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Pope Leo urged U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday not to try to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using military force.
Leo, the first U.S. pope, said it would be better to attempt dialogue or impose economic pressure on Venezuela if Washington wants to pursue change there.

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Pope Leo urges US not to attempt military ouster of Venezuela's Maduro

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Pope Leo urged U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday not to try to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using military force.
Leo, the first U.S. pope, said it would be better to attempt dialogue or impose economic pressure on Venezuela if Washington wants to pursue change there.
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The Trump administration has been weighing options to combat what it has portrayed as Maduro's role in supplying illegal drugs that have killed Americans. The socialist Venezuelan president has denied having any links to the illegal drug trade.
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Asked during a news conference about Trump's threats to remove Maduro by force, Leo said: "It is better to search for ways of dialogue, or perhaps pressure, including economic pressure".
The pope, speaking as he flew home from a visit to Turkey and Lebanon, …

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Even the primate of Venezuela tried to escape, but the police stopped him from leaving. Sorry, but Leo is a total fool, who IS an embarrassment to Christ.

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A peaceful pro-life advocate was arrested on Thursday for filming her activities outside of a California Planned Parenthood location, allegedly violating the state’s Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

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Pro-life activist arrested outside San Francisco Planned Parenthood over Instagram video - LifeSite

Mon Dec 22, 2025 - 3:28 pm EST
SAN FRANCISCO (
LifeSiteNews) — A peaceful pro-life advocate was arrested on Thursday for filming her activities outside of a California Planned Parenthood location, allegedly violating the state’s Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust reports that one of its organizers, Anastasia Rogers, was arrested on December 18 outside of the abortion giant’s Bush Street San Francisco facility, on a warrant that a 14-second Instagram reel she had posted two months earlier allegedly violated the California FACE Act’s prohibition on anyone “caus[ing] [a] person to be intimidated” when he or she “videotapes, films, photographs, or records by electronic means” a client, employee, or assistant without consent.
Rather than evidencing intimidation, the footage in question shows an abortion escort silently ignoring Rogers. Survivors maintains that she “did not tell Rogers not to film her.”
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An Iowa priest, Father Thomas Thakadipuram, pleaded guilty to stealing parish funds and investing them in a scam without church approval. The case stands out not for the crime itself, but because a local bishop appeared in court to emphasize the seriousness of the offense rather than seek leniency for the priest.

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Iowa priest theft prompted bishop’s sharp rebuke

An Iowa priest has pleaded guilty to stealing money from a Catholic parish and placing it in a scam investment without consulting or informing the parish finance council.
A retired IRS investigator told The Pillar this week that amid a string of priest embezzlement cases across the country in recent years, the case of Father Thomas Thakadipuram is unusual in several ways – including the reaction of a local bishop, who reinforced the gravity of the priest’s crime, rather than petitioning for a lighter sentence.
Fr. Tom Thakadipuram. Credit: Fr. Tom Thakadipuram/Facebook.
Thakadipuram, 62, was pastor of St. Mary Parish, Shenandoah, and St. Mary Parish, Hamburg – both in the Diocese of Des Moines – until February, when he was arrested and charged with six counts of first degree theft and one count of second degree theft.
Thakadipuram accepted a plea deal in October. He pleaded guilty to one count of theft in the first degree and one count of theft in the fourth degree.
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Orthocat

Another foreign-born priest who came to the U.S. to enrich himself NOT serve God as a missionary of the Gospel.

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First Things publishes "Hanukkah Light in a Dark World"

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Hanukkah Light in a Dark World - First Things

Before the Hamas war against Israel, the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, and yesterday’s shooting attack in Australia, I associated Hanukkah with triumph rather than despair. The eight-day festival, which began at sundown on December 14, was an opportunity to recognize Jewish perseverance and share Jewish light.
This year is different. While menorahs are ordinarily displayed outdoors in celebration, during times of danger the Talmud suggests kindling Hanukkah lights discreetly. Even without overt peril, mounting hostility toward Jews draws me inward and homeward. I prefer to stay indoors with my family, where the somber hymn of my childhood will echo more poignantly than the cheerful holiday prayer.
Like other winter holidays, Hanukkah occurs when daylight is lacking and darkness evokes faith. More than a solstice observance, however, Hanukkah is a celebration of Jewish distinctiveness and daring. In the second century B.C., enlightened Greeks sought to extinguish …

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An American tech company allegedly helped a foreign country plan a terrorist attack on a U.S.-allied nation, injuring nearly 4,000 people and killing children. The UN condemned the attack as a war crime. That company, Palantir, receives over half its funding from U.S. government contracts and holds $10 billion in U.S. Army contracts. In a just society, executives involved in such actions would face prison—not continued taxpayer funding. Who will hold them accountable?

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Israel used Palantir technology in its 2024 Lebanon pager attack, book claims

New book says US tech company was involved in Lebanon attack that killed dozens and wounded thousands
Pagers like the one seen here exploded in September 2024, killing dozens and wounding thousands (Reuters)
Published date: 10 December 2025 17:13 GMT | Last update: 3 days 23 hours ago
Palantir software was used by
Israel in its 2024 pager attacks in Lebanon, according to a new book by Alex Karp, co-founder of the Palantir tech company.
On 17 September, thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah members, including civilians not involved in any armed activity, were detonated across Lebanon.
Many showed “error” messages and vibrated loudly prior to exploding, luring Hezbollah members or, in some cases, their family members to stand close by at the point of detonation.
The next day more communication devices exploded, including at the public funerals of Hezbollah members and civilians who had been killed the previous day.
While many Israeli figures celebrated, praised and even joked about …

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Every time there’s a terrorist attack, politicians use it to cut back civil liberties. We saw it with the Patriot Act, which is still in place decades later. Tragedies are repeatedly used to justify permanent expansions of state power.

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UK government vows to ‘ramp up’ use of facial recognition, biometrics in policing -
"Live facial recognition could be the end of privacy as we know it" and lead to an "authoritarian surveillance state," director Silkie Carlo warned.

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Government pledges to ramp up facial recognition and biometrics

Police will be better equipped to track down dangerous criminals as the government launches a consultation on how forces should use facial recognition and biometrics, in what could be ‘the biggest breakthrough since DNA matching’.
Facial recognition is used to locate wanted suspects in public places, find vulnerable missing people and identify offenders more quickly through footage obtained from CCTV and doorbell cameras.
In the last two years, the Metropolitan Police made 1,300 arrests using facial recognition including rapists, domestic abusers and violent criminals and found more than 100 registered sex offenders breaching their license conditions.
The consultation will pave the way for new laws so all police forces can use this new technology with greater confidence and more often.
Crime and Policing Minister, Sarah Jones, said:
Facial recognition is the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching.
It has already helped take thousands of dangerous criminals off …

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A new analysis found that 41 percent of Netflix TV shows for children portray homosexual relationships, ‘transgender’ and ‘non-binary’ characters, and other ‘queer’ themes.

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The original article link is here: Over 41% of Children’s Shows on Netflix Contain …

Father Karl A Claver

Obama went to a kindergarten yesterday and was reading woke books to youngsters. How scandalous, and the Church keeps her silence because Obama is one of her apostles.

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Kremlin says US national security strategy document ‘largely consistent' with Russia's vision.

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Kremlin says US national security strategy document ‘largely consistent' with Russia's vision

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Kremlin says US national security strategy document ‘largely consistent' with Russia's vision
Spokesman Peskov says Moscow hopes this could be 'modest guarantee' that they'll be able to continue joint constructive work on finding settlement in Ukraine
The Kremlin said that the US administration’s new national security strategy document is “largely consistent” with Russia’s vision.
“The adjustments we're seeing, I'd say, are largely consistent with our vision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin in an interview, a fragment of which was shared on his Telegram on Sunday.
Peskov expressed Moscow’s hope that this could be a “modest guarantee” that they will be able to continue joint constructive work on finding a settlement in Ukraine.
He further argued that US President Donald Trump's domestic political position is strong, which allows him to adjust the country's national security strategy to suit his vision.
Peskov also said that Russia …

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Late Mons Arthur Calkins on the Co-Redemptrix - an expert!

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The Prices, who are born-again Christians, regularly seek to evangelize with those who promote serious sin, including abortion, and especially homosexuality and transgenderism.

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Christian couple arrested, jailed after sharing Gospel truths at LGBTQ 'Pride' parade - LifeSite

(LifeSiteNews) — A Christian street preacher and his wife were jailed on Saturday after demonstrating against an LGBTQ Pride parade in Orlando, Florida.
Maurice Price was pinned to the ground and handcuffed by several policemen, video footage posted to his Facebook page and YouTube channel shows, after he walked the street of an LGBTQ parade holding up a sign that read “Hell is real. Only Jesus Saves.” His wife, Brittany, who joined him in the street while holding up a sign that said “Repent or perish,” was also arrested.
The back of Brittany’s sign read “Jesus is God,” “There are only 2 genders,” and “Jesus is the only way.
A montage of video clips shows the couple walking along the sidewalk near the parade with their signs as well as out in the street close to the parade and then hugging the sidewalk. Maurice confronted the driver of a truck representing the First Unitarian Church of Orlando, decked out with rainbow flags and a sign that says “love is love.”
At one point, it …

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"Cooperation to reach UN goal"

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Pope Leo calls for international cooperation to reach UN goal of 'zero hunger' - LifeSite

(LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV called for international cooperation from institutions at all levels to work to alleviate hunger around the world during a Thursday speech at the Rome headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
“Let us not fall into the trap of seeing hunger as a problem to be solved. It is much more than that, it is a cry rising to Heaven demanding an urgent response from every nation, every international organization, every local or private institution,” Leo declared in an address given primarily in Spanish.
Leo decried the fact that hundreds of millions of people around the world “go to bed without eating” and the numbers of malnourished children, attributing this suffering to systemic problems such as a “soulless economy” and an “unfair and unsustainable system of resource distribution.”
The pontiff supported the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goal of “Zero Hunger,” declaring that the world can only achieve this if “there …

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Very realistic approach....

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LifeSite launches new campaign to end surrogacy worldwide - LifeSite

(LifeSiteNews) — Hello, my friends.
Today we bring you news of a new campaign: to criminalize the trade in human life known as surrogacy.
If people knew the truth about this obscene industry, they would demand an end to it.
That’s why LifeSiteNews is using all of our resources to not only break the news about the criminal sale of babies and the reduction of mothers to battery farm animals.
This time we want to make the news. You can help us stop this global trade, which is set to be worth over $200 billion worldwide by 2034.
We are joining calls from campaigners, rights groups, from the Vatican and from pro-life groups worldwide to demand a global ban on surrogacy.
This is a business which is booming – in America and across the West. In fact, the U.S. is the world leader in international surrogacy. It has been shut down in India and Vietnam, and recent scandals showing the factory farming of women in Ukraine and the former Soviet nation of Georgia have seen international baby buyers …

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Another Kremlin-friendly author, Joe Quinn, has been writing for LifeSiteNews since yesterday.

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Joseph Quinn

Tucker Carlson accused prominent Christian supporters of Israel of 'deranged heresy,' rejecting claims that God favors any people 'based on their DNA.'
Abp. Bernard Longley, tied to the controversial Soho LGBT Masses and synodal LGBT outreach, has been granted a third Vatican role under the new Pope’s agenda.

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When God sent Our Lady to convey His command that Russia be consecrated, it seems clear that He expected swift obedience from the Pope and bishops. The pastors of the Church, however, chose to delay and, on August 19, 1931, Our Lord Himself appeared to Sister Lucy in Rianjo, Spain and expressed His displeasure, saying “make it known to My ministers that, given they follow the example of the King of France in delaying the execution My command, they will follow him also into misfortune.”

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Flashback to Nov. 19, 2013.

Michael Matt introduces his strategy of 'support him when he's right' with regard to Jorge Bergoglio: "...when he says or does something that is constructive, that is helpful, that is Catholic, that we can use, in other words, I think tradition-minded Catholics have to be there [and] support the Holy Father.... When Pope Francis says something good, I think it's very important that we acknowledge that. And that doesn't mean that we have lost sight of the fact that we do have what appears to be a liberal sitting on the throne of St. Peter. But on the other hand, you know, the conspiracy nuts who want to say that Pope Francis is, you know, whatever, a Freemason, he is probably the trigger man on the grassy knoll who shot John F. Kennedy, or he's the mastermind behind 9-11 -- all of this sort of stuff may be fun to play with on blogs and on the blogosphere, but really it's time for tradition-minded Catholics to come together with a strategy that's effective."
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=…More

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This man is a Judas Goat leading Catholics to perdition. Unite the Clans is a coward's cry! Does this huckster forget that Satan knows scripture better than any living being and used scripture to tempt Christ. To apply Matts principle this means that when Satan says something good " it is important that we acknowledge that".

Orthocat

Well at least the above is proof that Matt didn't just flip with Leo. He's always been "recognize & resist" It's habitual. I have to admit, I was a big proponent of "look to the Holy Father in Rome" for the Truth. Of course that was under other less scandalous {albeit NOT perfect by any means} pontiffs versus the brazen dissent of many bishops, priests, & religious around the world. But now? It really seems the prophecy is undeniable: Rome has lost the Faith!

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Opposition to Cardinal Cupich’s plan is not dying down — neither in Illinois nor around the country.

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Cardinal Cupich Meetings With Illinois Catholic Leaders Canceled Amid Durbin Award Controversy

Cardinal Cupich Meetings With Illinois Catholic Leaders Canceled Amid Durbin Award Controversy
Opposition to Cardinal Cupich’s plan is not dying down — neither in Illinois nor around the country.
The meetings of two groups of Illinois Catholic leaders chaired by Cardinal Blase Cupich were postponed indefinitely last week after a lay leader requested that the Chicago cardinal-archbishop’s controversial decision to honor a pro-abortion-rights senator be discussed.
John Breen, a board member of the Catholic Conference of Illinois (CCI), asked on Sept. 23 that Cardinal Cupich’s plan to give Sen. Dick Durbin a “lifetime achievement award” at an upcoming archdiocesan fundraiser be added to the agenda of a Sept. 25 board meeting because the honor risked undermining the group’s advocacy work.
“All of our work is premised upon the dignity of the human person,” said Breen, a law professor at Loyola University Chicago and the Diocese of Joliet’s lay representative on the CCI board. “And yet …

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Aren't the majority of the catholic hierarchy objectively in schism with the CC at this point?

la verdad prevalece

Cupich has not professed Catholic doctrine for some time and has stubbornly separated himself from the Catholic Church.
According to the CDF Cupich is “no longer in full communion with the Catholic Church”
Canon 188§4 states: "All offices shall be vacant ipso facto, by tacit resignation in the following cases… (4) If a cleric has publicly lapsed from the Catholic Faith."

Cupich has declared war on God and the Church with his sacrilegious homosexual anti-doctrine, favoring radical politicians who promote partial-birth abortion and homosexual ideology.
Chicago: Blase Cupich Wants Homosexual Adoption – Gloria.tv
Apostate Blase Cupich sold a church to the Freemasons Lesbian mayor takes Holy Communion at Mass said …
As Bishop of Chicago, Cupich has been promoting sodomy and lesbianism at Gonzaga University.

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In a first, three men in a relationship adopt 3-year-old girl in Quebec” — a news article on Moneycontrol describes that two of the men are officially listed as legal parents, while the third is “actively pursuing full legal recognition. @Everyday for Life Canada

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In a first, three men in a relationship adopt 3-year-old girl in Quebec

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@Father Karl A Claver.... you have disclosed the truth about todays world.

Father Karl A Claver

More disgusting proof that the world is move evil now than in the Old Testament times.