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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Zen publishes book on building Church without ‘synodal process’Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun published a book on August 20 providing advice and practical wisdom for how to live an authentically Catholic life amid the contention brought by the Synod on Synodality.Cardinal Zen, who has previously criticized the Synod, focuses on ways to daily live out the Catholic faith in his book, “Catholic and Apostolic: From the Church of the Apostles to the ‘Synodal’ Church.” One of his former criticisms of the Synod was that it is at the universal level with no clear goal, Catholic News Agency reported...

Joe Biden hasn't yet joined Kamala Harris on the campaign trail, but that doesn't mean you have to miss on his classic Bidenesque brain breaks. They were common with Biden, just like his getting lost on stage, or his claiming to talk to dead people on multiple occasions. We still have Kamala Harris to laugh at. Sure, her issues aren't exactly the same as Biden's, but the results are just as cringeworthy. Her word salads, of course, are legendary, but it turns out that just like Biden, she has her own "brain breaks." This goes against the narrative that Kamala...

On Tuesday, a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled that illegal aliens do not have the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, due to the fact that they are not American citizens.As reported by Fox News, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that federal law prohibiting illegal aliens from owning firearms is legal, as the Constitution does not apply to anyone who has entered the United States illegally.The decision came as the result of an appeal by an illegal alien named Jose Paz Medina-Cantu, who had been arrested in Texas in...

From taxes to spending, Kamala is the most left-wing major party candidate since George McGovern -- who proposed a Universal Basic Income in 1972 and went on to win a single state.But her most hare-brained scheme -- so far -- has been price controls, where she's to the left of McGovern, threatening to punish grocery stores for daring to charge more than their costs.In fact, grocery stores make 1 to 2 pennies on the dollar. Meaning they have to pass along costs that come straight from the Washington money printer.That means price controls would, in short, break food.Price Controls Always...

Last week I wrote about the demographic changes in enrollment at MIT this year after the Supreme Court's decision banning affirmative action.The university’s admissions department on Wednesday released its first-year class profile, showing a sharp drop in its Black student population. About 5% of MIT’s incoming class of 2028 is Black, a significant drop from its 13% average in recent years. Latino students make up 11% of the class of 2028, compared to a 15% average in recent years.Since then, three more elite schools have released enrollment data which shows a similar pattern.The percentage of Black students entering Amherst this...

US Central Command announcing a joint operation against ISIS in Western Iraq said to have killed...unofficial reports 6-7 members of the US military wounded... An explosion at a gas station in Yemen's port city of Aden causing deaths and injuries... The commanding officer of the USS John McCain guided missile destroyer fired... Police in Germany saying the stabbing attack that injured five people on a bus this evening was not a 'terrorist act'... Tensions in the Balkans as Kosovo authorities raided Serbian minority government... Two missiles exploding near a merchant vessel off the south coast of Yemen... In Ireland today...

US soldier: “I’m helping” Moldova dude: “You helping? You make the war here”

In perhaps the least shocking revelation in political history, Tim Walz appears to have lied again, this time about his political origin story.Almost as soon as Kamala Harris' running mate burst onto the national scene, Walz's penchant for fabulism did as well. As RedState reported, he has repeatedly stolen valor over the years, from claiming to have carried weapons "in war" to claiming to be a retired Command Seargent Major when he was demoted for not completing the necessary training. Walz's tall tales didn't end with that scandal, though. He has also misled the public on various other topics in...

All year Keir Starmer has been using a reassuring phrase about his inevitable Downing Street tenure in a bid to calm the nerves of those not certain they were keen on it. He debuted it in January, when the Labour leader promised to bring forth ‘a politics that treads more lightly on all our lives’. Starmer used a similar line on the steps of Downing Street on July 5, after becoming Prime Minister, when he pledged to ‘tread more lightly on your lives and unite our country’. This suggested that he understood the limitations of his ‘loveless landslide’, gained on...

Fusion power is one of those things that's just 10 years away - and has been for 50 years. Granted, if someone could make it work, and unless some major collapse of, well, civilization occurs, then eventually someone probably will, then fusion reactors would change everything. Energy would be cheaper and more available than ever with practical, steady-state fusion power. The climate change worries over the use of fossil fuels would be greatly reduced, in no small part because the use of fossil fuels would be greatly reduced. Cheap, widely available electricity from fusion reactors would change the calculus for...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man at Donald Trump's rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, stormed into the press area as the former president spoke Friday but was surrounded by police and sheriff’s deputies and was eventually subdued with a Taser. The altercation came moments after Trump criticized major media outlets for what he said was unfavorable coverage and dismissed CNN as fawning for its interview Thursday with his Democratic rival Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz. The man made it over a bicycle rack ringing the media area, and began climbing the back side of a riser where television...

The elements of an economic plan presented by Kamala Harris consist of price controls, higher taxes, greater government spending, interventions, regulations, and subsidies paid for by printing a currency devalued by high inflation. These elements constitute “21st-century socialism.” The Kamala Harris–Tim Walz economic plan is the most radical socialist economic plan ever announced by the Democrats. It was Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana who said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Why cite him? Because Harris and Walz don’t seem to be able to remember the past, much less learn from it. They want to take...

State and county election officials violated the Pennsylvania Constitution by refusing to count mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect dates, a Commonwealth Court panel ruled Friday. In a 4-1 majority decision in favor of eight nonpartisan voting rights groups, the panel found that the requirement for mail-in ballots to have a handwritten date on the outer envelope serves no compelling governmental purpose. Guidance by Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt, following earlier court rulings upholding the requirement, that instructed county boards of elections not to count ballots without a date is a violation of voters’ rights, the majority said. “Simply...

#iraq is building a massive rail and road network connecting the Gulf region to the Mediterranean. Billions of dollars of trade will flow through the country, and with greater prosperity comes greater stability.

A summer uptick in COVID-19 cases has Americans wondering how long the new surge will last. The United States is experiencing another surge in COVID-19 cases as the summer comes to an end. COVID-19 infections are increasing in 27 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Traces of the disease are becoming more common in wastewater, with the CDC’s wastewater surveillance system now reporting “very high” levels of COVID-19.

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called the return of 28 Afghan nationals to Afghanistan a "clear sign" that foreign-born criminals won't be spared deportation. A government spokesperson said on Friday that the Afghan citizens were all "convicted criminals" but did not respond to a request for comment to clarify their offences. "We prepared this carefully without talking much about it because such a project only succeeds if you make an effort, if you do it carefully and very discreetly," Scholz said. "I would therefore like to thank everyone who has helped to make this happen. And it is a clear...

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. Just as in the fight against right-wing extremism, clear lines must be drawn with Islamists, not just concerning the question of violence but regarding their stance on democratic core values, Gülden Hennemann writes. Friday evening: a knife attack at the town festival in Solingen. Saturday morning: an arson attack on a synagogue in southern France. Sunday morning: the beginning of the long-anticipated major offensive by Hezbollah against Israel. It is a sad weekend marked by Islamism and...

California lawmakers have voted to ban food additives linked to behavioral issues in kids from school lunchrooms. That means snacks like Flamin' Hot Cheetos, Twinkies and more will no longer be allowed in school cafeterias across the state. Stores may still sell the food products, though, under the first-of-its-kind legislation, called the California School Food Safety Act.

While hydrogen's high energy per mass makes it an excellent fuel, it's awfully hard and expensive to store long-term. That could change, thanks to the work of researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich. They've worked out a way to store hydrogen in ordinary steel-walled containers for months without losing it into the atmosphere – using iron. The research team led by Wendelin Stark, Professor of Functional Materials at ETH Zurich, hit upon this method by drawing from the steam-iron process of producing hydrogen, first invented in 1784. The group's storage solution is especially suitable in places like Switzerland, where solar power...

Acknowledging Americans might not “be ready for it,” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called for the death penalty for drug dealers to help combat the effects of becoming a “drug-infested nation.” Trump made the comments during a speech at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, carried live by Newsmax on Friday, a key battleground in the upcoming election. Trump said a drug dealer in the U.S. kills 500 people, on average, over the course of dealing fentanyl and other dangerous drugs. “So a drug dealer kills 500 people. And the only thing they would understand would be the death penalty. If...