Law enforcement on Wednesday said two children have been killed at a shooting during a Mass held at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, with the gunman reportedly taking his own life after the deadly attack.

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United in prayer: A litany to be prayed after a school shooting​

August 27, 2025 at 04:24 pm ET

In times of tragedy, the Church turns to prayer. The Catholic Church believes that prayer can effect real change — not just in the heart of the person praying but in the world. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “Prayer and Christian life are inseparable” (CCC, 2745) and that prayer is a “vital necessity” (CCC, 2743).
Here is a litany to be prayed after a school shooting.

Police confirm shooter’s identity as 23-year-old Robin Westman​

August 27, 2025 at 04:04 pm ET

At a 3:30 p.m. ET press conference, Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirms the shooter’s identity as 23-year-old Robin Westman, born Robert Westman.

“We have to be men and women of hope,” Minneapolis Archbishop Bernard Hebda says at the conference.

As a bell begins to ring, he says: “A bell in the Catholic Church is always a call to prayer. It’s a reminder for us to be praying. And we have to recognize that it’s through prayer … that we can indeed make a difference. That has to be the source of our hope.”

Principal Matt DeBoer says that staff and teachers were heroes during the shooting.
“This is a nightmare. But we call our staff the dream team. We will recover from this,” he says.

“We lost two angels today. Please continue to pray for those still receiving care. We can’t change the past. But we can do something about the future,” he says.

FBI director calls shooting ‘an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime’​

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Us Husbands need to know. so please be open about it. my wife and I disagree as to the extent Christian woman like want foreplay. In marriage, her Love language is fulfilled. this is contention in many marriages. how prudish are Chistian women. please respond to better clarify answers (if you can, this is my first post, not sure home this works)

The process is permitted under a law passed by Congress in 1996 as part of a wider immigration package. But over the last three decades, threats of fees — which can now reach up to $998 a day — have rarely been enforced. Officers instead focused on removal, rather than adding another layer of punishment.
But that changed under Trump, largely because the process for sending out threatening fines with potentially financially disastrous results is much easier, according to the American Immigration Council, an immigration policy research group.

This should go further toward reducing our deficit.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- San Bernardino and Riverside county officials discussed the presumed death of baby Emmanuel Haro one day after his parents were charged with murder, saying they believe he was abused over time.

Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin, along with Sheriff Chad Bianco and San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus and others, provided details of their investigation during a news conference Wednesday.

Authorities have not recovered the 7-month-old's body, but Hestrin said they have a "strong indication" of where his remains are located. They also believe that Emmanuel was abused over a period of time by his parents and eventually succumbed to those injuries.

"It's appropriate to have a press conference, because it was the defendants in this case that had a press conference first," Hestrin said. "They did so in order to tell the public, the media and ultimately law enforcement that their child had been kidnapped - when in fact that's not what occurred."

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Certainly, Philip. Based on the most recent 2025 data from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program and analysis by the Council on Criminal Justice, here are ten U.S. cities with the lowest crime rates per capita, along with the political affiliations of their mayors and state governors:

️ Ten Lowest-Crime Cities in the U.S. (2025)​

Note: Many small towns and suburban municipalities in the U.S. operate under nonpartisan mayoral systems, especially in New England. Where party affiliation is publicly declared or inferred from electoral records, it is noted.

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These cities exemplify how low crime rates often correlate with factors such as affluence, strong local governance, and community engagement rather than strictly partisan leadership.

Bill Gates Reportedly Turns Off Money Spigot For Left-Wing Dark Money Network​

Arabella notably manages a variety of dark money funds that funnel hundreds of millions of difficult-to-trace dollars into left-of-center political organizations and advocacy groups. In 2022, Arabella raised over $1 billion and poured millions into liberal causes nationwide, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported in November 2023.

The Gates Foundation said in a statement provided to the NYT that its decision to sever ties with Arabella was “a business decision that reflects our regular strategic assessments of partnerships and operating models.”

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Seems they have one less billionaire oligarch

As of Tuesday, she had raised over $800,000 on the Christian fundraising platform GiveSendGo — including many donations that came in after the charges were announced — with a stated goal of $1 million.

[the three counts have a max penalty of 90 days and $1,000.]

Drey won with 55% of the vote to Republican Christopher Prosch's 44%, according to unofficial results from the Woodbury County Auditor's Office.

Gov. Kim Reynolds called the election to fill a vacancy in Iowa Senate District 1 after Republican Sen. Rocky De Witt died of pancreatic cancer in June. [De Witt won in 2022 with +10% over his D challenger.]

With Drey's win, Democrats now hold 17 seats in the 50-member Senate to Republicans' 33 seats — enough to break the two-thirds supermajority the GOP has enjoyed since the 2022 election.

[Other recent Iowa Democratic wins] include Democrat Mike Zimmer's surprise victory in a January special election for an eastern Iowa Senate seat

[Isaiah] Hodgson was “off-duty, intoxicated and armed with a handgun” at a restaurant in the Shoreline Village area of Long Beach when he approached a female in the women’s restroom, according to a statement issued last month by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. The woman complained to restaurant staff, who asked Hodgson to leave because guns were not allowed inside the eatery.

Long Beach police responded to the scene and contacted Hodgson, who fought with officers as they tried to detain him. Officers eventually subdued him with a stun gun, according to a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman. Hodgson “refused to provide employment information” when questioned by officers, one of whom suffered a minor injury during the scuffle, police said.

[He was arrested and charged, but last Friday] “When deputies arrived, they located the male and pronounced him deceased. Deputies did not locate any evidence of foul play,” the statement read.

What Fed must do now after Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole epiphany​

Last Friday in Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell finally – and grudgingly – admitted what the Trump team has been saying all along: tariffs don’t fuel inflation. ​

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At most, tariffs create a one-time adjustment in prices, not the kind of runaway spiral that demands punishing rate hikes. And even that one-time bump may be negligible if, as we have long argued, foreign exporters – not American consumers – shoulder most or all of the burden.​

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Worse than Antifa: Inside the new breed of ultra-extremist groups dedicated to chaos, violence — and even alleged murder ***caution - link contains video of vulgar language​

The far-left radical movement known as Antifa has been getting its own taste of cancel culture.

Just look at what happened on Aug. 19 in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Masked, fist-clenched agitators belonging to the anarchist collective turned up to sow chaos — but locals banded together to confront the troublemakers, telling them to get lost.

Experts who track domestic terrorism and extremist movements aren’t surprised: Once the face of a grassroots leftwing insurgency, Antifa has lost its spark.

But experts warn that could be a dangerous thing — as the vacuum has given way to even more fringe and violent offshoots that are coalescing in the Marxist ether. And we’re only beginning to see the deadly fallout.

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Police respond to shooting at south Minneapolis church; multiple victims reported, shooter dead

Richfield police confirmed reports of 20 victims, adding that a man dressed in all black and armed with a rifle was reported at the scene.

Suspect ‘contained’ after shooting reported at Minneapolis Catholic school: authorities​

Authorities say a suspect has been “contained” after a shooting occurred at a Minneapolis Catholic school on Wednesday morning.

Gov. Tim Walz said on social media that he had been briefed on a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School, located on the city’s south side. Police told local news outlet KARE that an active shooter allegedly opened fire at Annunciation Church.

It’s unclear if students, who had their first day of classes on Monday, were in the church at the time. The pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school had an all-school Mass scheduled at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to its website.

'Young people are taking Jesus more seriously'

Prominent Christian apologist Cliffe Knechtle recently discussed the reality of spiritual warfare with Tucker Carlson, noting he discerns a growing spiritual hunger among many young people who have been left reeling amid moral relativism and personal brokenness.
"I am very excited the way young people are taking Jesus more seriously," said Knechtle, who has been preaching on college campuses for 45 years and serves as senior pastor at Grace Community Church in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Knechtle's viral exchanges with often hostile college students have swelled his YouTube channel "Give Me an Answer" to more than 890,000 subscribers.

During a wide-ranging, two-hour interview with Carlson released this week, the two discussed the nature of the spiritual war that has manifested in what they characterized as the unprecedented scale of moral relativism in modern society.

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A few months ago, around December 2024, I was deep in preparation for an exam I had been working towards for nearly a year. I felt confident in my abilities, and when school resumed after Christmas break, we began practice exams.


One of my bad habits is skipping meals whenever I feel like I have “more important” things to do, so I was often eating only once or twice a day in favor of studying. On one fateful exam day, my head started to feel light and I became short of breath. I removed my sweater, thinking it was just the heat, but then everything went black.


I woke up in the nurse’s office and was later taken to the hospital, where doctors told me my blood sugar was dangerously low because I wasn’t eating enough. I thought that was the end of it—but it wasn’t.


The very next morning, while doing my routine, I fainted again. This time it was worse: my body went stiff, my skin turned pale, and even though I could see and hear everything, I couldn’t move. I can only imagine how terrifying it must have been for those who witnessed it, thinking I had died right in front of them.


At the hospital, the doctors decided to run a scan—and what they discovered shocked me. I had been living with a tumor growing inside me for over 16 years, completely unnoticed. If it had remained any longer, I would have lost my life. I was rushed into emergency surgery, and by God’s grace, I recovered quickly.


By the time the real exam came, I was fully healed and able to write it unhindered. Looking back, I truly believe this was God’s way of ensuring all my efforts did not go to waste. If I had collapsed during the actual exam, I might not have had the chance for surgery and recovery.


Today, having received my results and passed with flying colors, I see clearly what the enemy was trying to stop. My destiny is in God’s hands, and His plans will always prevail. May the schemes of the devil never succeed in any of our lives.

Tellyontellyon also has a new thread about fasting but this is a bit different... (and since I'm a non-Christian I'm not allowed to post in his thread)

In the transfiguration Jesus appeared with Moses and Elijah. It looks liked Elijah fasted for 40 days in 1 Kings 19.

Exodus 34:28a says "Moses was there with the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights. He didn’t eat any food or drink any water."

I wonder how that is possible... maybe he was drinking non-water drinks like milk?

And Jesus also fasted for 40 days. I thought it was interesting that all three of the people involved in the transfiguration had fasted for 40 days.

So 40 days is almost 6 weeks...

says:

The Irish hunger strikers of the early 1980s illustrated the outcome of unsupplemented, prolonged, absolute fasting. They only drank water, and it was clear after six weeks that all involved had sustained significant weight loss and were mortally ill. By seven weeks, all were dead.

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That's 49 days...

So it seems 40 days is very dangerous. Do Christians think that God was supernaturally helping those people in the Bible who fasted for 40 days?

Shalom

Can you pray for my children Quirin (10) and Levin (7), who are growing up with their mother and their new partner, that the Lord protects them from all evil and raises them to be upright, honest, and strong individuals in Jesus' name?

"Train up a child in the way he should go, so when he is old he will not depart from it" Proverbs 22:6

Thank you for your prayers!

May the Lord bless you abundantly (Luke 6:38, Job 42:10) and may He bless Israel in Jesus' name. Amen!

Soli Deo Gloria

PS And I pray that the Lord will send out harvesters into His harvest (Matthew 9:38).

I am reaching out to ask for your prayers as I try to rebuild my life after a very difficult year. I have faced the pain of broken relationships, financial hardship, and even a time of homelessness.

At the moment, I have no income, though I do receive food stamps, and I am grateful to have stable housing through a subsidized apartment. I am waiting to hear back about SSI benefits I reapplied for, but I am uncertain whether I should focus on that or try to reenter the workforce, which is difficult in my small town without a car.

I am also in a committed relationship that means a great deal to me. Although we have been through many trials and challenges, I have never met someone who understands me and loves me the way he does. I feel very strongly about building a life with him, even though the road has not been easy.

Since going through all of this, I have often felt lost, confused, and at times hopeless about the future, as if the obstacles before me are insurmountable. Yet, I am doing my best to remain faithful and to follow God’s will.

Please pray for me—for strength, healing, mental health, and clarity. Please also pray that the resources I need may become available, whether through a person to guide me, a loan, or some other form of help, so that I can begin rebuilding my life with hope.

Thank you for your prayers. You will be in mine as well.

Here is a structured overview of the ten U.S. cities with the highest violent crime rates in 2025, along with the political affiliations of their state governors and city mayors:

Top 10 Crime Cities in the U.S. (2025)​

Note: Crime rates are based on FBI and local law enforcement data for 2024–2025. Figures are rounded and may vary slightly by source.

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Observations​

• Governors: 6 of these cities are in Republican-led states, despite many being urban Democratic strongholds.
• Mayors: 9 of the 10 cities are led by Democratic mayors, with Detroit’s mayor having shifted to an independent stance.
• Regional Trends: High-crime cities often reflect deep-rooted socioeconomic challenges, including poverty, housing instability, and under-resourced policing—not merely partisan governance.

The Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP) held its annual meeting in San Antonio, TX, this past June. The theme of this year’s Assembly was “Sexuality and Spirituality: Pastoral Approaches.” Audio recordings of these meetings – provided exclusively to the Lepanto Institute – reveal priests openly discussing self-pleasure, and even blasphemously suggesting that such an act could be considered a form of prayer.

The Lepanto Institute has been reporting on the AUSCP for nearly a decade, tracking its promotion of:

• women’s ordination,
• homosexuality and transgenderism,
• priestless parishes,
• heretical notions of the Holy Eucharist,
• the normalization of general absolution in place of personal confessions.

A full catalogue of our reports on the AUSCP can be found, here.

Opening this year’s Assembly, Fr. Ron Rolheiser – a professor of theology and philosophy at the Oblate School of Theology – spoke on the question of how priests should “work with” concerns pertaining to sexuality and spirituality. His talk covered homosexuality, masturbation, transgenderism, and questions pertaining to mortal sin and worthy reception of the Holy Eucharist.

“The audio file we received was shocking,” said Michael Hichborn, president of the Lepanto Institute. “We heard priests admitting to being homosexual, admitting to masturbating, and in one case, a priest even said that he ‘thanks God’ for the gift of being able to pleasure himself sexually. And in the face of these admissions, Fr. Rolheiser refused to condemn such acts as intrinsically and gravely sinful.”

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most of the times its working uploads ,trying to find a powder bullet combination that makes for the smallest groupings . it does not always work ,why will drive ya nuts . thoughts of competition shooting tug at me but there's no money in it

Is anyone else concerned about the rise of 'modern' conditions that grip lives and ensnare them in pharmaceutical dependence at great expense ?

In our country - just to get an official diagnosis for ADHD from a Psychiatrist will cost you around $2000. This is required before you get access to any med's.

Stepping back - this generation is subject to more stress than any other since WW2.

It seems the human condition trying to survive under pressure shuts down as a survival response.

These 'symptoms' are picked up by the medics and bingo another serious source of profit.

At the same time, believers have access to the redemption of the soul through the Cross, including healing and deliverance - but not many seem to access this because the modern theology has moved on from these 'archaic beliefs'.

"Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed" is rarely activated.

Am I the only one concerned about this ?

For what purpose did Jesus fast for..? What is the Christian understanding of what his particular purpose was?

What happens when 19 year olds are running the show...

The U.S. DOGE Service uploaded a copy of Americans’ Social Security data to the digital cloud, risking the security of critical personal information for more than 300 million people, a whistleblower in the agency alleged.

Chief Data Officer Charles Borges raised concerns that DOGE staffers bypassed safeguards, circumvented a court order and created a copy of the Social Security Administration’s entire collection of data on the U.S. public on the cloud. Borges said the SSA had no oversight of who had access to the file.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/26/social-security-data-cloud-whistleblower/

I tried to find an article with a clip with the least profanity.