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3 October 2025 Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time All Saints Church, Old Town Manassas Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingBaruch 1:15-22We have been disobedient to the Lord our GodIntegrity belongs to the Lord our God; to us the look of shame we wear today, to us, the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem, to our kings and princes, our priests, our prophets, as to our ancestors, because we have sinned in the sight of the Lord, have disobeyed him, and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God telling us...

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Summary Hamas responds to Gaza plan already accepted by Israel Trump says he believes Hamas ready for peace, Israel must stop bombing Trump earlier warned of consequences if Hamas rejected proposal Trump plan 'a window of opportunity,' U.N. aid chief says CAIRO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Hamas said on Friday it would agree to some of the terms in U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the Gaza war, including releasing hostages, but avoided addressing more vexing issues like disarmament and said it would seek further negotiations. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he believed...

Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations--the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson--on many things. Its membership was small (58 nations). The League's utopian rhetoric lacked commensurate force. The postwar ascendant United States refused to join. The winners of World War I, like France and Britain, were terrified of rearming, while the losers, such as Germany and Austria, were eager to. Consequently, the League in the mid-1930s allowed fascist powers to make a mockery of the Versailles Treaty. It could never even enforce its own embargoes and sanctions. Without big power backup, the League...

Masked protesters abandon 100-day siege after increased federal presence and arrestsFor the first time in months, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency building here was not besieged Wednesday night by Antifa creeps, who have clearly been scared off by the Trump administration’s increased presence on the ground.It's a funny thing, just as in President Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., once there are consequences for breaking the law, things get awfully quiet.It was obvious as I approached the facility just before nightfall that something had changed. Gone for the most part was the menacing gang of masked Antifa with...

The University of California San Francisco scrubbed its website of details on its provision of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgical removals of healthy breasts and genitals for minors, following a query from then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson's show, according to a massive production to Judicial Watch in a California Public Records Act lawsuit. The UC system's designated campus for health sciences and University of Southern California-affiliated Children's Health Los Angeles also hid the fact that a 9-year-old was part of their blocker study through the National Institutes of Health, when they corrected New York Times reporters who asked about...

If you listen carefully, you can hear two distinct sounds — one of anxiety, the other of laughter — coming from Washington, D.C. Each is muffled but not very well.The first is of timorous Democrats promising to keep the federal government shut until Republicans add $700 billion more to the national debt. They want to hang tough, but they know they are between a rock and a hard-left place.The second comes from President Donald Trump and Republicans stifling guffaws as they watch their opponents present them a political gift that will allow them to ax government bureaucrats faster than...

What on earth???? Here is an excerpt from an MSN story on the Georgia Senate race, referring to "former President Donald Trump". Is this the result of AI? Adding to the race’s complexity, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction, halting a series of attack ads by a pro-Ossoff super PAC, citing misleading claims about Collins’ voting record, further escalating tensions in this high-stakes contest. Ossoff has leveraged robust fundraising to bolster his campaign, while Collins has emphasized his alignment with former President Donald Trump to galvanize GOP voters. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) lags behind Ossoff in the poll, with...

Conservative commentator Steven Crowder pulled a Michael Jordan a few days ago with a two-word proclamation plastered all over his YouTube and social media accounts. "I'm back." Crowder was referring to his exceedingly popular video series "Change My Mind," in which he would set up a table with a simple prompt urging the liberal student body to debate him on a simple topic. Some of his more well-received topics include "There Are Only Two Genders" and "Hate Speech Isn't Real." Recently, Crowder made the decision to eschew "Change My Mind" out of an abundance of caution due to the rising...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House launched an initiative on Friday guaranteeing a free sombrero to the first 10,000 illegal aliens who self-deport. "They're big hats," President Donald Trump explained to reporters. "We call them sombreros, but did you know sombrero just means hat? It's really something. I just learned this." According to sources, there were so many illegal aliens embedded in the country that ICE was overwhelmed. To assist, President Trump devised what he called a "tremendous" free sombrero giveaway to encourage undocumented immigrants to leave of their own accord. And the White House thinks they'll go for...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday gave the Trump administration once again the green light to strip deportation protections and work permits from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants. The justices granted an emergency request from the Trump administration to block the ruling of a federal judge in California last month. The judge ordered the federal government to keep Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela through October 2026. The justices also wrote that the future of the protections will depend on how an appeals court in California responds to a separate appeal from the Trump administration on the same case. “Although...

Hamas Crumbles Under Trump's Pro-Israel Ultimatum, Exposes Qatar's Puppet Strings In a bold and unyielding stand for Israel's security, President Trump's decisive ultimatum to the terrorist Hamas regime has exposed the group's true colors once again. While feigning a token concession by agreeing to release the innocent hostages they've barbarically held captive—brave souls kidnapped in their vicious October 7 massacre—Hamas shamelessly spurns the core pillars of Trump's ironclad peace blueprint: total disarmament to neuter their arsenal of death, and the deployment of a robust international force (clearly excluding Palestinian interlopers who might sympathize with jihadists) to safeguard Israel's sovereignty and...

At AmFest2024, Sage Steele sat down with businesswoman Erika Kirk, the wife of conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, and chatted about faith, family, and finding purpose. Erika shared her journey of balancing marriage, motherhood, and entrepreneurship in this heartfelt conversation. From her Christian lifestyle brand, Proclaim365, to her inspiring Bible in 365 ministry, Erika delves into how faith shapes her life and work. She also opens up about the joys and challenges of parenting young children, maintaining a strong marriage, and embracing her role as a wife, mother, and entrepreneur in today’s culture. This episode...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was sentenced Friday to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and “freak-offs.” U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian said a lengthy sentence was needed for deterrence and that he was unconvinced that if Combs is released these crimes won’t happen again. Since Combs has served a year in prison already, the sentence means he would be released in about three years. The 55-year-old hip-hop mogul was convicted in July of flying people across state lines for drug-fueled marathon sexual encounters that were deemed violations of the the...

During Thursday night’s mayoral debate, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said he wouldn’t jail aneight-time convicted offender and would rather learn about that person’s life story. Faced with a shockingly high number of prolific offenders severely harming the city of Seattle’s quality of life, Harrell’s comment was one of the most jaw-dropping, tone-deaf moments I’ve ever seen from a sitting mayor—and that bar is already subterranean in this city. Harrell delivered the kind of response that makes you wonder if he even lives in the same city the rest of us do. No jail time for eight-time repeat criminal The moderator...

HIV advocate Mackenzie Copley is making a big bet in Las Vegas—and he’s confident it’ll pay off. As founder and CEO of Shine, he’s launching a pilot program that offers financial incentives—$1,000 every six months—to folks living with HIV if they stick to their treatment regimen. The goal for participants is to reach and maintain an undetectable viral load. Doing so translates to better overall health, including longer lifespans and fewer opportunistic infections. Importantly, it also means they don’t transmit HIV to others through sex, a fact commonly referred to as Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U).

A National Guard Captain told troops to “Defy Orders” — reckless advice that could destroy a career and even land soldiers in jail. Pete Hegseth fires back, warning that this kind of guidance ignores the Insurrection Act and the harsh reality of the UCMJ.

Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich 🚨Holy crap. DHS just released more info on the Iowa school superintendent and illegal alien Ian Andre Roberts. He has a very long, violent criminal record, combined with immigration fraud. He also voted in elections

Dr Karel Fraaije travels back in time to explore a hidden treasure from the English Middle Ages: the Hereford World Map. This enormous artwork shows what thirteenth-century scholars from England thought our planet looks like.The document is dotted with ancient legends, biblical sites, and a great number of presumptions about strange and distant places. The mapmakers even proposed that some people on the edges of the known world had faces in their chests.The video concludes with debunking a common myth about the middle ages: contrary to modern popular opinion, medieval mapmakers did not believe that the world was flat. This...