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The internationally recognized authority on China Steven Mosher said: "The Vatican is set to sign an agreement with China by the end of the month, one that cedes control over the appointment of bishops to Beijing. In return, we are told, Beijing has agreed to recognize the pope as the head of China’s Catholics." "... The Chinese Party-State, on the other hand, will undoubtedly use the pretext of a Vatican-China agreement to increase its persecution of the Underground Church in China. It will insist that each and every one of China’s 12 million Catholics worship only in churches approved by the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association.  It will use the borrowed authority of the Vatican to further clamp down on unregistered churches in so-called underground communities led by bishops loyal only to Rome. "Those in the Underground Church, who have suffered so much over the decades, may be in for yet another season of suffering." [ https://onepeterfiv...

Catholic Monitor flashback from September 30, 2008:   http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0804933.htm U.S. archbishop at Vatican says Democrats becoming 'party of death' By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) -- The Democratic Party in the United States "risks transforming itself definitively into a 'party of death,'" said U.S. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Vatican's highest court. An interview with the former archbishop of St. Louis was published in the Sept. 27 edition of Avvenire, a daily Catholic newspaper sponsored by the Italian bishops' conference. The newspaper asked the archbishop, the new head of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, for his reaction to reports that his Vatican job was designed to get him away from St. Louis. "I have too much respect for the pope to believe that in order to move someone away from a diocese he would nominate him to a very sensitive dicastery li...

This article shows how Julian Assange exposed the Iraq war as he exposed the Democrats and Hillary Clinton which is posted by the extreme leftist Independent Media Institute. The Catholic Monitor posted it because there is some truth in the piece despite the leftist propaganda: The U.S. is determined to make Julian Assange pay for exposing the cruelty of its war on Iraq : This article was produced by Globetrotter , a project of the Independent Media Institute. On September 7, 2020 , Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate. After a long period of isolation, he was finally able to meet his partner—Stella Moris—and see their two sons—Gabriel (age three) and Max (age one)—on August 25. After the visit, Moris said that he looked to be in “a lot of pain.” The hearing that Assange will face has nothing to do with the reasons for his arrest from the embassy of Ecuador in London on April 11, 2019. He was arrested...

A Sean Hannity newslette r email from Mark Beckton: Dear Patriot, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are holding coronavirus relief funds hostage by trying to force America to accept a vote-by-mail election in 2020. Voting by mail has been proven to be the most vulnerable, fraud-prone way to hold elections.  It’s cheating instead of holding a fair election, which is why Chuck and Nancy are desperate to force it on America. The politicians need to know that American voters won’t accept their national vote-by-mail scheme. Cast your vote on this question today: Does voting by mail compromise America’s election security? Fighting for Freedom, Mark Beckton [ Sean Hannity (newsletter@em.iheart.com)] Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Mass and the Church as well as for the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  

  "The tipster said sometimes postal employees are in on the scam." “'You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those [filled-out] ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.' "In some cases, mail carriers were members of his 'work crew,' and would sift ballots from the mail and hand them over to the operative." "In 2017, more than 500 mail-in ballots in New York City never arrived to the Board of Elections for races that November — leaving hundreds disenfranchised. They eventually were discovered in April 2018. 'For some undetermined reason, some baskets of mail that were bound to the New York City Board of Elections were put off to the side at the Brooklyn processing facility,' city elections boss Michael Ryan said at the time of discovery." -  New York Post Why are the liberal media and De...

- "Obama had briefly worked with ACORN on voter registration drives when he practiced civil rights law in Chicago. The group’s leaders believed that, once Obama was in the White House, ACORN would become an even more influential group. But they hadn’t anticipated the fusion of right-wing forces that brought ACORN down." "Had ACORN still been around in 2016, it might have prevented a real threat to democracy—Donald Trump—from becoming president. ACORN had developed a finely honed grassroots approach to registering voters and getting them to the polls. By putting its operation to work in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan—where Trump beat Hillary Clinton by only 77,000 votes to win the Electoral College—ACORN might have changed the outcome." - [Leftist] Dissent Magazine [ https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/acorn-firestorm-documentary-breitbart-vs-grassroots ] - "The scandal-plagued ACORN may no longer exist, but its tarnished legacy li...

"Biggest hoax of our lifetime." - Milo Yiannopoulos "Who is, or has been behind the Zika hoax of all time? - Author Sonia Lugo who wrote "The Zika Virus Hoax Burial Site: Puerto Rico's Downtrodden Economy"   In April, the liberal Organization for World Peace proclaimed: "[A]dvocate for conspiracy theories... Milo Yiannopoulos, suggest[ed] that coronavirus is the 'biggest hoax of our lifetime.'” [ https://theowp.org/far-right-activities-during-covid-19/ ] It appears that Yiannopoulos may have been right as Blabber Buzz News reports that " the actual rate looks much more like a typical seasonal flu . The media was lying and the economy was almost shut down because of false statements... [Anthony] Fauci... gave fabricated and highly exaggerated mortality rates related to the coronavirus. .. to persuade President Trump to lock down the entire U.S economy ... 'This week the CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% o...

C. S. Lewis in "The Screwtape Letters" describes the real agenda of Saturday Night Life's “humor.” In Lewis' book his character, an senior evil spirit says: But Flippancy is the best of all. In the first place it is very economical. Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny. Among flippant people the Joke is always assumed to have been made. No one actually makes it; but every serious subject is discussed in a manner which implies that they have already found a ridiculous side to it. If prolonged, the habit of Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour-plating against the Enemy [God] that I know, and it is quite free from the dangers inherent in the other sources of laughter. It is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it. Pray an Our Father now for ...

Are Black Lives Matter, and its media allies promoting racism against Latinos, all non-blacks and even non-Muslim blacks ? The Black Lives Matter Karenism has reached a new level of insanity and may be targeting non-black minorities, non-Muslims as well as whites. A Latino man was recently fired for "cracking his knuckles" according to the Western Journal: The sound of a person cracking his knuckles is almost universally annoying, but for Emmanuel Cafferty, the habit cost him his job. Cafferty worked for San Diego Gas and Electric and was driving in his company truck near a Black Lives Matter protest in Poway, California, earlier this month, according to KNSD-TV .  He had his arm dangling from the truck window and was reportedly cracking his knuckles, unaware that a man who had been following him snapped a picture and shared it to social media in a since-deleted tweet, accusing Cafferty of making a “white power” gesture with his hand. The organization’s...