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[Catholic Caucus] The Enemy of the Holy Mass: Vittorio ViolaThe greatest enemy of the Roman Rite, along with Cardinal Parolin, is Monsignor Vittorio Viola, Secretary of the Dicastery for the Liturgy, nicknamed 'Monsignor Nada, Nada, Nada', writes PaixLiturgique.fr (11 July).- Viola is a Franciscan and wears the episcopal ring of Monsignor Annibale Bugnini, the inventor of the Novus Ordo.- Viola was the main architect of 'Desiderio desideravi', the strict interpreter of the 'Traditionis custodes', and the supporter of all the prohibitions, most recently the celebration of Holy Mass at the end of the Covadonga pilgrimage.- This earned him the nickname...

Homeland Security inspector general investigating the Secret Service over its handling of security at the Trump campaign in Butler, Pa. on Saturday. The agency's IG said the probe is focused on evaluating the United States Secret Service’s (Secret Service) "process for securing former President Trump’s July 13, 2024 campaign event.”

The UK has become the first European country to approve lab-grown meat to be sold to the public, with the synthetically developed protein expected to appear on the shelves as early as this year. British regulators have given the approval to UK-based firm Meatly to begin selling its lab-grown meat as dog food to the public. The approval paves the way for taste-test trials with dogs to begin for its new pet food, which will include proteins derived from cultivated chicken cells. The co-founder and CEO of the startup, Owen Ensor told The Telegraph on Wednesday: “The European Union has...

Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson on Tuesday doubled down on his 2015 comment that the “donor class” is “going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump,” despite the Saturday assassination attempt on the former president. Wilson made the comment in October 2015 in the context of arguing that Republican donors needed to destroy Trump’s campaign and boost a stronger candidate to defeat Hillary Clinton, according to a transcript of MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.” Wilson said Tuesday on “Rick Wilson’s The Enemies List” that the phrase was just a “metaphor” and told people not...

As Old Joe Biden sends them billions. The Biden regime State Department has now publicly confirmed what it must have known for nearly three years, if not longer: Taliban jihadis are holding three Americans hostage. What have relentlessly anti-American Biden regime apparatchiks done in response? True to form, they’ve sent billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to the Taliban.The Washington Examiner reported Saturday that a Biden regime Foggy Bottom wonk “confirmed on July 11 that three U.S. citizens, George Glezmann, Mahmood Habibi, and Ryan Corbett, are currently being held in Taliban custody. Taliban representatives repeatedly claimed they only held...

The Democrat-majority North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) blocked presidential candidates for the Justice for All Party (Cornel West) and the We the People Party (Robert F Kennedy, Jr.) from November's general election ballot. They approved the Constitution Party's candidate (Randall Terry). NCSBE member Alan Hirsch explained "it's not that we disapprove of the views of either Mr. West or Mr. Kennedy. They are acceptably left-of-center, but that's the problem. President Biden is also left-of-center. Having these three men split the left-of-center vote can only work to the advantage of Donald Trump." "The reason for our approval of the...

The local cop who interrupted Thomas Crooks’ assassination attempt on Donald Trump — but failed to stop the deranged gunman from squeezing the trigger — saved the ex-president’s life, a Pennsylvania sheriff insisted Tuesday. Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe doubled down on his defense of the Butler Township police officer who confronted Crooks at the Saturday rally and assailed online critics as “a–holes” in an interview with The Post. Slupe argued that the officer — whose department was enlisted by the Secret Service to help during the rally — merely coming face to face with the shooter delayed what could...

Daily Readings from the USCCBAt that time Jesus exclaimed: “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.” Matthew 11:25This passage is in stark contrast to the passage just before it in which Jesus chastised the towns of Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum for not repenting and believing in Him. And as soon as Jesus issued those rebukes, He turned His eyes to Heaven and offered praise to the Father for revealing the hidden mysteries of the Kingdom of...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The families of 19 of the victims in the Uvalde elementary school shooting in Texas on Wednesday filed a $500 million federal lawsuit against nearly 100 state police officers who were part of the botched law enforcement response to one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. The families said they also agreed to a $2 million settlement with the city, under which city leaders promised higher standards and better training for local police. The lawsuit and settlement announcement in Uvalde came two days before the two-year anniversary of the massacre. Nineteen fourth-graders and two...

As former President Donald Trump’s former adviser Peter Navarro is released from prison Wednesday, his next move in his newly found freedom looks to be speaking at the Republican National Convention. Navarro completed his four-month prison sentence for defying a congressional subpoena to testify before the Jan. 6 committee. He is expected to travel quickly from federal prison in Miami to Milwaukee in order to address the RNC, according to CNN.He recently said he has “no regrets” about actions that led to his prison sentence in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.“I have no regrets,” Navarro said. “I didn’t...

NYU professor of developmental psychology Niobe Way sat down with ABC News to discuss her book, "Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture," which explores how society can better raise boys. Over the years, Way has studied what she refers to as" boy culture" Her book includes case histories and studies that outline the negative impacts on boys when cultures and societies prioritize independence and assertiveness over our inherent abilities to care, listen and rely on one another.

A photo editor at a major news outlet has called on the media to bury the historic photo of former President Donald Trump standing defiant after the assassination attempt Saturday. The unnamed editor slammed the photo as “dangerous” and “free PR” for the Trump campaign.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally Saturday left Americans around the nation shocked. But he’s not the only president to face this kind of violence. Throughout U.S. history, there have been countless plots and attempts to assassinate U.S. presidents, including President Gerald R. Ford, who grew up in Grand Rapids. Ford survived not one, but two assassination attempts. “Ford mentioned that he didn’t want to be captive in the White House, he wanted to continue to move about the country, connect with the American people,” said Dr. Mirelle Luecke, supervisory curator. And that’s...

The strength of the American Revolution was its respect for the past and its privileging of legal precedent and the rights of Englishman over any ideologies. The same rights they claimed were guaranteed in the royal charters and documents of incorporation that each colony created at their inception. Before some of the charters were signed in America and after others, the English Bill of Rights of 1689 restated the common law rights of Englishmen. Yet, that document isn’t the origin of the rights fought for by British Americans. The Petition of Right of 1628 reaffirmed the controls upon the royal...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) needled his rival, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), on Tuesday while the two were on the floor of the Republican National Convention, tauntingly asking McCarthy when he was slated to speak. “What night are you speaking? Are you speaking tonight?” Gaetz mockingly asked McCarthy. “If you took that stage, you would get booed off of it,” he told McCarthy. “You would get booed off the stage.” Gaetz defended his previous comments in a brief interview with The Hill, saying he was counterpunching. “He was saying something very untrue and nasty about me to CNN. So, this...

[Catholic Caucus] Diocesan Latin Masses suppressed in Richmond as Vatican’s two-year indult expiresTraditional Latin Masses in three diocesan churches have come to a halt as Traditionis Custodes comes into full force in the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia.All diocesan Traditional Latin Masses have been suppressed in the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia due to the Vatican’s restrictions per Traditionis Custodes after the expiration of a two-year indult from Rome.The Latin Mass Directory website announced that as of July 5, the diocese implemented Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, according to which bishops are not to allow Traditional Latin Masses (TLM) in “parochial...

To be filled in. Sorry everyone, I have a medical situation and need to take care of my wife, Ann. Please pray for her. She is fine, but needs logistics for her return from the hospital. I'll post the regular thread with languages and saint of the day later. The Mass readings are universalis.com

To be filled in. Sorry everyone, I have a medical situation and need to take care of my wife, Ann. Please pray for her. She is fine, but needs logistics for her return from the hospital. I'll post the regular thread with languages and saint of the day later. The Mass readings are universalis.com

Father we lift up the young men of our nation to You for no matter their race, creed, color, family origin, life experiences or socioeconomic background, they need You. For those who have no hope, help them to understand that there is a glorious hope they can have in Christ Jesus. For those who feel unloved, let them know that you love them enough to have sent Your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to die for them that they may have a relationship with You. For those who have no father, or an absent father, help them to know that...

The Unholy Alliance - as morbid as ever. Vice President Kamala Harris demonstrated once again why she would be a disastrous president if she were to succeed cognitively impaired Joe Biden. She just expressed her sympathy with the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-American agitators in an interview published on July 8th by the left-wing Nation Magazine.“They are showing exactly what the human emotion should be, as a response to Gaza,” said Vice President Harris, referring to the anti-Semitic demonstrators. “There are things some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely reject, so I don’t mean to wholesale endorse their points. But...