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Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!” Luke 12:49–50There is much that we can take from these teachings of our Lord. Not only did Jesus say, “I have come to set the earth on fire…” He also said that it’s His desire that this fire be “blazing!” Fire is powerful. A blazing fire, for example, can purify the precious metal gold....

"The time has come to break with white America.” Donald Warden had a message, “the time has come to break with white America.” After the Watts riots, Warden, who would later convert to Islam and take the name Khaled Al-Mansour, released an album titled “Burn, Baby Burn”, celebrating the riots and looting. “The black man cannot take anymore, he is now looking to burn,” he warned. Warden’s vehicle for spreading his hate was the Afro American Association. And that was where Kamala’s parents met. The ‘Association’ had been created to study “Black Identity.” It banned white people and even non-black...

Eighty years after World War II, right-wing politics are on the rise again in Europe. Many in Germany are alarmed about the surge of the extremist Alternative for Germany party. Like other right-wing parties in Europe, they deny the effects of climate change and call for the deportation of people with foreign roots. The federal office for the protection of the German constitution has officially classified the party as a possible threat to democracy. Yet in recent state elections, the party won about 30% of the votes. This is a tense situation for the whole country — even Catholic Church...

How quickly we went from “joy” and “vibes” to angry and desperate. Also dangerous. Kamala Harris on Wednesday delivered remarks outside the vice president’s formal residence in Washington, and it was nothing short of appalling. Using an immediately discredited and very obviously campaign-coordinated article in The Atlantic from the previous day, plus a New York Times interview from a disgruntled former Trump administration official, she stated in her official capacity that her opponent is “increasingly unhinged and unstable.” She promised that in a second Trump term, he would be a president of “unchecked power,” adding that his behavior has shown...

An estimated 180,000 motorcyclists gathered Sunday at the Our Lady of Fatima shrine in central Portugal for the ninth annual Pilgrimage of the Blessing of Helmets. Carlos Cabecinhas, the rector of the Sanctuary of Fatima, said the event has steadily increased in prominence — renowned for its conviviality as well as its shows of devotion. This year's turnout was the largest ever, Under the motto “We are shaped and guided by what we love!”. the pilgrimage started with the parade of a group of motorcyclists carrying Our Lady of Fatima’s statue next to the Basilica of the Holy Trinity, followed...

New Emerson College polling finds former President Donald Trump up in three battleground states — and if the numbers hold, they present peril for Vice President Kamala Harris. The surveys show Trump ahead in North Carolina, one of two Southern battlegrounds, as well as two of the three blue-wall states — Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — central to the Democrats’ strategy. If Trump takes them? He’s got 264 electoral votes, meaning Harris would have to sweep Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada to block him from the 270 threshold needed to win. None of these leads is in landslide territory, but with...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican orders suppression of the Latin Mass at California diocese’s cathedralThe letter directing the cessation of the Latin Mass at the Cathedral of St. Eugene in Santa Rosa, California, was handed down by the Secretary of Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.The Vatican suppressed the Traditional Latin Mass at the cathedral in Santa Rosa, California, leaving parishioners to seek a new location for the Mass of the Ages.Bishop Robert Vasa of the Diocese of Santa Rosa confirmed Wednesday to LifeSiteNews that the Vatican directed that the TLM be discontinued at the Cathedral of St. Eugene. According to...

With a median congregational age of 69 and a commitment to social justice, the Episcopalian church is dying, both figuratively and literally. According to the denomination’s own projections, attendance will decline by 98% by 2041. Episcopal priestess Rev. Dwight Zscheile has lamented the losses, noting, “At this rate, there will be no one in worship by around 2050 in the entire denomination.” Good. Populated exclusively by octogenarian devils and blue-haired lesbians, their imminent demise cannot come soon enough. This is the same denomination that recently passed resolutions condemning ‘pregnancy crisis centers’ and formally supporting sex changes for children after all....

Director Tim Burton has revealed that being on the internet makes him feel "quite depressed". Ahead of the opening of a major career retrospective in London, he told BBC News: "Anybody who knows me knows I'm a bit of a technophobe. "If I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed," the 66-year-old said. "It scared me because I started to go down a dark hole. So I try to avoid it, because it doesn't make me feel good." The World of Tim Burton at the Design Museum features 600 items which organisers say give "a rare...

Billionaire mogul Tyle Perry, who has long publicly professed to be a Christian, was captured on the weekend stuffing money into a twerking stripper’s underwear, according to several videos that have been posted online (but we will not be sharing here.) Tyler was attending a massive party thrown by musician Usher that saw several strippers twerking and dancing on stage and poles, directly in front of him, wearing see-through undergarments. The money that Tyler was seen putting into the stripper’s clothingwas “Usherbucks,” an artificial money created by Usher that he occasionally hands out for people to play with. It is...

Recently, unsealed court documents completely redefined what we were told to believe about the 2020 US presidential election. The election was billed by the Democrat Party, Joe Biden, the mainstream media, and former CISA Chief Chris Krebs as the most secure election in US history. Chris Krebs, the former CISA Director fired by Donald Trump, testified before Congress on December 16, 2020, after he was fired. Krebs was called to testify before the US Senate Homeland Security Governmental Affairs Committee. Krebs famously announced that day, “The 2020 election was the most secure in US history.” WATCH: VIDEO AT LINK...................... But...

Like all sound political conceptions, Fascism is action and it is thought; action in which doctrine is immanent, and doctrine arising from a given system of historical forces in which it is inserted, and working on them from within. It has therefore a form correlated to contingencies of time and space; but it has also an ideal content which makes it an expression of truth in the higher region of the history of thought. There is no way of exercising a spiritual influence in the world as a human will dominating the will of others, unless one has a conception...

I wrote about the latest HarrisX/Forbes poll on Wednesday, which was bad for Vice President Kamala Harris, and how that's started to bring even the popular vote within potential reach of former President Donald Trump. But the new Wall Street Journal poll is even more devastating for her and great for Trump. That poll now has Trump up by three, head-to-head, 49 to 46 percent. It's moved four points toward Trump over the past month. In the full field, that's 47 to 45 percent. That's in line with HarrisX (+2 for Trump) and Rasmussen (+3 for Trump), and that's not...

Kamalanomics has made the American Dream of homeownership unreachable for young Americans and families across Arizona. Under Kamala Harris, home prices are up over 32 percent, interest rates reached their highest levels in over 20 years, and mortgage payments hit record highs. Arizona voters know only a return to President Trump's successful economic policies will restore the American Dream, defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, and make purchasing a home more affordable. Turning Point is honored to host President Trump in Las Vegas, Nevada to rally support for him in this critical swing state. This is an event for all...

“It doesn’t mean Trump’s going to win, but where we are right now is there are increasing problems for the Democratic Party,” journalist Mark Halperin said Thursday on The Morning Meeting. Halperin’s analysis comes one day after Harris participated in a CNN town hall. Political experts, even CNN commentators, such as David Axelrod, Van Jones, and Dana Bash, were very critical of her performance following the event. Harris called former President Donald Trump a “fascist,” without evidence, demanded the elimination of the filibuster, and did not admit to making a mistake on any specific policy. She also simultaneously argued she...

5th person was pulled from burning vehicle by a passerby, police sayFour people were killed in a fiery single-vehicle crash in downtown Toronto early Thursday, while the lone survivor was pulled from the burning car by a passing driver, police say. The deadly collision happened around 12:10 a.m. on Lake Shore Boulevard E. near Cherry Street. A Tesla sedan with three men and two women inside was speeding eastbound on Lake Shore when the driver lost control and hit a guardrail, said Toronto police Duty Insp. Phillip Sinclair. The car then careened into a concrete pillar. "Upon impact, the vehicle...

Vladimir Putin is regretful over the war in Ukraine, according to the latest claim by one of his closest allies, as US defence officials warned North Korean troops will become 'legitimate targets' if they are seen to fight alongside Russian forces. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko delivered a wide-ranging interview with the BBC and state-owned broadcaster BelTA this week in which he was asked whether his Russian counterpart had regrets over launching his so-called 'special military operation' in Ukraine. -snip- 'Both sides suffer heavy losses... Does Putin regret it or not? Of course he regrets. He's a living man.' -snip- Ukraine's...

Memory is a strange thing. Arthur M. Schlesinger writes in A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House that JFK once said that his brain was filled with random bits of what he called useless information and he often had memories of how he’d come to know it in the first place. The example he used is that he knew for some reason that the level of salt in our blood is the same as in ocean water. For myself, memory is like a roulette wheel where I’ll forget someone’s name two seconds after being introduced but somehow...

Ringo Starr opened up about a serious medical condition that caused him to cancel the last few days of his recent tour. The legendary singer clarified previous reports that suggested he was suffering from Covid-19 and set the record straight about his recent health battle in an interview with Variety published Oct. 18. It “knocked me down,” Starr admitted. “It wasn’t the virus — I had that two years ago,” he said, referring to Covid 19. Starr then revealed the horrifying reality he was forced to contend with. “It was a mad thing eating my body, and they found out...

U.S. — In response to yet another Democrat shooting someone, gun owners across the country have begun to call for common-sense Democrat control. "Look, we believe in the second amendment -- but keeping guns away from these idiots is just common sense," said local gun owner Stanley Hartfield. "How many people do Democrats have to shoot before we take action?" Gun owners across the nation were appalled at the photographs from the scene of the latest incident, lambasting the dangers of letting Democrats near guns. "It's like giving a big, very dumb baby a rifle," said Hartfield. "I take that...