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[Catholic Caucus] Opus Dei expels African priest for criticizing Pope’s endorsement of same-sex civil unionsBy February 25, Father Jesusmary was told that all appeals have been rejected and that his only possibility is now to appeal to Pope Francis.Thu Mar 3, 2022 - 9:00 am ESTWed Mar 2, 2022 - 12:46 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) – On February 2, Father Jesusmary Missigbètò was informed that his spiritual family, Opus Dei, expelled him for publicly criticizing Pope Francis for his support of same-sex civil unions. The 42-year-old African priest had posted on Twitter and Facebook several statements contradicting the Pope’s gestures and...

The defense of Joe Biden on the allegations that have disrupted his campaign has gone through some fascinating twists and turns. At first, in the wake of Tara Reade’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her in 1993, the reaction in media and political circles was largely silence. Reade seemed to come out of nowhere, so there was little need to acknowledge her story. Many media outlets stuck with silence after the New York Times and Washington Post published their accounts 19 days later. In other outlets, the second reaction was that she was probably not telling the truth -- after...

BillO is upset that there are 38 Tea Party House Republicans who say they won’t vote to raise the debt ceiling unless there is a balanced budget amendment attached to it. BillO, like everyone in the MSM, wants compromise and he wants it bad. He doesn’t believe in standing your ground on principle and trying to force the other side to do what’s best for the country. He’d rather fold like a lawn chair under the umbrella of hyperbole and scare tactics spewed by the radical leftists. He’s given in to conventional wisdom that there is no way that a...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has passed Democratic-driven ethics reform legislation.

October 29, 2005 -- SO, after 28 months, what we are told is this: Scooter Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, lied about his conversations with two reporters. He lied about those conversations first to FBI investigators in the fall of 2003 and then to a grand jury in the spring of 2004. And in telling those lies, says independent counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, Libby sought to impede the investigation into the public exposure of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. That's all, folks. The grand jury in the most hotly watched Washington political-legal investigation since Whitewater concluded its business yesterday...

At other places in this domain you will have read various news articles from around the nation, on the outrageous actions of various government entities (political, judicial and bureaucratic), which have had the effect of limiting the choice and range of actions of a once free and sovereign people. During the past week a friend of my sister's, from San Francisco, joined my sister, my brother-in-law and myself for supper one evening. During the meal, he asked us if we could define the difference between morals and ethics. The dictionary definitions of morals and ethics would seem to make the...

Nothing more separates Judeo-Christian values from secular values than the question of whether morality -- what is good or evil -- is absolute or relative. In other words, is there an objective right or wrong, or is right or wrong a matter of personal opinion? In the Judeo-Christian value system, God is the source of moral values and therefore what is moral and immoral transcends personal or societal opinion. Without God, each society or individual makes up its or his/her moral standards. But once individuals or societies become the source of right and wrong, right and wrong, good and evil,...

Rules are for chumps. That was obviously the prevailing ethos (if you can call it that) of the Tyco and Enron plutocrats and their enablers. And likewise for the sticky-fingered Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., who apparently also saw his opportunities and took 'em. But so too for the New Jersey Supreme Court. No small-minded rules were going to stand in the way of letting those jurists mete out justice. They replaced Torricelli on the Nov. 5 ballot with former Democratic Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg on the theory that, well, just because the State Legislature allowed substitutions only up to 51...