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[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo names bishop who addressed integrating homosexuality with religious vocation Pope Leo XIV appointed Italian Bishop Michele Di Tolve, who made a presentation last year on a book advocating the integration of homosexual orientation into living a religious vocation.Pope Leo XIV appointed a new bishop the head the Diocese of Chioggia who last year presented on a book addressing the integration of homosexual orientation into living one’s religious vocation.Serving as titular bishop of Oria, auxiliary of Rome, and rector of the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary, Bishop Michele Di Tolve was named to his new office on Wednesday...

Coalition wins 54 seats in survey, opposition Zionist bloc just 52, but neither side has clear path to coalition; Herzog says he’ll do everything he can to prevent a second round of voting. In a turnaround, a new poll projects that parties supporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would make up the largest bloc in the Knesset if elections were held today.The Channel 13 survey was the first among the major news networks to indicate a result of this sort since the start of the election campaign. At the same time, Netanyahu did not have a clear path to a Knesset...

Cardinal Fernández: All religions stand for peace Marking the release of “A Journey of Hope,” Cardinal Victor Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, grants an interview to Vatican News to reflect on the 60th anniversary of Nostra aetate.Vatican NewsSixty years after the Second Vatican Council published the conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue have published “A Journey of Hope.”In the following interview with Vatican News, Cardinal Victor Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the...

NEWCOMB, N.M. — Three people are dead after being swept away by floodwaters early Wednesday on the Navajo Nation, authorities said. Tribal police officers received a report around 12:30 a.m. about people being washed away near the community of Newcomb in northwestern New Mexico. The report followed a day of heavy rain that left roadways and other areas flooded with standing water. More rain followed during the overnight hours. Search crews responded and found the bodies of two adults and a child. Authorities did not release any details about the circumstances, other than saying the drownings were under investigation. Navajo...

For decades, the American university has been drifting away from its most important purpose: giving students a common education in the knowledge and principles they need to become educated citizens. The core curriculum was supposed to provide that common ground. Instead, it became a collection of distribution requirements—a little History here, a little PoliSci there, a Science course somewhere else—with students free to assemble a curriculum that can have little coherence. That’s why UT-Austin’s decision to rethink its Core Curriculum deserves attention. UT is trying to bring back something that has been largely missing from higher education for a long...

Is it the peak of arrogance that we just assume we can make a rule, or a series of rules, that have any chance of constraining a superintelligence? The linked interview is thought provoking. https://youtu.be/QkpOFlj604s

Explanation: This treasure chest is full of stars. The featured image was obtained with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and shows a dust pillar in the Carina Nebula inside our Galaxy, roughly 7500 light-years away. It is formed by interstellar gas and dust, and shaped by powerful stellar winds and radiation form neighboring stars like the nearby Eta Carinae stellar system which is more luminous than 5 million suns. The star formation inside the pillar is excavating its head, creating the open lid of the chest. Astronomers estimate that there are about 70 stars in a compact cluster inside the...

Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar says Hispanic voters feel betrayed by the president’s policies Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, who represents a red-leaning South Florida district, rolled out a straight-to-camera ad on Thursday breaking with President Trump on his immigration enforcement tactics, a stark warning for her party as it heads to the midterms. The 30-second ad, airing in English and Spanish, is one of the most direct examples of a Republican candidate breaking with the president. It comes as support has frayed for the GOP among Hispanic voters with less than two months until the November election. “Mr. President,...

CONSTITUTION X @ConstitustionX THEY SAID THE FBI DIRECTOR WAS “MISSING IN ACTION.” Then Kash Patel dropped THIS on the Senate. Watch the media bury it. Predecessors took 33 days off a year. Kash: 4 days this year. They used Reagan National like a personal lily pad — $3.5 MILLION of YOUR money. He killed that. Andrews and government fields only. Taxpayers off the hook. Least personal travel of ANY FBI Director in history. Highest work days. Highest results. Murder rate down 20 points Enough fentanyl seized to kill a quarter million Americans — 20% fewer kids dying of overdoses ALL...

The White House came out swinging against a United Nations-sponsored investigation that found “reasonable grounds” to conclude the US committed war crimes in Iran and should pay “full reparations to victims.”“The UN Human Rights Council has accomplished nothing for human rights while spouting unserious nonsense for decades,” said White House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly. “The only party in this conflict that has committed war crimes is the Iranian regime, which has murdered thousands of its own people, killed Americans overseas, executed acts of terrorism in the Strait of Hormuz, and launched indiscriminate attacks against its neighbors in the...

Lambeth Palace has caused a stir with the release of a new photograph of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The picture shows her in ordinary clerical garb – black shirt and dog collar – standing in the Palace's Great Hall. She is smiling and locked in enthusiastic conversation with a Muslim cleric from Pakistan clad in white turban and billowing gold-trimmed robes – Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi – to whom she has just given an award for "Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation". Next to them, but a little set back, is Mr Ashrafi's wife. Lambeth Palace's social media does not care to...

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh BREAKING: A bombshell House report just found that Democrat fundraising arm ActBlue is COVERING UP donation fraud and FOREIGN MONEY, after MULTIPLE of their own members repeatedly pled the 5th Amendment before Congress — FoxSHUT DOWN ACTBLUE!!Major points of the report confirm:- "ActBlue’s policies that allegedly 'prevent' illegal, fraudulent political contributions could be bypassed easily by foreign actor"- "ActBlue’s 'passport verification process,' which allegedly prevents illegal foreign donations, is an ineffective security method that does not actually require a valid U.S. passport number" - "ActBlue repeatedly instructed its fraud prevention analysts to 'give the donor the benefit of...

Swedish pop star Zara Larsdotter lashed out at the White House this week, calling officials “FOXTROT losers” after the administration used her song “Midnight Sun” in a TikTok video showing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detaining and restraining a group of men. The clip, posted to the White House’s official TikTok account, carried the caption “Never ending deportations” — an apparent play on the song’s lyric “never ending midnight sun” — and showed roughly a dozen men in handcuffs and leg restraints. Ms. Larsdotter responded in her own TikTok video, saying the footage left her “really sad” and accusing...

AwakenedOutlaw⚒️@AwakenedOutlaw·12hThis part, right here: 👀"Her team later managed to stop a light pulse completely, store its information, and restart it. They even demonstrated that light could be converted into a matter-based form, manipulated, and turned back into light.It sounds like science fiction—but these experiments were real. They opened new possibilities for quantum information processing, optical communication, and advanced computing."Next Science@NextScience🚨 SHE SLOWED LIGHT TO JUST 38 MPH!Light normally races through empty space at about 186,282 miles per second. But Danish physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau found a way to make it move at roughly 38 miles per hour—about the speed of...

Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins has said officials at the Catholic Gonzaga University shut down her attempts to dialogue with a group of pro-abortion “reproductive justice” advocates that gathered to protest her visit to the campus. “I was banned from tabling. The administration prevented students from coming inside to ask questions. ‘Catholic’ student protestors demanded the Church bend to abortion,” Hawkins said. “This indoctrination is happening on college campuses across America, including at ‘Catholic’ schools. Let’s be clear: you cannot be Catholic and support abortion. The backlash I faced here is in direct contradiction to the Church.”...

A Lake Charles home care worker was arrested and fired after giving bleach to his disabled client to drink, police said. In security video from inside the client’s home, the employee, identified by police as Reginald Andre Wilson, is seen pouring a substance from a large jug into a water bottle. He then returns the jug to the laundry area of the home before shaking the bottle and handing it to his client saying, “Here, drink this.” Detectives said the victim is physically and mentally disabled. The victim reportedly drank from the bottle and noticed it tasted like bleach. According...

Senate Democrats are ramping up calls to impeach Education Secretary Linda McMahon and for an inspector general's investigation over her efforts to dismantle the agency she leads. She is the second Cabinet secretary that has become the subject of potential impeachment in as many days. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. "Secretary McMahon is unlawfully trying to eliminate the Department of Education, and in doing so, she's costing taxpayers untold amounts of money and other resources," Sen. Angela Alsobrooks said. President Donald Trump campaigned on closing the Department of Education and...

Florida deputies said they got way more than they bargained for when they were investigating a domestic incident that involved a mother and her son. Christina Clemens, 46, of Lakeland, southwest of Orlando, called for help claiming that her son, Shane Clemens, 22, hit her during the domestic dispute, according to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. "Shane, you ought not ever lay a hand on your mama," Sheriff Judd said in a Facebook post Tuesday. According to Judd, Shane Clemens became angry after his mother called deputies and they arrested him. That's when he informed deputies that he and his...

An Alabama woman will spend the rest of her life in prison after pleading guilty to capital murder for placing her newborn son in a dumpster. She threw him into the trash compactor because, as she told investigators, having a baby “cost too much money.” Houston County Circuit Judge Henry D. Binford on Monday sentenced Jakayla Ashanti Williams, 21, to life without the possibility of parole. Williams accepted a last-minute plea deal moments before jury selection, avoiding the death penalty prosecutors had sought. Williams was 18 in August 2023 when she secretly gave birth to a baby boy at her...

The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) is a key indicator of economic activity, but the official estimate is released with a delay. GDPNow forecasting model provides a "nowcast" of the official estimate prior to its release by estimating GDP growth using a methodology similar to the one used by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.5.1%Third-Quarter GDPNow Estimate for 2026:Q3 Updated: September 17, 2026 Next update: September 25, 2026 *GDPNow is not an official forecast of the Atlanta Fed. Rather, it is best viewed as a running estimate of real GDP growth based on available economic data for...