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The Synodal Church: Built-in ObsolescenceThe bishops and other clergy members who are even now praising and helping to launch the Synodal Church seem unaware that they will soon become superfluous. Their role, which already embodies a symbolic element, will soon be reduced to nothing more than that, and at worst, could be just an embarrassing reminder of a Church which is no longer required or appreciated.It has been instructional to observe the dynamic at grocery store checkouts over the past decade or so. The helpful assistants who stood by, smiling, as we shoppers learned to navigate the self-serve checkouts, appeared...

Russia's lower house of parliament Tuesday passed final reading of a bill to ban adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The chamber, the State Duma, also approved a measure calling for banning the spread of material that encourages people not to have children. The measures, which now go to the upper house of parliament and then to President Vladimir Putin for signing into law, follow an array of acts in recent years suppressing sexual minorities and bolstering longstanding conventional values. Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, who authored the billon adoptions, said on the Telegram...

President-elect Donald Trump's landslide victory over Vice President Harris is already sending shockwaves through the business world as executives have looked to move production out of China since last week, former Home Depot and Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli told FOX Business. "I think he's [Trump] going to be very positive about growth. He's going to be very protective. He's going to try to re-shore onshore stuff out of China," he said Tuesday on "Mornings with Maria." "Big discussion yesterday about the supply issue, basically superseding the domestic demand issue in China, so a lot of the companies I'm talking to...

[Catholic Caucus] The Vatican Regime Goes to the Peripheries to Persecute MinoritiesI returned from the Martinmas festivities today to face the news that has hit American traditionalists since last Saturday. As many American Trads were still celebrating the victory of Trump, the Vatican Regime of New Iconoclasm struck the little diocese of Tyler, Texas. As you may recall, the Vatican regime previously cut off the head of the diocese, Bishop Strickland, for the unpardonable crime of preaching Catholicism, all while giving “Rapenik” a parish. Thus in line with the consistency of the pontificate of our Holy Father, the Dictator Pope,...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “ran a one-man dictatorship” throughout his years of leadership, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said during an interview on Breitbart News Daily. Johnson, who is supporting Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) in the Senate leadership race, blasted the years of McConnell’s leadership. “Mr. McConnell ran a one-man dictatorship. We had no idea what his strategy was,” he said, using the border bill as one of the latest examples. “All we were asking for is an enforcement mechanism to force Biden to use the authority he had to secure the border. We would have been happy to...

On a 12-2 vote, the California Air Resources Board approved new measures to encourage use of lower-carbon fuels.Supporters said the action was needed to shift the state away from dependence on fossil fuels, but opponents said it will trigger higher gas prices.California air quality regulators late Friday approved tougher rules to encourage use of lower-carbon fuels, overriding objections that the action would lead to higher gasoline prices for motorists.On a 12-to-2 vote, the California Air Resources Board approved amendments to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, or LCFS, which aims to shift California’s fuel dependence away from gasoline and toward...

Thefts of packs of butter have highlighted the impact of skyrocketing inflation on Russia’s war economy. -snip- Security footage in Ekaterinburg, the capital of Russia’s defence industry, recently captured two masked men breaking into a dairy shop. As one raided the cash register, the other made off with 20kg of butter.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. indicated over the weekend that he would fire 600 employees at the National Institutes of Health, replacing them with a new cohort of workers as he seeks to dramatically reshape America's health agencies. Speaking at the Genius Network Annual Event in Scottsdale, Arizona, Kennedy described his role vetting people for Donald Trump's new administration. "We need to act fast, and we want to have those people in place on Jan. 20, so that on Jan. 21, 600 people are going to walk into offices at NIH and 600 people are going to leave," Kennedy said, according...

Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump’s new border czar, has a message for Democrat governors opposed to mass deportations. "If they're not willing to help, then get the hell out of the way because [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] is going to do their job," Homan, former acting ICE director, told Fox News Digital. Homan gave the response prior to being tapped by Trump on Sunday to serve as border czar. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey vowed last week that she would not assist the Trump administration in any way with its mass deportation plan. "If the Trump administration requests it, would...

Spirit Airlines said that damage "consistent with gunfire" had been found when the plane was inspected at Santiago Airport. The aircraft was taken out of commission, Spirit added. The airline suspended flights to Haiti "pending further evaluation". American Airlines and JetBlue have also suspended flights to Haiti.

The fired FEMA employee just gave a thirty minute interview to Roland Martin on the Black Star Network. She says what happened in Florida was not an isolated incident. "Senior leadership will lie to you and tell you that they do not know."

Those, he specified, are, "Equality, democracy, civility, compassion, tolerance, sustainability, open-mindedness, gratitude, freedom, integrity, and justice." "In short, in the public opinion of the CEO of SkiCo, the election represents a triumph of the opposite of all that. It represents a triumph of inequality, anti-democracy, incivility, unsustainability, close-mindedness, ingratitude, tyranny, and injustice," the report said. "He fails to explain how an open election, in which a candidate won a majority of both the people and the Electoral College, is anti-democratic. Perhaps he meant anti-Democrat." And, the report notes, there was the condemnation of "half the country with whose votes he...

Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said President-elect Trump’s transition into the White House “is not going to look anything like it did in 2017.” “The level of sophistication on the issues is so far beyond what it was in 2017,” Mulvaney told “The Hill” host Blake Burman on NewsNation on Monday. “This is not going to look anything like it did in 2017. This is going to be Trump 1.0 on steroids,” he added in response to Trump’s various position announcements in the last few days. The incoming president announced Sunday that immigration enforcement veteran Tom Homan...

Well, this is awkward. After Federal Election Commission filings showed that the Harris-Walz campaign paid a cool million to Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions company for the town hall where Oprah endorsed Harris, Oprah denied it. Caught on a backstreet by one of those TMZ video crews and asked if it was true that "they paid you a million dollars for the endorsement for Kamala," Oprah replied, "Not true. I was paid nothing, ever." “The campaign paid for the production costs of ‘Unite for America,’ a live-streaming event that took place Sept. 19 outside Detroit, Mich.,” a spokesperson for Harpo said,...

The New York Times rushed out a broken-narrative-mending article yesterday headlined, “Why Was There a Broad Drop-Off in Democratic Turnout in 2024?” The ominous sub-headline offered: “Many Democrats failed to turn out to vote at the rate they did in 2020 when they ousted Donald Trump.” Baffling! Where could the mysterious missing Democrat voters from 2020 have gone? It’s tempting to think the Times is edging toward uncovering a terrible truth, but do not be fooled. The New York Times knows perfectly well why all those magical 2020 Democrat voters didn’t turn out in 2024: Because they don’t exist.The only...

Vice President Kamala Harris pulled out all the stops when it came to lining up the proverbial A-list of celebrity endorsements. They came. They saw. But they most assuredly did not conquer. It was an epic fail as a litany of celebrities lined up to join campaign Kamala. They spoke, some were expected to sing but didn’t, and, in the end, no one was listening. Why in the world would that be? The legacy media did its level best to convince the American electorate that everything was just fine and dandy, but this message belied reality. The folks in the...

MSNBC’s reliably liberal audience has tuned out the anti-Trump network since Election Day with a staggering 54% drop in primetime viewership. MSNBC averaged 1.1 million viewers during the month of October but plummeted to an average audience of 736,000 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week following President-elect Donald Trump’s historic landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. MSNBC’s remarkable 31% drop comes as Fox News Channel’s viewership grew by 61% over the same time period. MSNBC also shed 26% of its year-to-date totals, but things got even worse in primetime. During the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET,...

Against incommensurable odds, a man who defeated political rivals, judges, media, movies, hexes, vexes, Marxists, doubters, and even death, unbowed and unconquered, the icon of his era, leading a transformative and generational change, the one and only, Donald J. Trump.

Progressive celebrities Rob Reiner and Michael Moore have been curiously silent since the election, which they both predicted that Kamala Harris would win. Are they in treatment somewhere? People are concerned.

Rich Democrats have started snapping up luxurious London homes to escape America after Donald Trump's landslide election victory. Buying agents have noticed an uptick in interest from wealthy Americans who wish to buy property in London as a 'safety net' for Trump's return to the White House. In just two days, Becky Fatemi, executive partner at Sotheby's International Realty, said she got five calls from wealthy Americans wanting to move following the election. 'That's people saying, "he's here, and he's here for the next four years, and I don't want to be, so these are the dates that we're flying...