@holysmoke Of note... when the Pope first created the excomunication in 1951, it ws written to specifically include the penalty "even if compelled by grave fear" and aimed specifically at the China situation. Only in 83 was it included in the CIC minus the "even if compelled by grave fear".
BREAKING: John Bolton will reportedly be pleading GUILTY to charges of illegally retaining sensitive national security documents.
This comes with an agreement to pay $2 million in fines and a potential 60-month prison sentence.
@hf_222222 It is absolutely clear, for all the synodal listening going on, not a single person spoke to anyone in a professional war college. They would all tell you this is foolish.
What pricinples underlie the Geneva Conventions? Now they are "outdated". This is crazy.
@hf_222222 If it's only just in the defense, I expect you will see the underlying principles surrounding targeting and collateralized damage slip right out of our targeting decisions over time.
I can already hear certain elements suggesting "Even the Pope says this out outdated."
This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.
Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.
It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.
One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.
Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.
JUST IN: Cardinals to Debate ‘Just War’, Not Liturgy, at Pope Leo XIV’s Next Extraordinary Consistory — https://t.co/1nZioznnPn
A newly disclosed letter from the Dean of the Sacred College outlines the topics for discussion at the June 26–27 meeting.
Article here: https://t.co/1nZioznnPn h/t @messainlatino
@Chieftain_armor@usawtfm@LRMC_Landstuhl@FancyFancyBear1 You could get foreign jump wings still - without US wings - IF they participate in the Army's permissive parachuting program with a foreign military. MOST will not award them to those without US wings, but some do.
🚨 WOW. Rep. Brandon Gill throws Ohio Democrat State Senator into TEARS by asking: "Has Somali immigration been good for Ohio?"
"I'm processing your question and I was almost brought to tears just now!"
GILL: "72% of Somali immigrants are on welfare."
DEM: "The rate and level of HATEFUL RHETORIC based on false information!"
GILL: "They're defrauding the state at an astounding RATE. I think most Ohioans have a problem with that."
DEM: "Shocking. It's shocking to me. The lack of humanity to group—"
GILL: "It's INHUMANE to allow your own state to be DEFRAUDED at an astounding rate, billions taken!" 🔥
Well done, @RepBrandonGill 👏🏻
Ben Sasse has always been honest, but facing a terminal diagnosis he has been unplugged. Last night, in exactly 13 seconds, he explained the real reason compulsory education ever started in America.
Catholics, consider this when making choices about education for your children.
I do think that taking away the ability to take one’s own stipend as a concelebrant would be a great revision to the current practice as a way to really take seriously the idea of the principal celebrant as the Christus.
@Dragonflynda@MichaelGrahamSC There are multiple. I saw a guy near me who pays $25 for any dead Samsung refrigerator, dishwasher stove or oven.
I chatted with him, got a part for $50. He also rebuilds and sells them for $300 or so.
Side gig for him. He's a congressional staffer.