a decision made by the last city government, the office of the recently-defeated Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Chicagoans have been referring to the event as Lightfoot’s last attack on the people of Chicago. Events like this take weeks to set up, so driving barriers and temporary viewing stands...