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Leo’s Pontifical Academy for Life: Catholics Can Morally Assent to “Imperfect Laws” Allowing Assisted Suicide

Wow, looking at that logo, I can't tell if it's for the Vatican Atomic Energy Commission, or for an Arabian juggling troupe.

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U.S. Vice President Attends Mass in Roman rite

Isn't there a bit of an issue in inviting a Hindu to attend the holy and august sacrifice of the Mass? Really, legitimately, this is a genuine and not rhetorical question.

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Number of unmarried young men surges 47% in US since 2000 - LifeSite

Why buy the cow when...they're pretty much all cows?

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Die Päpste in Jugendjahren

When did Jim Nabors become the Pope???

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America and Australia run on diesel and it is running out fast - cairnsnews.org

@Jeffrey Ade 2025 was a very good year: "In 2025, U.S. refineries produced about 1.76 billion barrels (73.80 billion gallons) of ULSD. Total ULSD consumption in the United States for all uses was about 1.42 billion barrels (59.56 billion gallons)."
Where our diesel comes from - U.S. Energy …
You might want to check the calendar.

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America and Australia run on diesel and it is running out fast - cairnsnews.org

Light, sweet, yes, heavy, sour, no, nor sufficient capacity to refine heavy, sour crude oil into diesel oil, aviation fuel, and kerosene.

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Help Bring Pastor John Cao Home President Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 24. Please add your name to this humanitarian appeal asking President Trump to personally request that President Xi return Pastor John Cao’s passport and allow him to come home to his family. The Petition To President Donald J. Trump: Mr. President, We respectfully ask you to personally raise the case of Pastor John Cao with President Xi Jinping during your upcoming meeting. Pastor Cao is a U.S. permanent resident who devoted years of his life to Christian humanitarian work among impoverished communities along the China-Myanmar border. In 2017, he was arrested by the Chinese government and sentenced to seven years in prison. He served every day of his sentence. Pastor Cao was released in 2024, but he is still not permitted to leave China because the government has not returned his passport. Now he is fighting stage 4 prostate cancer that has spread to his bones and spine.…

While I hope the best for Mr. Cao, and agree that he needs our prayers, it would be completely inappropriate to pray for his intentions. He is a schismatic heretic, and hence his intentions would not be that people join the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, but rather that people follow a schismatic and heretical path that will lead them not to eternal life but to perdition.
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To clarify his situation, he is not a citizen of the United States, he is a citizen of China. After being duly prosecuted under Chinese law, and while in prison, his passport (Chinese, of course) expired. Because of his violation of Chinese law and subsequent conviction, his hukou was revoked, and he has been denied a passport renewal. I don't quite see how a diplomatic request by President Trump or anyone else would be perceived by the Chinese as anything other than interference in Chinese affairs.

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What you may not know about Michelangelo's masterpiece La Pieta

@Jeffrey Ade Aw now c'mon, don't tell me Michelangelo's a Red...

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This is a Catholic charismatic renewal group from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. 🇲🇽

Goin' to the dogs, I tell ya'.

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What is a Doctor | America's Frontline Doctors

"What is a doctor?" - This'll be one of the easiest questions I'll answer all day.
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A doctor is a selectively-chosen, highly intelligent, hard-working, blindly arrogant front-man for the medical-pharma-insurance complex.

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ChatGPT urged Alabama mom to take her own life by walking into oncoming traffic, suit says

The problem is not AI, the problem is idiot parents instilling Jello-salad characters into their children instead of rearing them to be thinking, mature adults.

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Abortion pills are every abuser’s dream. A few clicks. A package in the mail. A baby’s life is ended. A woman left to suffer alone. (Video from “Students for Life”—whose leaders earn enormous salaries)

"A woman left to suffer alone."
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While this is the most common situation, please never overlook the fact that men's reproductive rights are completely and fully abrogated and usurped by women and by law. A woman may kill a man's son or daughter with complete impunity, no recourse for the father, and typically no sympathy or support for the father.

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Father Ripperger: Mortal sin is worse than demonic possession - LifeSite

Please, help a brother out, here. This is a quote from the LifeSite article (my emphasis):
"According to Catholic teaching, a sin is mortal when it is grave matter, the person committing the sin knows it is gravely sinful, and they have committed the sin with the full consent of their will."
I believe that this is not true. I believe that the requirement is that the person is fully aware that they are committing the sin, but not that the sin is specifically gravely sinful. For example, I am of the impression that there are countless nominal Catholics who do not believe that contraception is gravely sinful. So, according to the requirements cited by LifeSiteNews, they would not be committing a mortal sin by contracepting, however, they actually are, in spite of their ignorance.
If knowledge of the gravity of the sin is a requirement, then those with seared consciences could commit actual mortal sins all day long and not be held to account for them, couldn't they?

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Same guy, but they certainly are not the same missiles, nor the same circumstances.

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Iran warns ‘entire region will pay the price’ as US bombs bridges (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

About the same time the Germans smash the AfD, comrade.

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Finally, the dog never come back!

Where am I watching from? Sorry, I have some paint that isn't quite dry yet.