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As the coronavirus pandemic rips through meat-processing plants, forcing several to temporarily close, there have been reports of a looming meat shortage for United States consumers ... Among those affected is Wendy’s, the home of the square burgers, as they have reportedly removed hamburgers as an option at 18 percent of store locations across the nation, according to a restaurant anaylst.

Fox’s “A Christmas Story Live!” just got blindsided by NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” in early TV ratings. Oh, and every other broadcast TV show beat it as well.

The cop-show parody "Angie Tribeca" has so many terrible jokes and awful puns and outright idiotic bits of random humor. That's meant as high praise. Taking affectionate shots at everything from "CSI: Miami" to "The Shawshank Redemption" to "Casino Royale," "Angie Tribeca" was created by Steve Carell and his wife Nancy. Jones plays Angie Tribeca, a veteran LAPD detective who's unhappy to be assigned a new partner, J Geils.

Something big seems to be brewing in Rome and London. This from the Vatican: We inform accredited journalists that tomorrow, Tuesday 20 October 2009, at 11am, in the John Paul II Hall of the Press Office of the Holy See, a briefing will be held on a theme pertaining to the relationship with the Anglicans, at which His Eminence Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and His Excellency Mgr Joseph Augustine Di Noia OP, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments will take part.

My fellow Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Laity and other distinguished guests at this annual Forward in Faith North America gathering, greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ! Coming to the subject of unity, I’m reminded of the challenges before us by the story of a man stranded on a South Pacific island. He was finally discovered when an oil freighter passed by the area noticing smoke from his fire. The ship dropped anchor. The curious captain of the ship came ashore. He noticed three huts on the beach. He asked the survivor what they were for. The man explained...

The revisionist majority has taken the Episcopal Church out of the Christian religion and severed it from any claim to uphold Biblical, Catholic, Apostolic, and Evangelical Faith and Order. This departure, open rebellion, and act of schism is decades old, beginning with the ordination of women to the priesthood and reaching a climax with a mockery of God’s moral order for sexual relationships. False teachers and teachings reign; and the men, women, and children who seek to be obedient to and humble before God and His divine revelation for their health and salvation have been misled and misused by so...

Last month the Anglican diocese of New Westminster, Canada, approved the blessing of same sex unions; and the following week a priest performed the first such ceremony in Vancouver. This month the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire elected the first openly homosexual bishop in the worldwide Anglican communion; and a British newspaper reported that the most recently appointed Anglican bishop "had been in a gay relationship for decades." Roman Catholics who favor a more liberal policy on homosexuality and sexuality in general can be forgiven if they draw hope from these events as harbingers of change in their own, much...

Had Ronald Reagan taken the peacenik advice of the U.S. bishops during the Cold War, the Soviet Communists would have won it. Undaunted, the bishops continue to offer advice to U.S. leaders on defense policy. American bishops who can't protect their own church are confident that they know how to protect America. Passivity in the face of evil has worked so well for them that they are recommending it as a policy to President George Bush. In their "Statement on Iraq," the bishops who couldn't take preemptive action against molesters in their midst fret about preemptive action against Saddam Hussein....