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[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis ‘secret decrees’ undermined defendants’ rights in Cdl. Becciu trial, lawyers sayDefense attorneys told Vatican judges that unpublished papal decrees unlawfully expanded prosecutorial powers and violated Cdl. Angelo Becciu’s fundamental rights under Vatican law.Defense lawyers have told the Vatican appeals tribunal that “secret decrees” issued by Pope Francis unlawfully expanded prosecutorial powers and undermined the fundamental rights of defendants in Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s trial.On Tuesday, during the resumption of the appeals phase of the Vatican’s so-called trial of the century, defense attorneys for Becciu and eight co-defendants argued before the Vatican City State Tribunal that four confidential...

VIDEOThe public has grown sick and tired of rich spoiled celebrities virtue signaling in public. Such an attitude is so obnoxious as to cause the ratings of such shows as the Grammys, Golden Globes, and Oscars to plummet. And this loss of audience is very worrying to the producers of such celebrity shows. However, the good news is that a very special sound effect has been discovered that when played over the celebrity show intercom system at the appropriate moment at just the right modulation and frequency meaning each and every time an airhead celeb starts virtue signaling, it is...

Explanation: Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After only a few million years for the most massive stars, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the supernova explosion that created this remnant would have been first seen in planet Earth's sky about 350 years ago, although it took that light...

"Foundation For Freedom Online" founder Mike Benz tells Benny Johnson that the best way to understand both Jeffrey Epstein's criminal network and bitcoin is as methods for money laundering used by and for intelligence agencies. "If Venezuelan counterintelligence sees money hit your bank account from a U.S. source or a U.S. bank, they treat it as a CIA intervention and arrest anyone who receives it," Benz explained. "So what the mystery U.S. government agency came up with was the idea to use stablecoins — the undergirding architecture of Bitcoin — to launder money into Venezuela without the Venezuelan government being...

[Catholic Caucus] To negotiate with the Tradition, nothing better than «Tucho»There are appointments that explain on their own the concept of “unity” that Rome handles. Leo XIV has decided to entrust the dialogue with the Society of Saint Pius X to Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, universally known as “Tucho”. And no, it’s not a joke or an ironic provocation: it’s the official decision at the most delicate moment in relations with the FSSPX in decades.Read also: Leo XIV entrusts “Tucho” with direct dialogue with the FSSPXIt is worth pausing for a second and looking at the full picture. The Society...

"I cannot wait for the Democrats to take the House." Nick Fuentes tells everyone to "STAY HOME" in 2026. [Video attached]

🚨 BREAKING — TRUMP VICTORY: A US Appeals court has just VACATED an activist judge’s injunction which HALTED President Trump’s executive order gutting DEI in the federal government President Trump is now free to fire ANY AND ALL DEI hires which plague the executive branch. FINALLY!

Do you check your weather app more than your bank account? Do you feel a surge of rage when a squirrel looks at your tomatoes? If you’ve ever felt judged for staring at garden soil for hours... I have good news: You aren't losing your mind. You just have "The Gardening Condition." In this video, we’re running a full diagnostic check. We'll cover the 8 clinical symptoms that every true gardener experiences—from the dopamine hit of the seed catalog to the inevitable mid-summer meltdown.

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[Catholic Caucus] God’s Inclusive Love Respects Homosexuals – Archbishop SciclunaGod dwells within every human life and this idea can offer consolation and direction to homosexual Catholics, writes pro-homosexual Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna on the pro-homosexual Outreach.faith (February 3) His text employes psychological categories and rhetoric such as “feelings”, “wounds”, “weaknesses”, “fear”, “self-punishment”, “self-doubt”, “dependence”, “healing”, and so on. As if there were no sin, Monsignor Scicluna claims that “our stories, relationships, questions and identities are never beyond God’s loving gaze”. He believes that “our lived experiences—including our questions, wounds and hopes—are not obstacles to God, but places of encounter”. “Many...

I reveal here that I have finally read a likable DEI book, one that I found so because—beyond any doubt whatever—this book will infuriate the DEI faithful. Make no mistake, I don’t like this book in the same way I might enjoy a Douglas Murray takedown of leftist shibboleths or a Thomas Sowell skewering of the economic-egghead fringe. Rather, for DEI proponents, it’s a realistic adjustment of expectations in a post-Floyd era, in which the ashes of DEI doctrine are being scraped from the floor even as you read this. Authors Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow have at least one...

So far, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hasn't been linked to any suggested wrongdoing revealed by the Epstein files. But his decision to give another politician, whose ties to Jeffrey Epstein have been laid bare by the documents, the vital job of ambassador in Washington D.C. has drawn a ferocious backlash. As the most tumultuous week in his premiership ends, Starmer is facing calls from his political opponents, and some party allies, to step down from Britain's top job. What did he know, and when did he know it? Those are the big questions facing Starmer amid outrage over his...

President Donald Trump’s approval rating with Republicans has taken an eight-point hit since the fall, according to data from a national polling series. Newsweek contacted the White House via email for comment outside regular working hours. Republican National Committee (RNC) national press secretary Kiersten Pels told Newsweek that Trump has "lowered prices, secured the border, and ensured workers keep more of their hard-earned pay," adding: "With strong momentum, Republicans are united, energized, and ready to win in the midterms." Why It Matters It signals a measurable softening in GOP support over just more than three months, as overall approval numbers...

A white youth who was falsely accused of committing a hate crime against his black classmate has been awarded $3.2 million after a Texas jury determined the incident was a hoax fabricated by the classmate’s money-grubbing mother and her race-hustling attorney. The scam unfolded in 2021, when Summer Smith — the mother of then-middle school student SeMarion Humphrey — and her lawyer, Kim T. Cole, accused Humphrey’s white classmate, Asher Vann, and his friends of shooting Humphrey with BB guns and forcing him to drink urine during a sleepover at Vann’s house in Plano, Texas, the Washington Free Beacon reported....

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As lawmakers and other notable figures gathered once again for the annual solemn occasion to petition the Almighty God on behalf of the country, politicians were reportedly hoping that the National Prayer Breakfast would wrap up in time for them to make it to the scheduled Coke Orgy Lunch. Republicans and Democrats alike expressed eagerness to attend the annual event in the nation's capital to publicly pray for the United States, but inside sources confirmed that multiple members of Congress had to double-check with their respective staffs to make sure that the prayer breakfast would not...

Faith FactsA federal court in Pakistan gave custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a Muslim man who kidnapped and forcibly converted her to Islam.The court dismissed official documents proving her age and ignored previous judicial findings declaring the marriage illegal.Legal advocates and the girl’s family denounced the decision as a threat to the protection of Christian minors.A Christian family in Pakistan is mourning a court ruling that handed their 13-year-old daughter to her abductor, undermining official records and disregarding the sanctity of childhood.Despite clear evidence and appeals from her parents, judicial authorities ignored the girl’s legal birth documents and...

STOPPING WALL STREET FROM COMPETING WITH MAIN STREET HOMEBUYERS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to protect the American Dream by making sure that large institutional investors do not buy single-family homes that could otherwise be purchased by families.The Order directs key agencies to issue guidance preventing relevant Federal programs from approving, insuring, guaranteeing, securitizing, or facilitating sales of single-family homes to institutional investors.The Order instructs key agencies to promote sales to individual owner-occupants through first-look policies (which give individuals and other non-institutional investors the opportunity to buy foreclosed properties before investors do), disclosure requirements, and anti-circumvention...

A Houston doctor is facing federal charges for allegedly falsifying medical records to make potential transplant recipients ineligible for organ donations, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ said John Stevenson Bynon Jr., 66, has surrendered to federal authorities on five counts of making false statements in health care matters. He was due in court at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. The DOJ said a grand jury returned the indictment on January 14. Bynon is the former director of abdominal organ transplantation and surgical director for liver transplantation at Memorial Hermann Health System in the Texas Medical Center. The...

Team GB athlete has launched a stinging attack on the ICE agency ahead of the opening ceremony at the Winter Games, urinating the words “F--- ICE” into the snow. Gus Kenworthy, a British-American model and actor, who has come out of retirement to appear for Team GB in freestyle skiing, posted the message on his Instagram account on Wednesday before confirming his methodology with a follow-up message. “My last post was pee so it only felt appropriate to follow it up with a lil’ dump... of photos from January. Yes, I’m a child,” he told his 1.2 million followers. With...

“I suspect that the FBI is going to find things missing.” As a member of the Georgia State Election Board, Salleigh Grubbs is an authority on the alleged 2020 election fraud that led to an FBI raid on an election center in Fulton County. “It could be ballots, it could be reconciliations, it could be poll tapes, it could be any number of things,” she told The Spectator. “They have been fighting to prevent anyone looking at this evidence and preventing investigations. If you don’t have anything to hide, why do you care?”Fulton officials finally admitted in December – after...