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[Catholic Caucus] Catholic priest rebukes bishops endorsing ‘blessings’ of sinful relationships: ‘You need to repent’‘You’re causing schism in the Church,’ Father Mark Goring told heterodox bishops in a recent viral video.Canadian priest Father Mark Goring delivered a warning to Catholic bishops promoting “blessings” for “sinful partnership situations,” urging them to repent so they do not “perish eternally.”“There’s a handful of bishops out there, and you guys seem to be authorizing or allowing the blessing of sinful partnership situations,” Father Goring noted in a September 10 video that has gone viral.Warning to Bishops - Fr. Mark Goring“You need to repent. You...

We live in a tech-driven age.Unfortunately, this past week, the Fractal team learned the RNC wasted tens of millions of dollars investing in obsolete, 1980s technology. If left to the RNC data team, GOP candidates will lose every close election in 2024.The appalling, 50% wrong canvassing lists RNC provided in 2020 and 2022, its inability to deliver real-time voter roll analysis in Arizona, its total blindness to armies of phantom voters in every state – is the prelude to the same incompetence – applied at scale – in 2024.The RNC hasn’t innovated – 2024 will be 2022 revisited!2024 will see...

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) responded to Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen’s Monday press conference by stressing that she does not need a sheriff giving her a “lecture on constitutionality.” Breitbart News reported that Allen used his press conference to make clear that neither he nor his deputies will enforce Grisham’s ban on concealed and open carry of firearms. He described the ban as “unconstitutional.” In video published by ABQ Raw, Allen said, “I hold my standards high and I do not, nor ever will, hedge on what is right. I take my oath seriously.” He went on...

sanctions imposed because of the war in Ukraine has led to a lack of spare parts for Russian airlines which have Airbus or Boeing planes. There have been several emergency landings in recent months. In the latest incident, a Ural Airlines Airbus 320 was flying from the Black Sea resort of Sochi to the city of Omsk in southwestern Siberia on Tuesday when the aircraft sounded an alarm, according to the Telegram channel Baza... Independent Russian news outlet Agentstvo said that the plane was among those that Russian airlines had refused to return to their owners after Putin's full-scale invasion...

The DeSantis campaign is imploding. The most recent admission from the team managing DeSantis was their shifted goalposts for a second place in Iowa. Additionally, there is now friction between Ron DeSantis and Jeff Roe (head of Never Back Down PAC), if the inside campaign leakers are to be believed.There is an element of total understanding to the frustration about the bitter pill DeSantis is being forced to swallow. I mean, think about it, the management of Ron DeSantis didn’t just posit the 2024 campaign in the last year, this has been a long thought-out strategy going back much further....

The labor market is nowhere near as strong as it appears. If that sounds surprising, it’s because the absence of millions of Americans from the workforce artificially lowers the unemployment rate. Accounting for the missing workers reveals an unemployment rate of over 6%, not the official 3.8%. To make sense of the numbers, we need to understand what led to today’s labor market conditions. The two-month recession in 2020 wasn’t a normal downturn caused by bad investment, misallocation of capital, and/or overextension of credit. It was an artificial recession caused by the government forcibly shutting down a robust economy during...

Former President Donald Trump holds a double-digit lead over President Joe Biden in a hypothetical head-to-head general election race in Iowa while he also enjoys a 35-point advantage in the Iowa GOP Caucus, according to an Emerson College poll. The poll, published on Tuesday, shows 50 percent of voters in the Hawkeye State would back Trump in a rematch of the 2020 election, placing him 11 points ahead of Biden at 39 percent. Another 11 percent are undecided in that scenario. In the 2020 election, Trump won Iowa by just over eight percent. When the field is expanded to include...

A key ingredient in many over-the-counter cold and allergy medications called phenylephrine doesn’t work to get rid of nasal congestion, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel concluded Tuesday. The unanimous vote, which specifically declared oral formulations of phenylephrine ineffective, is expected to disrupt the market for OTC cold and allergy remedies, where consumers largely prefer pills over nasal sprays. Phenylephrine — found in drugs including Sudafed PE, Vicks Sinex and Benadryl Allergy Plus Congestion — is the most popular oral decongestant in the United States, generating almost $1.8 billion in sales last year, according to data presented Monday by...

There’s an absolutely horrific transition tale making the rounds on social media. It’s about a young Virginia girl named Sage Blair. When Sage was a high school student she suffered with mental illness. She ran away from home and became a victim of sex trafficking across several states. But the truly sad and horrifying part of this story is that the reason Sage ran away to begin with was that high school officials encouraged her to transition to “male,” and then neglected to inform her guardian grandparents about it. This predictably lead to relentless humiliation, bullying, and even rape threats...

Russians — even the most liberal-minded of them, who oppose Putin’s regime — think that Russia is a great country, with great and deep culture, which is superior to others. They are proud of Russia, the largest country on Earth. At the same time, all Russians complain of corrupt officials, bribery, nepotism, lawlessness, inefficiency. But Russia is still great, regardless!

Donald Trump is entirely unwilling to release his vice grip on the Republican primary with the latest polling putting the New York business mogul an astounding 56 percent ahead of second place Ron DeSantis (R-FL) who is struggling to gain any ground in the race.The poll comes from Tipp Insights who ran an online national poll between August 30 and September 1 asking 509 Republican voters “If the Republican presidential primary were held today, whom would you support for the nomination?” The poll noted a +/- 4.4 percent margin or error.Former President Trump has managed to keep his hold on...

"Through our investigations, we have found that President Biden did lie to the American people about his own knowledge of his family's foreign business dealings. Eyewitnesses have testified that the president joined on multiple phone calls and had multiple interactions, dinners resulted in cars and millions of dollars into his sons and his son's business partners," McCarthy said. Earlier, Fox News Digital confirmed that McCarthy will tell House Republicans today that beginning an impeachment inquiry against Biden is the "logical next step" for their investigations. An inquiry is the first step of the impeachment process, where evidence is gathered for...

The California legislature passed a bill Friday requiring parents to “affirm” a child’s newfound gender or risk loss of custody. Assembly Bill 957 was initially proposed to require courts to consider whether parents were “affirming” a child’s identification as transgender in custody cases. The legislation was later amended in June to declare non-affirming parents liable for child abuse. Republican state Sen. Scott Wilk bluntly recommended parents “flee” the state over the amendment. “In the past when we’ve had these discussions and I’ve seen parental rights atrophy, I’ve encouraged people to keep fighting,” Wilk said in June. “I’ve changed my mind...

On Saturday, Team Trump packed the Hollis Old Home Day Parade in Hollis, New Hampshire with scores of volunteers coming out to show their support for the leading Republican presidential candidate and 45th President Donald Trump."Team Trump had a great time marching in the Hollis Old Home Day Parade!" Team Trump Deputy State Director Dylan Quattricci wrote. "New Hampshire is TRUMP Country!"In pictures and videos from the parade, dozens of Trump supporters adorned with MAGA hats, Trump signs, and Trump flags could be seen marching in the parade.The lineup for the parade started at around 9:30 AM and the parade...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said he will seek to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Biden based off the House GOP’s investigations into his family’s foreign business dealings. “Today, I am directing our House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” McCarthy said. McCarthy said the probe will be led by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) in coordination with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.), who have been leading the investigations. “I do not make this decision lightly. And regardless...

Patients grandfathered into the state’s new ban on gender-affirming-care for minors are still having prescriptions revoked as providers fear lawsuits ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Washington University in St. Louis joined University of Missouri Health as the latest provider of care to transgender minors to announce it is canceling pre-existing prescriptions for puberty blockers or hormone-replacement therapy. A new state law restricting access to gender-affirming care bars those under 18 from beginning new treatments. But in a compromise with opponents of the ban, lawmakers grandfathered in patients who had begun a medical transition before the law went into effect on Aug. 28. But a...

A majority of Republican voters (56%) say they believe former President Donald Trump will unseat Democrat President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to recent polling.The latest I&I/TIPP poll of Republican voters released Monday found Trump's lead widening among his GOP rivals and there was a firm belief that he will replace Biden in the Oval Office after the November 2024 general election.The poll was conducted online nationally with 509 Republican voters from Aug. 30 to Sept. 1 and has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.According to the poll, 60% of the respondents said they support Trump...

A 19-year-old woman named Chloe Cole, who was medically transitioned as a minor and has since detransitioned, was censored by Instagram over the weekend. It’s unclear why Cole was censored, but the teen captioned a photo of her bio on the social media platform, wherein she identifies herself as a detranstioner. Cole’s bio notes that she’s “female” with two X chromosomes and a “former trans kid.” It also says that she was started on testosterone and puberty blockers at age 13, underwent a double mastectomy at 15, and finally detranstioned at 16. “The big tech overlords think I’m too cute...

Hyperpapalists are instituting tactics inspired by the French Revolution.One of the most distinct and basic — though sometimes contentious — tenets of Catholic doctrine is that of papal supremacy. Catholics are morally and theologically bound to accept the authority and supremacy of the pope, the bishop of Rome, as the visible head of the Holy Catholic Church. Failure to do so — schism — designates the schismatic as someone who willingly places himself outside the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, leftists within the Church’s ranks have isolated this basic tenet from all other basic tenets of Catholicism and weaponized it. The latest...

FIRST ON FOX: A CIA whistleblower told Congress that the agency offered officials on a team investigating COVID-19 origins "significant monetary incentive" to change their positions, from that it originated out of a leak from the Wuhan lab to "unable to determine" the origins, Fox News Digital has learned. Fox News Digital obtained letters House Coronavirus Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner sent to the CIA and a former official. "The Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have received new and concerning whistleblower testimony regarding the Agency’s...