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[Catholic Caucus] Vatican Gives New Guidelines for Implementing Synodality: Now Under Pope Leo XIVWhat will happen now with the arrival of Pope Leo? Sister Nathalie Becquart commented: «The plan approved by Pope Francis and confirmed by Pope Leo includes local, national, and continental assemblies, up to the Ecclesial Assembly in Rome.»The Synod’s General Secretary, chaired by Cardinal Mario Grech, has prepared the new document for the local Churches, in order to «listen to them, support their efforts, and, above all, contribute to encouraging dialogue and the exchange of gifts among the Churches.»Sister Nathalie Becquart, XMCJ, Under-Secretary of the Synod, spoke...

Can anyone tell me why we are deporting illegal aliens to other country prisons and not just imprisoning them here? And what are we giving the countries we are deporting them to? It can't be finality of the action because we could not bring them back since we have brought some back.

Former Louisville Metro Police Department Detective Brett Hankison is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday afternoon after being convicted of deprivation of rights under color of law in November. Taylor was killed during a knock-and-announce drug raid on March 13, 2020, during which her boyfriend shot at police and they returned fire. LMPD Sgt. Jon Mattingly was shot during the exchange and has now recovered.During the raid, Hankison fired ten shots through a window, though they are not the ones that struck Taylor. The officers who shot Taylor were not charged because they were returning fire as her boyfriend shot...

The Biden-era ATF rule restricting pistol braces was vacated Thursday after President Donald Trump's Department of Justice agreed to drop its appeal in a federal lawsuit, delivering a major victory to gun-rights advocates, Breitbart reported. The move marks a significant reversal in federal firearms regulation and concludes a lengthy legal battle over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' 2023 rule that reclassified AR-pistols with braces as short-barreled rifles under the National Firearms Act. "This afternoon, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and the federal government agreed to a joint dismissal of the government's appeal in our Mock v. Bondi lawsuit,...

According to Davis, the so-called “statute of limitations” argument — the favorite excuse of Deep State operatives hoping to run out the clock — doesn’t apply either. Why? Because the criminal conspiracy never stopped. Mike Davis made clear this isn’t just about exposing a political dirty trick. This was a multi-year coup against the duly elected President of the United States — and the perpetrators are still walking free. Benny Johnson: Talk us through what happens next. If you don’t mind, could you narrow it down to Comey, Clapper, Brennan, and Barack Obama? Will Barack Obama be able to claim...

In a passage of the interview, Biden said: "I would pick up the phone and call the president in El Salvador and say, you either f—ing send them back or I'm going to f—ing invade"Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele responded on Monday to remarks made by Hunter Biden in a recent interview, in which the former U.S. president's son said he would threaten military action against El Salvador over deportation policies. Bukele shared a video clip of the interview on social media with a caption that read: "Is Hunter Biden sniffing powdered milk?" The post came after Biden said in an...

VIDEOLiberals really HATE the U.S. Constitution because it was designed to make us a republic with a federal system of government. They hid their disdain for the Constitution in the past by pretending they really revere the Constitution but that it must be considered to be a "living" Constitution which means they could interpret it any way they wanted. Now that the dopey "living" Constitution concept has mostly faded away they are more open in their antagonism as illustrated by Chuck Todd and his Chuck Toddcast guest proposing a new Constitutional Convention to basically GUT the current Constitution of its...

Pathetic. Weak. Intimidated. Discussing the shooting of a federal LE officer by an illegal alien, the guest was a senior NYC police official, John Chell. He gave off the vibes of a traditional cop. But after years of immersion in New York's liberal politics, and likely haunted by the specter of an imminent Mayor Mamdani, Chell chickened out. Instead of stating the obvious — that sanctuary city laws need to be utterly abolished — Chell suggested that they merely require "thoughtful change."Translation of Chell's mealy-mouthed proposal for "thoughtful change": Keep sanctuary city laws on the books for the great majority...

The Trump administration released a huge batch of previously classified documents on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination on Monday as Americans clamor for information about Jeffrey Epstein. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was publishing 230,000 pages worth of documents relating to the civil rights leader's April 1968 assassination. The release was in accordance with Donald Trump's executive order earlier this year mandating the release of files on former President John F. Kennedy, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and MLK. The release comes as the Trump administration...

A Canadian man who reported his 9-year-old daughter missing in New York has been arrested after she was found dead, authorities said Monday. Luciano Frattolin, the father of Melina Frattolin, was charged with second-degree murder and concealing of a corpse, New York State Police spokesman Robert McConnell said. State Police said Luciano Frattolin reported the girl missing and possibly abducted on Saturday, leading officials to issue an Amber Alert to enlist the public's help in finding her.

(TRANSCRIPT BELOW)1~~~TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~This is not speculation. This is a documented fact. For years, they told us Trump was the threat to democracy, but the real threat was the attempt to remove him.On December 9, 2016, inside the Obama White House, a classified meeting took place. Present were CIA Director John Brennan, DNI James Clapper, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and several senior officials. Barack Obama was there, and what they discussed would become the most coordinated political deception in US history.Just days earlier, an internal intelligence community report concluded Russia had not altered the outcome of the 2016 election. On...

[Catholic Caucus] Public Prayer, Fasting and Online Protest Against Crackdown of a Florishing Roman ...Tensions have arisen over the decision of Bishop François Durand (51) of Valence, in the southeastern Drôme region of France, to close the long-standing apostolate of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP). This apostolate was founded in September 1988.Catholics in Valence and Montélimar have started a strict fast and prayer vigil near the Church of Notre Dame in Valence. Some are sleeping in tents in the car park.Around 400 parish members signed an open letter on LeDauphine.com, urging the bishop to reconsider.The Masses and the...

"She doesn't get to give the Senate two weeks' notice," Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson said of Mitchell's plan to resign by Aug. 4 .... Senator Nicole Mitchell, DFL-Woodbury, has announced she will resign from the Minnesota Senate next month. Her announcement comes just days after she was convicted of two felonies, first-degree burglary and possession of burglary or theft tools. In April of 2024, Mitchell was arrested after breaking into her stepmother’s Detroit Lakes home with the intent to take items that once belonged to her late father. A jury convicted Mitchell of both felonies after a week-long trial...

The red-and-white souped-up Schwinn bicycle made famous in the 1985 film “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” will soon have a new permanent home in what is arguably one of the most unusual movie tie-ins in the history of celluloid. The bike — which served as the MacGuffin in the Tim Burton-directed cult favorite — will be permanently displayed in the Alamo Visitor Center and Museum in San Antonio to mark the 40th anniversary of the movie’s theatrical release.

Explanation: Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble. Still, no known cat could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula visible toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). At 5,700 light years distant, Cat's Paw is an emission nebula within a larger molecular cloud. Alternatively known as the Bear Claw Nebula and cataloged as NGC 6334, stars nearly ten times the mass of our Sun have been born there in only the past few million years. Pictured here is a recently released image of the Cat's Paw taken...

MARK GREEN has resigned from the House. He hasnt voted in a few weeks. . House is now: 219 - R 212- D 4 vacancies ... How/when do these vacancies get filled? By whom? ... They trigger special elections but often governors play games with when to schedule them depending on whose party the vacancy favors ... Special election for Tennessee - not an appointment. So usually several months from governor declaring the writ and the election ... Two Dem elections are in September. One in Virginia and the other in Arizona 7th. .... 3 of those are D vacancies...

President Donald Trump posted an AI video of Barack Obama being arrested by FBI agents and tossed in prison this week, igniting a firestorm on social media. In the video, FBI agents can be seen arresting Barack Obama during an Oval Office meeting with Trump, cuffing him, and placing him in prison. Trump also posted mugshots of the Deep State coup plotters involved in the Russia collusion hoax. Over the weekend, Trump floated prosecuting Barack Obama and the Deep State operatives involved in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Tulsi Gabbard declassified a December 2016 presidential briefing revealing Barack Obama knew the...

Of course he does. Some will put that down to leftist hypocrisy, but Zohran Mamdani, like a lot of Islamists, just cosplays as a Communist. He puts out radical ideas to win over leftists, but many of those same ideas if actually implemented would cause plenty of damage to the Muslim cohort that funded him and turned out the bloc vote for him. Is he serious about them? No. He is serious about Jihad and Islam. This stuff is just theater, sucker bait for leftists who think they found an even more uncompromising version of Obama. “My platform is that...

New research tracing the evolutionary history of animals that subsist on ants and termites has revealed that creatures with such unique appetites have evolved at least a dozen times, offering researchers a glimpse into the influence social insects have had on the adaptation of mammals. The field of myrmecophagy, which deals with animals that consume ants and termites, has now been revealed to be a significant driver of evolutionary adaptations across a wide array of mammalian species. These adaptations, which include hallmarks such as elongated tongues and fewer teeth in ant-eating mammals, emerged in response to the unique challenges associated...

A Florida man was arrested last week for allegedly threatening on X to kill "EVERY ONE" on what he believed was the Jeffrey Epstein client list, charging documents unsealed Monday show. Terrell Bailey-Corsey allegedly posted the threats on X last Tuesday, seemingly reacting to a response from X's AI agent Grok that disputed any such client list exists, as the FBI and Justice Department recently confirmed. "Well @grok you're wrong. Everyone involved if I see them in real life I will KILL. On sight," Bailey-Corsey allegedly said. "I will KILL EVERYONE ON THE LIST. ON SIGHT. AND THEY ABSOLUTELY DESERVE...