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World-renowned infectious-disease epidemiologist and biostatistician Martin Kulldorff is no longer a professor at Harvard Medical School after refusing the COVID vaccine because he had infection-acquired immunity. Refusing the vaccine is a decision that lost him his appointment at a Harvard-affiliated hospital at the time several years ago — and this month led to his termination from the Ivy League school. “Harvard Medical School has affiliation agreements with several Boston hospitals which it neither owns nor operationally controls. Hospital-based faculty, such as Dr. Kulldorff, are employed by one of the affiliates, not by HMS, and require an active hospital appointment to...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland denounces Fr. James Martin for juxtaposing Sacred Heart and ‘pride’ month'This blasphemy must stop,' the faithful bishop and defender of the faith said.Bishop Joseph Stickland of Tyler, Texas, called out dissident pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin for blasphemously claiming that celebrating “Pride Month” is compatible with devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to whom the month of June is traditionally dedicated in Catholic devotion.“This blasphemy must stop, God loves every person even the most sinful, but saying sinful acts are compatible with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ contradicts Christ’s call to go & sin...

Political commentator Roland Martin said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is “sick and demented’ while discussing the mass shooting Saturday in Allen, TX. Guest host Michael Steele said, “You would think after a mass shooting like this, lawmakers in the state where it happened would take stock or work on policy changes to the secretary’s point to prevent it from happening again. But that’s not what happens in Texas. What do we do here? How do we break this cycle? It’s not like every two weeks, my friend. It’s like every other day we’re having these...

Pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin calls for DeSantis to be denied Communion for supporting death penaltyThe dissident priest made his comments after a man convicted of murders in two separate incidents was put to death in Florida last week. Heretical pro-LGBT Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin has called for conservative Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is Catholic, to be denied Communion because he supports the death penalty.Last week, the Republican governor signed the death warrant for a convict on charges of a second murder committed after the man escaped from a life sentence imposed for his first murder.In response to the...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit Father James Martin Says Gay Marriage Is MarriageROME — Jesuit Father James Martin, an LGBT advocate, affirmed Saturday his belief that two men can enter into a real marriage that must be recognized as such.Responding to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, who proposed that Pete Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage to his partner Chasten is not a true marriage but rather a “legal fiction,” Father Martin countered that “Pete Buttigieg is married.”

Pope Francis Meets with Father James Martin at Vatican (again)The meeting in the Apostolic Palace lasted 45 minutes. VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis received Jesuit Father James Martin, in a private audience in the apostolic palace inside the Vatican on Friday.In a tweet published after the encounter, Father Martin wrote he was “was deeply grateful to meet with Pope Francis in the Apostolic Palace this morning for 45 minutes.”The conversation covered “the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties, of LGBTQ Catholics,” Father Martin added, writing: “It was a warm, inspiring and encouraging meeting that I’ll never forget. “

The country is currently at “war” with the “evil” and “weak” Republicans, according to MSNBC guest commentator Roland Martin, who called for Democrats to “stand strong” against conservatives and “keep hitting” back, while warning these “crazed, deranged folks” seek “to impart evil in every facet of our society.” Appearing on MSNBC’s The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross on Saturday, Martin explained that the Americans are at “war” and must be ready for the fight.

Archbishop Weakland dies at age 95Denver Newsroom, Aug 22, 2022 / 13:50 pmArchbishop Rembert Weakland, a Benedictine who served as archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002, died overnight on Monday.Weakland died after a long illness the night of Aug. 21–22 at Clement Manor in Greenfield, a Milwaukee suburb.The archbishop was a progressive who had advocated for the priestly ordination of women. His resignation as Milwaukee’s archbishop came after revelations that the archdiocese had paid $450,000 to silence Paul J. Marcoux, an adult male seminarian with whom he had a sexual relationship.Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee commented Aug. 22 that...

Cardinal Dolan endorses Fr. James Martin’s new LGBT activism group(LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York recently gave a strong endorsement of Fr. James Martin’s activism and the dissident Jesuit’s new LGBT group “Outreach.” In a letter dated May 5 and published late last month by Outreach, Dolan praised the organization, which Martin launched this year, describing it as “an important ministry” ahead of its annual conference in June.“Thanks for the chance to greet you as you gather for the Outreach 2022 conference at Fordham University,” Dolan wrote. “No one should ever feel that they are alienated from God’s...

Cardinal Gerhard Müller recently criticized Martin’s approach to the issue of homosexuality as a 'justification of the sin.'(LifeSiteNews) – Jesuit Father James Martin tweeted in defense of homosexuality as a lifestyle on Wednesday in response to a recent Texas Republican platform approval that called homosexuality an “abnormal lifestyle choice.” The Texas GOP platform also called for a ban of all procedures to prevent puberty or mutilate the body of a minor under 21 years old to affirm a “gender identity” and affirmed “God’s biblical design for marriage and sexual behavior between one biological man and one biological woman.” Martin has...

Fr. James Martin argues there’s no conflict between Pride Month and Sacred Heart devotionAccording to the Jesuit priest, ‘many LGBTQ people aren’t doing anything at all against church teaching.’ Pope Francis meets with Father James Martin in private audience (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin doubled down on his support for the LGBT agenda in a Tuesday article in which he asserted that the Catholic liturgical calendar’s June devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is actually “complementary” with “Pride Month,” which celebrates people who engage in homosexual lifestyles.In an article published by Martin’s newly founded organization Outreach, which...

Pope Francis penned a letter to the prominent, dissident pro-LGBT priest Fr. James Martin, decrying what was described as the Church's 'rejection' of 'LGBT Catholics.'VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has written a letter to “LGBT Catholics,” delivered via dissident Jesuit priest Father James Martin, declaring that a “selective” Church is “a sect,” and decrying what he styled as the Church’s “rejection” of “LGBT Catholic[s].” The letter was announced May 8, and published May 9 in an article written by Martin for Outreach, which is “a new LGBTQ Catholic resource” he recently set up. Martin noted that he had himself...

[Catholic Caucus] Meet Francis, Worker Of Iniquity“God will not disoooown youuuu”But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.Luke 13:27These words, which probably every child knows who has been to catechism, are, very obviously, unknown to that evil piece of work sadly known as Pope Francis. Francis is, as you might know by now, trying to justify Father Georgina in the quite disquieting predilection of the latter – and I this point I would say, likely of the former, too – for homosexual “pastoral activity”, which indicates...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit Father James Martin Rushes to Defense of Cardinal Marx over HomosexualityROME — Pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin rushed to the defense of German Cardinal Reinhard Marx Saturday, after the latter proposed changing Catholic teaching on the morality of gay sex.After Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, admonished Cardinal Marx, calling for his resignation, Father Martin suggested that Cardinal Marx had not contradicted Catholic belief in any significant way.“Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas, says that Cardinal Reinhard Marx, former chairman of the German Bishops Conference has ‘left the Catholic faith,’ not for denying the Trinity or the Incarnation,...

A Florida congressional candidate apologized to an officer after threatening to ruin their career during a traffic stop. A congressional candidate from the Sarasota area, Martin Hyde issued the apology Wednesday, WFLA reported. The officer’s body camera captured the incident of pulling Hyde over on Valentine’s Day. The video shows the female officer explaining to Hyde that she pulled him over for speeding and texting while driving, WFLA reported. Hyde asked the officer, “You know who I am, right?” and threatened to call the police chief.

Liberal Catholic Priest James Martin Under Fire for Appearing to Defend Child Puberty BlockersLiberal Jesuit Catholic priest Father James Martin has come under fire for appearing to defend puberty blockers in children who identify as transgender.Martin, who serves as an editor-at-large for the Jesuit publication America Magazine and who also starred in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, and boasts over 305,000 Twitter followers took criticism this week when he appeared to challenge Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s assertions that “sex-change operations and puberty blockers prescribed to kids is ‘child abuse’ under Texas law.”Father Martin, who has clashed with the Catholic Church’s...

In the final row of graves in an obscure cemetery in southern Spain, is a tomb dedicated to William Martin - a British officer killed during the Second World War. Except that Martin wasn't real. He was invented by British spies as part of a daring and successful plot to fool Hitler about the invasion of Sicily, using the corpse of an unknown man dressed up like an officer and carrying a case full of fake documents. Now, ahead of the release of new film Operation Mincemeat which documents the mission, calls are growing to exhume the grave so the...

I was listening to local talk radio when Martian Brandon called in. I never heard of him before but he ran for Congress in Arizona District 2 and was endorsed by President Trump. He mentioned he did not win due to lack of name recognition. Because of what his name happens to be I think we should make him famous nation-wide, The seat he is running for is wide open because the CongressRat infesting it is retiring..

Viganò: Francis Homosex Steps Are "Suicidal Gesture"Francis' recent endorsement of the “aberrant provocations" of the homosex activist James Martin is only one more step down a path that started with his famous “Who am I to judge?” - Archbishop Carlo Viganò told LifeSiteNews.com (July 8).For him, this is "a suicidal gesture" by which Francis handed over the entire flock of Christ as a hostage to the Enemy. He identifies homosex ideology as a mortal threat for our entire society, the family, the human person, and the Church.Viganò explains that Martin doesn't seek the conversion of homosexuals but the illusion of...

Dissident priest Fr. James Martin wants you to celebrate LGBT ‘pride month’It’s especially important for churches to celebrate ‘pride,’ the Jesuit said.June 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Fr. James Martin, S.J., the most outspoken force within U.S. Catholicism for the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism within the Church, wants you to know that he thinks all Catholics should celebrate “pride month.”In a video tweet posted on the second day of this year’s so-dubbed “pride month,” Martin claimed that it’s “a celebration of the human dignity of a group of people who have been for so long treated like dirt.” The Jesuit...