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<p>One of the most devastating casualties in the period after Vatican II has been the practical elimination of the distinction between objective redemption and subjective redemption. This has contributed to various evils, ranging from mass apostasy to the Vatican’s persecution of those Catholics who believe what the Church has always taught. Indeed, in one way or another, almost every aspect of the ongoing crisis in the Church relates to the effective elimination of the concept of subjective redemption.</p>

The largest and most bloated bureaucracy in the history of the world has been thrown into a state of complete and utter chaos. I have no idea how all of this is going to end, but it sure is entertaining to watch. President Trump is firing people left and right, and Elon Musk is storming around Washington D.C. like a bull in a china shop. I think that the words “shock and awe” don’t even begin to describe what we are witnessing. Nobody has ever dared to go into these ultra-powerful government agencies and start turning the tables over. When...

The Senate on Monday confirmed Chris Wright, the CEO of fracking company Liberty Energy, to lead the Energy Department. The vote was 59-38. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle indicated support for his nomination during his confirmation hearing, and he sailed out of the committee on a 15-5 vote. “He’s a scientist who has invested his life around energy. He is indeed an unrestrained enthusiast for fossil fuels in almost every regard, but he studied nuclear,” Democrat John Hickenlooper (Colo.) said during Wright’s confirmation hearing. “His first years of working were in solar. He has experience in wind.”

The 82-year-old ex-POTUS has signed with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) — the Hollywood mega-talent agency that also represents former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.

Let’s get this straight. Dr. Fauci’s NIAID and USAID handed over $41 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)—the same lab now linked to Ben Hu, the likely Patient Zero of COVID-19. And the kicker? That funding ended right before the pandemic started. (source here) [embedded image] This isn’t a conspiracy theory—it’s all right there in FOIA-obtained documents exposing how EcoHealth Alliance acted as a middleman, shuffling money from the U.S. government to Chinese scientists working on gain-of-function experiments—the kind that make viruses deadlier and more transmissible. And where was all this happening? In a...

The Department of Government Efficiency has been on a tear in DC. They’re acting like they have a mandate from the 2024 election, and they do. They’re uprooting, exposing, and shining light on the numerous pipelines of government waste and left-wing extremism that’s infected DC. They’re also clearing up many administrative issues, like worthless leases on government offices that are barely used. The DC bureaucratic class has tried to fight back. They can’t win. Those who stand in DOGE’s way are put on administrative leave. Give them access to the systems or else. Treasury, USAID, and the Small Business Administration...

[Catholic Caucus] Argentine Diocese Supports Homosexual March in Opposition to MileiHomosexual groups organised a march in Buenos Aires on February 1 to attack President Javier Milei's speech in Davos where he associated homosexuals with pedophilia and dismantled gender ideology.A second march of homosexual propagandists with the same purpose was organised in Mendoza, 1000 km west of Buenos Aires.Marcelo Colombo, the leader of the decadent Archdiocese of Mendoza, Argentina, promoted and supported this event on January 30. A text of the archdiocese's "Pastoral on Sexual Diversity" attacked pro-family policies as "manifestations of hatred":"Pope Francis invites us to build a Church that...

🚨 #BREAKING: @Jim_Jordan & @JudiciaryGOP file an amicus brief in support of President Trump’s Executive Order on Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.Read the Western District of Washington brief here: https://t.co/cEYqE3LYMERead the District of…— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) February 3, 2025Link to the amicus brief: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/86-2.pdf

The U.S. Agency for International Development’s fate is hanging in the balance as the second Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is working on an apparent overhaul of the agency. A review of USAID’s recent history shows that it repeatedly has been accused of financial mismanagement and corruption long before Donald Trump's second administration, Fox News Digital found. Tech billionaire and DOGE Chair Elon Musk has been on a warpath against USAID — which is an independent U.S. agency that was established under the Kennedy administration to administer economic aid to foreign nations — as he leads DOGE’s...

the Democratic Party’s most fundamental problem: Its brand has become toxic to men. According to the Quinnipiac poll, a staggering 67% of men hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, while only 22% approve. A party that repels 2 in 3 men is not viable. For Democrats to regain their national influence, they must reflect on why men of every color, class, and creed have abandoned them.

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council and prohibiting funding for the U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA, a White House official said on Monday. Trump has already previously ordered U.S. withdrawals from the World Health Organization and from the Paris climate agreement since taking office on Jan. 20 …

"Border security is national security. Guys and gals of my generation have spent decades in foreign countries guarding other people's borders. It's about time we secure our own border. Tens of millions of people have poured across this border under Joe Biden's administration unchecked. We have no idea who they are. We have no idea where they're coming from. We have no idea what their intentions are. In many ways, under the Biden administration, and Tom (Homan) knows this better than anybody else, they were facilitated, their entry into this country. THAT STOPS NOW under President Trump and the Defense...

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to become director of national intelligence received a major boost on Monday when Senator Susan Collins said she would back President Donald Trump's nominee. "I look forward to working with Ms. Gabbard to strengthen our national security," Collins, a moderate who is one of the few Republicans who has voted against Trump initiatives, said in a statement supporting Gabbard.

If this hasn't been done already President Trump needs to assign a security detail to Elon's team. They are easier to get at by radical leftists and their media lapdogs than President Trump or Elon. I have seen some of their names on a post here in Free Republic. They can be doxxed and they and their families can be threatened. Since President Trump has rightly removed security details from many Biden loosers these folks could be moved to guard Elon's team.

-snip- Ukraine is one of the largest rare earth mineral suppliers in the world, and has the largest titanium reserves in Europe. The country also boasts deposits of lithium, beryllium, manganese, gallium, uranium, zirconium, graphite, apatite, fluorite, and nickel, per the World Economic Forum. Russian forces have already taken parts of Eastern Ukraine that had historically provided the rest of the country with key minerals, notably much of the coal-supplying Donbas region. But other parts of Ukraine, including the Dnieper River basin that runs through the center of the country and the Carpathian Mountains in the West, have massive supply...

A Pastoral Letter from Bishop James S. Dunlop Dear Siblings in Christ, In the past two weeks, we have witnessed political actions and rhetoric that have heightened anxiety in our church and society, especially among marginalized communities. As people of faith, we cannot ignore the harm caused by policies that marginalize the vulnerable and the false narratives that spread distrust. Our faith compels us to respond with the deep assurance of God’s love and justice. Jesus speaks directly to our anxious hearts in the Sermon on the Mount,“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will...

The daughters of a man hauled away to immigration detention yelled 'I hope your families die' at federal agents as they left. Raul Lopez, 44, was swept up in a raid on his home in Elgin, Chicago, on January 28 by US Marshals looking for his stepson, Jose Ramos, 26. Doorbell footage and videos shot by Lopez's daughters showed the agents smash down the door with a battering ram and drag the family, including a three-year-old boy, outside in their pajamas. New footage posted online and obtained by DailyMail.com showed the girls hurling abuse at the up to 20 agents...

FBI leaders going full “we were just following orders” as accountability for turning the agency into a full-time Anti-Trump operation looms. ... Julie Kelly. = Expecting a bloodbath at FBI today and tomorrow. My guess is acting FBI director Brian Driscoll will be gone by this evening for defying a direct order seeking names of FBI employees—perhaps more than 6,000—involved in Jan 6 cases. Hard to see how James Dennehy, who runs the NY field office, keeps his job after sending defiant email to colleagues over the weekend promising to “dig in” and not step down or follow orders. The...

“I will shut down the federal Department of Education, and we will move everything back to the states where it belongs!”

Code name Artic Frost has been out for at least 2 days. I was waiting for someone else to start a thread, but I guess I am it Much more to follow, this is the code name that has been released by multiple sources that was used to “get Trump“