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Including Woodland, Van Nuys, Rancho CordovaAt least 67 incidents occurred across 25 states since May 2020. The causes of the fire at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the fire at St. Charles Catholic School in the Diocese of Spokane are still unknown. Incidents include arson, statues beheaded, limbs cut, smashed, and painted, gravestones defaced with swastikas and anti-Catholic language and American flags next to them burned, and other destruction and vandalism. 2021 incidentsApril 26: Man smashed face of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a sledgehammer (St. Elisabeth Catholic Church, Van Nuys, CA) – https://ktla.com/news/local-news/man-caught-on-camera-vandalizing-van-nuys-church/April...

Carl Denaro lives with a metal plate in the back of his head, a macabre memento, police say, from “Son of Sam” serial killer David Berkowitz. Berkowitz terrified the Big Apple in 1976 and 1977 in a sadistic shooting spree that claimed six lives and critically wounded seven others. The schlubby civil servant confessed to pulling the trigger of his .44-caliber Bulldog revolver on the orders of a demonic dog. However, Denaro claims in a new book — co-authored with Brian Whitney — that his shooter was not the “Son of Sam,” but a mysterious “occult priestess” named “Big Breasted...

Scientists Create Embryos Who are Part Human, Part Monkey for Dubious ResearchScientists are pushing new ethical boundaries with human-animal experimentation.On Thursday, an article published in the journal “Cell” describes how an international team of scientists created embryos that were part-human and part-monkey, or chimeras. The researchers used the embryos to explore the possibility of growing organs for people who need organ transplantsSpeaking with NPR, several U.S. scientists raised ethical concerns about the new experiment, but another bioethicist defended the research for having “lofty humanitarian goals.”But the means are not always justified by the end goal.Follow LifeNews on the MeWe social...

Pope Francis on Sunday argued that having received mercy, Jesus’ apostles became merciful themselves, sharing ownership over everything, calling such an arrangement “not communism, but pure Christianity.” “The Acts of the Apostles relate that ‘no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.’ This is not communism, but pure Christianity,” he said. The pope’s words came as he marked Divine Mercy Sunday in a Roman church dedicated to the devotion. Given COVID-19 restrictions, the Church of Santo Spirito was half empty, yet filled with a group of male and female prisoners from three...

A new prayer book being sold at Target and written by Sarah Bessey features a prayer from Chanequa Walker-Barnes that begs the Lord to help her “hate white people” and the “nice ones, the Fox News-loving, Trump-supporting voters who ‘don’t see color’ but who make thinly veiled racist comments about ‘those people.. In one passage Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, a contributor, tries to pass this off as a Christian prayer in the book “A Rhythm of Prayer.” The left continues to replace Christ with pure evil.

Sen. Raphael Warnock, who once served as senior pastor at the Atlanta church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached, deleted a tweet on Easter Sunday after critics blasted him as a “heretic.” Warnock claimed people are able to “save” themselves through good works. “The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Whether you are Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves,” he said in the now-deleted tweet. Attorney Jenna Ellis and others pointed out the remarks were "heresy." “This is a false gospel and heresy. We...

Are you familiar with the concept of contouring, the makeup technique that uses cosmetics to enhance facial features? If applied effectively, contouring has the potential to turn an average face into an aesthetically appealing one.Contouring is really a consequence of the times. People feel pressured to look a certain way, and many respond by desperately attempting to make themselves appear more attractive than they really are. An individual who contours is compensating for perceived flaws.Of course, the contouring effect is applicable to much more than human faces.Montero Lamar Hill, more commonly referred to as Lil Nas X, recently released a...

An alleged leader of the Aryan Brotherhood neo-Nazi prison gang is suing California officials — after his requests for vegetarian meals behind bars were “ignored,” according to reports Wednesday. Ronald Yandell, 58 — a Sacramento Main Jail inmate who faces the death sentence — claims his first amendment rights were violated when prison officials failed to provide him with meat-less meals “for religious reasons,” according to a lawsuit reported by the Mercury News. Yandell, who is serving a life sentence in connection with a 2001 double homicide, requested the special vegetarian grub on March 8, 2020, and March 20, 2020,...

By now, you have probably heard that a rapper named “Lil Nas X” has just released a special line of “Satan Shoes”. The rapper’s real name is Montero Lamar Hill, and I am not familiar with his music at all and I don’t plan to ever become familiar with it. But this story is not about his music. Working with a company known as “MSCHF”, Lil Nas X took hundreds of pairs of Nike Air Max 97s and turned them into “hellish sneakers”. In particular, the fact that there is one drop of human blood in each shoe has really...

Wow Netflix is taking heat after a graphic and disturbing episode of "Paradise P.D." aired featuring a cartoon character Jesus shilling for the NRA and engaging in a threesome. As highlighted by Newsbusters, season three episode "Trigger Warning" features a "gun-wielding Jesus" and "turns into a porno." The season's fourth episode addressed gun control and legislation by "ridiculing white male gun owners for using guns as a replacement for testosterone." "Paradise's police chief confesses to needing a gun to get an erection and the head of the NRA says the initials stand for 'Nards Removed Association,'" the outlet notes. "The...

Pope admits charges of ‘heresy’ are ‘risk’ he’s willing to take to ‘move forward with other religions’Francis believes 'human fraternity' with people of other faiths is important while acknowledging the criticisms made against him.ABOARD PAPAL PLANE, March 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis said charges that he acts against “Catholic doctrine” and is even on the verge of committing “heresy” are a “risk” he’s willing to take to move forward on the path toward “human fraternity” with believers of other religions.“This is important, human fraternity, that as men we are all brothers, and we must move forward with other religions,”...

During the debate yesterday over the Equality Act, a measure that would create a right to kill babies in abortions and force Americans to fund abortions, Republicans accused Democrats of ignoring Biblical values. And a surprising comment from pro-abortion Democrat Congressman Jerry Nadler confirmed that to be true. Part of the debate over the pro-abortion measure revolved around sex and gender issues and Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) upset Democrats when he confirmed God makes boys and girls unique. “When men or women claim to be able to choose their own sexual identity, they are making a statement that God did...

An avowed white supremacist was sentenced on Friday to 19-1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty months ago to a federal hate-crimes case stemming from a botched plot to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue in 2019. Richard Holzer, 28, appeared in a federal courtroom in Denver for a sentencing that capped an undercover FBI investigation of a plan to blow up Temple Emanuel in Pueblo, Colorado, the second-oldest synagogue in the state. Although the plot was thwarted, U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore said Holzer had sought “to terrorize the Jewish community” of Pueblo, a city of 112,000 residents about 100...

February 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Just weeks into 2021, and abortion is front and center in American politics once again, with more than a dozen pro-life laws surfacing at state legislatures, Biden’s executive orders, and the balance of power tilting once again towards the blood-bloated feticide monopoly Planned Parenthood. And speak of the Devil, the Satanic Temple is at it again as well, this time in Texas. I’ve followed the pro-abortion efforts of the Satanic Temple in the space for a couple of years. Last August, they launched a campaign claiming that “Satanic Abortions Are Protected By Religious Liberty Laws,”...

We all like an electric guitar fitted with a nice bone nut and saddle. But how about one that’s just, well, bones? Meet YouTuber Prince Midnight, who constructed a guitar with a body built from an actual human skeleton. The skeleton, as Prince Midnight tells Guitar World, belonged to his uncle, Filip, who passed away in the ‘90s in Greece.

I believe we (Americans) are living in the equivalent of the times of ancient Judah when Manasseh came into power. Judah had previously enjoyed prosperity and relative peace during the righteous reign of their former king, Hezekiah. Now, I am not comparing Donald Trump to Hezekiah, as I do not consider Trump to be a particularly righteous person. However, he did what was right in regards to the betterment of his own people (Make America Great Again), as did King Hezekiah. On the other hand, Manasseh did what was right in his own eyes and did not care how it...

Rome, Italy, Jan 28, 2021 / 04:41 pm MT (CNA).- The John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences generated a flurry of controversy in the Italian Catholic blogosphere this week, after its Facebook page defended Joe Biden’s support of legal abortion. The Pontifical Theological Institute’s Facebook page reposted an article published on Jan. 20 in the Italian edition of the Huffington Post, titled “Joe Biden, a Catholic at the White House among the poisons of the American Church.”The article emphasized what it calls Joe Biden's “Social Gospel” and presented a series of declarations by political scientists...

President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday, January 28, 2021, reversing the Trump administration rule blocking abortion businesses and centers that refer patients for abortion from receiving federal funding through the Title X family planning program. The 2018 “Protect Life Rule” required abortion businesses to both fiscally and physically separate family planning/birth control services from their abortion-related business. It also stated that family planning centers must stop referring patients for abortions in order to receive Title X funding. Title X states, “None of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used in programs where abortion is a...

President-elect Joe Biden is poised to roll back several of the Trump administration's most restrictive sexual and reproductive health policies, including limits on abortion. Reproductive rights advocates expect Biden to quickly overturn Trump-era rules, like banning federal funds for foreign and national health organizations that promote and provide abortion and giving employers more freedom to deny free contraceptive coverage for their workers. "We have a ton of work to do to undo the harm over the last four years, but knowing we have champions there who understand what needs to happen in the first 100 days is tremendously exciting," said...

‘We need the Lord to cast out demon of division in our nation,’ cardinal saysWASHINGTON (CNS) — Celebrating a livestreamed Mass for the community of Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington Jan. 13, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory noted how sometimes the readings of the day “fit our lives so perfectly.”They “somehow almost mystically describe where we are at this moment,” he said.Washington’s archbishop then pointed out how that day’s Gospel reading, Mark 1: 29-39, which described Jesus curing Peter’s mother-in-law of a fever and later casting out evil spirits, could be connected to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the Jan....