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[Catholic/Anglican Caucus] Fr. James Martin praises Pope Leo for celebrating Mass with altar girlsMartin’s claim that it is un-controversial to have female altar servers is contradicted by many arguments, including irrefutable theological principles and practical considerations.Dissident Jesuit priest James Martin has praised Pope Leo XIV for including two female altar servers at a Mass he celebrated at a parish in Rome this past weekend.“The use of female altar servers has proven controversial in some US dioceses, and among some bishops, but, apparently, not in the Diocese of Rome or for its bishop,” Martin said on social media Monday.Martin’s remarks come...

A petition to ban hunting in Oregon is picking up steam. Animal rights advocates are fighting to change the law in Oregon, including banning most hunting, fishing and animal research.One of the people leading the charge of getting this petition out there says they have been trying to get this on the ballot for years, getting more and more signatures each time, though he knows it won’t likely pass. Supporters call the proposal the PEACE Act, short for People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions.

China’s carrier program is accelerating fast, with the Fujian already in sea trials and reporting suggesting a fourth “supercarrier” could follow. -The Fujian’s flat-deck design and electromagnetic catapult approach resemble the U.S. Ford-class, raising concern about how quickly Beijing is closing the capability gap in launch efficiency and sustained sortie generation. -Yet carriers matter only as much as their air wings. China’s current deck-aviation weakness—limited fifth-generation carrier fighters—still constrains near-term combat credibility against U.S. Navy F-35Cs and allied regional AirPower. -The danger is trajectory: mass production, improving catapults, and the J-35 could shift the balance sooner than expected. China is...

San Francisco just dropped a $300,000 sprinkler mandate on 9,800 condo owners — and that’s just the beginning. California homeowners are now facing a stack of unfunded mandates that could cost half a million dollars per property. No vote. No public funding. No way out. In this video I expose how a failed San Francisco politician got a $300,000 per unit fire sprinkler retrofit mandate passed after it was defeated TWICE — by burying it in a routine fire code update. I reveal why the sprinkler fitters union is blocking repeal, how the national plumbers union is pushing this mandate...

BRACKETTVILLE, Texas—The chaos caused by millions of illegal immigrants flooding across the southwest border under the Biden administration left scars on this border town. The constant high-speed chases, buzzing helicopters, screaming emergency sirens, hurried school lockdowns, torn barbed-wire fences, and decomposing bodies on ranches and along the Rio Grande all took their toll on Texas towns near the Mexican border. The border crisis drained resources and changed the lifestyle of Brackettville, a little town with two traffic light intersections in Kinney County. Residents of the county and beyond said the madness stopped almost overnight after President Donald Trump took office....

I haven't posted in a long time, so I ask for some slack in this case if I am not correct. What I'm looking for is a straight-forward database application for employee photos that someone could access from a phone or computer. Type in a name or even a part of one and get corresponding employee photos is all that needs to happen. The current system is really old and none of us at my office are SQL people. A few times when updating photos and names, the application would generate errors a DB type would understand. Following the instructions...

On Monday’s CNN This Morning, the “Group Chat” sounded less like analysis and more like a Democratic messaging session. Discussing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s claim that the SAVE Act is “Jim Crow 2.0,” CNN senior reporter Zach Wolf wasn’t troubled by the incendiary historical comparison. Instead, he fretted that Democratic Senator John Fetterman had gone “off message” by refusing to echo it. Is the CNN motto still "Facts First"? Or is it "Keeping the Democrats On Message"? Fetterman said: “I would never refer to the SAVE Act as Jim Crow 2.0 I don't call people names or imply that...

A woman in Australia has become the first person in the world to have their organs harvested after ending their life by assisted suicide. Karen Duncan, from Victoria, Australia, ended her life by assisted suicide after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease in August 2024. It is reported that Ms Duncan began having conversations about ending her life by assisted suicide with her family and doctors shortly after her diagnosis. In Victoria, an individual can end their life by assisted suicide or euthanasia if they have been given a prognosis of 12 months. This follows a significant expansion of the...

Tucker Carlson Sparks Outrage by Allowing Pastor to Blame Christian Zionists for Oct. 7. Tucker Carlson allowed Bethlehem Pastor Munther Isaac to use his platform to sanitize the October 7 massacre. Without a single interruption, Carlson sat silent as Isaac blamed American Christian Zionists for the deaths of "thousands of Palestinians" on October 7th. JFeed Staff. Feb 16, 2026. .. commentator Tucker Carlson did not interrupt or challenge his guest during a recent interview when [antisemitic] Rev. Munther Isaac, a Palestinian Lutheran pastor from Bethlehem, appeared to hold Christian Zionists responsible for the deaths of "thousands of Palestinians" on October...

“But let’s not miss the fact that we have coordinated, well-funded, and I think insurgencies or terrorist organizations, however you want to call it, literally trying to prevent legal laws from being enforced in the United States.”U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott testifying before Congress on February 10, 2026. The man speaks truth.The mainstream media continues to push the narrative that all we are seeing are “peaceful protests”. Most conservative commentators remain content to ridicule participants in the ongoing anti – ICE actions around the country and dismiss them with derogatory comments and sarcasm. No one, it...

"The South Carolina GOP senator is using golf, good humor and frequent White House visits to try to influence foreign policy and keep Trump close as he faces a primary challenge.I’m his north star,” Graham told NBC News in an interview this week, a bold remark few in his party would dare make. “We disagree, but he knows where I am coming from. He sees me helping him as much as anybody in the Senate.” ADVERTISING Late last month, Graham temporarily blocked a $1.2 trillion deal to avert a government shutdown. Asked by reporters why he would block something that...

President Trump sent Tom Homan to Minneapolis to declare victory and go home, and so he has. Trump’s border czar announced the end of the ICE surge that had roiled the city and our national politics. Homan says ICE is getting more cooperation from county jails in handing over incarcerated illegal aliens, and immigration authorities have detained many of the illegal immigrants they had been targeting. It’s not clear how extensive the supposed new cooperation is, but Homan certainly forged a better relationship with state and city officials. The big story here is that semiorganized resistance on the streets, with...

Hollywood icon Robert Duvall has died at the age of 95. He was best known for playing Tom Hagen opposite Al Pacino and Marlon Brando in The Godfather. The actor's wife, Luciana, announced the news Monday on Facebook, writing, 'Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, cherished friend, and one of the greatest actors of our time. Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort.' She added ... 'To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything. His passion for his craft was matched only by...

Legendary actor and director Robert Duvall has passed away. He was 95 years old. His wife of over 20 years, Luciana, announced his passing in a post on Facebook and said he died on Sunday “peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort.”

Desperate to avoid possible prosecution for her role in the corruption that has stolen billions of taxpayer's dollars from federal welfare programs, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) called President Trump "the leader of the Pedophile Protection Party who is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them." Reminded that Trump has sued others for defamatory statements, Omar pointed out that "the US Constitution says in Article I, Section 6 that members of Congress are immune--they may not be questioned in any other place for what they...

Classic movies resonate because they reflect what we understand in our guts to be true. Silence of the Lambs featured Buffalo Bill, a transgender serial killer who skinned women so he could wear their skin. Driven by the liberal establishment’s promotion of LGBTism, the rapidly expanding Transsexual Violence Hall of Horrors has confirmed the movie’s underlying insight. Yet now Hollyweird apologizes for it. Via Hollywood Reporter: Silence of the Lambs surprised the industry as an Oscar-winning, generation-defining smash. But over the years, the characterization of Buffalo Bill (whose sexual orientation is not explicitly stated) has been viewed as gender nonconforming...

A sassy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent was seen putting a female protester in her place as she tried to interject during the arrest of an alleged child rapist in Minnesota. The incident, posted to TikTok on Friday by Olivia Jensen, showed her recording federal officers from inside her car as she called them 'race traitors'. She filmed herself driving behind the federal vehicle before the officers approached her driver's-side door and addressed her by her first name. Jensen then said she would continue to follow the officers, before asking them: 'How's it feel to be a race traitor?'...

WOW! On Sunday I had perhaps the BEST BBQ wings of my life. You can see them above in a big circle around my new BBQ accessory. I dry brined the wings on Saturday with a mix of kosher salt and baking powder to keep the salinity level low. I kept them on raised two wire racks in the fridge overnight. The next day I put the wings in a big bowl and added a few table spoons of olive oil. Then I thoroughly coated the wings with about a 50/50 mix of Polynesian Pineapple rub and smoked paprika. I...

For very many years now, prominent American liberals have delighted in playing footsie with Eurotrash globalists. Democrats hate America, and increasingly irrelevant European leaders love hearing them bash their own country when visiting. It's been a safe place for demented lefties like Hillary Clinton ever since she's been soiling American politics. Not all European leaders are besties with the seditious Dems, of course, it's just the loudest ones. Or it was just the loudest ones. As once glorious nations like England and France casually invite their invaders in and assist in the takeover, other members of the European Union have...

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez incorrectly stated on Sunday that Venezuela is “below the equator” while she criticized President Donald Trump’s administration for capturing former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. Ocasio-Cortez argued at Technical University of Berlin’s TEDx event that the administration could not engage in a so-called “act of war” simply because Venezuela is south of the Equator, though Venezuela is located north of the equator. The U.S. captured Maduro in a special operations mission called Operation Absolute Resolve on Jan. 3 and charged him in Manhattan with narco-terrorism and cocaine importation conspiracy, weapon offenses and corruption. “We look...