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Spotlights Mexican government's anti-clerical historyMEXICO CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Mexican bishop Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz has asked the president of his country to issue an apology for murders and persecution of the Catholic Church committed by the Mexican government in the 1920s. Bishop Alba Díaz, who presides over the diocese of La Paz in Baja California, was responding to repeated demands by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the Catholic Church and the government of Spain beg forgiveness for the evangelization and conquest of Mexico in 1521. Most recently, the president's wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, visited Pope Francis Oct. 10 to...

Cenk Uygur’s lack of compassion or sensitivity regarding the death of 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain Thursday evening is not only disgusting but displays a deeply rooted issue in the world today. “Before he died @THEHermanCain said his God was stronger than #coronavirus. Coronavirus disagreed. #ScienceIsReal”, Uygur tweeted Thursday evening. Cain died Thursday morning at the age of 74 after a month-long battle with Coronavirus, according to Newsmax. The fact that Cenk would use the death of a nationally known figure for both a political stab and an attempt to mock people of faith is utterly repulsive. Mr. Uygur’s behavior...

[Catholic Caucus] Father of Dead Son Lost His Faith: “I understand; it's normal for that to happen" - Francis Francis continued his phone apostolate last Sunday when he called Cinzia Desiati in Rome, Garbatella, who lost her only son Fabrizio Di Bitetto, 21, in October 2019 when a Chevrolet Matiz with Fabrizio and four friends inside overturned several times. “I've been getting this call with suppressed number for days, but I never answered in time,” Desiati told InTerris.it (July 28). She had written to Francis some time ago. First, she thought it was a joke. "Everybody thinks it's a joke...

The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is facing backlash from both sides of the religious liberty debate after it planned a training session that was later canceled over the speaker’s background in Christianity -- fueling Congressional scrutiny of both the military and the nonprofit which appeared to prompt the cancellation. Air Force veteran Jay Lorenzen was slated to speak at an annual training for JAG reservists on Friday, but that came to a screeching halt after the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) relayed its reservist clients’ concerns about Lorenzen’s beliefs influencing his talks. An MRFF press release boasted on Saturday that...

Is There Actually Any Such Thing As An Atheist? No! This particular Opening Post is addressed primarily to Christians. Of course Atheists are welcome to comment. I am well aware that a significant number of people claim to be atheists. There are many people posting on Forums in Social Media on the Internet claiming to be atheists. But that does not mean they actually ARE atheists. My view is that ALL men, in their secret hearts and minds, KNOW there is a God. Humans can, and do, deceive themselves into believing that which is not really true. So? So we...

As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief – as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed country would. I also felt terribly alone. You could not have known, from anything broadcast that night or printed the following day, that anyone was unhappy with these events. But they were. So, above all things this week, I would like to thank all the kind, perplexed people who have got in touch with me by so many means, to say they share my doubts about the Government’s handling...

Ron Reagan Goes Scorched Earth On 'Traitor' Trump: My Dad Wouldn't Have Voted For Him Ronald Reagan’s son lacerated Donald Trump in a scathing interview with The Daily Beast published Friday, saying his late father never would have voted for Trump. “He would have been embarrassed and ashamed that a president of the United States was as incompetent and traitorous as the man occupying the White House now,” said Ron Reagan, 61. “He’s a disgrace to the office of the presidency.” Reagan, speaking to the Beast from Italy, where he lives half the year, said if his father were alive...

Pope Francis has lashed out at a worshipper in an attempt to free his arm from her grip during a visit to a Nativity scene in St Peter's Square. He delighted tourists on New Year's Eve when he took a stroll through the Square, but he was taken by surprise as he was dragged back by a woman eager to hold his hand. Francis exclaimed and then struck the woman's hand twice to free himself.

A Pope With the “Myth” of the People [The following text is the talk that Sandro Magister gave at the study conference held on Saturday, November 30 and Sunday, December 1 in Anagni, in the Sala della Ragione, at the initiative of the Fondazione Magna Carta, on the theme: “To Cesar and to God. Church and politics in the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis.” Concluding with Magister’s reply at the end of the debate].].*THE POLITICAL VISION OF POPE FRANCIS by Sandro Magister Anagni, November 30 2019The political vision of Pope Francis has its roots above all...

What Is Bergoglianism? I believe it was Antonio Socci[1] who coined the term “Bergoglianism” to denote the peculiar mélange of Seventies-era, Latin American, leftist Jesuit liberalism that Pope Francis promotes as if he were still the Argentine Jesuit Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio.  Indeed, while adopting a papal name as a kind of official title, “Father Jorge,” as he has identified himself even after his election, insisted on renewing his Argentine passport under that name, below a passport photo of him in the papal cassock.  As if the papal attire were a kind of business suit the Vicar of Christ wears...

Speaker Pelosi: "I pray for the president all the time...I pray for his safety and that of his family. "Now we have to pray for his health—because this was a very serious meltdown." - ABC News https://www.mediaite.com/trump/pelosi-says-shes-praying-for-trumps-health-after-very-serious-meltdown/

Ron Reagan was not on stage Tuesday night for the Democratic presidential primary debate, but his provocative plug for a prominent atheist group earned him the top spot on Google after he declared himself a "lifelong atheist, not afraid of burning in hell." Reagan, the 61-year-old son of the late President Ronald Reagan, made the pitch for the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a group that targets religion in public schools and government across the nation. “Hi, I’m Ron Reagan, an unabashed atheist,” he said in the 30-second spot, "and I'm alarmed by the intrusion of religion into our secular...

Julia Sweeney cut this ad for FFRF to stand up against the Catholic Bishops who want to control health care decisions.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday questioned Alabama’s requirement for a transgender person to undergo full gender reassignment surgery before they can change the sex on their driver’s license, suggesting that a license that contradicts a person’s public appearance essentially marks them with a “scarlet letter T.” U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson held a hearing in the 2018 lawsuit filed by three transgender women seeking to change the gender on their state license. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the plaintiffs, said the requirement to show proof of sex-altering surgery is an unconstitutional violation of...

WASHINGTON — With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40% of his 10 Senate years the government has been run on “continuing resolutions.” Congress passes these in order to spare itself the torture of performing its primary function, which is to set national priorities. Bennet is too serious a person to be content in today’s Senate, and if Democrats are as serious as they say they are about defeating Donald Trump, Bennet should be their nominee.

An atheist group has dropped its attempt to strip American pastors of their tax exemption for housing. The Freedom from Religion Foundation will not appeal an appeals court decision that said the federal government is allowed to exempt priests, pastors, rabbis, and other religious instructors from paying taxes on the housing they receive, ending an eight-year legal battle. The suit threatened to cost clergymen $1 billion if successful, but Chicago's Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the foundation argument that such a tax break violated the Constitution's establishment clause. The three judge panel, citing previous Supreme Court rulings, found that,...

“It is a great advantage to a president,” said the 30th of them, “and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.” Or, Calvin Coolidge would say today, a great woman. While today’s incumbent advertises himself as an “extremely stable genius” and those who would replace him promise national transformation, attention should be paid to the granular details of presidential politics, which suggest that a politics of modesty might produce voting changes where they matter, and at least 270 electoral votes for a Democrat. If the near future resembles the...

We knew there were some decisions coming from the Supreme Court this week, but thus far the only interesting ones (to me at least) have resulted in decisions not to make decisions. First, it was the challenge to a federal law regulating suppressors, and now it’s the lawsuit from an atheist who wants “In God We Trust” removed from the nation’s currency. The court declined to hear the case, creating a dead end for that effort. (Fox News) The Supreme Court rejected an atheist case Monday to remove “In God We Trust,” the national motto, from all coins and...

The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a legal dispute targeting the inscription of “In God We Trust” on coins and currency from the Department of Treasury. Michael Newdow, an activist who filed the case on behalf of a group of atheists, argued Congress's mandate to inscribe the nation’s motto on U.S. money was a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, which prohibits Congress from establishing a national religion.

George Will has a new book. Conservatives hate him. The left hates him (or do they?). Who is his market other than Fred Barns, Mort Kondracke, Bill Kristol, Michael Medved, Chris Wallace and possibly Ann Coulter? At least his wife still lets him watch her put her socks on.