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NY Congressman Put GF and Daughter of Fiancee (not GF) on Payroll
- By iluvatar5150
- American Politics
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A Congressman Had an Affair. Then He Put His Lover on the Payroll.
Representative Anthony D’Esposito, a New York Republican, gave part-time jobs to both his lover and his fiancée’s daughter, in possible violation of House ethics rules.
Mr. D’Esposito’s hiring decisions since he won a seat in Congress in 2022 have been audacious — and in two cases may have transgressed ethics rules designed to combat nepotism and corruption.
Shortly after taking the oath of office, the first-term congressman hired his longtime fiancée’s daughter to work as a special assistant in his district office, eventually bumping her salary to about $3,800 a month, payroll records show.
In April, Mr. D’Esposito added someone even closer to him to his payroll: a woman with whom he was having an affair, according to four people familiar with the relationship. The woman, Devin Faas, collected $2,000 a month for a part-time job in the same district office.
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Pope Francis Names New Consultors to Vatican’s DDF, Including Controversial Theologian Father Maurizio Chiodi
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Pope Francis has named 28 new consultors to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, including moral theologian Father Maurizio Chiodi, who has expressed opinions contrary to Church teaching.
Chiodi, a moral theologian, has come under media scrutiny in recent years for suggesting contraception use in marriagecould be morally permissible in some circumstances.
In a 2017 lecture in Rome, the priest also said that homosexual relationships “under certain conditions” could be “the most fruitful way” for those with same-sex attraction “to enjoy good relations.”
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Chiodi, a moral theologian, has come under media scrutiny in recent years for suggesting contraception use in marriagecould be morally permissible in some circumstances.
In a 2017 lecture in Rome, the priest also said that homosexual relationships “under certain conditions” could be “the most fruitful way” for those with same-sex attraction “to enjoy good relations.”
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Pope Francis names 28 consultants to Vatican doctrine office
Pope Francis has named 28 new consultors to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, including controversial moral theologian Father Maurizio Chiodi.
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Every Catholic Needs to Know About This Little-Known Eucharistic Doctrine
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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‘Concomitance,’ as St. Thomas Aquinas explains it, means that ‘nothing is lost by the body being received by the people without the blood.’
This summer, I got to celebrate Holy Mass in the Brooklyn parish where I stay when I’m home from my assignment as the academic dean of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. It is always a joy to offer Mass for a parish community. For me, it is a homecoming.
This parish is a multi-ethnic one in my diocese with a pastor born in Pakistan, an Urdu Mass, growing Haitian and Hispanic communities, and many other people, most of them longtime residents of this area of Brooklyn. It has in many ways become a welcoming oasis for me, a true family, and a place of rest and prayer. Named after the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I feel her motherly protection and presence — never more so than this summer when I offered my own mother’s funeral Mass in this parish.
One of the things that the parishioners of this parish have told me over my many years of association with it is that they truly appreciate homilies that teach them about the faith. These are parishioners who tell me that they are yearning for content and catechesis. They have mentioned that, as much as they appreciate nice stories about nice people being nice to others (basically what Bishop Robert Barron has described as “beige Catholicism,” which is its own brand of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism), what they want most of all is to learn about the faith — its contents, its practices and tradition, and how best to live this faith out in the world today.
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This summer, I got to celebrate Holy Mass in the Brooklyn parish where I stay when I’m home from my assignment as the academic dean of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. It is always a joy to offer Mass for a parish community. For me, it is a homecoming.
This parish is a multi-ethnic one in my diocese with a pastor born in Pakistan, an Urdu Mass, growing Haitian and Hispanic communities, and many other people, most of them longtime residents of this area of Brooklyn. It has in many ways become a welcoming oasis for me, a true family, and a place of rest and prayer. Named after the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I feel her motherly protection and presence — never more so than this summer when I offered my own mother’s funeral Mass in this parish.
One of the things that the parishioners of this parish have told me over my many years of association with it is that they truly appreciate homilies that teach them about the faith. These are parishioners who tell me that they are yearning for content and catechesis. They have mentioned that, as much as they appreciate nice stories about nice people being nice to others (basically what Bishop Robert Barron has described as “beige Catholicism,” which is its own brand of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism), what they want most of all is to learn about the faith — its contents, its practices and tradition, and how best to live this faith out in the world today.
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Every Catholic Needs to Know About This Little-Known Eucharistic Doctrine
‘Concomitance,’ as St. Thomas Aquinas explains it, means that ‘nothing is lost by the body being received by the people without the blood.’
English &Italian &Chinese Catholic Mass in Beijing
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Yes it is! I enjoyed the pictures. Thank you! 
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‘Better Off Dead?’ documentary sharpens suicide prevention focus
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Last week, the first screening in the U.S. of the BBC documentary “Better Off Dead?” took place in the United States Congress.
Produced by British actress and renowned disability rights advocate Liz Carr, the film shows from a secular perspective how assisted-suicide laws around the world threaten the lives of individuals with disabilities.
Carr, who is not religious, told CNA that for many people, the absence of nonreligious arguments against assisted suicide has disadvantaged the cause.
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‘Better Off Dead?’ documentary sharpens suicide prevention focus
Liz Carr’s “Better Off Dead?” documentary shows how assisted-suicide laws around the world threaten the lives of individuals with disabilities.
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Democrats Double and Triple Down on Abortion
- OBOB General Politics Forum
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It is as if a murderous spirit of death has spread across our land ... like an uncontrollable cancer ... and only God can stop it.I can never understand that mentality. Makes no sense to me.
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