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Francis names pro-abortion atheist as member of Pontifical Academy for Life A nightmare that has no end: that is the sick pontificate through which we are suffering. The Pontifical Academy for Life was one of the very few positive post-conciliar creations. Unsurprisingly, it was born of the mind of Dr. Jerôme Lejeune, one of the greatest pro-life heroes, who suggested it to John Paul II and was named its first president.Since the advent of Francis, the new Pontifical Academy for Life has become a hotbed of dissent from Catholic moral teaching: from contraception to homosexuality to abortion, and other...

A normally anti-woke professor faced backlash online Tuesday after urging people on social media to make a “good argument” as to why a male teacher in Canada who wears giant prosthetic breasts in the classroom should not be allowed to teach in a public school. The teacher, who Fox News host Tucker Carlson has covered twice this week on his show, sparked outrage this week after students at Oakville Trafalgar High School in Ontario began posting images of the teacher on social media. The school district has defended the manufacturing technology teacher, saying that they recognize “the rights of students,...

The New York Times decided to publish a guest essay heavily criticizing God on Good Friday and the start of Passover. Shalom Auslander composed a piece insisting that this Passover, we should stop paying attention to God: "In this time of war and violence, of oppression and suffering, I propose we pass over something else: God," he began, before claiming God is "hateful," full of "brutality," and, if mortal, "would be dragged to the Hague." Auslander criticized God whose "wrath" and "plagues" harnessed against the Egyptians during the original Passover story from the Book of Exodus, remind him of what...

So-called Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney both announced their intentions to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. This makes three Republican turncoats who are supporting the nomination of the notoriously weak-on-crime Jackson, whose shameful record of leniency in sentencing child pornographers, apparently didn’t faze them. “After multiple in-depth conversations with Judge Jackson and deliberative review of her record and recent hearings, I will support her historic nomination to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court,” Murkowski said in a statement. Romney called Jackson “a well-qualified jurist and a person of honor.” “While...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, in response to written questions, has told the Senate she does not hold a position on whether individuals have natural rights that come from God, not the law. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a member of the Judiciary Committee that will vote on Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court, told a hearing on Monday that Jackson took a pass on that important question: Here's what Grassley said at the beginning of today’s hearing, as he explained why he is a “no” vote on Jackson’s confirmation: "Now, at one point in written questions to her, Sen. Cruz posed...

Eric Coomer is the former Director of Security and Product Strategy for Dominion Voting Systems. After the 2020 election debacle, where votes in at least five states had very suspicious results while running Dominion computer systems, center-right journalists made common-sense observations that the results appeared rigged. One journalist, who had infiltrated a conference call filled with Antifa-sympathizing callers, remembered that on the call “Eric from Dominion” was going to ensure that Trump did not win re-election. The mainstream media has spent a year bullying and suppressing the thousands of eyewitnesses, filed affidavits, investigations and proceedings meant to uncover the big...

A family who lost their 2-year-old son due to respiratory complications of the flu virus 11 years ago have shared that what God did for their lives, and in the lives of others through their son, has been nothing short of a miracle. A former atheist, dad Darin Hamm shares his story of how a glimpse of heaven transformed him and led him on a journey of faith, while his late toddler son, Griffin, was given only a few hours to live before he was taken off life support. A bright-eyed little boy with beautiful curly blonde locks of hair,...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Forbids Sole Roman Mass In NicaraguaThe Roman Mass in Estelí, Nicaragua, was forbidden on December 5 after eight years. It was the country's only regular Roman Mass.On July, Francis accepted the resignation of Estelí Bishop Juan Abelardo Mata Guevara, 75, who thanks to (the Society of St.) PiusX converted from liberation theology to Catholicism.His successors, the present Apostolic Administrator, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez Lago, suppressed the Roman Mass under the pretext of Traditionis custodes.The priest in charge, Father Augusto César Marín, 43, told RadioAbcStereo.com that the ban was “very difficult” for him adding that all saints were nourished...

San Francisco YouTuber Rebecca Watson: “I cannot stress enough that stealing from big box stores is fine”Rebecca Watson lives in San Francisco. In this 12 minute YouTube video, she defends shoplifting from big box stores, and expands on a tweet that she had previously made about the subject:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FPZ0Zh0U20https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/1442245355572105227This keeps getting promoted to me & I cannot stress enough that stealing from big box stores is fine. Did you know they have an entire playbook on how to avoid paying local taxes as they destroy independent businesses & abandon buildings? via @doctorow https://t.co/tCmhONpZJl https://t.co/QtJ3loNgp4— Rebecca Watson (@rebeccawatson) September 26, 2021Archive of...

In a strongly worded address before the United Nations Wednesday, a Vatican spokesman denounced President Trump’s threats against North Korea as “deplorable.” Speaking in New York at the 10th Conference for the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, noted that the rising tensions over North Korea’s growing nuclear program “are of special urgency,” while sharply criticizing President Trump’s handling of the situation. “The international community must respond by seeking to revive negotiations,” Gallagher said. “The threat or use of military force have no place in countering proliferation,...

Harvard University was founded as Harvard College in 1636. Its stated purpose was: “To train a literate clergy.” Among its mottos were, “Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae” (truth for Christ and Church) and “In Christam Gloriam” (to the glory of Christ). Now, Harvard has hired an atheist as its chief chaplain. And no, this is not a poor joke. As reported by the New York Post, “This spiritual leader doesn’t need a higher power. “Harvard University’s organization of chaplains is getting a new president to coordinate the campus’ Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and assorted other religious communities. Only the new president,...

A devout atheist and 'humanist chaplain' at Harvard University is set to lead the progressive university's collection of religious leaders. Greg Epstein, 44, has been named president of the chaplains for the religious community at the Ivy League School. Epstein, who has served as Harvard's 'humanist chaplain' since 2005 is a devout atheist and caters to fellow nonreligious believers as well as agnostics and humanists at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school. Epstein, who was raised in a reformed Jewish household in Queens, New York, said his elevation to the position is meant to be inclusive of larger and larger numbers of...

For several decades now, American society has operated under a false assumption that banning prayer in public schools is irrevocable settled science.Two recent bills before state legislatures have shone a new light on a half-century of controversy. In Alabama, a 30-year ban on the teaching of yoga has been dropped, and in Florida state officials are seeking to make two minutes of silence for prayer or reflection a mandatory part of school days.Both of these developments are positive steps to fill a hole in the education of our children. Put simply, they open the door to a restoration of prayer...

Prior to his death on March 14, 2018, the English theoretical physicist created a theory that changed the way we think about the universe. Working with Belgian professor, Thomas Hertog, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Hawking theorised that our three-dimensional reality is an illusion. Put simply, Professors Hawking and Hertog speculated that all information in the universe is stored on a flat 2D surface and our so-called “solid” world around us is then projected from that information. Back in 2018, Professor Hertog said: “It's a very precise mathematical notion of holography that has come out of string theory...

Spotlights Mexican government's anti-clerical historyMEXICO CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Mexican bishop Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz has asked the president of his country to issue an apology for murders and persecution of the Catholic Church committed by the Mexican government in the 1920s. Bishop Alba Díaz, who presides over the diocese of La Paz in Baja California, was responding to repeated demands by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the Catholic Church and the government of Spain beg forgiveness for the evangelization and conquest of Mexico in 1521. Most recently, the president's wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, visited Pope Francis Oct. 10 to...

Cenk Uygur’s lack of compassion or sensitivity regarding the death of 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain Thursday evening is not only disgusting but displays a deeply rooted issue in the world today. “Before he died @THEHermanCain said his God was stronger than #coronavirus. Coronavirus disagreed. #ScienceIsReal”, Uygur tweeted Thursday evening. Cain died Thursday morning at the age of 74 after a month-long battle with Coronavirus, according to Newsmax. The fact that Cenk would use the death of a nationally known figure for both a political stab and an attempt to mock people of faith is utterly repulsive. Mr. Uygur’s behavior...

[Catholic Caucus] Father of Dead Son Lost His Faith: “I understand; it's normal for that to happen" - Francis Francis continued his phone apostolate last Sunday when he called Cinzia Desiati in Rome, Garbatella, who lost her only son Fabrizio Di Bitetto, 21, in October 2019 when a Chevrolet Matiz with Fabrizio and four friends inside overturned several times. “I've been getting this call with suppressed number for days, but I never answered in time,” Desiati told InTerris.it (July 28). She had written to Francis some time ago. First, she thought it was a joke. "Everybody thinks it's a joke...

The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is facing backlash from both sides of the religious liberty debate after it planned a training session that was later canceled over the speaker’s background in Christianity -- fueling Congressional scrutiny of both the military and the nonprofit which appeared to prompt the cancellation. Air Force veteran Jay Lorenzen was slated to speak at an annual training for JAG reservists on Friday, but that came to a screeching halt after the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) relayed its reservist clients’ concerns about Lorenzen’s beliefs influencing his talks. An MRFF press release boasted on Saturday that...

Is There Actually Any Such Thing As An Atheist? No! This particular Opening Post is addressed primarily to Christians. Of course Atheists are welcome to comment. I am well aware that a significant number of people claim to be atheists. There are many people posting on Forums in Social Media on the Internet claiming to be atheists. But that does not mean they actually ARE atheists. My view is that ALL men, in their secret hearts and minds, KNOW there is a God. Humans can, and do, deceive themselves into believing that which is not really true. So? So we...

As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief – as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed country would. I also felt terribly alone. You could not have known, from anything broadcast that night or printed the following day, that anyone was unhappy with these events. But they were. So, above all things this week, I would like to thank all the kind, perplexed people who have got in touch with me by so many means, to say they share my doubts about the Government’s handling...