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[Catholic Caucus] Synodality, an antidote to polarization, helps mission, cardinal saysAt the end of a multiyear process of listening, praying, discussing and discerning, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, said he hopes the Synod of Bishops can give Catholics four practical suggestions for being a more “synodal” church.“What four things? I can’t tell you right now, but I sure wish we could give four pieces of guidance to the people of God across the world,” the cardinal told Catholic News Service Oct. 4.In a message to the people of his archdiocese, Cardinal Tobin said synodality — which involves...

Students at prestigious colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to finish entire books because they do not have the attention span. Some professors claim they have been forced to reduce reading assignments and lower their expectations to stop students becoming overwhelmed - even though the workload is often less intense than in previous years. It is not that students are illiterate, they say, but rather that youngsters are not used to ploughing through lengthy texts and struggle to focus for long periods of time - often due to the distraction of social media. UC Berkeley literature professor Victoria Kahn told...

A recent incident in the subway has prompted mass protests all over NYC regarding what some are calling 'heavy handed' tactics, while defenders of the nypd say their officers were in a very unfortunate 'no win' situation... Link to transcript below video.

The storm battered Florida Gulf Coast is in the forecast track for Milton. The tropical storm formed quickly Saturday in the SW Gulf of Mexico. Many FL Gulf Coast barrier islands and coastal communities are in the initial stages of clearing debris from substantial flooding during Hurricane Helene. Mash the graphics below to enlarge. All links and images are self-updating. NHC Public Advisories NHC Discussions Tropical Tidbits by Levi Cowan Local News: WWSB MySuncoast.comFOX News13 Tampa BayNBC2 Ft. MyersWESH2 OrlandoWFLA Tampa Bay

Look out central Florida, predicted to be a cat 2 but anything can happen. This will do til NN can post all the good stuff.

The Golani Brigade, under the command of the 36th Division, has been engaged in limited, localized, targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence in southern Lebanon. The troops dismantled weapons and terrorist infrastructure, and eliminated terrorists on the ground and from the air. In a joint operation by the Golani Brigade and the Israeli Air Force, a military structure housing Hezbollah terrorist organization commanders , including the commander of the combat area, the commander of the engineering forces, and the fire coordinator commander, was struck. The terrorists were eliminated. ....

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on Sunday warned that the agency's disaster relief fund could experience a shortage by mid-September. …

Major General Ori Gordin, leader of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Northern Command, visited southern Lebanon on Friday and looked back at the Israeli villages that Hezbollah’s terrorists have been firing upon for nearly a year. As Breitbart News has documented, the route of the Israel-Lebanon border gives Lebanon the high ground, meaning that Hezbollah had a strategic advantage once it illegally occupied the border area in defiance of the United Nations. Israel has taken control of portions of the border area since launching a ground attack in Lebanon earlier this week.

If you're running a political campaign, the one person you never want to be compared to is Hillary Clinton. The twice-failed presidential candidate went down in history after losing to Donald Trump in 2016, and plenty of speculation has revolved around whether her defeat was preventable. Most infamously, she never set foot in Wisconsin because she was confident the so-called "blue wall" states would hold. Ultimately, they didn't, and Trump walked away with Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the entire election. Now, Democrats are beginning to panic, and the comparisons to Clinton are getting scarier by the minute. Democratic operatives, including...

Midway through former President Donald Trump's Friday town hall event in Fayetteville, North Carolina, he was given an extraordinary gift by an extraordinary man. A decorated Vietnam War veteran, identified only as Dwight, appeared on stage halfway through the event to present the Republican presidential nominee with a “small token.” That "small token" was the Marine's Purple Heart. Before the presentation, Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina, the moderator of the town hall, read a letter the decorated Marine had penned to Trump shortly after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., on July 13.

An Israeli security source on Saturday confirmed to Sky News Arabic that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's successor, Hashem Safieddine, was eliminated in a Friday night strike. According to Al Hadath, commanders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were eliminated together with Safieddine. On Friday, Israel estimated that Safieddine was injured in the strike, since those who were with him in the underground area which was struck could not have escaped the site alive. In addition, it is estimated that alongside Safieddine, senior Hezbollah intelligence officials were also present at the site and were also injured. Safieddine, 60, is a cousin of...

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Harris-Walz Campaign Co-Chair Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) stated that she “was one of those that said, I don’t care if” 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris “does an interview at all.” And Harris is “doing the best that she can with the minimal amount of time that she’s got left to get this done.” Host Andrea Mitchell said, “Congresswoman, as a Co-Chair of the campaign, there’s criticism from some that Vice President Harris is not doing enough interviews, that she’s out there campaigning, but she’s not taking part in interviews....

THIS is the dramatic moment a Russian stealth drone is shot out of the sky by Vladimir Putin’s Su-57 warplane. The £11.5 million S-70 Okhotnik stealth drone can be seen exploding in the air in the extraordinary footage. Video of the incident shows two Kremlin military aircrafts speeding across the sky over eastern Ukraine when the trailing plane fires a missile which hits the one in front. Russian pro-war Z channels initially claimed that a Ukrainian war plane had been hit by a Russian aircraft. However, the burnt wreckage on the ground near Ukrainian-controlled Kostiantynivka had distinct Russian insignia on...

“The Harris-Biden administration says they don’t have any money [for hurricane relief]. … They spent it all on illegal migrants. … They stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank, so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them.” Trump has been trying to weaponize the Hurricane Helene relief efforts, accusing the Biden administration of failing to provide adequate assistance. As part of his critique, he claims there is no money available for hurricane relief because it was spent already to handle the surge of migrants at the...

Avery Koonce, 19, of Tyler, Texas, died Sept. 4 as the result of “paeniclostridium sordelli sepsis complicating parainfluenza laryngotraceobronchitis,” according to an autopsy report from the El Paso County Coroner’s Office. “In essence she died of untreated pneumonia,” said famed forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who reviewed the autopsy report obtained by The Post. The coroner described paeniclostridium sordelli as a “relatively rare but potentially fatal anaerobic bacteria” that is “associated with a toxic shock-like syndrome that can rapidly progress to death.” But it was “secondary” to the parainfluenza — or viral lung infection — the coroner’s report found. ......

According to media reports, the US Navy was active near the crime scene shortly before the explosions that destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines and had switched off its transponders. This was reported by the Danish newspaper Politiken, citing statements by the port master of Christiansø. A few days before the sabotage, ships of the US Navy without transponder signals were spotted. Since the harbour master therefore assupted an emergency, he hushed into the sea area. There, however, he was immediately asked to repent by the Americans.

Yesterday, Politico ran a grotesque story headlined, “Helene hit Trump strongholds in Georgia and North Carolina. It could swing the election.” The story breathlessly described how hurricane-fueled voting problems will hurt President Trump’s election chances. But Politico never once mentioned the political implications of the slow, defective federal response to the storm, or impeached Democrat Mayorkas, who heads FEMA.There is a nightmarish parasitic fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, or ‘cordyceps’ for short. It invades the brains and central nervous systems of small insects, usually ants. Once installed, the fungus takes complete control of the victims’ actions, forcing them to act in...

On Wednesday, 25 September, 2024, Houston ex-police officer Gerald Goines was found guilty of two counts of felony murder. Reporters in the courtroom, when the verdict of guilty against former officer Goines was read, said they were shocked he was convicted. Goines has been unconfined for nearly five years after he retired in March of 2019.The sentencing phase of the current trial will start on September 26, 2024. From click2houston.com:The jury in the high-profile murder trial of former Houston Police Department narcotics officer Gerald Goines reached a verdict of guilty Wednesday afternoon. Goines was found guilty of two counts of...

VIDEOThey try sooo hard. Oh, how they try! In fact they try so hard to promote Kamala Harris out of their desperate fear of Orange Man Bad that their resulting hype output is pure unintentionally hilarious CRINGE.

Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn) announced himself "pleased with the outcome of my vice-presidential candidate debate with Senator JD Vance (R-OH). I know some of the pundits figure he scored more points than I did, but I achieved my two key objectives." "First, I believe my humble admission that I am a 'knucklehead' forged a strong bond with the majority of male voters across the nation," Walz boasted. "Most of the guys I served with in the National Guard were knuckleheads. Almost every guy's wife thinks he is a knucklehead. I am solidly within the ranks of the vast majority of...