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The following is the English translation of a letter in Italian sent by the former superior general of the congregation, the Sons of Merciful Love (founded by Madre Speranza; Collevalenza, Italy), Padre Gabrielle Rossi, FAM, to Aldo Maria Valli who has a rather well frequented blog in Italian (https://www.aldomariavalli.it/2019/01/16/ecco-tutti-i-miei-dubia-di-prete-e-religioso/). This letter was writter after Padre Gabrielle was suspended. (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of the special formatting is lost, such as bold, italics, underlined words and embedded links. To read the document with the formatting and embedded links go to the link of...

TurkeyÂ’s Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) has ruled that a Kurdish candidate for the Turkish presidency cannot phone in to a talk programme from jail, opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet said . Selahattin DemirtaÅŸ was planning to use his weekly right to a 10-minute phone call to call in to Fox TV and take part in its election programme Leaders on Fox. However, his request was rejected on the basis that this was an internal Justice Ministry decision the YSK could not interfere with, even if it might affect the ongoing election. DemirtaÅŸ has been in pretrial detention since November 2016, and if...

The Divided States of America! Political correctness is stifling freedom in the United States and it’s making people refrain from expressing their political beliefs.According to the Cato Institute’s 2017 Free Speech and Tolerance Survey of 2,300 U.S. adults: 71% Americans believe that political correctness has silenced important discussions our society needs to have. The consequences are personal — 58% of Americans believe the political climate prevents them from sharing their own political beliefs. These feelings are strongest among Republicans (73%) and independents (58%). Unsurprisingly for Democrats, 53 percent don’t feel any need to censor their political thoughts. Though nearly 60 percent believe even unpopular...

Fox News has reportedly pulled Andrew Napolitano from the air indefinitely after he made claims that a British intelligence agency had wiretapped Trump Tower. Napolitano, a Fox News analyst, is not scheduled to appear on the network in the near future, the Los Angeles Times reported, according to people familiar with the situation. Last week, Napolitano made the claims about the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) spying on Trump at former President Barack Obama's behest. White House press secretary Sean Spicer then quoted Napolitano's remarks while defending the president's claims earlier this month that the former president had wiretapped Trump Tower...

Labour's ruling body will silence MPs and party members who criticize Jeremy Corbyn on social media. The National Executive Committee has agreed to create a new code of conduct to tackle the "very harmful leaks to the media" and curb the "very damaging way in which social media is being used". It comes after Mr. Corbyn's first 10 weeks as Labour leader have been dogged by open criticism by his own MPs. ...

March 25, 2013 Are Benghazi Survivors Hiding In A Washington, D.C. Hospital? Richard Miniter For more than six months since the September 11, 2012 attacks on America’s diplomatic outposts in Benghazi, the Obama administration has been unwilling to turn over the names or whereabouts of any survivors. They may be hiding plain sight. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) has learned that “as many as seven Americans have been or are currently being treated,” at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C.—less than 11 miles from the U.S. Capitol. Rep. Wolf cited two independent confidential sources for his information....

Fox Business Network anchor Melissa Francis said she was “silenced” by CNBC when management told her she was “disrespecting the office of the president” by reporting about Obamacare.

Great grassy knoll!--I was merely mildly intrigued by some magnified still frames posted right after it happened, but if you stay with this guy's video for a minute it IS very compelling. You can see an adult's head bending down.

Seventeen years after the Paris-bound TWA Flight 800 blew up off the coast of Long Island, producers Tom Stalcup and Kristina Borjesson have released a new documentary –simply titled “TWA Flight 800” – that has the very real potential to re-open the investigation into the plane’s destruction. Kudos, in particular, to Stalcup. A Ph.D. physicist by background, he has dedicated the last 16 years of his life to exposing what is arguably the most flagrant government cover-up in American peacetime history. Borjesson has likewise been involved from the beginning. As a producer at CBS in 1996 when TWA 800 was...

Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement. The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, other than to say the helicopter encountered unspecified difficulties and the agents fell a “significant distance.” Last month, the team was involved in the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. And in February, it rescued a 5-year-old boy held hostage for six days in an underground bunker...

Tensions were high as both sides of the gun control aisle spoke during a Senate Law and Public Safety Committee held earlier this month in Trenton, NJ. As the hearing progressed, gun-rights supporters grew frustrated at the legislators move to amp measures that would only pertain to law-abiding gun owners and not the criminals they aimed to stop. In a particularly heated exchanged, 2nd Amendment advocate James Kaleda, 36, was asked to keep his comments relative to bills being heard. “I am on the bill. And I will be heard,” Kaleda said. But Committee Chairman Donald Norcross (D-Camden) called Kaleda...

In the Spring of this year, US Army Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dooley was condemned by the Joints Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and relieved of teaching duties at Joint Forces Staff College for teaching a course judged to be offensive to Islam. The course he taught, Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism, was an elective course that Lt. Col. Dooley's superiors judged as presenting Islam in a negative way. His superiors were persuaded to come to this conclusion after receiving an October 2011 letter in which 57 Muslim organizations claimed to be offended by the course. The fact that Lt....

Professionals serving in the armed forces enjoy a unique relationship with the military. Although they’re commissioned officers, they aren’t generally thought of as warriors in the true sense. They instead serve their military brethren in their professional capacity. That being the case, their activities are primarily bound and dictated by the practices and standards of their profession. For example, a Marine JAG officer adheres to his legal Code of Ethics, whereas an Army physician is expected to conform to his Hippocratic Oath. Likewise, a Navy Catholic chaplain would be expected to conduct himself according to his own religious doctrine in...

In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let Marian Anderson perform before an integrated audience at Constitution Hall. The Board of Education of the then-segregated District also refused to let her perform in the auditorium of a white public high school. So Anderson turned to a symbol of freedom: the Lincoln Memorial.That April, Anderson held an open-air concert on the steps of the monument to the end of slavery and the ideals of the Republic.

Last 10 minutes of Glenn Beck program on Fox network waas silenced. Picture was OK, but no sound, not even on commercials! Obamabots starting to "Fairnessss" media????

I tried to tune to Glenn Beck show on the NYC radio WOR 710 but instead of Glenn's fiery voice I hear pacifying voice and music of Cousin Brucie. WOR Web radio had some infomercial and John Gambling (reruns?) Will Glenn be off FOX News Channel? Hmmmm! Check of the web WOR site gives no clues, just link to another station WYXC 1270 in Cartersville, GA. There he was, sounded a bit muted. What is going on??? NaziRATs started the march on our freedoms? 0bama "fixing" America quickly before people will wake up? Looks like instead of tea parties march...

“The Reason Barack Stayed Is His Homosexual Relationship With Rev. Wright” Three Gay Members Of Obama’s Church Murdered Execution Style “The bombshell may involve the murder of Donald Young, a 47-year-old choir master at former Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ—the same congregation that Obama has attended for the past 20 years. Two other young black men that attended the same church—Larry Bland and Nate Spencer—were also murdered execution style with bullets to the backs of their heads—all within 40 days of each other, beginning in November 2007. All three were openly homosexual.Obama was friendly with at least two...

The Silenced Majority Richard Nixon had the silent majority. Ronald Reagan had the Regan Democrats. John McCain has the Silenced Majority. Some of the Silenced Majority have already voted and the rest will come out and vote on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. When they are done the Main Stream Media will be in a state of shock – not just by McCain’s/Palin’s win, but by the size of it. Who makes up the Silenced Majority? The folks who make up the Silenced Majority are those who dare not say they support McCain and/or Palin for fear of charges of racism...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - U.S. special operations forces accused of abusing prisoners in Iraq warned defense intelligence personnel not to talk about the alleged mistreatment they saw, according to a government memo to a top adviser of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. In the memo written June 25 after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal had gone public, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency complained about the harassment of DIA personnel, including one case where special forces confiscated photos of a prisoner they had punched. Defense intelligence workers also had their e-mail messages monitored and were...

Afghanistan's female singers silenced again January 16 2004 at 01:40PM Kabul - They were on air but now they've been silenced. After breaking a decade-long ban and airing images of a woman singing on Afghanistan's state-run television earlier in the week, Kabul TV has decided to stop showing female singers for the time being. The decision to stop showing images of women singing follows strong protests from the Afghan Supreme Court, which favours the imposition of Islamic sharia laws in the war-torn country.The court is dominated by the conservative former mujahedin or anti-Soviet fighters. "No official decision has been taken....