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[Catholic Caucus] Fr. Gerald Murray accuses Pope Francis of ‘endorsing the homosexual lifestyle’In an appearance on Raymond Arroyo's 'The World Over,' Father Gerald Murray accused Pope Francis of 'endorsing the homosexual lifestyle' and 'spouting propaganda of the homosexual interest groups' in his new memoir 'Hope.'Father Gerald Murray has accused Pope Francis of “endorsing the homosexual lifestyle” in the Pontiff’s newly released memoir.During the January 16 episode of Raymond Arroyo’s “The World Over,” Fr. Murray opined that instead of renewing the Church’s teaching on homosexuality, the Pope was in fact “endorsing the homosexual lifestyle by saying that these people have to...

Pam Bondi’s predecessor, Merrick Garland, oversaw the targeting of parents who objected to sexualized and racialized curriculum The targeting of parents, pro-lifers, and Latin Mass attendees “will stop” and “must stop” according to attorney general nominee Pam Bondi. The former Florida attorney general is testifying today in the first of two hearings on her nomination to lead the Department of Justice. Under Attorney General Merrick Garland, law enforcement targeted concerned parents and citizens who objected to sexual and racial identity politics in the classroom. The FBI office in Richmond, Va. also labeled Catholics who prefer the older Latin Mass as...

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul ripped the Supreme Court on Friday after it unanimously upheld a federal law requiring TikTok's parent company to sell its United States operations by January 19 or face a nationwide ban. Paul said he was disappointed in the ruling, adding, "I do believe that banning a social media app like TikTok is a violation of the First Amendment." Congress passed the law with broad bipartisan support last year after lawmakers argued that TikTok's ties to China represented a significant national security risk. The Supreme Court's nine justices sided with Congress on Friday, saying in an unsigned...

Are we seeing the end of global leftism? Probably not. For one thing, politics is sort of a fuzzy spectrum; there will always be a left and a right, although things are a little more complicated than that. But there is a reason the Overton Window is a thing, and it can't go all the way to one side or another, and there will always be people and systems to the left and to the right of that window. But modern leftist politics, defined by socialism and its fuzzy-headed cousin "progressivism" (which may be taken to mean "progress on the...

Italian bishop defends nation against Islam: ‘Equating religions is an insult to intelligence’Among the most incisive points of the interview with Bishop Suetta is the statement that Christianity and Islam are not equal religions. This is an evident fact for anyone with a minimum of theological and historical knowledge.Last week Bishop Antonio Suetta of Sanremo-Ventimiglia told an Italian newspaper that Catholicism and Islam are two very different religions.The interview given by Bishop Suetta to Il Tempo on January 6, 2025, is a rare example of episcopal clarity and courage. In a time when the fear of contradicting the dominant thought...

Roki Sasaki, the prized Japanese pitching prospect who has had scouts drooling over his potential since high school, has chosen the Los Angeles Dodgers as his major league team, he announced on Instagram on Friday. Sasaki called this "a very difficult decision, but I will do my best to make it the right decision when I look back after my baseball career." The Dodgers, long viewed as the favorites for Sasaki, had recently emerged as one of three finalists for the 23-year-old right-hander, along with the Toronto Blue Jays and San Diego Padres. On Friday morning, the Padres began agreeing...

Legal experts slammed President Biden's announcement declaring the 28th Amendment law as "cynical and irrelevant." Biden on Friday released a statement saying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) should be considered ratified and a new addition to the U.S. Constitution. "It is long past time to recognize the will of the American people. In keeping with my oath and duty to the Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex,"...

Chinese social media app RedNote has become a leading alternative for TikTok users concerned about the latter app’s ban set to take effect on Jan. 19, though, according to multiple outlets, RedNote could potentially face its own ban in the U.S. not long after. The language in the law against TikTok, known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, prohibits all apps developed by foreign adversaries like China from being hosted in American app stores or by internet hosting services, spelling trouble for RedNote, which is headquartered in China and owned by Shanghai-based Xingyin Information Technology. An...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass got into office promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and promising to tackle homelessness and pollution — but she never promised to drain the swamp. Now she stands accused of adding to it, through “legalized corruption” and a number of eye opening scandals which have come to light after renewed scrutiny in the last two weeks following the revelation Bass and her cronies defunded the Los Angeles Fire Department by $17 million, contributing to them being underprepared to tackle the wildfires currently destroying the city. These include: The deputy mayor raided by the FBI over...

With conservatives back in power, public media is getting back to what it really excels at. No, not objective, impartial reporting. If NPR and PBS focused on that, they wouldn’t need to be so good at their side hustle: desperately lobbying Congress not to defund them. Now that they’re good at. The lobbying efforts have worked every time conservatives have had power, going back to when President Lyndon Johnson created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the late 1960s. Every Republican president after Johnson has tried to defund, dissolve, or reform public broadcasting. Yet the CPB is still standing, and...

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to “Make America Healthy Again” as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services — petitioned the government to stop use of all Covid-19 vaccines in the heart of the pandemic. Kennedy petitioned the Food and Drug Administration in May 2021, asking that the agency revoke authorization for Covid vaccines, The New York Times reported Friday. Kennedy has a long history of spreading vaccine conspiracy theories, and was a vocal opponent of preventative measures during the pandemic. In 2022, at a rally organized by his group Children’s Health Defense, he compared measures around Covid...

CBS is considering settling a $10 billion lawsuit brought by Trump over its deceptively edited ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris. CBS executives are reportedly worried ongoing litigation with President Trump will interfere with a merger with Skydance. “Paramount, owner of CBS, its namesake studio and several cable channels, has a major piece of business in front of the new administration: its planned merger with Skydance Media,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “It’s become clear to executives at both companies that Trump’s dissatisfaction with CBS News will make the review tougher than they anticipated, and that they’ll likely need to...

Baroarbunga, one of the largest volcanoes in the whole of Iceland, has seen 130 earthquakes shatter its surrounding surfaces in just five hours, leading many to feel a full scale eruption will force flights to be severely disrupted. Iceland has been the unfortunate home of many severe volcanic eruptions, with the most famous in recent times coming in 2010, when Eyjafjallajokull erupted, causing some 20 countries to close their airspace completely to travellers, impacting 10 million passengers looking to fly through, and out of Europe, as 100,000 flights were called off, and 80 million dollars was lost due to airport...

A Gloucester County man admitted to skirting $3.4 million in taxes over a seven-year period by cashing checks at a check cashing location rather than depositing the money he collected for his business into bank accounts, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Tuesday. Jose Camilo Perez Jr., 54, of Sewell, pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion in Camden Federal Court and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 20. From 2016 to 2023, Perez collected over $8 million from clients that included hospitals and other healthcare entities to digitize medical records, authorities said. Instead of depositing the...

CNN host Fareed Zakaria tried to claim (a) Bidenomics was mind-boggling genius, and also (b) white working-class voters hated it and rejected it in November. So forget those unwashed, uneducated white voters. Democrats should stop trying for those voters and stick to college-educated women and minorities. The host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS bellowed in a January 17 op-ed for The Washington Post that Biden’s spendthrift economic catastrophe was actually “a resounding success.” But, alas, as Zakaria lectured in his ridiculous headline, “Biden failed to win the working class. Democrats might want to stop trying.” Of course, Zakaria’s idea of...

On today's Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire said there's skepticism the hostage deal will hold because Netanyahu -- not Hamas! -- might "submarine" it. Yes, you can always trust the sterling citizens of Hamas to be good to their word. But Bibi? Not so much--you know those tricky Israelis! Lemire also got in an unintentional laugh line, saying: '"Biden privately blames Netanyahu for prolonging the war, which he believes hurt his re-election chances." As I posted at X: "Yes, if only Bibi had been more malleable, Biden wouldn't have said 'we finally beat Medicare' during the debate." Get the rest of...

Number one: Our elections are being stolen. Every time we try to protect our elections, Democrats cry “racism.” So why not adopt the exact Voter ID law of Mexico? That kills the Democrat’s argument. How can it be racist to implement the same voter fraud protections as Mexico. If it’s good enough for Mexico, if it isn’t racist in Mexico, why would it be “racist” in America? What does Mexico do to keep their elections honest? It’s simple. They require government-issued photo

GOP senators railed against a host of Alejandro Mayorkas’ failures in Friday’s confirmation hearing for Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The hearing at times seemed like a Republican therapy session for lawmakers who needed to express their disgust with current DHS Secretary Mayorkas, whom Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio described as “the worst cabinet member ever in the history of the United States of America.” Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, recounted how Mayorkas established the Disinformation Governance Board “using taxpayer resources to police speech on the internet and elsewhere,...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports 50K people expected to protest Trump inauguration in Washington this weekend From justthenews.com 4:02 PM · Jan 17, 2025

Updated: On Jan. 17, 2025, President Joseph Biden said in a statement that he believes the "Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment." According to a report from NPR, the White House said Biden wil not order the Archivist of the United States to certify the proposed amendment. Original Story: In recent weeks, several groups have asked outgoing President Joe Biden to order the Archivist of the United States to certify the Equal Rights Amendment (or ERA) as the next amendment to the Constitution. Although the ERA’s ratification...