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Daily Gospel Reflection - The Gift of Participation Posted on JOHN 3:31–36 Friends, today’s Gospel declares that the Son of God does not ration his gift of the Spirit. At the cathedral in Chartres, the figure of Jesus is surrounded by seven doves, symbolizing these seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. The Messiah will be filled up with all of the powers and energies of God’s Spirit. These seven gifts have pla...

Pelosi rejects fellow Democrats’ ‘court-packing’ bill, will not bring it to vote Posted on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not support the effort by her fellow Democratic congressional leaders to expand the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13 — and will not bring such a bill to the floor for a vote, she said Thursday. Pelosi made the revelation while during her weekly press conference, offering a stark “No” after being asked about the measure being introduced to expand the nati...

Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole Posted on Explanation: Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured by planet Earths Event Horizon Telescope in the first ever image of a black hole. Giant of the Virgo galaxy cluster about 55 million light-years away, M87 is the large galaxy rendered in blue hues in this infrared image from the Spitzer Space telescope. Though M87 appears mostly featureless and cloud-like, t...

Report: Daunte Wright Had Warrant for Attempted Aggravated Robbery Posted on Daunte Wright allegedly had a warrant out for his arrest at the time he was shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer near Minneapolis, Minnesota, court papers obtained by the British Daily Mail newspaper suggest. “Wright was to face trial on a charge of attempted aggravated robbery – with a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison,” the newspaper reported. The charge stems from December 2019 ...

AOC calls law enforcement an indefensible system in wake of Daunte Wrights killing after fellow Squad member Rashida Tlaib called for cops to be abolished Posted on Reform of the police is no longer enough, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Tuesday, as she joined fellow squad member Rashida Tlaib in calling for the police to be abolished. The New York congresswoman responded on Tuesday to the killing of another black man, Daunte Wright, 20, in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday. He was killed by a...

Japan’s China Policy Turns to Confrontation in 2021 Posted on Since the start of 2021, significant changes have sprung up in the diplomatic ties between two east Asian countries—Japan and China. Currently, the Japanese government is making a dramatic turn to confront China over a range of issues including the disputed waters in the East and South China Seas, Taiwan, and the human rights situation in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. Days before Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visits the Uni...

Is Dr. Fauci the Father of the Pandemic? Posted on Dr. Faucis NIH funneled American taxpayer dollars -- some $7 million -- into the Wuhan Lab ANALYSIS/OPINION: The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, believes the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.  If Dr. Redfield is correct — and he almost certainly is — then Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health must assume significant responsibility for a ...

Nancy Pelosi mocked AOC by impersonating her in a child-like voice and slammed left-wing Squad, explosive new book claims Posted on A new book, based on interviews with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, claims she mocked rising liberal star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and was furious at The Squad. Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power, written by USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page, features ten interviews with Pelosi as well as interviews with over 150 friends, family members,...

What Is BitClout? The Social Media Experiment Sparking Controversy on Twitter Posted on Prominent users of Crypto Twitter have suddenly discovered they have another profile on a new social network called BitClout, except over there some people are buying and selling tokens representing their identities. It does not matter whether the people behind those profiles have ever touched the social network. “The core insight behind BitClout is that if you can mix speculation and content together, yo...

“I’ll Tell You Later, Let’s Go” – Biden Tells Reporters to Leave Oval Office After Meeting with Congressional Black Caucus (VIDEO) Posted on After mumbling for 3 minutes, Biden had enough and told the reporters to leave. A reporter quickly asked Biden, “Changing the way that African-Americans interact with police in this country during the Biden era, what can you deliver on, sir?” Biden responded by telling the reporters to leave the Oval Office: “A lot, and I’ll tell ya la...