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A former North Dakota State Senator pleaded guilty today to traveling to Prague, Czech Republic, to have commercial sex with minor boys. According to court documents and facts established in public proceedings, Ray Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks, took approximately 14 trips to Prague between 2011 and 2021 to engage in commercial sex acts with minor boys. During some of these trips, Holmberg used the alias “Sean Evans” while staying at a brothel where young boys provided commercial sexual services. Holmberg also went to a public park in front of the main train station in Prague to procure sex from...

Presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ pick for vice president — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — once criticized the former Trump administration for barring transgender people from the military, according to a review of public reports. Former President Donald Trump announced the ban in 2017, citing concerns that the military needed to be focused on achieving “a decisive and overwhelming victory” without being “burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.” Walz was vocal about his disapproval of the ban during Trump’s tenure, initially decrying it as “completely unacceptable” and warning that prohibiting transgender...

Twitter thread with source material (ammendment and video of official meetings) about H. F. No. 1655.

[Catholic Caucus] Transvestites in "Consecrated Life" - With Francis' ApprovalThe August 2-4 "Outreach" conference at Jesuit Georgetown University, U.S., supported by both Francis and Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory, pushed for transvestites in "consecrated life".This year, for the first time since Outreach - a homosex propaganda event - began in 2022, a cardinal presided over a Eucharist.This prelate declared in his sermon that the event is aimed at becoming a "more inclusive" family of faith which means that all Catholics are excluded.According to NcOnline.org, one of the participants was Rev. Andrea Conocchia, a homosexual activist and priest who keeps bringing transvestite...

A Bronx prosecutor abruptly resigned after he was caught on video allegedly attempting to meet a young boy he communicated with online, according to a clip produced by internet vigilantes who expose wannabe child predators. William C.C. Kemp-Neal, 30, quit his post in the Bronx District Attorney’s office four days after the group Dads Against Predators posted footage of him filmed in the parking lot of the Target on East Sandford Boulevard in Mount Vernon. In the clip taken July 8 at around 8:30 p.m., the video vigilantes approach a man identified as Kemp-Neal, asking if he’s Marcus. Almost immediately,...

Cardinal Gregory praises, celebrates Mass for Fr. James Martin’s LGBT event with heretical speakersCardinal Gregory of DC offered Mass for Fr. James Martin’s ‘Outreach’ conference, which includes pro-LGBT speakers and is organized by Martin’s LGBT activist group that promotes ‘Pride Month,’ homosexual ‘marriage,’ and transgenderism.Archdiocese of Washington, Facebook, Creative CommonsWASHINGTON D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Addressing participants of Father James Martin’s pro-LGBT “Outreach” conference, D.C.’s Cardinal Wilton Gregory said the heterodox event is aimed at “becoming a more inclusive family of faith.”“In many respects you are engaging in an act of synodality – the vision and invitation proposed by Pope Francis that...

Bill Gates was like a 'kid in a candy store' with young pretty Microsoft interns, so much so that they were banned from being alone with him, an upcoming book claims. Intimate details of the billionaire's relationships with women are set to be exposed by New York Times journalist Anupreeta Das, who writes that Gates' infidelity left his wife Melinda 'seething for a long time.' Bill’s calendar would allegedly include blocks of time which were for unexplained reasons, and his security staff were once overhauled by Melinda because she felt they were ‘enabling’ him.

IOC President Thomas Bach said Saturday the “hate speech” directed at boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting at the Paris Olympics is “totally unacceptable.” “We will not take part in a politically motivated … cultural war,” Bach said at a news briefing Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Taiwan have been subjected to days of global scrutiny about their gender. Both women were disqualified at the 2023 world championships. The Russian-led International Boxing Association — which has been banished from the Olympics by the IOC in a yearslong dispute — removed them from the worlds 16 months ago in India...

[Catholic Caucus] Rupnik’s center denounces ‘cancel culture’ of removing disgraced priest’s imagesSome of Marko Rupnik’s alleged serial abuse is said to have taken place at his Rome-based Aletti Center, which has become his international base of operations and where he continues to live an unimpeded life.Pope Francis meets Aletti Center director Maria Campatelli, Sept 2023.Vatican Media The staff of Father Marko Rupnik’s Rome-based art center have hit back against international decisions to cover the disgraced priest’s art as being part of “cancel culture.”As shrines and religious centers around the world begin to examine the future of the mosaics installed by...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Gregory To Say Mass For Perversion-Enablers This WeekendCanon 212 linked to the gushing account of this gay-pandering gab-fest that will happen this weekend, starting Friday August 2, at Georgetown University. Please note that this account is NOT from the Gay Blade, although one could understandably have that mistaken impression. It is from the Vatican News. They printed the pope's greetings to the participants in this gathering that will serve to condone the mortal sins of sodomy and other related perversions. They intend to "build community and share best practices".Again, note that the pope did not condemn these...

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that he believed the Republican Party “long ago sacrificed their claim to be the party of family.” Buttigieg said, “It kind of classic projection, right? The very things he’s talking about, virtue, strength, security, family, those are all things that Trump’s Republican Party has completely abandoned, making any claim to. Virtue, really? In a party led by Donald Trump with the affairs and the porn stars and everything else that is associated with that guy. Security? When we’re talking about a party led by somebody who has been rolled repeatedly...

Kamala Harris made a polarizing cameo on the season nine finale of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars as she urged viewers to make their voices heard at the polls. While making history as the first-ever sitting Vice President of the United States to appear on Paramount+ series' popular reality series, the politician, 59, reminded Americans of the big issues at stake in the 2024 election. In her first campaign ad, which featured Beyoncé’s hit song Freedom playing in the background, Harris showed her support for LGBTQ+ individuals by featuring footage of her among a crowd waving Pride flags. She, then,...

[Catholic Caucus] Former USCCB official sues Grindr for allowing his ‘outing’» Continue to this story on Daily Journal CWN Editor's Note: Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, the former general secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has filed suit against the “hookup app” Grindr for allowing public disclosure of his identity. Msgr. Burrill was forced to resign his USCCB post in 2021 after it became known that he had used Grindr to arrange homosexual encounters. He returned to parish ministry in the Diocese of LaCrosse, Wisconsin. In a suit filed in Los Angeles County superior court, Msgr. Burrill argues that...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Gracias: "Francis Especially Concerned About Homosexuals"The "pastoral outreach" [meaning: capitulation] to homosexual groups will "not be ignored", even though the working document for the October synod omits the propaganda terms "homosexual", "orientation", or "LGBT", Cardinal Oswald Gracias, 79, of Mumbai, India, told CruxNow.com (13 July).He believes in an "inclusive Church, which means everyone [except Catholics]", adding that Francis has been "particularly concerned" about "people of different sexual orientation".The cardinal has been homosexual activist but in this recent interview he is unusually cautious about normalising homosexuality.He referred to "the global complexity of the Catholic Church": "Our Indian situation,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law Monday that bars schools from informing parents when their child decides to change his or her gender, effectively stripping parents’ rights to know about gender transitions. The bill, AB 1955, euphemistically called the Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth Act, and sponsored by Assemblymember Christopher Ward (D-San Diego), was also backed by statewide Democratic officials. Asked directly by Breitbart News last year why parents should not have the right to know about their children’s gender transitions, Newsom dismissed the idea — first claiming that it was not an...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), one of several high-profile Democratic politicians seen as a possible replacement for President Biden should he leave the presidential race, slammed former President Trump on Thursday, saying he “wants to take us back to a pre-1960s world.” Newsom then said when it comes to “voting rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights” that the former president “wants” the U.S. to go backwards. “You got Donald Trump… wants to take us back to a pre-1960s world,” the California governor said in a clip captured by Fox News Thursday and highlighted by Grabien News. Newsom has long been a forceful...

Bishop Barry Knestout suspended the Latin Mass at Holy Comforter Catholic Church until receiving a renewal from the Vatican, but there are reports that Rome is ready to shut down all Traditional Masses not affiliated with an approved Ecclesia Dei institute. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — The bishop of Richmond, Virginia is ending the Traditional Latin Mass in Charlottesville, Virginia, after the two-year permission given by Rome expires this week. Bishop Barry Knestout informed Father Joseph Mary Lukyamuzi, the pastor of Holy Comforter Catholic Church in Charlottesville, that the “dispensation” granted in virtue of Traditionis custodes for the parish to offer...

[Catholic Caucus] New York Priest Celebrates ‘Pride Mass’ Outside of Gay Monument — on LGBT FlagFather Eric Andrews, Pastor of Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in New York City, celebrates Mass at the Stonewall National Monument surrounded by pride flags. A New York City Catholic church, previously caught up in LGBT controversy, hosted a “Pride Mass” Thursday evening using an altar shrouded with a gay and transgender “pride” flag at a local federal monument with sculptures of two same-sex couples and decorated by dozens of LGBT rainbow flags.The federal monument enshrining a gay bar, The Stonewall Inn, and its...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican communications head slammed for downplaying Rupnik case: ‘We’re not talking about abuse of minors’‘Who am I to judge?’ said the Vatican’s Paolo Ruffini about Fr. Marko Rupnik, who has been accused of abusing dozens of people and committing blasphemous sexual abuse against religious sisters.The embattled pro–LGBT prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, Dr. Paolo Ruffini, shockingly downplayed last week the sexual abuse scandals of disgraced former Jesuit priest Father Marko Rupnik. Ruffini spoke at the annual Catholic Media Conference, held from June 18-21 in Atlanta, Georgia. In his keynote address, he urged attendees to change “the...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican communications prefect: Removing Rupnik art ‘not the Christian response’The prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication told a group of Catholic journalists Friday that removing artwork by disgraced religious artist and alleged serial sexual abuser Fr. Marko Rupnik is “not the Christian response.” Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, speaks at a synod on synodality briefing at the Vatican on Oct. 14, 2023. Screenshot from Vatican News YouTube channel.“I don’t think we have to throw stones, thinking it is the way of healing someone,” said Paolo Ruffini, according to video footage of his remarks...