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[Catholic Caucus] Sr. Jeannine Gramick asks: Will actions affirm Pope Leo's words on LGBTQ+ people?A worshipper prays prior to the annual "Pre-Pride Festive Mass" at St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York City June 29, 2024. The liturgy, hosted by the parish's LGBT+ ministry, is traditionally celebrated on the eve of the city's Pride parade.Like millions of the world's poor, and not so poor, I miss the warm, good-hearted, down-to-earth Pope Francis.His personality came through not only in his loving words, but also in his magnanimous gestures. His visits to prisoners in Rome and other countries; to migrants on...

Political Junkie’s Advanced AI Review of the Federal Circuit Court’s Rejection of President Trump’s Tariffs Below is another Perplexity Pro AI discussion about emerging news. This time, I had the AI analyze the decision by the Federal Circuit Court that declared that President Trump had no delegated authority to issue his sweeping tariffs using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). As has happened before, the AI starts with the mainstream opinion, and then is slowly moved to an opposite opinion once the facts are more deeply explored. As usual, this is a VERY LONG thread, as it explores...

Back in the 90s, few voices rang louder in evangelical youth groups than Ray Boltz. Choirs sang his ballads, even parents wept at his lyrics, and GMA Dove Awards were stacked on his shelf. His song, "Thank You," captured the imagination of a generation. "The Anchor Holds" gave solace to broken men. And in 1994, he took home Inspirational Song of the Year (at the GMA Dove Awards) for "I Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb," a declaration of costly discipleship that echoed through sanctuaries like a modern creed. “I pledge allegiance to the Lamb With all my strength, with all...

The truth is that Mayor Pin Head and Gov. Fat Boy don’t really care about black and brown people who are the true victims of violent crimes. They care about the Chicago Teachers Union. They care about shielding Democrat boss Toni Preckwinkle, the Cook County Board President and Cook County Democrat chairman. Boss Toni is a hard leftist protected by the corrupt corporate legacy media. She is without a doubt the architect of Chicago’s anarchy of crime. The Democrats are now the pro-criminal party. They are eager to defund police and clear out the county jail that Boss Toni considers...

Former President Joe Biden sparked concern after he was seen with a massive gash on his head while greeting people in Delaware. Shocking footage, shared by Inside Edition, showed the frail 82-year-old sporting the bandaged head wound while leaving a church in Rehoboth. Biden recently underwent Mohs surgery, a procedure used to treat skin cancer, his rep told The Post Thursday.

Chicago has unveiled new tools for immigrants in the community to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will soon begin cracking down on crime and illegal immigration in the Democratic-run city.Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) and the city’s Office of Immigrant, Migrant and Refugee Rights (IMRR) rolled out an updated website with step-by-step guidance on how immigrants can protect themselves, including with user-friendly content explaining their rights.The website also provides an “essential checklist for new arrivals,” with links to resources to assist in securing food and shelter, obtaining proper government identification, enrolling children in school, riding public transportation...

Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell is revising his take on transgender athletes, saying he's ashamed of his previous comments supporting trans women in sports. Gladwell, 62, divulged his amended point of view on the hot-button issue during a podcast Tuesday, insisting "trans women have no place" competing with athletes assigned female at birth. "If we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan conference this coming March, it runs in exactly the opposite direction," Gladwell said. "And it would be, I suspect, near unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in the female category. I don't...

Jeff had this earlier today, but it’s a long time coming for some groups. The Justice Department is mulling banning gun ownership for those who identify as transgender. It goes beyond the horrific mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that occurred on August 27, where two kids were shot and killed, with another 17 injured. Since 2020, 40 percent of mass shooters, or would-be mass shooters, have been identified as transgender or suspected of being one. If those clamoring for government to “do something,” this is a good first step: A DOJ source told the Daily Wire that...

No matter what dictionary you consult, the definition of “emergency” is never “a chronic situation that the leader of a country would like to address using powers not otherwise available to him.” This, though, is how the Trump administration tends to define the term. A national emergency is British troops winning the Battle of Bladensburg and heading toward the White House in 1814. A national emergency is Iranian radicals breaching the US embassy in Tehran and taking 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage in 1979. A national emergency is a pandemic reaching our shores, killing the particularly vulnerable and sickening...

One of the writers of 2022’s Lightyear is doubling down on the decision to put a lesbian kiss in the Disney-Pixar animated film amid conflicting reports about whether or not rap icon Snoop Dogg apologized for his comments critical of LGBT content in children’s media. Lightyear, a failed Toy Story spinoff purporting to present the “real” movie on which Tim Allen’s iconic Buzz Lightyear was based (voiced in the 2022 film by Chris Evans), drew flak from family groups for featuring an on-screen kiss between two female “married” characters. The display of LGBT “representation” was largely relegated to just one...

The redistricting wars are in full swing. Somewhat implausibly, Democrats claim they will match Republicans’ redistricting moves, as in Texas, with moves of their own that will cancel them out. But Democrats just have fewer places than the GOP to pull off these maneuvers and, even where they are in control of state government, are more likely to face institutional obstacles like nonpartisan commissions specifically designed to prevent gerrymandering. Therefore, the net results of these moves and counter-moves is likely to favor the GOP.How badly could all this hurt the Democrats in 2026? In all likelihood, not very. As Nate...

Over the Labor Day weekend, instead of enjoying the last days of summer with family and friends, Democrats and other Trump-deranged folk had nothing better to do than indulge in sick fantasies about the president’s death.Hashtags like #trumpisdead and #whereistrump trended on X, with countless TikToks, Google searches and posts saying “TRUMP DIED” garnering millions of likes and views.This was not a harmless meme or politics as usual. It was seeded by anonymous left-wing social media accounts and amplified by journalists and influencers to create a permission structure to fantasize about Trump’s demise.Despite photos of Trump golfing with his grandchildren...

A far-left federal judge erupted during a hearing on Thursday after the DOJ dismissed a case against a DC man who threatening to kill President Trump. Earlier this week a DC grand jury declined to indict Edward Dana after he was arrested damaging a light fixture at a DC restaurant. Dana also allegedly threatened to kill President Trump and the DC Metro officer who arrested him. .... Snip.... Federal Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui on Thursday screamed from the bench and blasted DOJ lawyers during a hearing to dismiss the case. The judge also apologized to the defendant who threatened kill...

Honoring the Rust Belt’s greatest sellout — and elitist suck-up.It was July 1984, a very late weeknight. My buddy Mike and I closed up Perkins Restaurant in Butler, Pennsylvania, and left about 1 a.m. with a six-pack of Budweiser pounders for the old Kaufman’s department store in downtown Pittsburgh. There we joined a long line of fellow 1980s degenerates sleeping out all night on the sidewalk in quest of coveted Bruce Springsteen concert tickets.Perkins is a nice family restaurant chain. The restaurant where Mike and I worked — he as a junior manager and I as cook, dishwasher, and all-purpose...

Body of Carlo Acutis, to be canonized Sunday, on display in jeans and sneakersROME — Carlo Acutis wore sneakers and jeans, relaxed with his PlayStation, craved Nutella, and loved soccer. On Sunday, the Italian teenager will become the Catholic Church’s first saint from the internet generation.Carlo, a self-taught computer whiz whose devotion to his faith was unusual for his age, died of leukemia in 2006 at just 15.To friends and classmates, he was a well-liked fan of the AC Milan soccer team who would sometimes vanish for hours at a time to write computer code.To fellow parishioners of Milan’s...

See video. Sen. John Kennedy who states: "We need to restore confidence and so far I don't see where Secretary Kennedy has done that. All I see over there is at the moment is a multiple vehicle pileup.” See comments. Sen. Kennedy just took a swim in the swamp sewer. Why would he do this to himself? I had a lot of respect for his common sense and he just destroyed is Rep in my book. It will be a long long time before I stop listening askance to anything this swamp rat says. He clearly lacks common sense. It's...

A young bald eagle visited the nest of internet-famous raptors Jackie and Shadow. The youngster was likely Gizmo, the eagle couple’s daughter. Like Gizmo, this eagle had a dark tail, missing feathers on its left wing and an upturned mouth. When bald eagle power couple Jackie and Shadow’s two baby girls flew their Big Bear nest earlier this summer, it was bittersweet.Thousands of adoring fans had watched them hatch on a 24-hour webcam that monitors the family and now they were growing up — fast. But one of the internet-famous youngsters, Gizmo, may have just dropped by her childhood home,...

Police Scotland has charged a man and a woman in connection to the incident which saw a 12-year-old-girl charged for allegedly brandishing an axe and a machete. The school girl was said to have been in possession of the weapons when she was walking around a street in the Lochee area of Dundee last month. It comes after footage of the alleged incident circulated online and was shared by X Supremo Elon Musk and Far Right campaigner Tommy Robinson. Even First Minister John Swinney was forced to step in to call for users to stop spreading misinformation around the case....

The decision, affecting hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid, has alarmed NATO allies and upset U.S. lawmakers who strongly back the alliance.The Trump administration intends to halt longtime security assistance programs for Europe, including an initiative to fortify the continent’s eastern flank against a potential attack by Russia, as it endeavors to recast Washington’s role within NATO, according to six people familiar with the matter.The decision would impact hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military aid relied upon by some of the alliance’s most vulnerable members. It has alarmed U.S. allies struggling to comprehend the administration’s...

The Trump administration aims to carry out more violent strikes against drug cartels, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he met with Ecuador’s president.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that the Trump administration wants to help partner governments conduct violent strikes against criminal groups, following the playbook the U.S. military used this week to carry out a lethal attack on a boat in the Caribbean.“Those governments will help us find these people and blow them up,” he said at a news conference in Ecuador. “They might do it themselves, and we’ll help them do it.”Mr. Rubio made his...