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Michie · 2025-11-12T15:58:28-0600

Sister Mary Michael of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, PCPA, died on Nov. 10 after roughly three-quarters of a century of religious life. She was 94.

Sister Mary Michael was the last of the original five nuns who, along with EWTN foundress Mother Angelica, began the Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Irondale, Alabama. (The monastery is now located in Hanceville; EWTN, the parent company of CNA, remains in Irondale.)

Born Evelyn Shinosky on Feb. 25, 1931, to Joseph and Helen Shinosky, she entered Sancta Clara Monastery in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 15, 1951, and received the habit and her new name the following May.

Sister Mary Michael made her first profession on May 1, 1954, and her solemn profession exactly six years later in 1960. Shortly after her solemn profession she joined Mother Angelica to journey to Alabama to help found the new monastery.

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Sister Mary Michael, last of Mother Angelica’s founding nuns, dies at 94

Sister Mary Michael of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, PCPA, died on Nov. 10 after roughly three-quarters of a century of religious life. She was 94.

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essentialsaltes · 2025-11-12T15:45:58-0600

essentialsaltes said:
[Habba's office dropped charges against Baraka, but has pursued assault charges with Congresswoman McIver from that same incident.]

Members of Congress are legally permitted to enter ICE facilities without prior notice.

Trump DOJ acts to deweaponize the government

Trump DOJ admits to deleting politicized social media posts in controversial indictment

President Donald Trump's Justice Department admitted to a federal judge on Tuesday that the agency's social media accounts have taken down several controversial posts that politicized the actions of a member of Congress they indicted, according to CBS News' Scott MacFarlane.

McIver's defense team has cited the posts as evidence of an unlawful prosecution.

Michie · 2025-11-12T15:45:49-0600

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa laid out his positions on a number of topics, including the talks about a security arrangement with Israel, in an interview with The Washington Post following his historic visit to the White House on Monday.

Before the first-ever visit by a Syrian president, reports indicated that a new security arrangement might be announced. However, the discussions appear to be ongoing despite no official statement being made.

The interviewer asked al-Sharaa how he planned to “protect Syrian sovereignty,” given the “repeated attacks by the Israeli military” against his country.

After the collapse of the Assad regime, Israel destroyed most of Syria’s heavy military equipment and, several months later, targeted sites and forces affiliated with al-Sharaa’s new regime after they took part in attacks on the Druze community in southern Syria.

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Syrian President Shaara conditions security deal on Israeli withdrawal from Golan Heights, claims Trump supports him

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa laid out his positions on a number of topics, including the talks about a security arrangement with Israel, in an interview with The Washington Post following his

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Michie · 2025-11-12T15:39:49-0600

Tensions have escalated in Pakistan after a suicide bomber killed 12 people and injured dozens by blowing himself up in the capital, making it the first strike against civilians in the area in more than a decade.

The attack outside a lower court in Islamabad on Tuesday afternoon, which wounded at least 27 people on top of the dozen murdered, came when the area is typically crowded with visitors, the Associated Press notes.

There are conflicting reports on whether Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter terrorist group that broke away from the Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the attack, as reporters claim to have gotten messages from the group's leader claiming responsibility. However, a commander within the group stated in WhatsApp messages that the group wasn't responsible.

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Suicide bomber kills 12, injures dozens of civilians in Pakistani capital as tensions escalate

Tensions have escalated in Pakistan after a suicide bomber killed 12 people and injured dozens by blowing himself up in the capital, making it the first strike against civilians in the area in more

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calicocat · 2025-11-12T15:37:09-0600

Isn't social media for politicians is typically run by an aide or something?

Multifavs · 2025-11-12T15:32:15-0600

I've pretty much overcome my sleep-related anxiety now, but my sleep hasn't improved. Considering how nothing I've tried has helped at all and I never really recovered from the withdrawal I started having in late March, I'm starting to think that I need to try that medication again. I can't come up with any other explanation at this point, because I can't imagine I'd still be suffering from insomnia induced by a medication I haven't taken in almost three months. One dose didn't make any difference, but I know it could take time since I didn't take it for six months. I sure hope this works.

bob121 · 2025-11-12T15:30:06-0600

com7fy8 said:
Ok, in some church cultures people are told to make sure we have confessed all our sins before taking "Holy Communion" or having "the Lord's Supper". The main attention of preparation can be making sure we ourselves are all set and not in trouble with Jesus. In 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, our Apostle Paul gives things about how the Corinthian church had abused the Lord's Supper, and what they needed to do, instead >

1 Corinthians 11:17-19 > our Apostle Paul says they had divisions. And so, they were not doing the Lord's Supper right, if they were divided. Even so, ones could see who was **not** involved in the divisions . . . and realize those were the "approved" leaders.

1 Corinthians 11:20-21 > people would bring their own food and drink and take it - - right while a poor Christian was sitting there with nothing to eat and drink. So . . . the problem here was not if the well-to-do person had confessed one's sins, but the person was being inconsiderate of the poor Christian . . . the problem then being how they were relating personally with one another. They were being anti-love, then, not relating in love the way Jesus has loved us. And so, they were not having their supper/communion in true remembrance of Jesus because they were not loving the way Jesus has loved us.

His way of loving as His family is much of what is the remembrance of Jesus, is it not? So, instead, by focusing on only our own sins and focusing away from one another and loving, this can be a major problem of communion in case it has become an outward idol ceremony with copy-catting and with no real relating.

In 1 Corinthians 11:22 > "What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing?" So, yes they were abusing those who had "nothing". Yes, Jesus had a lamb dinner with His disciples at the "Last Supper". It was communion, indeed, but with the Passover dinner which includes lamb, to my knowledge. So, there is nothing wrong with communion being a full dinner, but it needs to be full of the remembrance of Jesus, by being full of His love with His family way of caring and sharing with one another . . . not with each of us trying to make our minds concentrate on some imagination of Jesus on the cross while we even ignore each other!!

So, then, yes > when ones have a pot luck . . . and all are welcome, whether they have time or money to prepare food . . . this could be more like the Last Supper, with everyone loving and delighting in sharing as family with one another.

However, ones were despising and shaming the poor Christians. And what we do to the least of Jesus Christ's brethren, we do to Jesus Himself.

"Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me." (in Matthew 25:40)

So, those people indeed were in a lot of trouble . . . much worse than just dying and getting sick and being weak.

1 Corinthians 11:23-25 > so, yes, Jesus says to share the bread and cup "in remembrance of" Jesus.

"For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes." (1 Corinthians 11:26)

And what shows Jesus Christ's death? How He was loving while on the cross > this is much of all that is involved in Jesus dying for us, on the cross. And we are commanded >

"And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma." (Ephesians 5:2)

So, His death which we are to show has much to do with how Jesus was so loving, right while so suffering and dying for us, and how He was "a sweet-smelling aroma" to God . . . so sweetly pleasing our Father. And this is how we are to be: sweet and pleasant to our Father during whatever is going on.

So, their way of doing the so-called communion was anti-Christ, I would say. They were not personally relating and sharing as family, like Jesus did during the Last Supper.

1 Corinthians 11:27-28 > Paul says not to eat and drink "in an unworthy manner". I see, from the context of earlier scriptures, how the main issue was the divisions and how horribly they could be relating with ones less well-to-do. Therefore, my opinion is the unworthy manner was not only failure to confess some list of sins or some failure to devote oneself to the bread and drink. But they needed to be attentive to one another . . . not isolating themselves in trying to get grace only for their own selves, or brownie points for paying attention to the "symbolic meaning" of perhaps some cracker and grape juice.

1 Corinthians 11:29 > Paul says they were not "discerning the Lord's body". Now, ones take this to mean the bread is the body of Jesus. But, then, why does Paul not say not discerning the body "and blood" of Jesus . . . if the drink is really Christ's blood?? What I see, from what Paul says earlier, is he means they were not discerning how those poor Christians are the body of Christ. Jesus is so more concerned with if and how we honor and regard the children of God who are the body of Jesus >

"For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones." (Ephesians 5:30)

1 Corinthians 11:30 > here we have the verse that you are talking about . . . how many were sick and weak and dying. They had been relating badly with needy Christians. And "Therefore" many of them were sick and weak and dying. And so, Paul then concludes with what they need to do >

1 Corinthians 11:31-32 > judge themselves, be chastened by the Lord. Hebrews 12:4-14 talks about how we need to actively seek our Heavenly Father for His real correction which changes our ***character*** so we are sharing with Him in His own holiness in His love's "peaceable fruit of righteousness".

1 Corinthians 11:33 > and Paul says "Therefore" > "wait for one another" < this means how they are relating with each other.

But because they were relating in such an impersonal and even anti-love way, ones were dying and weak and sick. When we live in what is not love, this can affect us emotionally and even physically . . . even if God does not somehow punish us. And if we do relate in God's love with one another during the Lord's Supper, this love is full of God's own grace to grow and mature us to be and to love like Jesus. So, yes there is grace in the true Lord's Supper, grace being the effect of God's own love being ministered by "each" of us to one another >

"As each one has received the gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." (1 Peter 4:10)

But it seems to me, how ones can isolate themselves in how they do the Lord's Supper. Ones do not function as ongoing and life-giving and love-ministering children of God. And so they hide with a little bit of bread and drink. But instead we can always stay prayerful, submissive to God so we are constantly spreading His own grace.

Totally understand all you’ve shared—learnt the importance of study years ago.

My reason for the thread: I’d love to hear your own (if you have) one-sentence moment when the bread and wine stopped feeling ordinary and you thought, “This is heavier than I realised.”
(I know it’s deeply personal and you may not wish to share; yet the Lord’s Supper is deep, honest, reflective—not a rush-through ritual.)

Share the snapshot if you’ve got it.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-12T15:28:32-0600

Analysis-China's soybean glut could defeat US export hopes after trade thaw

China is grappling with a glut of soybeans after months of record imports, curbing prospects for U.S. exports despite a recent trade truce that Washington said includes a pledge by Beijing to resume heavy purchases.

China has not publicly committed to making purchases, although it suspended retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports, while state buyer COFCO has booked only a few cargoes for December and January shipment, traders and analysts say.

China's grain and oilseed stocks are a state secret, but at least two traders estimated soybean inventories held by state companies at about 40 million to 45 million tons.

That would be double China's U.S. imports last year and sufficient for five months of typical early-year demand.

Sorry Donald, the soybean bins are full. We can't buy any more. How awkward that we bought more than we needed for the past several months.

Private importers have continued to book Brazilian cargoes for December shipment. Brazilian soybeans for January ‍shipment were quoted at around $480 a ton,⁠ including cost and freight to China, compared with $540 to $550 a ton for U.S. cargoes.

Bradskii · 2025-11-12T15:19:11-0600

Ave Maria said:
That's true, but it's still progress.

'My child was killed in the last attack!'
'Yes, but you lost your wife and two children 2 months ago. See? We're making progress (sheesh, people are so ungrateful...).

Aldebaran · 2025-11-12T15:17:29-0600

Douggg · 2025-11-12T15:08:51-0600

keras said:
It does.
Ezekiel 38:8-12 You will invade a land restored from ruin, whose people are brought out from the nations and are now prosperous and living undisturbed, without any defences.

keras, there is no mention of a solar flare event in that verse.

Chesterton · 2025-11-12T15:04:52-0600

@ViaCrucis Some of the men from my church and I used to get together once a week in my priest's neighborhood to play basketball. Not everyone always shows up consistently. Sometimes we're short on players. Local neighborhood guys would sometimes join us. (We're closed communion, but not closed basketball.

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I was going to ask a person in my neighborhood, who I'm pretty sure is not a churchgoer, if he'd ever want to come play with us. But then I thought, when he finds out it's mostly guys from my church, is he going to suspect I'm trying to evangelize him? Would he take that negatively? I thought about it a couple of weeks before I finally asked him. Turns out he's not into basketball and wasn't interested. Just thought I'd share that. I don't want to do anything that would be off-putting to a friend or acquaintance.

Fantine · 2025-11-12T14:55:15-0600

Utah. Home of honest conservatives.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-12T14:53:24-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Treasury Dept. says inflation is running 'above target' as Trump insists there is 'no inflation'

Sure, that's what the Treasury Department says, but what about...

Out of all of the White House's press releases, I have cherry-picked this one:

NEW DATA: Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks

President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families — with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce

www.whitehouse.gov

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-12T14:43:17-0600

wing2000 said:
"We cannot build bananas in America"

At a House Appropriations hearing on Thursday, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) questioned Sec. Howard Lutnick about President Trump's tariffs.

Never let it be said that the Trump Administration can't eventually learn from its mistakes months after people point out the obvious flaws in its simplistic and drastic actions.

Bessent says 'substantial' tariff relief on coffee and bananas is coming soon

President Donald Trump also promised tariff relief on coffee this week.

Bessent, speaking on Fox News Channel, said that while "it's tough to do a lot of specific things," [oh, lordy, all those details. Who has time to sort it all out?!?] the administration would be moving to cut duties on a number of "things that we don't grow here in the United States."

Bessent added on Wednesday that he expects "the American people are going to start feeling better" about inflation in the first or second quarter of 2026.

So day 500 instead of day 1? I'll believe it when I see it.

Valletta · 2025-11-12T14:39:24-0600

Rhode Island students launch TPUSA chapter after teacher mocked Charlie Kirk's death

Rhode Island high school students plan to start a Turning Point USA chapter after a teacher mocked the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

foxbaltimore.com

Especially young men are realizing how wrong is the hate speech and the tactics by radical groups opposing conservatism and Christian/Judeo values.

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN · 2025-11-12T14:37:13-0600

I'm glad he owned up to his mistake. The Media seems to make people crazy. Why can't people on both sides mind their own business. I don't understand the craziness of flags.

Jeesuspelastaa · 2025-11-12T14:29:16-0600

Hello everyone, we have studied this topic for decades, and I hope you find our findings interesting.

We do not use unbiblical names for the congregation, because the congregation belongs to God. This means that we have been bought for Him with the precious blood of Jesus. (Revelation 1:5–6) His one flock (John 10:16), without nameplates, is equal to His congregation.

Note, therefore, the ownership:
– “Unto the church of God which is at Corinth.” (1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Corinthians 1:1)
– “Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God.” (1 Corinthians 10:32; 11:16; 15:9)
– “…neither the churches of God.” (1 Corinthians 11:16)
– “What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God?” (1 Corinthians 11:22)
– “…how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it.” (Galatians 1:13)
– “For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 2:14)
– “…that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God.” (1 Timothy 3:15)

The congregation is therefore God’s! That is why we use only this biblical name for it.

It is also biblical to name according to the locality. For example, 1 Thessalonians 1:1: “unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ.” In the same way one may say, for example, the congregation of Turku, the congregation of Helsinki, the congregation of Tampere, and so on.

We who live in the same city, having come to faith and then been baptized according to the Scriptures, are the congregation of our own locality. (Titus 1:5; Revelation 1:11) — And NOTE! According to the Bible, the congregation does not include the unbaptized. Such have not yet come into the same faith in which the first Christians were. (Acts 2:41) —

To what, then, should you join yourself? — Join yourself to Jesus in the way that the Bible teaches! Then you belong to His congregation.

Man-made nameplates over meeting places are elements of division, which every believer should remove from his own life, so that he no longer functions under such.

WE are not Lutherans, Pentecostals, Baptists, Adventists, Free Church members, or ecumenicals, or any other -ists and -isms. We are neither Catholics nor Protestants… We are only children of God, bought with the blood of Jesus. We belong to the same congregation as the first Christians. (John 2:19–22; 1 Corinthians 3:16–17; 1 Peter 2:15, etc.)

The Bible does not teach Lutheranism, Pentecostalism, or any other -ism..

Blessings to us!

Weijo Lindroos, from the Turku Congregation
Maariankatu 2
20100 Turku
Finland
Email: weijo.lindroos@pp.inet.fi
writings: In English

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-12T14:23:21-0600

US Mint in Philadelphia presses final pennies as the 1-cent coin gets canceled

Some banks, meanwhile, began rationing supplies, a somewhat paradoxical result of the effort to address what many see as a glut of the coins.

Michie · 2025-11-12T14:08:00-0600

The Southern Baptist Convention Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has launched a campaign to give ultrasound equipment to pregnancy care centers in pro-choice states.

Known as “Across State Lines,” the endeavor was officially launched last week, being an extension of the ERLC’s Psalm 139 Project, with a greater emphasis on providing the equipment in states where abortion is legal in most or virtually all circumstances.

ERLC interim President Gary Hollingsworth told The Christian Post that since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, “we saw how the Lord was working and stirring a cooperative spirit within Southern Baptist life to support pregnancy centers in abortion-permissible states.”

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ERLC giving ultrasound equipment to pro-life pregnancy care centers in pro-choice states

The Southern Baptist Convention Ethics Religious Liberty Commission has launched a campaign to give ultrasound equipment to pregnancy care centers in pro-choice states

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Benaiah468 · 2025-11-12T13:58:02-0600

The ambitious Gaza agreement, which was celebrated as a foreign policy triumph for President Donald Trump, is in danger of failing due to a lack of planning and realpolitik feasibility. Documents originating from an internal security forum speak of a ‘strategic gap’ between the announced ceasefire and a sustainable peace agreement.

According to internal sources, key prerequisites are missing: no "Palestinian" partner capable of acting, no occupied ‘peace council’ structure, no binding coordination between the nations involved. A high-ranking participant in the meeting of CENTCOM and the new civil-military coordination centre in Kiryat Gat summed it up dramatically: ‘Everyone is talking about peace from 40,000 feet up, but no one knows who is supposed to stand in the dust below and implement.'

Internal presentations show that Israel currently still controls around 53 per cent of Gaza's territory, while 95 per cent of the population lives in areas that are de facto outside Israeli control. According to the figures, this is precisely where the terrorist organisation Hamas has already redeployed over 7,000 security forces and is exploiting the power vacuum following the ceasefire to restore its structures.

Meanwhile, the establishment of a civil administration is not progressing. Neither the PA nor independent local actors have the legitimacy or resources to take on this responsibility.

Currently, there is no clear leadership structure, no defined distribution of roles and, above all, no countries that would actually be willing to send troops for the planned international security mission.

According to internal notes, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Turkey have signalled their ‘fundamental willingness’ to participate, but are demanding an official UN mandate and are meeting with scepticism from Israel, particularly in the case of Turkey. Most countries are willing to send money, but not soldiers.

There is uncertainty in Gaza, mistrust in Israel and frustration in Washington. Military stability may have been achieved, but political peace is still a long way off. Without capable partners, clear responsibilities and sustainable strategies, the ceasefire threatens to become a dangerous limbo: too calm for war, too unstable for peace.

The agreement with Gaza was intended to demonstrate that American diplomacy can function without endless peace processes, but rather through clear power relations. However, it is now apparent that power can silence weapons, but it cannot build civil society.

If the US and Israel cannot find a credible administrative framework, other forces, Iran, Qatar, Hamas, will fill the void. The success or failure of this agreement will thus become a touchstone for the entire regional security order.

Dan Perez · 2025-11-12T13:54:56-0600

BelieveItOarKnot said:
What is it you are really trying to say Dan?

Jesus is The Savior of the world. I believe He gets the job done.

Done.

That also means the destruction of the devil and his messengers, who also happen to "occupy" space in our own heads via temptations and evil thoughts that defile us all.

One saved
One not so much

And you said that there are DOZENS of ways to be saved , so show where they ARE since YOU brought out up. !!

dan p

Delvianna · 2025-11-12T13:54:20-0600

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
ICE basically took them in, for no reason. They had permission to be here . If I was arrested and detained for no reason. I would talk to a lawyer.

"Some that illegally crossed the border into the United States, some that came in through visa waiver and were prohibited from working, some that had visas and overstayed their visas." link

Out of the 330 people detained, 316 South Koreans have been deported, the rest were Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian. link

Sounds like illegals and people who broke the law to me. If you break your visa agreement, the US has the right to deport you.

DaisyDay · 2025-11-12T13:49:46-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Sure there are.

Famously, Stephen Miller and his lovely bride.

Chris35 · 2025-11-12T13:33:23-0600

Hey Bob, may I remind you of the things that you want to hold onto;

Flesh
19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: [d]adultery, [e]fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21envy, [f]murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like;

And the things that God wants to give you.

Spirit
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 [g]gentleness, self-control.

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