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Archbishop Viganò: World Youth Day has confirmed Bergoglio’s plan to provoke a schism‘Let us prepare ourselves for a crescendo of unprecedented provocations: time bombs ready to explode in order to sow disorientation, confusion, and division.’This is the third part of an interview that Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò gave to veteran Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli. LifeSiteNews’ coverage of part one and part two of the interview can be found here and here. Below follows the full text of part three.Part three: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and Aldo Maria ValliValli: Your Excellency, we often say “motus in fine velocior” – “movement...

During a sworn deposition, FBI special agent Elvis Chan claimed the bureau and big tech companies only had one meeting regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story. In a bombshell development, Meta Inc. was served with a subpoena from Congress to provide their private email correspondence with the FBI. The internal communications reveal that the FBI had extensive meetings with Facebook. Chan himself had more than one meeting with Facebook, which directly contradicts his testimony. Chan also testified of having no knowledge about the Hunter Biden laptop investigation. Again, this contradicts what Chan privately told Facebook behind closed doors. In the...

The aging population of our Congress has become a trending news topic. Last month 89-year-old Senator Feinstein had to be told what to say during a vote by one of her aides after a nearly two-month medical leave of absence with shingles. More recently, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had a concerning mental episode while giving a routine press briefing. Not to mention Joe Biden's relentless gaffes. As Glenn said this week, keeping these health-compromised elderly individuals in power is "elder abuse" and just plain "cruel." Keeping health-compromised, elderly individuals in power is "elder abuse." Both of these leaders are...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis’s Haste: Preparing His Succession?“The Consistory of a Pope in a Hurry”As his pontificate draws to a close, Pope Francis, in his eagerness to completely change the Catholic Church before rendering accounts to the Creator, is speeding up reforms and appointing prelates consistent with his religious ideology.Thus, the upcoming consistory to elevate twenty-one more cardinals from his lineup indicates the haste with which he is acting. As a religious commentator put it, the September 30 consistory is the “consistory of a pope in a hurry.”1A “Synod” to Transform the ChurchThe Synod of Synodality is accelerating the institutional,...

A Spanish biotechnological company has broken all records by reporting sales of €264 million in the last five years. According to the annual accounts of Certest Biotec, specifically, it has turned over a total of €264,858,113, as reported this Monday, August 7, by okdiario.com. This incredible feat has been achieved while employing in excess of 80 per cent of females in its workforce based in the city of Zaragoza in Aragon. As reported last May by the Spanish Association of Biocompanies AseBio (AseBio), 60 per cent of the staff of all biotechnology companies in Spain are women. In 2021, Certest...

Shocking video shows three teens harassing an Asian family of tourists aboard a New York City subway train before attacking one visitor and a Good Samaritan who was trying to film the encounter. Now, the NYPD is seeking the identities of the suspects - who were all black - in an assault being investigated as a hate crime. Sue Young, 51, and her family, were visiting the Big Apple from Nevada, when they were approached by three teens who were laughing and pointing at them on Thursday night around 8pm while they were riding the F train at the West...

Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon denied a DOJ request to keep evidence sealed in the Mar-a-Lago documents case against President Donald J Trump. Additionally, Cannon has demanded that Special Counsel Jack Smith explain why he is using an out of district grand jury to construct additional charges against the defendant. [2-page ruling pdf here] Cannon has presided over the document issues even before the indictment against Donald Trump was unsealed. As a result, she has a good frame of reference for the Lawfare tactics the Special Counsel is attempting to deploy.

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — A Florida man was arrested after he claimed to have an explosive device when family members attempted to evict him from their home, according to a release from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The release said deputies were called to a home off of Tyner Street just before noon Thursday for a report of a disturbance between the residents and Lance Heines, 21. Heines, a family member of the residents, was in the middle of being evicted when he “made statements indicating he had an explosive device and told family members to get the bomb...

How did 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano Cheese cause the death of a 75-year-old entrepreneur? It has been reported that on Sunday, August 6, a total of 25,000 wheels of Grana Padano cheese fell in the warehouse of a cheese factory in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, crushing the owner, 75-year-old farmer Giacomo Chiapparini. The tragic incident unfolded due to the shelving collapse, though the actual causes remain unknown, according to Il Corriere della Citta. The immediate response to the incident saw about twenty fire brigades from the Bergamo command post and the detachments of Romano di Lombardia, Treviglio and Dalmine,...

Mark Carlson now faces charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault, theft of a motor vehicle, and fleeing a police officerA44-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly carjacking a family of four waiting in the drive-thru line at a Taco Bell in Green, Ohio. Mark Carlson, identifiable by the tattoos plastered across his head and neck, reportedly carjacked a vehicle in Akron earlier that day. However, he ran out of gas when the vehicle reached Green, according to a release from the Summit County Sheriff's Office. Carlson then allegedly tried, but failed, to carjack another vehicle before running across the road...

Bullock met Randall when he photographed her son's birthday party in 2015. They started dating shortly after.Sandra Bullock's longtime partner, Bryan Randall, has died after a private battle with ALS, his family revealed on Monday. According to a statement obtained by Yahoo Entertainment, the photographer — who started dating the Oscar-winning actress in 2015 — "passed away peacefully" over the weekend. He was 57. "It is with great sadness that we share that on Aug. 5, Bryan Randall passed away peacefully after a three-year battle with ALS," his family shared. "Bryan chose early to keep his journey with ALS private...

A diving team that took to the water in Doral has uncovered not just one underwater mystery, but nearly three dozen. Underwater video captured a diver finding a vehicle in the murky waters of a lake located near Miami International Airport. Divers Ken Fleming and Doug Bishop spoke with 7News about their finds on Sunday. “We’re here trying to solve missing persons cold cases,” said Fleming. The mission led these divers to Doral in an effort to detect ditched vehicles. “That’s when we realized that we had 32 cars underwater,” said Fleming. Fleming said the vehicles were dumped in this...

People who lived or worked overseas in Europe during the 1980s and 90s can now donate blood and platelets after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated their guidelines on Monday. The change applies to individuals who spent time in the United Kingdom, France, and Ireland from 1980 to 2001. This change also allows anyone who received blood transfusions in the same countries anytime since 1980. 16 y/o girl dead after allegedly being fatally shot by 17 y/o boy Many Utahns who may have served in the military during that time or missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ...

Former President Donald Trump dubbed his former running mate turned campaign rival “Liddle Mike Pence” over the weekend and contended he never directed Pence to put him “above the Constitution” as the former vice president has claimed. Trump referred to Pence with the newly-minted “Liddle” moniker in multiple Truth Social posts, with the first coming Saturday after Pence was critical of Trump following his latest indictment in connection to the January 6 Capitol riot: WOW, it’s finally happened! Liddle’ Mike Pence, a man who was about to be ousted as Governor Indiana until I came along and made him V.P.,...

The Atlanta courthouse locked down ahead of Fani Willis’ decision to charge Trump over his efforts to challenge the 2020 election in Georgia. “Law-enforcement officers surrounded the Fulton County courthouse on Monday in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, amid closed roads and traffic barriers put up to boost security ahead of a possible indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump,” Reuters reported. A judge last Monday denied Trump’s second bid to quash Fulton County DA Fani Willis’investigation into Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election in Georgia. Meanwhile, Fani Willis is reportedly ‘ready to go’ Fulton County prosecutors are preparing sprawling racketeering...

The record number of non-white candidates running for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination is a source of pride for Republicans who deny their party has become a MAGA white-nationalist cult. But the candidates themselves often seem to be walking a tightrope when addressing the overwhelmingly white Republican primary electorate. The two South Carolinians in the race are good examples: Black U.S. senator Tim Scott and Indian American former governor Nikki Haley have both touted their ability to overcome racial discrimination as a personal triumph while denying systemic racism is still a problem for the country. Indian American tech tyro Vivek...

"And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. "And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." Luke, Chapter 16 1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had...

Former President Donald Trump's attorneys opposed special counsel Jack Smith's proposal for a protective order in the case related to the 2020 election, according to a court document filed Monday. Trump's attorneys argued Smith's protective order, which prosecutors typically use to dictate how discovery is handled in a case, was "overbroad" and accused the Department of Justice of seeking to "restrict First Amendment rights" with it. Protecting certain discovery "does not require a blanket gag order over all documents produced by the government," Trump's defense team wrote. His lawyers added, "Rather, the Court can, and should, limit its protective order...

"There was definitely a double-standard. ... We couldn't be doing the same things the guys did and get away with it," says the singer of one of the few female bands to infiltrate '80s hair-metal scene.In Penelope Spheeris’s notorious 1988 rockumentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, KISS’s Paul Stanley is interviewed while lounging in bed with a bevy of lingerie-clad groupies; W.A.S.P.’s Chris Holmes chugs a bottle of vodka in a swimming pool; Odin’s Randy O canoodles in a hot tub with bikini girls; Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry brag about spending millions of...

A senior U.S. official says coup leaders in Niger refused to allow her to meet Monday with the West African country’s democratically elected president, whom she described as under “virtual house arrest.” Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland also described the mutinous officers as unreceptive to U.S. urging — and warnings — to return the country to civilian rule. “They were quite firm about how they want to proceed and it is not in support of the constitution of Niger,” Nuland told reporters. She spoke after a two-hour meeting on the ground in Niger’s capital, Niamey, with some leaders of the...