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ozso · 2025-07-11T18:38:30-0500

Landon Caeli said:
I guess we have no choice but to run an investigation into his real origins.

Where's his birth certificate?

Michie · 2025-07-11T18:38:15-0500

N.B.: the term "Christian" in this story actually means "Catholic,"--whether Roman or an Orthodox sister-church. That translation applies to almost all news reports from the Middle East.

Priests of the churches in Tabyeh, the last fully Christian town left in the West Bank, have implored help from “international actors” amid a destructive siege by Israeli settlers.
“Israeli settlers are torching holy sites, destroying farmland, and terrorizing families. The priests of Taybeh are crying out for help. The world must hear them — and act,” human rights activist Jason Jones urged on Tuesday....

Netanyahu's war on Catholics is not a new thing for Israel; it is merely a continuation of a decades-old policy whereby long-settled Catholic communities are systematically eradicated by Jewish "settlers" who lay claim to land--and then find ways to 'remove' the original inhabitants. (Yes, it is a replication of the wars on Indians in the USA.)

Continued below.

Netanyahu's War on Catholics

dad29.blogspot.com

essentialsaltes · 2025-07-11T18:35:24-0500

Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids

"I Just Hope I Get My Mom Back," Says 15-Year-Old Juan Martinez, Who Is Now Caring for His Brothers, Ages 8 and 9

Thursday morning, 15-year-old Juan Martinez received a frantic call from his mother. She told him Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were right outside the Glass House Farms complex where she worked and would enter at any moment. “She was rushed,” said Martinez. “She was panicking.”

Martinez didn’t know what to do. “It was really, really stressful,” he said. “I couldn’t drive over there. I couldn’t do anything. I was helpless.”

The next communication from Martinez’s mother came at 11:36 a.m., close to the end of her regular 3 a.m. to 12 p.m. shift. In a hushed voice text she said she was in custody in a van and being taken to Los Angeles. She told him to take care of his brothers. “That made me cry,” Martinez said.

Martinez’s mother was among more than two dozen Glass House Farms employees arrested during Thursday’s ICE raidon the cannabis company’s properties in Carpinteria and Camarillo.

In the past, [kid's lawyer] Anaya said, ICE agents would use discretion when determining who to arrest during their enforcement operations. Parents or guardians of young children would often not be detained and instead receive a summons to appear in court. Now, Anaya said, anyone and everyone is being captured in the dragnets.

Alexa’s mother is also a Glass House employee and undocumented resident who was similarly swept up in Thursday’s raid. That left Alexa, 16, to care for her 6-year-old and 10-month-old sisters by herself. “They became my responsibility,” she said.

Valletta · 2025-07-11T18:33:59-0500

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
I believe marijuana is legal in California. And I don't care if illegals are working there or people are protesting. I think Trump and Red State laws need to leave California alone. Also I think all California federal taxes shouldn't go to trump or Red States. It should go to California. Do what damage you want to do in Red Stated. But trump and Red states need to stop trying to force your nonsense on California.

I know Nancy Pelosi said we needed them to pick the crops, I say let Californians pick their own marijuana. To put it bluntly, we are a nation of laws, and Californians should respect those laws or find themselves another country. Ridding the nations of the gangs, the cartels, and terrorists is a slow process and it will take even longer to find all of the missing children. All because the Biden administration decided to exploit immigrants and violate our border laws in a quest for more power and control. The protesters were tipped off, but fortunately eight children still were rescued. We don't know how many more hundreds of thousands are still victims of human trafficking. Don't you think these kids have a right to the protection of our federal child labor laws?

Tuur · 2025-07-11T18:31:46-0500

JimR-OCDS said:
NPR, PBS's FRONTLINE and the other major networks are just looking the place blame
on the Trump administration.

They'll keep running with this blame game until the next headline news event.

Ironically, I'm not a huge fan of FEMA due to how it's structured, but fair is fair: I don't see blaming them for something they had no control over. If the maps are off, then yes. But building in a known flood zone isn't FEMA's fault.

public hermit · 2025-07-11T18:30:48-0500

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gzt · 2025-07-11T18:22:00-0500

Yes putinism and Trumpism are the two greatest threats to world peace

Michie · 2025-07-11T18:19:19-0500

Pope Leo XIV has erected a new Catholic diocese in Kenya and appointed its first bishop.

The Holy See Press Office announced July 10 that the Diocese of Kapsabet will be the 28th Episcopal See in Kenya, carved out from the country’s Eldoret diocese, and Bishop John Kiplimo Leleiwill be its first bishop.

Lelei has been serving as an auxiliary bishop of Eldoret, the diocese in which he was born.

The newly established diocese becomes the eighth suffragan diocese of the Kisumu archdiocese, alongside Bungoma, Eldoret, Homa Bay, Kakamega, Kisii, Kitale, and Lodwar.

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New diocese erected in Kenya, pope appoints its first bishop

Pope Leo XIV has erected a new Catholic diocese in Kenya — the Diocese of Kapsabet — and appointed Bishop John Kiplimo Lelei to be its first bishop.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

Michie · 2025-07-11T18:15:49-0500

A Catholic flight attendant who says United Airlines fired him after he endorsed Catholic teachings on marriage and gender identity while talking with a co-worker can proceed with his lawsuit against his union for not standing up for him, a federal judge has ruled.

The flight attendant, Ruben Sanchez, of Anchorage, Alaska, claims the airline investigated his extensive social media posts only after receiving what he describes as “baseless accusations” arising from a red-eye flight conversation in May of 2023 — and that when the company came up with nothing that violated its social media policy, it terminated him anyway.

Sanchez filed the lawsuit in January of 2025 against United Airlines and the union he belonged to while working for the airline, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

In court papers, he claims the airline violated his right to express his religious beliefs and discriminated against him because of his age, which was 52 at the time of the firing two years ago. He said had served as “a loyal United flight attendant” for almost 28 years.

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Flight attendant fired over expressing Catholic beliefs can proceed with lawsuit

Ruben Sanchez filed the lawsuit in January of 2025 against United Airlines and the union he belonged to while working for the airline, Association of Flight Attendants-CWA.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

essentialsaltes · 2025-07-11T18:13:39-0500

Always in His Presence said:
Are you stating that the Biden Administration did absolutely NOTHING with billions of dollars over the four years.

Trump passed it in 2020 - what did Biden do with all that money?

We know Biden gave $5 million in ARPA money to Kerr County. But it wasn't all that popular. Ultimately it looks like the money was used for communication equipment for first responders, but not a flood warning system.

iluvatar5150 said:
A user on reddit has posted exerpts from several Kerr County Commissioners Courts proceedings (like a town council) where the flood warning system was discussed. Several officials had a history of dismissive attitudes towards such a system, both the need for one in the first place and the cost. Once Biden started doling out money, some residents started wringing their hands about the source of federal funds for building such a system:

Resident 2: And I'm here to ask this Court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House. And Kerr County should not be accepting anything from these people. They're currently facilitating an invasion of our border, and we're going to support these people? So that's what I have to say. Thank you.

Resident: I happen to know that there is no such thing as free money. It's never government-funded; it's tax-payer funded. So they're taking our money and they're putting strings attached to it and then they're giving it back to us. And they're going to get their foot in the door in this county. We don't want their money. I feel like the people have spoken and I stand with the people. Thank you for your time.

COMMISSIONER BELEW: We have money in the bank, $5.1 million, that was sent to Kerr County.

JUDGE KELLY: We didn't ask for it. They sent it.

d taylor · 2025-07-11T18:13:35-0500

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How Does Satan Work? – Grace Evangelical Society

A question I have is this: why would Satan be so active in preventing God’s drawing if people are born totally unable to believe?
The evidence doesn’t fit the Calvinist doctrine of total inability. I wonder why Calvinists seem so blind to that inconsistency? Oh, right.

Desk trauma · 2025-07-11T18:12:45-0500

ralliann said:
So what?

So they stopped having elections after that.

ralliann said:
I am not blind or deaf, nor am I stupid. They support them. I have heard them, have seen them. My eyes and my ears are not lying to me, nor others. It is not a mass hallucination

What hasn’t been heard or seen is an election in Gaza after hamas came to power.

rjs330 · 2025-07-11T18:10:46-0500

wing2000 said:
Yes, President Obama prioritized resources to go after illegal immigrants with violent criminal records:

From the artcile:

Of the 2,059 arrested in the sweep, nearly half of them have convictions for serious crimes. Officials said 400 have previous aggravated felony convictions, 58 are known gang members and 89 are convicted sex offenders. Nearly 500 of the arrestees had re-entered the U.S. after having previously been deported by authorities.

A majority of Americans applaud such actions. Targetting any one who looks like an illegal - not so much.

Which means half were not any of the those terrible people, but just simply illegals living here illegally. Just like some being picked up today. Riots in LA, attacks on agents assassination attempts. Threatening families is how the left operates now and didnt back then.

Marketing a car wash where illegals where just trying to earn a living. The left didnt care. Not a peep, no riots, no assaults, no threats on agents children.

Rhere is NO excuse for these actions. The left didnt care back then. Its time to acknowledge the radicals have taken over the left.

Fervent · 2025-07-11T18:04:12-0500

Jeff Saunders said:
What is terminal is death of the soul, that is the second death. It does not say death of the Spirit, your spirit is you, you are not your mortal body that will die, you are not your soul, your soul is what you have made of or with your life, have you lived for Jesus or have you lived for self, have you built your own kingdom or are you part of Gods kingdom and died to self, given up your life for Jesus. Those who have their soul die lose everything they built on earth and they lose whatever inheritance that they would have had if they had followed Jesus.
But they will be saved, there are many scriptures that say Jesus will restore all things, God will reconcile all things, Gods will is none should perish, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, and others if most or even a few are lost then Jesus failed and that is just not possible.

And what is the basis of anything of the person surviving the death of the soul? What is it that is supposed to survive, exactly?

Jeff Saunders said:
Fire is used for a symbol of cleansing and refining in the scriptures.

In some points, but not always. In others it's used as a matter of consumption and annihilation.

ozso · 2025-07-11T17:58:00-0500

Pommer said:
Which Gateway Pundit article is it?

This one

Michie · 2025-07-11T17:57:35-0500

jas3 said:
@Michie looks like you accidentally posted a link to the New Advent home page instead of the article

Matthew 16 and a Parallel for Peter

Protestants will insist that Peter is a contrast to the ‘rock’ on which Jesus built his church. But the truth is the exact opposite.

www.catholic.com

Just read the whole thing, I'm kind of surprised he held on to the idea that Petros means "small stone." I guess his spin on it being synthetic parallelism could be a good apologetic tactic for someone who's convinced that the name Petros must mean something different from the word petra, but the real answer is that Peter's name is masculine because men's names in gendered languages are masculine. He couldn't have been named Petra. That leaves aside too the argument that kepha in Aramaic would have been used in both places.

I fixed it. Thanks! Been kind of a hectic day.

Pommer · 2025-07-11T17:55:15-0500

A New Dawn said:
I didn’t start the thread so I don’t know what the person who did thought there was to discuss. As a nurse, I joined the discussion to speak about the differences between emergency medical procedures designed to save someone’s life when it is in danger and elective procedures, and how the laws governing abortion are directed towards elective abortion because doctors have always had the right to perform procedures necessary to save lives.

The “issue” seems to have been:
[Cammack] told the newspaper that she did not blame the Florida law for what she experienced. Rather, she lay the blame on messaging from abortion-rights advocates, which she said made hospital staff afraid of giving drugs even in circumstances where it was legal.

Cammack’s scapegoating of abortion-rights activists, which is odd, considering that they’d want pregnancy termination options for all women, not just those with a life-threatening conditions.

The Liturgist · 2025-07-11T17:55:14-0500

SabbathBlessings said:
I wasn't trying to give all the evidence of the Catholic church changing one of God's divine Law written by the finger of God.

Those same fingers of God gleaned wheat on the Sabbath and engaged in other activities on the Sabbath which offended the Jews of the time as not being restful.

Insofar as Christ was the first Man in the true sense of the word, using His divinity to not only restore but glorify our fallen humanity by uniting Himself with it, and since Christ is the first-fruits of the Resurrection, the New Adam, the first complete human, and since He reposed in the tomb on Saturday after completing the work on the Cross of remaking mankind in his image, we can say that in retrospect, we know from Luke 24 that the Law was a prophecy of Christ, and the Sabbath commandment was a prophecy of what He would do on the seventh day, before rising in glory on the light of the first. Christ, our Paschal lamb was slaughtered, so that we might live; He reposed in the tomb, fulfilling the Sabbath, and He has risen in glory, trampling down death by death: Let there be light!

BPPLEE · 2025-07-11T17:47:23-0500

essentialsaltes said:
I guess this is an admission he was born on Krypton and is not a natural born American. Too late to do anything now.

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He’s covered under DACA came in as a child

The Barbarian · 2025-07-11T17:46:44-0500

Pommer said:
Still, the NWS had issued alerts that were sufficient enough that people responsible were able to take the actions necessary that enabled them to save lives (notably the above Presbyterian Camp above). Had Mr Yura not retired, yes, that probably would have made a difference but we can’t know that as a certainty.

True. I suspect that the results of the investigations will not be forthcoming for us to know.

Dan Perez · 2025-07-11T17:46:43-0500

mikeforjesus said:
I think rather we can’t afford to be wrong and we must leave judgement to God so people should be baptized communion also could be necessary so we should do it though we don’t know it is necessary it could not be or just necessary to be saved on death but we don’t know so it should be done incase

And read Rom 5:1-5. will change your mind !!
dan p

Fervent · 2025-07-11T17:38:53-0500

There is, what appears to me, an anachronism in the thread title that is central to the debate. That is that when Jesus said "the law and the prophets" He was not speaking of the legal codes but the Scriptures themselves. The law is shorthand for the 5 books of Moses, the prophets are a bundle of other OT books. So when Jesus said He came to "fulfill" the law and the prophets what He was declaring is that they were given to speak of Him and His mission.

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