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Matt covered the insanity brought on by climate change protesters at the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting this week. But, it isn't just the party crashers who are saying truly outlandish things, it's also the invited speakers. Progressive Pastor Rev. William Barber challenged Republicans on whether or not socialism is moral. He even invited the debate, saying Jesus would support the economic system. Luckily, we have Texas Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw to explain to the preacher just how wrong he is. "When we embrace moral language, we must ask does our policy care for the least of these? Does it...

[This is part of Catholic Analysis' special series on Pope Alexander VI. This part, the fifth, explains Alexander's connections with the Italians. Read the fourth part.] Once his installment was settled, the pope set about making many changes. Alexander was a reformer. He despised the corruption prevalent in some ranks of clergy, and so he proclaimed, "We are well aware that morals have notably fallen back. No longer can we tolerate the way in which the former salutary measures instituted by our predecessors to keep sensuality and avarice within bounds have been violated so that we fall headlong into corruption....

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A multitude of humanity from Poland to Paraguay pressed against each other around the Vatican on Friday, joining the powerful of the earth to say a final goodbye to Pope John Paul. As dawn broke, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who had spent the night on the streets rushed to fill St. Peter's Square and choked all the roads around the vast basilica. The Pope's simple wooden coffin will be carried out of St. Peter's Basilica at 10.00 a.m. (0400 EDT), the same church where more than 26 years ago Karol Wojtyla first emerged as pontiff...