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14 December 2024 Saint John of the Cross, Priest, Doctor on Saturday of the 2nd week of Advent St. John of the Cross Catholic Church Western Springs, ILReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEcclesiasticus 48:1-4,9-12The prophet Elijah will come againThe prophet Elijah arose like a fire, his word flaring like a torch.It was he who brought famine on the people, and who decimated them in his zeal.By the word of the Lord, he shut up the heavens, he also, three times, brought down fire.How glorious you...

Explanation: Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the near vacuum of space. Digitally enhanced and reprocessed, this picture taken from Apollo 17's command module America shows Challenger's ascent stage in lunar orbit. Small reaction control thrusters are at the sides of the moonship with the bell of the ascent rocket engine underneath. The hatch allowing access to the lunar surface is seen at the front, with a round radar antenna at the top. Mission commander Gene Cernan is clearly visible through the triangular window. This spaceship performed gracefully, landing on the Moon...

Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman from New York and registered sex offender who served 18 months in federal prison for sending explicit texts to a 15-year-old girl, is running for office again. After weeks of publicly mulling a bid for New York City Council in 2025, Weiner has formally filed to run in the second district, which encompasses the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He is running in an open race to succeed term-limited incumbent Carlina Rivera. "Mr. Moneybags over here," Weiner joked on X after New York Post reporter Craig McCarthy posted a screenshot of the candidate's campaign...

Coming off an outstanding rookie season in the WNBA, Caitin Clark has been named "Athlete of the Year" by TIME. Washington Mystics co-owner Sheila Johnson took exception to that decision, saying it's unfair to give Clark all the credit for the WNBA's rise in popularity. In an interview with CNN, Johnson said that all the focus on Clark has taken the spotlight away from other elite players across the league. "We have so much talent out there that has been unrecognized, and I don't think we can just pin it on one player," Johnson said. When asked why Clark was...

Nicholas Mangione Sr was born there in 1925, starting life in a poor immigrant family. He spent the first eight years of his life in a one-room flat with an outdoor privy toilet, according to the Baltimore Sun. During World War Two, he served in the Navy in the South Pacific before returning to his Maryland home where he built a series of enterprises as well as, according to local media, a combative - even aggressive – reputation when it came to his business interests. ... Within Baltimore's tight-knit Italian community, there's loyalty to Nick Mangione and his memory. Life-long...

Congress is trying to ram through a massive spending package this weekend with a $50 billion windfall for big pharma. They want to remove market-based incentives for pharmacy benefit managers to secure savings on prescription drugs.

U.S. — WNBA player Caitlin Clark explained in an interview with TIME that she has been the beneficiary of white privilege, which strangely feels a lot like getting the crap kicked out of her by giant black lesbians. Though she admitted that "white privilege" was a bit of a nebulous term, Clark explained that she seemed to most often experience it as getting punched in the face or elbowed in the stomach. "The fact is, I clearly have experienced white privilege. No one else gets beat up routinely on national television by enormous black lesbians," explained Clark. "That's obviously a...

13 December 2024 Saint Lucy, Virgin, Martyr on Friday of the 2nd week of Advent St. Lucy Catholic Church Racine, WIReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingIsaiah 48:17-19If you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a riverThus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:I, the Lord, your God, teach you what is good for you,I lead you in the way that you must go.If only you had been alert to my commandments,your happiness would have been like a...

On Thursday, a group of notable scientists, including Nobel Prize winners and global health experts, issued a warning against researchers synthesizing a type of artificial cell that could rampage through life on Earth with practically no barriers to stop it. “Mirror cells,” as they are known, could one day compose “mirror life,” a type of synthetic organism that, on the molecular level, is the complete reverse of the life forms we know. But the 38 co-authors of the warning article published in the journal Science recommend that research into mirror life be blocked immediately, before it spirals out of control.

ABC News and their top anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit, which will result in the news network paying the president-elect $15 million. The settlement was publicly filed on Saturday, revealing that the two parties have come to an agreement and avoided a costly trial. According to the settlement, ABC News will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a "Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for Plaintiff, as Presidents of the United States of America have established in the past." Additionally, the network will pay $1 million...

On this very day nearly 17 centuries ago, St. Nicholas made history by punching the heretic Arius for claiming that Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. While church historians through the ages once believed that St. Nicholas' swift uppercut was in response to Arius' views on Christology, later scholarship confirmed that it was actually because Arius persisted in heretical attacks on Die Hard. "Even saints have their limits," said Benjamin Hundre, an archaeologist and early Christianity scholar at Cambridge. "Arius just kept up his stupid little bit about how Die Hard was released in July, and how just because...

The founder and owner of fashion empire Mango, Isak Andic, died on Saturday in a mountain accident, police said. He was 71. The businessman slipped and fell over 100 meters from a cliff while hiking with relatives in the Montserrat caves near Barcelona, a police spokesperson said.

The law firm of Democratic fixer and election denier Marc Elias is linked to a network of super PACs whose deceptive text messages infuriated and baffled voters across the country, a Washington Free Beacon review has found. Evidence for Impact, a dark money group that Elias’s law firm formed earlier this year, contributed $2 million in September to a super PAC called Voters of These 50 States of America. The super PAC, which was formed in August, is the lone funder of the super PACs AllVote, MaxVote, VoteWin, and Coconut Brat PAC, according to campaign finance records. Those groups came...

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes US Government is spending $100,000 PER PERSON to relocate Afghanistan citizens into America, they have already imported 90,000 of them 90,000 Afghans x $100k per person = $9 BILLION dollars paid for by US Taxpayers “$100,000 a person. That's absurd”

In order to sustain a successful political operation for an election win this year, former Republican National Committee Co-chair Lara Trump said that both firings and an intense focus on election integrity were required.Trump took over leadership of the RNC with chairman Michael Whatley in March after a contentious seven years under former Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel. McDaniel’s tenure was highlighted by losing or underperforming in every election cycle she oversaw, as well as a scandal in which the RNC under her leadership was caught spending an enormous amount of donor money on private jets, luxury retreats, floral arrangements, cosmetics,...

Ross Coulthart digs into reports of mysterious drones spotted near sensitive military sites around the world, including mass sightings in New Jersey and new videos obtained by NewsNation affiliate WPIX.

Fifty years after he resigned the presidency, Richard Nixon is back. At least, some people on the right would like us to believe that he is and that it's time for conservatives to embrace his legacy wholeheartedly and to reject the stale leftist narratives about Watergate (among other things) that have sullied his reputation. It is necessary to reject the standard left-wing gloss on Nixon. But doing so hardly absolves Nixon of his sins. From a conservative perspective, there was good to the man and his presidency, but also bad — and ugly. Conservatives will only learn the right lessons...

AUSTIN, TX — Bringing a critically acclaimed career to a close, movie star Dennis Quaid announced his retirement from acting to start appearing in Christian films. The fan-favorite actor, who starred in such popular films as The Right Stuff, The Parent Trap, and Jaws 3, revealed that he was leaving professional acting behind and would instead spend the rest of his days starring in Christian movies. "It's time I found something to do other than telling compelling stories with really good scripts," Quaid said. "I've enjoyed my time as a movie star, but you eventually reach a point where you've...

I wrote this today to my grandson Robert. Robert, I wanted you to have this magnificent work by Dr. William J. Bennett "America: The Last Best Hope" in your library. It was published in three separate volumes. This in the complete one volume edition. I make the bold and true statement that America can NOT be separated from the successful carrying out of Jesus' Great Commission in your lifetime of say 95 years and I think also long long after you have gone to be with the Lord (at age 96.) You are very much interested in the successful carrying...

A former NFL wide receiver is being sued by a New York woman who accuses him of intentionally infecting her and others with an incurable sexually transmitted disease. The unnamed plaintiff also accuses Eric Moulds of specifically targeting single mothers who were Buffalo Bills fans living in western New York. Moulds played in the NFL from 1996 to 2007, including 10 seasons with the Bills, with whom he played in three Pro Bowls, and is a member of its 50th Anniversary All-Time Team. In a complaint filed earlier this week in New York State Superior Court, the woman said she...