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VATICAN CITY — The supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church issued a sharp criticism of the Almighty Creator of the universe this week, as Pope Leo XIV publicly condemned God for instituting the death penalty.When asked by the media to comment on critics of the death penalty, the pope singled out the Lord, offering a stinging critique of the Almighty for instituting capital punishment and questioning whether or not God was actually pro-life."I question God's moral standing here," Pope Leo told reporters. "Someone who says, ‘I'm against abortion,' but says, ‘I'm in favor of the death penalty,' is not really...

Disappointed Saturday Night Live fans have blasted last night's show as unfunny, after the new season kicked off on a sour note. The late-night sketch comedy show opened its 51st season with a jab at Donald Trump's crackdown on TV, with James Austin Johnson reprising his role as Trump. Colin Jost was dropped in as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he gave an SNL rendition of his recent viral speech to top army brass earlier this week. Jost had portrayed Hegseth as a boozed up frat commander hellbent on rewriting military culture. 'Our military will now have the same rules...

For years I clung to the belief that, despite the rise in hostility to the Jewish community, we could still build lives here. I had watched from abroad during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020, when Jew-hate poisoned the party and seeped into wider politics. Yet, despite my deep disappointment, I still believed in this country enough to move back from Hong Kong in 2022. I wanted to believe the Jewish story here still had a future, and I was determined to be a part of it. October 7, 2023, changed everything. Hamas carried out...

President Trump scorched Fox News in a Truth Social post after watching an interview that correspondent Peter Doocy conducted on his new “The Sunday Briefing” show with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) about healthcare and the government shutdown, urging the conservative cable network to “either get on board, or get off board, NOW.” “Why is FoxNews and Peter Doocy putting on Democrat Senator Mark Kelly to talk about, totally unabated or challenged, Healthcare?,” Trump wrote. “The FAKE SPIN is so bad for Republicans that it is hard to believe that we WIN.” Trump’s ongoing war of words with the media, normally...

Science and religion have never been easy bedfellows. As Thomas Jefferson put it in 1820, priests “dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight”. Five centuries of scientific breakthroughs — from Galileo to Darwin to Crick and Watson — have eroded our belief in the divine. But now, according to a new book, a “great reversal” is under way. Science, its authors argue over 580 pages, has come full circle and “forcefully put the question of the existence of a creator God back on the table”. In a striking challenge to the academic consensus, two French...

The strange death of ProtestantismThat broad body of Christian belief and practice known to the world as Protestantism originated in Catholic Western Europe in the 16th century, mostly the fruit of the highly original, expansive mind of Martin Luther, and then of the rather narrower and derivative mind of John Calvin. The pivotal doctrine of Protestantism was encapsulated in the easy and elegant slogan: justification by faith alone.In a Catholic culture in which the passion and death of Jesus on the cross were at the very heart of religious sensibility, Luther's message that Jesus's sacrifice was so overwhelmingly sufficient that...

A man who helped barricade a synagogue in northern Manchester has described how an attack, which killed two British Jews, unfolded. On Thursday morning, Alan Levy was inside the Heaton Park synagogue when Jihad Al-Shamie rammed a car into and stabbed worshippers gathering for a service to mark Yom Kippur. Mr Levy said the "monster" attacker tried to bash down the doors of the synagogue and he recalled locking the building down with other congregation members. Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed in the attack on Thursday, while three others were injured trying to protect worshippers. Mr...

It looks like this 'man' is trying to confuse members of the military into thinking they would be violating their oath to the U.S. Constitution and U.S. law if they obey President Trump's orders (troops to cities) which he says are unlawful.Gov. Moore, Commander in Chief of the Maryland National Guard and the Maryland Air Guard, says that Trump's orders are unlawful.The 2 minute video linked, posted 4 hours ago by d14z3p4m, is titled: why is trump terrified of his own militaryIn the video Gov. Moore says that the military is embarrassed by President Trump, has taken an oath to...

After months of emergency rulings, the justices will be asked to render final verdicts on economic and immigration policies at the core of Trump’s presidency. The Supreme Court and President Donald Trump are headed for a reckoning. After months of terse emergency rulings that largely avoided major confrontations with the new administration, the justices will open their new term on Monday faced with the need to render full, final verdicts on policies at the core of Trump’s presidency. “It really is going to be a showdown,” said Jennifer Nou, a law professor at the University of Chicago. “So many of...

There could be as many as 104.1 million people who back domestic terrorism in the U.S. Most of America believes politically motivated violence is a problem in America, and there remains an alarming 30% who believe "Americans may need to resort to violence to get the country back on course," according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. That 30% includes 11% who "strongly agree" Americans must resort to violence to force their political agenda, and 19% "agree." With 347 million people in the U.S., 30% equates to 104.1 million supportive of domestic terror, including potentially more than 38 million who...

Explanation: Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. This Hubble Space Telescope composite view of the gorgeous island universe is one of the largest Hubble images ever made of a complete galaxy. NGC 1300 spans over 100,000 light-years and the Hubble image reveals striking details of the galaxy's dominant central bar and majestic spiral arms. In fact, on close inspection the nucleus of this classic barred spiral itself shows a remarkable region of spiral structure about 3,000 light-years across. Like other spiral galaxies, including our own Milky...

Summary Gay "conversion therapy" case to be argued on Tuesday Court will examine laws banning transgender athletes Justices to hear challenge to Hawaii handgun limits Voting Rights Act provision imperiled in Louisiana case WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to wade back into the nation's culture wars during its new nine-month term that begins on Monday with a series of contentious cases on issues including transgender athletes, gay conversion therapy, guns and race.The first of these goes before the court on the second day of its term. Arguments are slated for Tuesday over the legality...

“Crime has slowed down. It look like a totally different city..” I voted for this!! 🔥👇🏼

Sudden layoffs from jobs are tough to process and it gets worse when questions of employees remain unanswered. In one such case, an Indian employee detailed his sudden layoff from a US-based company in a Reddit post which has gone viral. According to the post, the employee was caught off guard by the termination, which took place on October 1, over a three-minute video call. “It was literally like any other day, woke up at 8:30, logged into work at 9 and saw a calendar invite for 11. It was a mandatory meeting with our COO for all India employees....

Andrew demonstrates what happens when you search for Charlie Kirk and SPLC. This is how search engines slander conservatives.

🚨 NEW AD: Jay Jones dreamed of murdering two young kids and their dad over politics—and Abigail Spanberger wants him to be attorney general.

The SPLC does not prevent hate but directs it, mostly toward Christians for promoting the teachings of Christ.Under President Donald Trump, the FBI recently made the decision to sever ties with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-described anti-hate group that has long placed mainstream conservative and Christian organizations and institutions on a par with groups like the Ku Klux Klan. “The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” FBI Director Kash Patel told The Daily Signal. “Their so-called hate map has been used to defame mainstream...

Next year, the United States will observe the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. To begin a year of celebration, Donald Trump appeared at the Iowa State Fairground in early July. “We’ve saved our country,” he proclaimed to the crowd of supporters. Trump then announced a “giant patriotic festival” on the National Mall for next summer, and suggested an Ultimate Fighting Championship event could take place on White House grounds. UFC is one of the corporate sponsors of ­America250, the nonprofit organization that will be overseeing the country’s semiquincentennial celebration. Other sponsors represent different parts of Trump’s corporate coalition:...

As the old saying goes, “it’s not how you start, but how you finish.” In the case of the gubernatorial race between Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey, it’s Ciattarelli who has all the momentum as we head into the home stretch. Quantus Polling, which was the most accurate of the 2024 presidential election, nailing the exact number of electoral votes President Donald Trump would receive (312), shows Sherrill and Ciattarelli in a dead heat. That same polling firm showed Sherrill with a 10-point lead back in early September. Emerson’s most recent poll also has the...

As Senate Democrats keep voting down the House Republicans’ clean CR to keep the government open — the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, couldn’t even fill a little league baseball field for his YouTube livestream session. It never drew more than a couple hundred viewers, watching party members ranting and raving over President Trump and the GOP. Greg Gutfeld gets a bigger audience than Mr. Jeffries. The round-the-clock telethon had to be ended before it was even halfway over. Meanwhile, a rival White House feed was peaking at around 100,000 viewers. Which reminds me, it’s so commonplace that I nearly...