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Tomorrow (Jan. 11) we celebrate the feast day of St. Francisca Salesia Aviat. Born Léonie Aviat in 1844, this young French woman had a special devotion to God from the time she was little. The nuns and priests who taught her had an immense influence on her development. During this time in France, young women led very difficult working lives in poor conditions and with little pay in the textile mills. One of the priests who taught Léonie wanted to open homes and schools for these young women to not only care for them but to teach them Christian values....

“Let love of the brethren continue” (Hebrews 13:1). Christianity’s primary moral standard is love, especially for fellow believers. Love of other believers is a natural outflow of the Christian life and should be a normal part of fellowship within the church. You can no doubt remember how after you were first saved it became very natural and exciting to love other Christians and to want to be around them. However, such an attitude is extremely difficult to maintain. This love, which is a gift from God’s Spirit, must be nurtured or it will not grow—it may actually shrivel. That’s why...

Dublin ranks among the top ten most dangerous major cities in Europe Dublin is amongst the ‘unsafest’ major nightlife destinations in Europe, a new global study has revealed. The team at OLBG carried out a study to reveal the safest and unsafest major destinations in Europe with Dublin making the top ten coming in at 9th position. in 2003, it was one of the safest in the world!

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(LifeSiteNews) — Governor Ron DeSantis said on “day one” he will fire Federal Bureau of Investigation officials and other government leaders who targeted parents concerned about inappropriate curriculum and books, as well as those who targeted traditional Catholics. He said “there’s going to be a reckoning” when it comes to the federal officials responsible. The 2024 Republican presidential candidate made the comments during a Fox News town hall yesterday in response to a question about “weaponized” government. The Iowa GOP caucus is on Tuesday, January 15. He mentioned how the targeting has included IRS investigations into Tea Party groups under...

(LifeSiteNews) — As the pro-life movement and abortion groups gear up for a series of tough state-level fights in 2024, a new mantra has emerged in the press: pro-life groups hate democracy. Here’s a sampling of recent headlines: “The Contempt for Democracy Driving the Anti-Abortion Movement,” The Nation “Voters back abortion rights, but some opponents won’t relent. Is the commitment to democracy in question?” The Associated Press “Direct democracy is saving abortion rights. Conservatives want it gone,” The Hill “Protecting Abortion Rights Requires Protecting Democracy as Well,” The New Republic This plays directly into the emerging theme of the Biden-Harris...

(LifeSiteNews) — A Brazilian man who adopted 46 disabled children – many of whom were consequently saved from abortion – will be one of the pro-life speakers at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. Antonio de Mello, a Catholic man who generously adopted dozens of disabled children and cares for them in a faith-based community, will share his pro-life testimony to Americans from across the nation who gather at the nation’s capital later this month. The 51st annual March for Life – and the second since the historic overturning of Roe v. Wade – will take place on...

A depraved Ohio mother is accused of faking her child's cancer diagnosis and shaving her head so she could raise money and keep it for herself, police said. Pamela Reed, 41, was charged Monday with theft by deception after she allegedly claimed her seven-year-old daughter, Addey Rae, had Acute Myeloid Leukemia along with other conditions. The mother raised thousands and posted heartbreaking photos of her child's treatment online. Suspicions arose last week when her child's elementary school nurse discovered that Addey was not blind in her right eye like Reed claimed. The nurse then tipped off detectives at the Noble...

Mark Zuckerberg has become a farmer, announcing he has bought a herd of cattle which he will feed with macadamia meal and beer - aiming 'to create some of the highest quality beef in the world.' The 39-year-old Facebook founder said he will raise the cattle on his ranch in Hawaii, feeding them the nuts for taste and protein, and the beer so the animals relax. Zuckerberg - who has a net worth of $126.5billion- has since 2014 been buying up hundreds of acres on Kauai, and now owns 1,400 acres of beachfront land on the north shore worth an...

"The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire." ☰ John 10 (Other versions) 1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some...

The Centers for Disease Control has given $540,000 to a trans outreach program to help combat HIV transmission within the community. Transgender Equity Consulting is a firm run by Cecilia Gentili, who is an Argentinian trans woman and former sex worker who admits to living in the US 'undocumented' for ten years. Her firm was first awarded the grant by the federal government as part of a national drive to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 2021. So far, it has received $360,000 of the total funding, which will continue until 2026. Gentili fled her homeland seeking a safer existence as...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed slashing climate change, housing and clean energy programs in the state to plug an estimated $38billion deficit. The Democrat, 56, released details of California's new $291billion state spending plan for the 2024-25 budget year on Wednesday. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office predicted last month that California's budget deficit would be $68 billion but Newsom said it was much lower. He proposed covering the financial shortfall by tapping $13billion from reserves, trimming $8.5billion from programs, deferring some spending to the future and spreading it out over more years. Newsom's plan includes $8.5 billion in spending...

A Buffalo Bills fan was shot and killed outside of Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday following an altercation after Buffalo's 21-14 win over the Miami Dolphins, South Florida police said, per the Associated Press (h/t ESPN). Dylan Brody Isaacs, 30, was shot and killed after getting into an argument with a driver of another vehicle while walking back to his car with his friends following Buffalo's AFC East-clinching victory. Isaacs died at the scene. The suspect fled the scene in a Honda Accord, which was located by police in Palm Beach County on Monday. Police have identified a suspect, but...

Donald Trump on Wednesday weighed in again on abortion access when asked to clarify his stance on the issue, saying he was for exceptions to bans and that it was important in order to win elections. "We're living in a time when there has to be a little bit of a concession one way or the other," the former president and 2024 candidate said during a Fox News town hall, which he participated in instead of the latest GOP primary debate. "You have to win elections," Trump also said. "Otherwise, you're going to be back where you were, and you...

FORT WORTH – Attorneys for a 17-year-old girl told a jury in Fort Worth that her strict upbringing, and abortion laws for minors, contributed to her hiding her pregnancy and making plans to kill the child just after she gave birth. The girl has pleaded true to the capital murder charge, the juvenile equivalent of pleading guilty in adult court. Prosecutors told the jury the girl deserved a 40-year prison sentence for inflicting the injuries that led to the baby girl's death. The murder happened at the girl's home in September 2021. In a harrowing 911 call played in court,...

An Ohio mother was arrested Monday for running a Dee Dee Blanchard-esque grift in which she pocketed thousands of dollars after pretending her young daughter was suffering from cancer. Pamela Reed, 41, allegedly lied to her friends and family for years about the health of her 7-year-old daughter, whom she publicly masqueraded on the internet as a blind and sickly child suffering from a trove of medical anomalies, including acute myeloid leukemia and regular seizures. Reed admitted to even shaving her young child’s head in order to sell the plot, cops said. Community members generously “participated in fundraising efforts and...

DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he knows who he wants for his running mate in the 2024 race for president and that his commitment to the NATO alliance will depend on how Europeans treat the United States. The frontrunner for the Republican nomination, Trump was asked by anchors at a live Fox News town hall who was under consideration for vice president on his ticket. "I can't tell you that really. I mean I know who it's going to be," Trump told the gathering of Republican voters in Des Moines, Iowa, five...

A New Jersey bill requiring parental approval before a minor can join social media has garnered opposition… from Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business. Last November, Democrat Herb Conaway introduced a bill that would require children in New Jersey to have parental approval to use social media, including required verification of the adult’s age. “We have to get a hold of this,” Conaway told NJ Advance Media at the time. “Everyone in our country should be alarmed in the rising prevalence of mental illness among our children. Much of it can be laid at the feet of social media....

One common pro-abortion argument is that pro-lifers are pushing a religious agenda in their opposition to abortion. These advocates often use slogans like “Keep your rosaries off my ovaries,” and “Pray to end abortion,” to demonstrate the idea that only religious people are pro-life. Monica Snyder, director of Secular Pro-Life, turns that argument on its head and explains that opposing abortion has nothing to do with religion. “The belief that abortion is wrong is not exclusive to the Bible — or to any one worldview, theistic, secular or otherwise,” Snyder says in Live Action’s latest Pro-Life Replies video. “I am...