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[Catholic Caucus] Diocese of Great Falls-Billings Bans Ad Orientem Liturgy; Boasts That the TLM Will Soon Be Cancelled CompletelyAs predicted, Traditionis Custodes has led to bishops cracking down on Latin and ad orientem generally. The most aggressive example is a "pastoral letter" from the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, MT, dated April 2023. It boasts that the TLM has been cordoned off, like someone with a contagious disease. Traditionis is enforced "strictly" and will soon go away entirely, as permissions are time-limited. "There is to be no convergence or commingling of elements of either ritual with the other." That is, the...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Plans to encircle Ruzzian Group on the south | Z-army leaves Opytne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ukE86l4K24 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 6th September 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). [two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-560-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

A Democrat candidate for state Senate in Virginia appears to have been raising money for a “good cause” by performing graphic sex acts online, where she told viewers she liked “being choked” and said they could watch her urinate for the right price, according to material reviewed by The Daily Wire. Susanna Gibson, who is running for a seat in the narrowly divided Virginia statehouse, was as recently as last year posting as “HotWifeExperience” on the website Chaturbate, where men could pay tokens to get her to perform specific sex acts. In one video recorded shortly after she launched her...

President Trump seeking recusal of the federal judge dealing with the January 6th related federal charges brought against him by the Biden Administration Justice Department... In a sign that a US-Iran prisoner exchange is moving forward Iranian assets frozen in South Korea (6 billion US dollars) freed to move to Qatar... The US Food and Drug Administration approving new updated COVID-19 shots (vaccines).... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Joe Biden next week. But this is not... There are fears that thousands have died in eastern Libya following a powerful storm... In the UK the "Wilko' retail chain closing...

When Aaron Rodgers went down in the Jets’ season opener on Monday night, it sent immediate shockwaves through the football world. The Jets’ new quarterback hit the turf on his first drive with his new team and was later carted off the field with an ankle injury, ruled out for the rest of the game as he was spotted wearing a boot.

With four months until the GOP caucuses, presidential hopefuls are ramping up their campaigns in the Hawkeye state. More than half a dozen candidates will be in Des Moines this weekend for a presidential town hall. Republican presidential candidates are taking every chance they can to campaign in Iowa, joining in on many Iowa traditions like the Cy-Hawk game and the Iowa State Fair. Along with door knocking, these events are an opportunity to commit Iowans to caucus for the candidates; but many may be keeping an open mind. There have been times when people will kind of go into...

'A selection of documents and answers remain unclear.' Gov. Ron DeSantis visited New York City for the annual commemoration of the 9/11 terror attacks 22 years ago. And the Florida Governor and 2024 presidential candidate is calling on the current President to make public information that is currently classified about how those attacks came to happen. “And now, decades later, we as a nation still owe full transparency and accountability to these grieving families. Yet too many politicians have broken past promises to them, and that is wholly unacceptable,” DeSantis said. DeSantis called on President Joe Biden “to publicly commit...

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said Monday on “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump’s “calcified epicenter” of support is 16% of the country. McCaskill said, “Rudy Giuliani, 22 years ago, his approval rating was about 72% in America. A poll taken a few days ago, his approval rating was 16%.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “And who are they?”

Arizona’s House Democrats used a post to X over the weekend to praise New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s (D) order banning both the concealed and open carry of handguns in cities such as Albuquerque. Grisham announced the ban on carrying a handgun, openly or concealed, on Friday, September 8, Breitbart News reported. The ban lasts 30 days and also applies to concealed carry permit holders who carry a gun for self-defense

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) wrote Monday that it is “unbelievable” that Senate Democrats continue to block disaster relief for Americans unless it is paired with Ukraine aid. “It’s unbelievable that the @SenateDems continue to block disaster relief for American families unless it’s paired with Ukraine aid,” Scott wrote. “@POTUS — put American families first & urge @SenSchumer to immediately schedule a vote for the Federal Disaster Responsibility Act.”

A federal appeals court will not rehear a case intended to stop online sports betting in Florida, but whether that means sports betting is finally coming to the Sunshine State is not clear. West Flagler Associates has been trying to stop a state compact with the Seminole Tribe that would allow online sports betting on tribal lands. Back in June an appeals court panel sided with the U.S. Department of the Interior that the federal government followed the rules when it allowed the Seminole Tribe to enter into a compact with the state of Florida in 2021. West Flagler Associates...

WATCH: Konstantine Anthony- the Mayor of Burbank, California, received a spanking from a drag queen in front of children at a Democrat campaign event yesterday.

In total, they visited 17 different doctors over three years. But Alex still had no diagnosis that explained all his symptoms. An exhausted and frustrated Courtney signed up for ChatGPT and began entering his medical information, hoping to find a diagnosis. “I went line by line of everything that was in his (MRI notes) and plugged it into ChatGPT,” she says. “I put the note in there about ... how he wouldn’t sit crisscross applesauce. To me, that was a huge trigger (that) a structural thing could be wrong.” She eventually found tethered cord syndrome and joined a Facebook group...

Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined New York politicians and mourners at a 9/11 memorial ceremony at ground zero Monday. The bipartisan group of politicians was not scheduled to speak at the ceremony, marking the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. The solemn ceremony in lower Manhattan was instead focused on the hours-long reading of the names of the dead. ... Monday's ceremony brought political opponents to the same hallowed ground, though they did not appear to be interacting. Harris, who...

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.

Jacob Chansley is the so-called QAnon Shaman that had the painted face & the horns, which the press made the poster boy of J6. It's an extremely interesting & worthwhile interview, that I believe after you watch the interview, you will walk away with a much different view of him, even if you didn't believe the press BS about him. While I didn't believe the press about him, I kind of thought he was a little strange & mostly weird.

In his next stop on the road to 2024, President Trump made an appearance at an Iowa State University agricultural frat house to say hello to college students and have some fun before heading to the Iowa vs. Iowa State football game. Hundreds of excited young voters cheered for the 45th president and broke out into “TRUMP!” chants when he stepped outside to greet them. One student estimated at least 500 people were packed in the small patio of the Alpha Gamma Rho house.President Donald J. Trump steps out to greet Iowa State University students. pic.twitter.com/oGXwddZqfM— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) September...

"A Good American" is a gripping docu-thriller about a groundbreaking surveillance program, the brilliant mastermind behind it and how a perfect alternative to mass surveillance was killed by NSA-management for money – three weeks prior to 9/11. Bill Binney was a brilliant cryptologist and long-time National Security Agency (NSA) analyst, since 1997 serving as Technical Director. Binney developed a sophisticated program named ThinThread for gathering data capable of providing clues, in real-time, of potential terrorist threats. Built-in safeguards would have prevented the massive surveillance methods later exposed by Edward Snowden. Why was this program killed off? And who was behind...

Former President Donald Trump’s lead over his nearest competitor in the Republican primary field, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), has expanded four percent since August and now sits at nearly fifty points, according to a national TIPP insights poll.The poll, published on Monday, shows that Trump has hit the 60 percent threshold for the first time in a TIPP Insights survey in 2023. His support has grown three points from August among registered Republicans and right-leaning independents, while DeSantis has fallen off one point since then and lands at eleven percent in the latest poll. Nine percent of respondents back entrepreneur...

President Donald Trump released the following video statement, commemorating the anniversary of 09-11-01:.Posted in Big Government, Donald Trump, Islam, President Trump, Press Secretary - Trump, Terrorist AttacksSharemore