Leo XIV embraces ‘profound change’ in Church’s stance on false religions Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and for the restoration of the Church. Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet. The Catholic Monitor The Catholic Monitor https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com I ask all The Catholic Monitor readers to also pray for the end of this war . Watch " Trump Calls Putin To Get Iran War Offramp! w/ Scott Ritter " on YouTube : ... Read more ...
American Conservative: Hope in the Hormuz?..."As of Monday, a seven-day average of 13.5 million barrels of crude oil were transiting the waterway, roughly matching pre-war levels. Two questions arise out of this happy circumstance: First, what has changed operationally? Second, why aren’t markets more jubilant?"
Glimmers of Hope in the Hormuz? ... ... Another possible answer, which can coexist with the first, is that the Iranians are trying to maintain calm in anticipation of a diplomatic breakthrough. While public rhetoric has remained heated on each side (to say the least), there was some movement around the UN General Assembly in New York last week, including an exchange of proposals for a return to something like the June MOU. Diplomatic conditions seem worse than ever—indeed, at time of writing, it had just been announced that a third U.S. aircraft carrier was in transit to the Persian Gulf—but there are still noises out of both capitals about wanting to call this whole thing off. A goodwill gesture isn’t unimaginable. A third possible answer, compatible with the first but less with the second, is that the Iranians are waiting for an opportune time to escalate. (Trita Parsi has been a cogent proponent of this line of speculation .) The experience of “bringing down Carter” loom...