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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinals Reject Hope in Leo XIV on Roman RiteSeveral anonymous cardinals and curial officials told the Substack.com account The Pillar on April 17 that they do not expect any resolution to the question of the Mass in the Roman rite in the near future.Some Catholics had hoped the next extraordinary consistory of cardinals on June 26–27 would address the liturgical issue. Instead, Leo XIV chose to focus on Francis' document Evangelii Gaudium.One Vatican official said that Leo XIV was not very familiar with traditional communities or even the traditional liturgy, and that his primary concern was not liturgy...

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REVEALED: How Leo XIV presents Vatican II as a rupture with the Catholic pastLeo XIV’s presentation of the nature of the Catholic Church is often difficult, and sometimes impossible, to reconcile with what the Church has always taught about herself.Earlier this year, Leo XIV began “a new cycle of catechesis which will be dedicated to Vatican Council II and a rereading of its Documents.” [1] This weekly catechesis, delivered at the Wednesday audiences, will, he said, be a “valuable opportunity to rediscover the beauty and the importance of this ecclesial event.” [2]Between January 14 and February 11, Leo XIV provided...

The Brief Police arrested 34-year-old Gregory Lewis for capital murder after he reportedly confessed to killing his coworker and stealing his vehicle. Thomas King vanished after finishing his shift at a Fort Worth Taco Casa and was later discovered dead in a field. Family members allege King was bullied at work as investigators work to determine the exact motive behind the fatal confrontation. SNIP

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Marx implements Fiducia Supplicans ‘blessings’ for ‘couples of all gender identitiesMarx is calling on priests and full-time staff in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising to implement his ‘blessing’ guidelines for homosexuals, gender-confused people, and the divorced and ‘remarried.’Following Pope Francis’ Fiducia Supplicans, Cardinal Reinhard Marx has introduced heterodox guidelines for the “blessing” of homosexual and other “couples” in sinful relationships in his archdiocese.According to a report by Die Tagespost, Marx has called on priests and full-time staff in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising to implement the controversial guidelines “Segen gibt der Liebe Kraft,” which allows...

Two CIA officers were killed in Mexico in a fiery car crash after meeting with Mexican authorities that busted one of the 'largest ever drug labs' in the nation, according to reports. The officers, who have not been named, died along with the area's chief police investigator and his bodyguard in the state of Chihuahua on Sunday. Mexican officials said the car swerved off the road and exploded when it fell down a ravine. The Americans were initially identified as US embassy officials, however sources told the Washington Post that they worked for the CIA. They reportedly worked with the...

A liberal group is looking to counter the influence of conservative Turning Point USA on college campuses by launching its own club that invites students to fight back against “authoritarianism” and “corporate greed.” More Perfect University (MPUniversity), founded by the liberal media group “More Perfect Union,” made its big launch on Monday, saying students in all 50 states joined MPUniversity in the six days leading up to it. The launch featured a livestream and interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whose advisors founded More Perfect Union. “Mainstream media, politicians, and universities are bowing down to the 1%. We’re organizing on...

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has ordered an investigation into the role played by two US officials who reportedly worked for the CIA in a counter-narcotics operation in the northern state of Chihuahua. The two died alongside two Mexican officials when their car crashed on their way back from an operation to destroy illegal drug labs, Chihuahua officials said. Sheinbaum said that neither she nor senior members of the federal security team had been informed about any joint US-Mexican operations. The Mexican leader has been adamant that foreign officials can only operate on Mexican soil if given prior clearance at the...

COLORADO, USA — A "mega den" of rattlesnakes in Colorado is becoming active after the winter.Thanks to a livestream that launched Monday, scientists studying the den on a craggy hillside in Colorado are learning more about these enigmatic — and often misunderstood — reptiles.The public can also watch on the Project RattleCam website. The project is a collaboration between California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, snake removal company Central Coast Snake Services and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.As the camera launched Monday, snake researchers said it is still a bit cold at the den, so you can expect...

Maryland police are looking for a woman who allegedly shot a gas station convenience store worker during an attempted robbery over the weekend. Surveillance footage inside the store shows the woman calmly walking up to the counter at a Shell station in Columbia around 7:43 p.m. on April 17 and producing a silver revolver from her purse, which she aims at the clerk off-screen while appearing to order the employee to open the cash register.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday lifted a judge’s order requiring officials to dismantle “Alligator Alcatraz” in response to a lawsuit filed by environmental groups. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit agreed with the Trump administration in a 2-1 vote that there wasn’t enough federal control over the immigration facility’s construction in Florida to trigger a federal environmental review. “Federal officials made no construction decision capable of triggering the Act,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge William Pryor. Florida constructed the detention facility last year to assist with immigration enforcement. Located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in...

The European Commission said the anti-LGBTQ law would be one of the issues it would be taking up with the new government once it was in place. "It's up to the... Hungarian government to abide by the ruling and once that is done the issue is solved," said spokeswoman Paula Pinho. The man whose Tisza party defeated Orbán on 12 April, Péter Magyar, has not said much about the laws related to Hungary's LGBTQ community. However, in his victory speech, he spelt out his vision for Hungary as a country "where no-one is stigmatised for thinking differently than the majority,...

President Trump has told confidants that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is "begging" for a job in Trump's administration — including attorney general — Axios has learned. •DeSantis also has expressed interest in being secretary of defense and even a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to six sources briefed on the discussions.

Bill Wells, the Republican mayor of El Cajon, blasted the San Diego County Board of Supervisors ahead of a key vote Tuesday on whether to formalize a partnership with the Mexican Consulate. “Our County government, the one you pay for, wants to team up with a foreign consulate to help people stay here who broke federal law to get here. Not legal immigrants. Not citizens who are struggling. People who entered illegally,” he wrote on X Monday. “This isn’t compassion. It’s a county government picking a fight with the feds, on your dime, alongside another country,” he added. The proposal...

A remarkable archaeological discovery at the ancient city of Hippos is reshaping what historians know about early Christian rituals, revealing a rare and complex picture of Byzantine-era worship practices.Recent excavations at the Hippos cathedral, a prominent Byzantine religious complex overlooking the Sea of Galilee, have uncovered an extraordinary structure known as a southern photisterion—a baptismal hall—alongside a collection of unique liturgical objects. The findings, published in Palestine Exploration Quarterly, provide fresh insight into how early Christian communities practiced baptism and honored sacred traditions.A Rare Dual Baptistery System One of the most striking revelations is that the Hippo Cathedral contained two...

President Donald Trump pushed back Monday on his own energy secretary's claim that a return to $3-a-gallon gas will not come through the end of the year. "No, I think he’s wrong on that, totally wrong," Trump told The Hill on Monday, when asked about Energy Secretary's Christopher Wright's interview with CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. Trump remains steadfast in his conviction that gas prices in America are going to drop precipitously "as soon as this ends," referring to the oil blockade in the Strait of Hormuz... "The blockade is very powerful, very strong," Trump added to The...

Amazon has agreed to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion that it has poured into the artificial intelligence startup in recent years, as part of an expanded agreement to build out AI infrastructure. In the announcement on Monday, Anthropic said it’s committed to spending more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services technologies over the next 10 years, including current and future generations of Trainium, Amazon’s custom AI chips. Anthropic said it’s secured up to 5 gigawatts of capacity for training and deploying its Claude AI models. “Anthropic’s commitment to run its large...

A gunman who fatally shot a Canadian tourist and wounded more than a dozen others atop a historic pyramid in Mexico on Monday has been identified, according to officials.Authorities identified the gunman as 27-year-old Julio Cesar Jasso, a Mexican national, according to a state official who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law requiring public schools across the state to display the Ten Commandments. The ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals came after Texas Republican-led legislature passed the law. "This is one of the most important religious liberty victories for Texas in our glorious history," said Jonathan Saenz, president and attorney for Texas Values, which defended the law. "Texas continues to lead the nation in defending both religious liberty and constitutional truth."