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Daily Readings from the USCCBOnce when Jesus was praying in solitude, and the disciples were with him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, ‘One of the ancient prophets has arisen.’” Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said in reply, “The Christ of God.” Luke 9:18–20Today’s Gospel presents a decisive moment of revelation. As Jesus prays in solitude with the Twelve nearby, He asks, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” After hearing their responses, He...

This video features commentary on recent tensions between the Trump administration and mainstream media outlets like CNN and MSNBC regarding access to White House events. Key takeaways so far (0:00 - 2:06): The video begins with a discussion regarding press freedom and the role of the media in holding the government accountable, featuring clips from Brian Stelter and Jen Psaki (0:00-0:47). It then shifts to a critique of the media's reaction to being barred from covering a state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping, with the host arguing that the media feels an unwarranted sense of entitlement to access (2:14-4:00)....

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Sign in Y’all Have Lost Your Minds With These Church Praise Breaks! What Do The Scriptures Say W/ Pastor Rod and The Bible Told with Pastor Rod Y’all have lost your minds with these church praise breaks! When did shouting, praise dancing, and cutting a step become all the proof we needed that the Holy Spirit was moving? Put somebody in a church building, get the musicians going, and suddenly nobody is allowed to question anything. We need to have an honest conversation about praise breaks, church culture, and what people keep calling worship. I’m not questioning whether God deserves...

The Associated Press should be ashamed. Just two days ago, they were the recipients of a Community Note after their X post conveniently omitted some important facts about the murder of Tasia Fortune.Fortune, of Jackson, Mississippi, was found hanging in a tree. Democrats and the media pretended Fortune's murder was a race-based lynching. It wasn't. On September 14, the AP itself reported that Jarques Ratliff, who was associated with Fortune, was arrested on September 11. Yet on September 21, the AP wrote on X that Fortune's death "stirred distressing memories of the grim history of lynchings across the U.S. South."Now...

The map of our solar system has changed. For most of history, we viewed our neighborhood as a tidy, organized place. We thought it was a simple system with eight planets orbiting a star, surrounded by a clean void. We assumed there was a clear finish line where the solar system stopped and "deep space" began. The Kuiper Belt proves that this model is wrong. The solar system does not have a hard edge. It does not just end. Instead, it fades away into the galaxy. What we once thought was empty space is actually a massive, chaotic frontier. It...

In our post-Oct. 7 world, one in which the New York Times can note in astonishment that some Israelis still view themselves as victims of the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, a story about a Jew being chased through the streets of a major Western city is unfortunately not that surprising.I've already written about a couple of cases this year. A man who noticed a couple in Santa Monica, Calif., wearing Jewish stars while he was driving threatened to kill them, yelling: “You’re a Zionist, motherf***ing pedophile, motherf***ing Jew. Child killer!” It didn't end there. He got...

It's the headline I've waited since I was probably seven years old to read: "US military spending $500M on ‘war-ready’ laser weapons — and zapping drones in Iran, along US border." That's 50 years, folks, and totally worth the wait.According to the New York Post — your go-to newspaper for words like "zapping" in the headline — "Iranian citizens have witnessed some dazzling laser shows recently," because "US military has been deploying lasers in the Strait of Hormuz to knock out regime hardware."The Department of War said this week that lasers disable "drones and incoming cruise missiles at a much...

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, Religious Freedom and the Media. "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. "(1 Timothy 2:1-2) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

An accused ISIS member has been arrested by counter-terrorism agents over allegations he instructed people how to plan and conduct mass-casualty attacks from his base in Australia.A police car in front of Victoria Police headquarters in Melbourne, Australia on Sept. 13, 2026. Courtesy of Tien NguyenThe Melbourne man, who the Australian Federal Police alleges was a propagandist for the Islamic extremist group, is accused of sending about 10,000 documents, messages, images, videos and audio files relating to executions and torture.The 65-year-old retiree allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS.The man, a Somali-born Australian citizen, is alleged to have acted on the behalf...

County health officials spray neighborhoods and skip the question of why the outbreaks keep coming Los Angeles County is now reporting 100 West Nile virus cases this year, nearly five times the total recorded for all of 2025, with 94 hospitalizations and five deaths. The numbers come from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and were highlighted Thursday by FOX 11’s Matthew Seedorff. NEW: West Nile virus cases are surging in Los Angeles County. 100 cases have been reported this year — nearly 5 TIMES the total number of cases reported during all of 2025. 94 people have...

I've avoided the Nikole Hannah-Jones pile-on, in which conservatives (and other sane people) have trashed the former New York Times columnist and liberal icon for condemning her daughter to a poor education in order to score political points. I didn't do so because I didn't have thoughts. I did. Plenty of them. I just wasn't certain I had anything to contribute to the pile-on beyond "What a bad mother, that lefty." I was pretty certain that my colleagues would step up to the plate, and they did, beautifully. Ten years ago, New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a viral...

"Take . . . the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" (Eph. 6:17). Your attitude toward Scripture will determine your effectiveness in spiritual battle. I remember enjoying the observations of a perceptive man who was gazing at a beautiful garden. First he saw a butterfly flitting from flower to flower. It spent a few seconds on the edge of each, but derived no particular benefit from any of them. Next he saw a botanist with large notebook and microscope in hand. As the botanist carefully observed each flower and plant, he made copious entries in his...

Alabama U.S. senator and gubernatorial candidate Tommy Tuberville said in remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday that “serious gender confused mental illness” is on the rise in the U.S. and that is “very, very concerning.” In a wide-ranging Senate speech where he cited incidents of violence, denounced an agenda that preyed on confused people and suggested more mental hospitals are needed, Tuberville said he rejects the term transgender. Former Huntsville reality TV star ‘surrendered to authorities,’ publicist says “I’m not going to use the Leftists’ preferred terminology of ‘transgender’ because it implies that it is possible for a person to...

Social Security’s financial problems are moving from a distant concern to something millions of Americans may have to plan around. The program’s retirement trust fund is now projected to run out of reserves in 2032, potentially forcing benefit reductions that could eventually cost the average retiree nearly $600 a month in today’s dollars. That does not mean Social Security disappears in six years. Payroll taxes would continue coming in and benefits would continue being paid. The problem is that those revenues would no longer be enough to cover 100% of the benefits currently scheduled. The 2032 Deadline Is Getting Harder...

As discussions took place at the UN General Assembly in New York about the opportunities AI provides - and how best to manage it - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed that the country's universal health insurance scheme had been hacked by an OpenAI agent. In fact, the hack happened in June, the company became aware of it in August, and then sent an email to a government agency's general inbox in September. "It took the company way too long to inform the government," Albanese said, adding that the method of notifying officials was also "unacceptable". Believed to be the...

I'm working family genealogy tonight and researching my First Cousin twice removed. She was born in February 1898 in Fleming, Saskatchewan, Canada. She died at age 102 in 2000 in Vancouver, British Cloumbia, Canada. I never met her. I found that she passed her high school entrance examination in July 1912 when she was 14 years old. That got me to thinking "How odd...no automatic advancement to high school in Manitoba in 1912? How did entrance exams work in Canada back then?"Sure enough, the entrance exams were tough! (see below) I had no idea how hard it was to get...

CarryingMarine@carryingmarineA Secret Service agent who protected Trump recently said something that SHOCKED everyone: “Trump has RUINED me — I could never protect another President the same way again.” And before you assume he meant that as criticism, WAIT until you understand what he really meant by “ruined,” because his explanation of Trump has left people across the Secret Service deeply emotional.Here’s what the agent meant by “Trump ruined me”:This Secret Service agent had protected several Presidents before Trump. He was professionally trained, followed every rule, and performed his duty with discipline, distance, and dedication. He protected each President the same...

W.H.Grampa@WHGrampa0·18hBOMBSHELL JUST DROPPED — THERE IS NO HIDING THIS ANYMORE Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge just exposed the documents.China was BLACKMAILING the Biden family… and it was sitting in President Biden’s own daily brief.She found the records. She held them up on camera. The evidence is right there.And what did the FBI, CIA, and the entire legacy media do?They buried it. They looked the other way. They protected the regime.This isn’t politics.This isn’t a “scandal.”This is TREASON at the highest level.They knew.They covered it up.And they did it to keep power.No more excuses. No more “conspiracy theories.” The documents are out....

The first confirmed arm bone of a Denisovan has been discovered in southwest China, adding another piece to the puzzle of an elusive human relative... Only a handful of physical Denisovan remains have ever been knowingly recovered, including finger bones, ribs, teeth, jawbones, some skulls, and a couple of leg bones. But now, researchers in China report they have discovered the first Denisovan radius, one of the two long bones in the forearm... a site called Bianfu Cave that contains more than 60,000 bone fragments found in several layers of sediment... The vast majority of these skeletal remains belonged to...