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The Catholic Church, which over the centuries has blessed many dreadful wars, is shifting to an anti-war position favored by Pope Francis and more in line with Jesus’s teachings, writes ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller. By Graham E. Fuller Pope…Read more →

Iraq’s Oldest Christian Monastery Completely Destroyed by ISIS Terrorists (Image courtesy ALALAM)

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"Words cannot fully express my sorrow for the abuse you suffered. I'm profoundly sorry that your innocence was violated by those you trusted."-- Pope Francis, to a gathering of abuse survivors today, in preparedremarks as released by the U.S.

By Noel Brinkerhoff and Danny Biederman | AllGov | September 8, 2015 Native Americans are upset at Pope Francis for his decision to canonize 18th-century Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra. Serra founded the mission system in California, which helped establish the Catholic Church long before California ever became a state. But the missions treated local Native […]

It looks as if Pope Francis, unlike Donald Trump, doesn't have to pay people to cheer for him. Here he's seen on arrival in Turin yesterday."[I]t is clear that this pope is very courageous. He is not a politician. He is not a diplomat.

"Like his namesake saint, he believes in the transformative power of simplicity and compassion." (E. J.

NAZARETH, (PIC)–Extremist Jewish settlers at dawn Thursday burned the Catholic Church of Tabgha, which is located on the banks of the Galilee sea.
Media sources said the arson attack caused heavy material damage to the Church, pointing that attackers spray-painted anti-Christian remarks on its walls. Hebrew graffiti was found, reading “the false gods will be eliminated”, and material damage was inflicted on the church.

I see my old friends, Edward Martin and Mateo Pimentel, are still flogging their dead horse of a Holy Roman-Leninist Empire in their latest DV article, “The Future of Solidarity.”
My previous DV article, “No Marx Again,” criticised them for pushing the notion of a ‘Leninist Socialist State’; where workers who supposedly ‘owned the means of production’ could ‘go on strike’ presumably against themselves for better pay and conditions!

NYT caption: "Pope Francis met with a delegation from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious at the Vatican on Thursday. Pool photo by L'Osservatore Romano""Women are not capable, in the Vatican's mind, of governing others or even themselves. Is it any wonder so many nuns have left the orders or avoided joining them?

"Father Ted," president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, in his office at the school's Hesburgh Library in 2012 (see the full photo here)