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[Catholic Caucus] Fr. Murr recounts long battle to expose Freemasonry within Vatican Fr. Charles Murr explained at the Rome Life Forum how documentation was presented to Pope Paul VI that an archbishop who was also a Freemason 'was creating our new Mass and our new sacraments.'Father Charles Murr discussed during this week’s 2026 Rome Life Forum the extensive Freemasonic infiltration of the Vatican as he witnessed it unfolding in the 1970s, the subject of his best-selling book Murder in the 33rd Degree: The Gagnon Investigation into Vatican Freemasonry.During his talk, Fr. Murr recounted how, in 1974, while studying in Rome...

If You Build It, They Will Come: Traditional Catholicism Is Thriving in Rockford, Illinois What happens when Catholics are given the fullness of traditional parish life? In Rockford, Illinois, young families, converts, and cradle Catholics are finding reverent liturgy, strong Catholic marriages, and a thriving community at St. Mary Oratory of the Institute of Christ the King. When you build it, they will come.From cradle Catholics to converts, a full Traditional Catholic parish life yields fruits in the heartlandSt. Mary Oratory in downtown Rockford, Illinois, was canonically erected by Bishop Thomas Doran in 1997, making it the second U.S. church...

Some older BMW models have an electrical issue, including sedans, crossovers, coupes, convertibles, and SUVs. ... There’s a potentially severe issue with several BMW models produced for the 2012-2018 model years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced that 720,796 Bimmers are being recalled (NHTSA recall number 26V733) due to a potential short circuit that increases the risk of a fire. Therefore, the NHTSA advises owners to park their vehicles “outside and away from structures” while BMW figures out how to fix the problem. Unfortunately, owners will be stuck with the potential hazard for a while yet, as notification...

The Democratic Socialists of America’s New York City convention on Saturday arrived at a moment of heady promise for the group. The chapter has nearly tripled its size since Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. Members knocked on doors and canvassed sidewalks to send two more D.S.A. members to Congress and half a dozen new members to the State Legislature, where they are expected to push to raise taxes on the rich. But New York’s D.S.A. chapter now faces a set of prickly questions about how to use its newfound local influence to change the priorities of city government, and whether to...

Two major Nvidia shareholders are urging the company’s board to consider reinstating Jensen Huang as CEO after his departure over an extramarital affair with a Chinese businesswoman suspected of espionage sparked a political battle within the Trump administration. Altmeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner and Atreides Management founder Gavin Barker called for a measured approach to Nvidia’s leadership in a letter published Friday, arguing that Huang’s return should remain on the table as questions mount over the intelligence allegations against his former partner. The investors urged the board to pursue a “slow, measured, and deliberate process” in selecting the company’s next...

Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono has been suspended for 12 games after he received a red card for a reckless on-field collision with Jesús de Miguel that resulted in the death of the Tenerife striker. The Spanish soccer federation's disciplinary committee issued the suspension Friday, 10 days after De Miguel died a day after his clash with Owono. The disciplinary committee said Owono used "excessive force" in the collision.

Hamas is losing its grip on the Gaza Strip and is struggling to assert its authority even in areas outside Israeli control. Sources in Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza acknowledge that Hamas can no longer control large parts of the territory, the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported. According to the report, Israel currently controls about 67% of the Gaza Strip, but Hamas also lacks full control of the remaining territory beyond the Yellow Line. One Palestinian Arab source estimated that Hamas effectively controls only 17% to 20% of the entire Strip. Despite these difficulties, Hamas continues to try...

Jensen Huang could theoretically face a lengthy prison sentence if investigators uncover evidence that he knowingly played a role in breaking US export-control laws. This comes after the tech mogul stepped down from the top job at Nvidia yesterday (November 12), following multiple allegations of affairs. Huang admitted to one affair with Alice Huang, who is a Chinese businesswoman that is suspected by US intelligence agencies of having links to China’s Ministry of State Security. In an email sent to employees, the co-founder of the AI firm apologized for his actions, writing: “There is no excuse for what I did....

Following the departure of now-former NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, a new report by The Wall Street Journal (via Wccftech) has emerged alleging that NVIDIA artificially inflated the ongoing GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups that would go on to buy NVIDIA GPUs and build data centers. The reason behind this was to maintain the perception of ongoing high demand and to move an oversupply of semiconductors from TSMC. The situation described in the report saw NVIDIA on the hook for an "avalanche" of GPUs from TSMC, for which it would have no immediate buyers. Part of the...

The irony was thick enough to cut with a butter knife. On Friday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough lectured the GOP for living in an “echo chamber” of X and friendly TV that only fed them what they wanted to hear—while sitting on the set of the ultimate liberal echo chamber. Republicans, Scarborough lectured, were "wrong on every major issue," from war to tariffs to data centers and AI. SCARBOROUGH: So my question today is, how could any Republican be surprised? And the only answer is, they were locked in this bubble, this echo chamber between X and whatever TV stations they...

Explanation: Put on your red/blue glasses and gaze across the western Ocean of Storms on the surface of the Moon. The 3D anaglyph shows Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad visiting the Surveyor 3 spacecraft in November of 1969. Surveyor 3 had landed at the site on the inside slope of a small crater about 2 1/2 years earlier in April of 1967. Visible on the horizon beyond the far crater wall, Apollo 12's Lunar Module Intrepid touched down less than 200 meters (650 feet) away, easy moonwalking distance from the robotic Surveyor spacecraft. This stereo image was carefully created from...

Texas Democrats Push Gun Confiscation After Election Sweep Texas Democrats are wasting no time pushing new gun restrictions following last week’s election sweep, filing legislation that would allow judges to order firearms confiscated without a prior hearing. Read more at Texas ScorecardDemocrat Lawmakers Move to End Mandated Participation in Immigration Enforcement Program Two Democrat lawmakers have filed bills to repeal a Texas law that required county sheriffs to enroll their departments in a federal immigration enforcement participation program. Read more at Texas ScorecardDemocrats Move to Abolish Death Penalty The bill would eliminate capital punishment in Texas and require life imprisonment...

We need to start a doomsday panic scorecard. Every time someone declares a civil war, or climate apocalypse, or nuclear armageddon & WW3 for the 9,000th time, it never comes to pass, but we just move on, so 5 months later they do it again, and people fall for it, again. The apocalypse isn't happening in your lifetime, folks. The real shit is some overpaid bureaucrat in your municipal water district is gonna get lazy with their emails, and your reservoir is gonna be empty when some other overpaid state park bureaucrat forgets to monitor a smoldering plant for an...

A bill filed by a Texas Democratic senator would provide a one-time $1,500 payment to qualifying households without expressly requiring U.S. citizenship or lawful immigration status, opening a dispute over who could receive taxpayer-funded relief and how the state would verify eligibility. State Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D-San Antonio) filed Senate Bill 297 on November 9 to carry out a central campaign promise by Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa. The measure proposes spending $17 billion from the Economic Stabilization Fund, commonly called the Rainy Day Fund. Hinojosa defeated Gov. Greg Abbott in the November 3 election, according to results from the Texas Secretary...

Airlines canceled thousands more flights Saturday as they recovered from Friday's nationwide ground stop, but the FAA said schedules should be back to normal by the end of Sunday.More than 5,000 U.S. flights had been canceled Saturday as of 2:48 p.m. ET, according to FlightAware, already past the top of the 4,000 to 5,000 that FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford predicted. Flight-tracking app Flighty said the outage has now caused more cancellations than the 2024 CrowdStrike software failure. "I do think the worst is behind us," Bedford said, and he apologized to travelers.The FAA halted departures nationwide for more than four...

A milestone in the development of the human race just occurred ... and no one else seems to have posted it to FR, so here it is: Starship has landed and been caught safely by Mechazilla. The world just changed a lot in the last few minutes.

Economy is doing great. MSM, Tucker, et al, greatly upset. War going good, too. Here are receipts.

Former Biden economic adviser Lael Brainard is proposing a new federal mortgage program that would let qualifying first-time buyers purchase a home with just $1,000 down, financed through higher mortgage insurance fees, Bloomberg reports. The Kitchen Table Project estimates the proposal could bring 2.2 million additional renter households into the homebuying market. The proposed Federal Housing Administration program would require "strong underwriting criteria," including a credit score of at least 660 and monthly debt payments below 50% of income. To cover the cost, the group proposes increasing the FHA's upfront mortgage insurance premium by about 30 basis points, or 0.3...

Passage of billionaire-funded ballot measure follows failure of high-profile billionaire taxCalifornia voters had a chance to impose the nation’s first-ever tax on billionaires’ assets. Instead, they voted to ban wealth taxes altogether.A ballot initiative to prohibit new state taxes on personal property is set to pass, the Associated Press said late Friday. Known as Proposition 42, the measure was leading by a 2.6-point margin with an estimated 96% of votes counted following the Nov. 3 election, AP said.AdvertisementThe outcome represents a coup de grâce for the one-time, 5% tax on California billionaires’ net assets that also appeared on the November...