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Pope Francis named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego as the archbishop of Washington, D.C., this week, a leader with a reputation for taking a progressive stance on hot-topic issues within the Catholic Church. The Vatican announced on Monday McElroy's appointment as the new archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., to replace the retiring Cardinal Wilton Gregory. As McElroy has made headlines over the years with his views on abortion, LGBT rights and immigration, the following pages highlight four things to know about Cardinal McElroy. Supports communion for pro-choice Catholic politicians The election of Democratic President Joe...

Dear Father: What is the Rapture?This is a sneak peek of The Remnant Newspaper's "Ask Father" column. Send your questions for Father here and subscribe to The Remnant to read Father's response!Dear Father: Occasionally when driving or just passing time, I tune in via radio to an Evangelical preacher. I find the way he explains Scripture in such a detailed, verse-by-verse way interesting, although of course I always remember that he is not a Catholic and brings his particular slant to the subject matter. Most recently he went on and on about "The Rapture." I have heard this referred to...

Title speaks for itself, just watch the video. Instead of shooting looters in this situation they should be tied up in the woods and burned at the stake.

The U.S. added 256,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1 percent in December, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The December jobs report showed the U.S. economy blowing past expectations to end the year. Economists projected the U.S. to gain 155,000 jobs and hold the jobless rate at 4.2 percent, according to consensus estimates. The new jobs data caps off another year of sturdy job gains since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Under President Biden, the labor market powered through an inflation surge and high Federal Reserve interest rates meant to...

The YouVersion Bible App saw 798,000 installations on Jan. 5, the largest single day of installs for the phone app in its history. Bobby Gruenewald, founder of YouVersion and a pastor at Life.Church, told The Christian Post on Thursday that the app “saw 18.2 million people engage in the Bible and more than 798,000 installs” on Sunday. This broke the record previously set on the first Sunday of last year, while New Year’s Day was the third-highest single-day number of installs in the history of YouVersion, Gruenewald added. “We tend to see a seasonal uptick in Bible engagement at the...

President-elect Donald Trump has reiterated his desire for the US to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, calling both critical to American national security. Asked if he would rule out using military or economic force in order to take over the autonomous Danish territory or the Canal, he responded: "No, I can't assure you on either of those two. "But I can say this, we need them for economic security," he told reporters during a wide-ranging news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Both Denmark and Panama have rejected any suggestion that they would give up territory. Trump also...

One of the most wonderful things about Christianity is that there’s remarkable diversity in the way we can worship, provided we believe in the essentials of the faith. After the Protestant Reformation, denominations sprang up that allowed for variations in thoughts on secondary theological issues as well as styles of worship. In more recent years, the “mainline” denominations, so called because they were the churches along the main roads in towns, have opted for theological and political liberalism (and downright heresy) and have seen a resulting decline. Denominations still loom large on the landscape of American Christianity, but their influence...

Hollywood star Mel Gibson got home from talking to Joe Rogan about his anger at the Los Angeles wildfires to find his own Malibu home among those “completely toasted.” “I was kind of ill at ease while we were talking because I knew my neighborhood was on fire, so I thought, ‘I wonder if my place is still there,’” the actor, 69, told NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” late Thursday. “The Patriot” actor, who blasted California Gov. Gavin Newsom over his handling of the crisis during his interview with the mega-popular podcaster, said his Malibu property was in “cinders” by the...

Judge Juan Merchan has sentenced President-elect Donald Trump in a New York NDA case (the so-called "hush money" case). The sentence is an unconditional discharge, which in essence is a sentence in name only.AdvertisementThe Hill reports:President-elect Trump was spared any punishment for his hush money criminal conviction Friday when a New York judge sentenced him to an unconditional discharge, eschewing jail time while securing his status as the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency. Judge Juan Merchan’s decision to release Trump with no strings attached caps the first and only criminal trial of a former president,...

SACRAMENTO, CA — As wildfires continued to spread destruction across large swathes of California, Governor Gavin Newsom reassured victims of the fires that he'll be more prepared next time now that he knows water is useful in fighting fires. In a meeting with a crowd of people whose homes, cars, and belongings had been incinerated by the fires, Newsom reiterated that he won't dump all of the state's water into the ocean next time, as it could come in handy battling the blazes. "I'll be the first to admit — having some water available would have been beneficial," Newsom said....

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I was surprised, if not shocked, when two A-list celebrities, country singers Garth Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood, took the microphones at the State Funeral for Jimmy Carter yesterday and began performing “Imagine,” written by former Beatle John Lennon in 1971. The song is widely described as an “atheistic anthem” and incredibly is said to be one of the late 39th president’s favorite songs.Imagine there’s no heavenIt’s easy if you try.No hell below usAbove us, only sky. . .Imagine all the peopleLivin’ for todayAhImagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion, tooTo...

Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, recently cited internal divisions within his party over immigration policies as a factor in November's electoral defeat. ... On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act, a Republican-backed bill that seeks to curb illegal immigration by boosting border security and expanding detention powers for migrants accused of minor offenses. Though Republicans control the Senate, they require the support of at least seven Democrats—in addition to Fetterman, who co-sponsored the bill—to secure the 60 votes needed to surpass a filibuster and advance the legislation. ... "There's 47 of us in...

In November 1906, Theodore Roosevelt became the first sitting U.S. president to make a diplomatic visit outside the continental United States, sailing to Panama to view the construction of the Panama Canal. In September 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty that would ultimately give Panama full control and operation over the canal in 2000. And in December 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to retake the canal from Panama. The chances of this happening are slim, of course. But like most political rhetoric, his comments denote larger goals and aspirations – in this case, Trump’s domestic agenda, which likely...

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be preparing to launch an invasion of Ukraine, with more than 100,000 troops positioned around the country. Certainly, the U.S. believes that’s the case and President Joe Biden has warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that an attack could come in February. But Russia denies it’s preparing to invade and Putin’s intentions remain a mystery.

All that was missing was Joe Scarborough looking into the camera and saying—à la his recent claim that the current Biden was the best Biden ever and f-you if you didn't believe it—that Jimmy Carter was the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln. Today's episode Morning Joe engaged in some world-class revisionism in praise of Carter. Incredibly, citing supposed Soviet views at the time, Scarborough credited Carter [and Mika's dad Zbigniew Brzezinski] more than Reagan, for the fall of the Soviet Union.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

This is the moment a Rhode Island driver body-slammed a mother-of-two to the ground during a road rage incident in Massachusetts. Gladior Kwesiah, 26, of Pawtucket, was arrested and charged with assault and battery after slamming Hailea Soares, 31, of Somerset, into the ground after a minor car accident on January 3.

The Danish territory of Greenland and its strategic importance for the U.S. and NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) have been making headlines recently. Largely lost in the media furor, however, are the reasons why Greenland is vital for North American security. One of those reasons concerns the role of a crucial military installation on the world's largest island: Pituffik Space Base. "The Department of Defense has unveiled a new Arctic strategy, underscoring the region's critical importance to our national security and that of our allies," U.S. Space Force Chief Master Sgt. John Bentivegna said when he visited Pituffik in...

Thursday on FNC’s “Hannity,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich pointed to the local and state government incompetence in responding to the wildfires plaguing Southern California. Gingrich called the response an example of “total incompetence and destructive of left-wing government.” “Look, I think we need a totally new model,” he said. “I think the federal government should basically impound all the money that was going to give California and all the money that it was going to give Los Angeles, translate that into to help for the people not the governments, but take all that money so that, in fact, we’re...

The first thing Benjamin Jackson did upon arriving in Vancouver on Wednesday morning after spending the holidays in Hamilton was change the marquee outside The Penthouse strip club, where he works as bar manager. “As soon as I dropped my bags at home, I walked straight to the club to update the sign around 2 a.m.” During his layover in Toronto, the 43-year-old spent time watching the news and brainstorming his next sign idea. What he didn’t know was that his late-night inspiration would make headlines of its own. Jackson changed the letters on the marquee to spell out: “Forever...