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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Radcliffe: Church Can Learn “A Bit of Truth” From LGBTQ+ CatholicsCardinal Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., remarked on what he has learned from his lengthy pastoral career among LGBTQ+ Catholics. In an interview ahead of his creation as cardinal, The Dialog reported that when asked about how to square pastoral concerns with the church’s sexual ethics, Radcliffe replied:“When we meet people who are different from us, with whom we disagree, instead of dismissing them as always wrong, we have to be open to receive the bit of truth that they have from which we can learn.”Radcliffe, who was once...

A bipartisan group of senators has been discussing a “very secret” border deal for early 2025 — as red-state Democrats move to take action after the party’s embarrassing 2024 presidential election loss, according to a report. The illegal immigration crisis was a lightning-rod issue during the 2024 presidential race, with President-elect Donald Trump vowing to shut down the border and deport millions of undocumented migrants when he’s back in the White House in January. A small group of senators is considering a bipartisan border deal that would secure the 60 necessary votes to pass, Axios reported. Advertisement

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that it is his country's destiny to expand its borders, particularly into Syria.Speaking at the Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) and Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) Awards Ceremony at the Beştepe National Congress and Culture Center, the President stated: "Every incident that has occurred in our region, especially in Syria, recently reminds us of this fact; Turkey is bigger than Turkey. As a nation, we cannot limit our horizon to 782,000 square kilometers."According to him, "Just as a person cannot escape his destiny, Turkey and the Turkish nation cannot escape or...

Thirty-three DEI jobs were posted in the 10 days immediately following Trump's election. The federal government is currently in the process of hiring as many as 1,200 employees to work on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) — employees who would be embedded into the permanent federal workforce headed into the Trump administration, according to a Daily Wire analysis of federal job opportunities. The jobs have annual salaries of up to $310,000, and could add up to total salary payouts of $160 million a year. Thirty-three DEI jobs were posted in the 10 days immediately following the election of Donald Trump,...

Matt Gaetz's past behavior isn't role-model material. By his own admission, Gaetz, in his 30s was "playing too hard....womanized, drank, and smoked more than I should have." But that doesn't excuse CNN for its double standard on the subject. At the end of a segment on today's CNN This Morning regarding the House Ethics Committee's impending release of its report on its investigation of Gaetz, host Kasie Hunt, speaking of Gaetz's activities, dubiously wondered, "in his 30s?" Hunt was apparently suggesting that the 30s are too old to still be a hard partier. Annie Linskey of the Wall Street Journal...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“I am Gabriel, who stand before God. I was sent to speak to you and to announce to you this good news. But now you will be speechless and unable to talk until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.” Luke 1:19–20Imagine if the Archangel Gabriel appeared to you. What would that have been like? This particular Archangel stands before the incomprehensible beauty and splendor of the Most Holy Trinity and brings forth messages of the greatest importance. Gabriel is God’s most...

The collapse of Germany shocks many. But I have been discussing why this was inevitable for over a decade. Germany Is Unraveling Just When Europe Needs It Most Bloomberg reports Germany Is Unraveling Just When Europe Needs It Most Germany is reaching a point of no return. Business leaders know it, the people in the country feel it, but politicians haven’t come up with answers. That has set Europe’s largest economy on a path of decline that threatens to become irreversible. Following five years of stagnation, Germany’s economy is now 5% smaller than it would have been if the pre-pandemic...

The real power behind the Biden Crime Family’s throne remains infuriated that her mentally shot husband was forced out of the presidential race in an undemocratic coup only to see his replacement lose in a landslide. Now, she is focused on settling scores with their enemies. An exclusive report from the Daily Mail reveals how the Bidens are now focused on applying the screws to their former allies just one month before departing the White House. Not surprisingly, Jill is the one leading the charge and dragging Joe along. Jill has a multitude of fellow elitists in her crosshairs, including...

The tyrant managed to avoid several looming questions on Assad's ouster and the deaths of North Korean troops. A CHILDISH Vladimir Putin has offered out the US to a bizarre "missile duel" involving his Orshenik rockets during his annual strange call-in. The Russian dictator lived up to his typical boastful nature as he rambled on about Donald Trump and even claimed Russia hasn't lost in Syria despite the embarrassing rebel siege on his pal Assad. -snip- The weird address saw Putin try to flex his muscles towards the West as he spoke on his self-proclaimed unbeatable Oreshnik missile. Western scepticism...

Cernovich @Cernovich ‘Black Widow,’ Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden’s Historic Clemency Spree From freebeacon.com 8:56 PM · Dec 18, 2024

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) criticized President-elect Trump for discord regarding the continuing resolution. “What does President Trump want Republicans to do: vote for the CR or shut down government? Absent direction, confusion reigns,” Romney wrote in a Wednesday post on the social platform X. House Republicans spent Tuesday debating last-minute changes to the stopgap bill with disagreements over disaster relief funding and aid for farmers prolonging a finalized text. However, once published, Elon Musk, set to co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency,” encouraged legislators to vote against the bill.

Democratic members of Congress are incensed at the outsized power billionaire-turned-Trump lieutenant Elon Musk appears to be exercising over the policymaking process. Why it matters: Musk's fervent public opposition helped scuttle a federal funding deal Democrats were prepared to support en masse – putting the government on the brink of a holiday shutdown.

The White House intentionally hid from the public Joe Biden's rapidly diminishing mental condition for his entire presidency, according to a bombshell report. Biden's team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the president, scrapped meetings on his 'bad days,' and avoided calls with other politicians, according to an explosive report in The Wall Street Journal. It exposed an extensive and deliberate cover-up that also saw the administration gaslighting those who dared to claim Biden's abilities had deteriorated since he was Barack Obama's vice president. Despite the efforts of aides Biden's decline became increasingly obvious,...

At least one GOP Senator is working with pro-migration Democrats to draft a border bill for 2025, a report in Axios.com. detailed Thursday. Oklahoma Republican Markwayne Mullin told the outlet his “serious” project could replace the fast-track reconciliation bill that is now expected to massively fund border security and enforcement in early 2025. “If we can do border separately — without reconciliation — then [President Donald Trump is] okay with” a single reconciliation bill for tax cuts, Mullin told Axios. The details are “very secret,” he said. Several pro-migration Democratic Senators are working with Mullin. They include Sen. Mark Kelly...

Massive Comex deliveries since Thanksgiving Dec 13, 2024 · Alasdair Macleod In the last ten trading sessions on Comex, 62 tonnes of gold have been stood for delivery, and 1,303 tonnes of silver. What does this tell us? A graph of a line graph Description automatically generated with medium confidence It was a week of two halves for gold and silver prices: rising strongly until Thursday when prices were smashed. In European trading this morning, gold was $2670, up $40 on balance from last Friday’s close having touched $2725 on Thursday morning. And silver was 20 cents lower on balance...

Democratic strategist James Carville criticized his party on Thursday for suppressing dissent on issues like sex changes and border policy. Carville’s remarks follow Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts calling out his party on Nov. 10 for attempting to “cancel people rather than having debates about issues that Americans care about” following backlash to his comments regarding transgender athletes competing in female sports. Carville, on “Politics War Room,” accused Democrats of enforcing a tyrannical adherence to their “philosophy” that undermines the party’s electability. “Anybody that questions the absolute, unquestionable benefits of transition surgery is going to be called this equivalent...

It’s unclear where the Democratic vote went in 2024.Last month, Karl Rove published a Wall Street Journal op-ed noting that, with 2.2 million California votes then yet to be counted, in 2024 Kamala Harris obtained some 7.5 million fewer votes than Joe Biden had in 2020. With the votes now in, we see Donald Trump received 77.3 million votes nationwide this year, 3,056,000 more than his 72.25 million in 2020.By contrast, Harris received a whopping 6,267,500 fewer than Biden did. Where did Biden’s 2020 voters and their votes go in 2024?Even if half of the 6 million went to Trump’s...

Police in Gloucester Township, New Jersey are searching for two suspects after they were caught on doorbell surveillance video stealing a parcel off a front porch. One suspect was seen returning days later to complain after a video of the theft emerged online. The theft victim had posted the video on a neighbourhood monitoring app. The package contained four drinking glasses and baby items that cost about $74, according to police. The suspect also returned one of the drinking glasses, which was broken. The Gloucester Township Police Department is asking for help identifying the suspects.

The scam stopgap measure included a pay hike for Congress and a provision allowing members to opt out of Obamacare.Speaker Mike Johnson is getting some well-deserved coal in his stocking from conservatives livid with the Louisiana Republican’s attempt to play Santa with a Christmas list stopgap spending bill. The massive house-of-cards measure Johnson countenanced collapsed Wednesday amid scathing criticism from conservatives and an incoming president who urged Republicans to get “SMART and Tough” with Democrats. ‘Rich People’Johnson loathes the descriptor, but the proposed resolution the speaker has presided over is nothing more than a bloated omnibus bill packed with pork,...

Radiation levels have spiked in New York City, fueling conspiracy theories that the drones terrorizing the Northeast are searching for a missing nuclear warhead. The emissions, clocked by GQ Electronics' Geiger Counter World Map, were detected near the Bronx and Upper West Side Wednesday. The application shows a radiation reading of 1048 counts-per-minute (CPM), i.e. how many particles were detected, in the Bronx: higher than normal background radiation. The average person is typically exposed to background radiation that measures around five to 60 CPM, though CPM varies with sensor devices, according to NASA. And, on the the Upper West Side,...