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“He answered them, ‘My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.’ For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God” (John 5:17–18). The Sabbath observance was at the heart of Jewish worship in Jesus’ day. The Lord’s reply to those who persecuted Him for violating it (5:16), “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working,” implies that the Sabbath was not instituted for God’s benefit but for man’s...

[Finita la guerra torna la legge del jihad. E il negoziato riabilita i tagliagole di Dio L’Occidente ha cercato “partner politici” tra le fila dei Taleban della Striscia. Domenico Quirico. 15 Ottobre 2025.] The Analysis. With the war over, the law of jihad returns. And negotiations rehabilitate God's cutthroats. The West has sought “political partners” among the ranks of the Taliban in the Strip. Domenico Quirico. [La Stampa. Oct. 15, 2025] La Stampa [Le decimazioni di hamas Sono sempre i barbari del 7 Ottobre] The decimation by Hamas. They are always the barbarians of October 7th.

Paul’s description of last days attitudes and negativity in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 bears reviewing. “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid Such People.” (ESV – all emphasis is mine) The fact is that being hated for being a Christian is not a...

[Catholic Caucus] 39% of Young American Priests Consider Access to the Traditional Latin Mass a Priority 39% of priests in the United States ordained after the year 2000 consider access to the Traditional Latin Mass a priority -- 1in 4 (more like 4 in 10 edit e.t.), compared with just 11%, or 1 in 10, for priests ordained before 1980.The numbers come from this study ("Morale, Leadership, and Pastoral Priorities: Highlights from the 2025 National Study of Catholic Priests"), published today by The Catholic Project of the Catholic University of America (CUA).It is quite astonishing, and a clear trend. Woe...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Family Research Council (FRC), in partnership with the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University (CRC) today released a new national survey of 1,003 regular churchgoing adults (July 2025), updating a comparable 2023 study. Given recent reports showing increased church-attendance, this new study brings to light some important areas for churches and pastors to think through. It identifies the beliefs that the people in the pews hold on a range of important topics and underscores why these need to be addressed with intentional, biblical clarity from the pulpit. Specific findings from the report are being released by...

[Catholic Caucus] China Flexes Power over Rome Once Again with New Bishop ConsecrationIt appears that once again, Beijing has delivered another blow to the Holy See by consecrating a bishop to the pivotal Diocese of Shanghai after he was elected during the papal sede vacante.On October 15, Father Wu Jianlin will be consecrated as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Shanghai. News of the ceremony came via official notices issued by the schismatic state-approved church, the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA).Previously vicar general of the diocese, Wu was elected, effectively unopposed, in a vote on April 28. The next day...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo and the Death Penalty CharadePopes since John Paul II have created the impression in the minds of many Catholics—and many outside the Catholic Church—that the Church believes the death penalty to be intrinsically immoral.The pontificate of Leo XIV has just passed its first real milestone: its first media controversy. The recent friction over Pope Leo’s comments concerning the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago and his plans to award Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois an honor for his efforts on behalf of immigrants, despite supporting abortion throughout his career, probably mark the end of a “honeymoon” period for...

The Global Methodist Church, a conservative alternative to the thoroughly embattled and progressively captured United Methodist Church, announced last week that more than 6,000 member churches have joined their denomination, reaching a milestone that few thought possible just a few years ago. The Global Methodist Church was formed as a direct result of the UMC’s acceptance of homosexuality and gay marriage, which conservative churches found untenable. Launched in 2022 with only two dozen churches, thousands of churches followed and sought union. It wasn’t without its difficulties, however. Many churches were forced to jump through hoops to leave the UMC with...

Apparently, when Pope Leo isn’t busy blessing a block of ice, he is approving prayer rooms for Muslim scholars visiting the Vatican Apostolic Library.Fr. Giacomo Cardinali, Vice Prefect, told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them.”How very inclusive of them.Actually, that’s apostasy.But, incredibly, today’s Vatican appears more willing to offend Christians than Muslims and more terrified of engaging in apostasy against the world view of the left/progressives than of the dictates of their own religion.This is disturbing to say the least.Care...

15 October 2025 Saint Teresa of Ávila, Virgin, Doctor on Wednesday of week 28 in Ordinary TimeBasilica of St. Teresa, ÁvilaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingRomans 2:1-11Do you think you will escape God's judgement?No matter who you are, if you pass judgement you have no excuse. In judging others you condemn yourself, since you behave no differently from those you judge. We know that God condemns that sort of behaviour impartially: and when you judge those who behave like this while you are doing exactly...

Daily Readings from the USCCBThen one of the scholars of the law said to him in reply, “Teacher, by saying this you are insulting us too.” And he said, “Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.” Luke 11:45–46This scholar of the law had been listening to Jesus firmly rebuke the Pharisees. As he listened, his own conscience was pricked, and he challenged our Lord. What does Jesus do? He quickly and firmly rebukes the scholar of the law, pointing out...

[Catholic Caucus] Heterodox German bishop criticizes public act of reparation for Vatican LGBT ‘pilgrimage’Auxiliary Bishop Ludger Schepers of Essen, Germany, the queer representative to the German Bishops' Conference, has a history of promoting the LGBT movement.Pro-LGBT Auxiliary Bishop Ludger Schepers of Essen, Germany, who serves as the queer representative of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), slammed in a recent interview the four bishops who recently made a public act of reparation for the Vatican LGBT pilgrimage during this year’s Catholic Identity Conference (CIC).In an interview with the German Catholic News Agency (KNA) published October 10, Schepers called the act of...

Will God punish the wicked in fire for all eternity? Doesn’t eternal torture contradict His love and justice? What does the Bible really teach about the punishment for sin? Explore the powerful evidence in the New Testament that reveals a startlingly different picture of hell and hellfire than you’ve been led to believe!

“Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, ‘Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you.’ The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath” (John 5:14–16). In response to this miracle, the Jewish authorities castigated the healed man for breaking their trivial rules (v. 10). They were more concerned with legalistic regulations than with the man’s well-being—an attitude for which the Lord sharply...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(10/15/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleRevelation 7:1-2144,000 Sealed 7 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:Holy Bible, New International Version®,...

Bwloved, as the church age draws to its final conclusion at the Rapture (1 Thess. 4:13-18), and the Day of the Lord begins (1 Thess. 5:1-4, Matt. 24, Rev. 6-19), remember the horriffic sobering realities and truths of Jesus and His Holy Scriptures which speak of what the Last days will be (Matt. 24; 1 Tim. 4:1-3, 2 Tim. 3:1-7, Rev. 6-19). The biblical warnings and signs are global, EXPONENTIAL, everywhere, saturating, and dominating today in every facet and in every way; but who truly sees? Who truly cares? Who truly believes (2 Peter 3:1-8; John 3:19-20)? We are in...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.One of the most blasphemous lines in Dilexi Te comes under the chapter heading titled, “Accompanying migrants.” It reads: “Mary and Joseph flee with the child Jesus to Egypt. Christ himself, who ‘came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him’ (Jn 1:11), lived among us as a stranger. For this reason, the Church has always recognized in migrants a living presence of the Lord…”The author then misappropriates the Holy Family to argue for open-borders. Clearly, the Bible and the Catholic Church have always opposed chaos on national borders,...

[Catholic Caucus] Exposing the Lie that Upholding Apostolic Tradition and Sound Doctrine Causes Division and DisunityThe obvious falsehood, often used against proponents of orthodoxy during Francis' pontificate, must go if Leo XIV's stated wish to end polarisation within the Church is to be achieved.Now that some time has passed to calmly reflect on the Francis pontificate, one aspect urgently needing examination is the nature of the internal disunity, discord and disorder of those years.In previous pontificates, polarisation and division were widely seen to have come from dissenters – modernist cardinals, bishops and theologians who promoted teaching that ran contrary to...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo meets Cardinal Fernández in sign of doctrinal continuityPope Leo granted a private audience to Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández on Friday, October 10, in what is understood to be his ninth official meeting in his role as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.The meeting with the Cardinal, who was a key ally of Pope Francis, shows continuity at the heart of the Vatican between the two papacies. According to InfoVaticana.com, Cardinal Fernández “is close to Pope Leo XIV, who has chosen to keep him in his position at the head of the doctrinal...