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[Catholic Caucus] ‘Confused and confusing’: Cardinal Zen talks to the Herald about his ongoing Synod concernsROME – Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the former bishop of Hong Kong, has become seen in recent years as something of a Confessor — one who has suffered but not (yet) died for the Faith.He has had well-documented difficulties with China’s Communist authorities, which have seen him in recent years charged under new security laws and held under house arrest, as well as his well-known struggles with the Vatican over their Ostpolitik approach to Beijing.Now he has felt forced to speak out in defence of...

Joseph Czuba, 71, was arrested and charged with a hate crime over the Saturday afternoon attack in Plainfield, a suburb southwest of Chicago. Czuba knocked on their door Saturday afternoon with a knife in his hand and immediately began attempting to choke and stab Shahin after she opened up, she said. Czuba shouted, “You Muslims must die!” according to her account, which was shared with CAIR. Little Wadea was stabbed 26 times, according to the county coroner’s autopsy. Shahin was stabbed more than a dozen times, police said.

The patterns of the anti-Semitic/Marxist/”Palestinian”/LGBTQ/BLM/hate-filled alliance are nothing if not predictable. After expressing shock and dismay that their Palestinian friends in Gaza specifically targeted civilians, in under a week, they have quickly shifted back to their repeated old rhetoric. They are now blaming Israel for the horrific attacks from Hamas, calling Israel’s counter-attacks on Hamas a “terrorist siege,” blitzing the media with images of wounded from Gaza, and attacking Israel in all ways as an ‘apartheid state’ and, as Ocasio Cortez defined Israel, a nation devoted to “ethnic cleansing”.

In maybe the most tense day on the northern border since the outbreak of the war with Hamas one week ago, Hezbollah and Hamas attacked Israeli targets six times on Sunday, killing one Israeli civilian, while Israel reacted by striking multiple targets across southern Lebanon. The Lebanon branch of the Hamas military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Kassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the attack. In the morning, one Israeli citizen was killed and three others were injured by an anti-tank missile fired at a construction site in Moshav Shtula from southern Lebanon. The IDF in response shelled targets in southern Lebanon...

Halloween may have come a little early for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York as his words came back to haunt him on Friday the 13th. Remember last year when a draft of the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, causing leftists to lose their collective head? Large groups of protesters gathered outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices for weeks, disrupting their lives and upsetting their families. Authorities even foiled an assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh by a 26-year-old man enraged by the still-pending decision. When a reporter asked Schumer if...

At more than one million hours of use and counting, this bulb proves that they really don't make things like they used to. The Centennial Bulb, as this light has come to be known, is the longest-lasting light bulb of all time. It has been burning continuously since 1901, excluding a short interval in 1976 when the bulb was disconnected from electricity for 22 minutes while the firestation was moved to a different location.

The FBI has revealed that the bureau has seen an increase in domestic threats since Hamas' attacks on Israel last weekend. FBI Director Christopher Wray made the comments while speaking to police in San Diego on Saturday, urging citizens to be vigilant and wary of acts inspired by the Palestinian militant group.

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Stunned to hear the historical re-write from CNN's Clarissa Ward, on CNN with Erin Burnett. Clarissa Ward just referred to, quote: "...in nineteen forty eight, what they, (the Palestinians,) call The Naqba, when seven hundred thousand Palestinians were forced to leave their homes."

About 93,500 infants were born in Ukraine in the first half of this year, 28% fewer than during the same period in 2021 before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country. While the birth rate in Ukraine had already declined over the past decade, the exodus of the country's female population and the security risks linked to the war have had a catastrophic impact. According to the worst-case scenario estimated by Ella Libanova, director of the Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the current population of approximately 37 million could...

An investigation is underway in Florida after burglars used tractor trailers to steal more than $1.6 million worth of alcohol from a distribution company that carries brands including Jose Cuervo and Malibu. The theft began during the early morning hours on July 8 at Republic National Distributing Company, located in Hillsborough County south of Tampa, according to a newly unsealed search warrant obtained by CNN on October 5. Between between 4:10 a.m. and 9:45 a.m., the thieves removed 4,277 cases of liquor from the company that also distributes alcohol from Franzia Wines and Sutter Home Winery, according to the search...

... This can be averaged to 68.75 rounded to 69.This figure needs to be corrected because the test was administered to groups rather than individually and the test has been standardized in Britain for individual administration. A previous study has shown that in an Arab sample of this age group that took the test individually and in groups, the group administration gave a score 12.5 IQ points lower than individual administration (Bakhiet & Lynn, 2014). Thus, we propose that 12.5 needs to be added to the 69 to give 81.5 as the best estimate of the British-scaled IQ of the...

@mkraju New — A senior House GOP member told me he has spoken to 20 members ready to vote against Jordan and block him on the floor. Jordan has had positive conversations and pushing for TUESDAY vote, another source saysGOP meeting Monday. “We can’t reward this behavior,” member says

Iran has warned Israel of regional escalation if the Israeli military enters Gaza for a ground invasion as the war with Hamas enters its second week. “If the measures aimed at immediately stopping the Israeli attacks that are killing children in the Gaza Strip end in a deadlock, it is highly probable that many other fronts will be opened. This option is not ruled out and this is becoming increasingly more probable,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told Al Jazeera on Sunday. “If the Zionist entity [Israel] decides to enter Gaza, the resistance leaders will turn it into a graveyard...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “informal conversations” are taking place for a bipartisan solution to the House speakership.Jeffries concluded, “We want to ensure that votes are taken on bills that have substantial Democratic support and substantial Republican support so that the extremists aren’t able to dictate the agenda.”

Matthew 22:1-14 Friends, today’s Gospel likens the kingdom of God to a king who gives a wedding feast for his son. The biblical authors couldn’t find a more apt metaphor for the coming together of divinity and humanity than a wedding banquet. God and humanity are married, and they are surrounded by joy, peace, celebration, and good food.What was Jesus’ strategy? Open table-fellowship; outreach to all, to the righteous and the unrighteous, to the healthy and the sick, to the mainstream and the marginalized. Here comes everybody. You don’t have to be good to receive God’s grace; that’s why they...

Suzanne Somers, the effervescent blonde actor known for playing Chrissy Snow on the television show “Three’s Company” as well as her business endeavors, has died Suzanne Somers, the effervescent blonde actor known for playing Chrissy Snow on the television show “Three’s Company” as well as her business endeavors, has died. She was 76. Somers had breast cancer for over 23 years and died Sunday morning, her family said in a statement provided by her longtime publicist, R. Couri Hay. Her husband Alan Hamel, her son Bruce and other immediate family were with her in Palm Springs, California. “Her family was...

Big bad Israel, with its high-tech weaponry and space-age air force and missile subs and satellites is the bully of the Middle East! Those poor, poor Palestinians who just want to go about their business and live in peace are no match for Israel. That's why they have to resort to decapitating babies and murdering concert-goers and slaughtering grandmothers and taking hostages! It's only fair. And when Israel decides that an existential threat on their border is too much to tolerate, they immediately kill too many people and destroy too many buildings!The big meanies!Nearly Half of Democrat Men Already Think...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: Pray and fast during the Synod as you would for LentOn this week's episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland calls for prayer and fasting during the Synod on Synodality and voices support for the recent dubia presented to Pope Francis.(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland voices support for the recent dubia by Cardinal Raymond Burke and company, comments on a quote by Archbishop Ven. Fulton Sheen, and calls for prayer and fasting during the Synod on Synodality.Beginning the show addressing the Synod, Strickland encourages us...

Dr. Ryan Cole is a Board-Certified pathologist. Dr. Cole is an expert in postmortem examination and has treated more than 500,000 patients. He has a prestigious resume, including a five-year stint at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Cole has been fighting the CV19 narrative from infection to injection from the very beginning and told people not to get the CV19 vax. For this, Dr. Cole was attacked by the globalist Deep State until he was forced to sell his medical diagnostic business that staffed around 80 employees. Cole has been put out of work for telling the awful truth about the...