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A New York judge on Friday said. Mangione's trial will start in June, despite his attorneys pleading to push back the date as his federal trial begins in April.

The New York state trial for Luigi Mangione, who is facing charges in connection with the 2024 fatal shooting of a UnitedHealthcare executive, will begin on June 8, the judge said in court Friday.

While he was leaving court Friday, Mangione said: "One plus one equals two. This is double jeopardy by any common sense judgment."

This outburst is the first anyone has heard from Mangione since his hearings began.

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Welcome

‘My roadmap is to trust God, to surrender to Him, to unite my heart to the heart of Jesus, and to seek the will of the Father each day in prayer.’

Editor's Note: Archbishop-elect Ronald Hicks celebrates a Vespers service Feb. 5 on the evening before his installation at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Please find the full text of his homily below, edited for clarity and length.



Paz y bien!

Peace and all good things to all of you!

¡Paz y bien a todos mis hermanos y hermanas en Cristo, y a toda la gente de buena voluntad!

Paz y bien.

The Church, in her wisdom, gives us an evening like this.

Not to solve all the issues and challenges of our Church and our world. And not even to highlight all the blessings and successes either.

We are here this evening to pray… together.

We come here as people of faith and goodwill to ask God to bless me and to bless the entire Archdiocese of New York as we take these next steps… together.

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That’s pretty awesome! Glory to God!

How incredibly sad. I hope she gets the justice her son deserves.

Seattle, Boston archbishops make friendly wager ahead of 2026 Super Bowl​

It’s become an annual tradition for the Catholic bishops from the two cities sending teams to the Super Bowl to make a friendly wager before the big game to benefit Catholic nonprofits in the teams’ cities.

As the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks prepare to play in the Super Bowl on Feb. 8, Archbishop Richard G. Henning of Boston and Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle discussed this year’s wager with EWTN News.

The two archbishops said the weekend will be fun for fans across the nation but acknowledged it comes amid a tense time in the United States with ongoing debates and division surrounding immigration.

“I think this is an important moment, obviously, of unity. This is a shared cultural moment, hopefully a moment for people to gather, be with friends and family, a joyful thing,” Henning said. “But at the same time, we don’t want to forget that there are other realities in our world and suffering; [we want to] be attentive to that as well.”

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Amen!

Michie said:

Shamefully, 'most permissive' physician-assisted suicide in US is coming​

Shamefully, 'most permissive' physician-assisted suicide in US is coming

Death is painful, and evil But avoiding death is not the goal of the Christian life

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Lord have mercy on us and deliver us! That’s scary!

essentialsaltes said:

Iran seizes 2 foreign oil tankers in Persian Gulf, state media says​

Fifteen crew members on board the two tankers are “in custody of judicial bodies,” he said, without providing their nationalities.

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Why, this is State sponsored piracy! The free civilized world can not allow this flagrant violation to stand!

Yuck!

Grilled peanut butter Sandwich?

Pray that freedom of responsible, professional & meaningful media, press & journalism that does Not lie and does Not exaggerate is upheld & valued in all nations(especially democracies):

What's the whole chapter in Kings about? If God speaks in a "still small voice" then we not likely to hear unless we are quiet within. That can take a bit of time. But I think this is not the whole theology of hearing the Lord. Maybe God speaks to some people moreso from the Bible, it will depend on ones tradition were the emphasis is. In fact if we want to discern whether the voice we hear is the Lord's voice, then we'd need to be well spiritually grounded in Scripture. That's were I would begin.

I'd also suggest Leanne Payne's book Listening Prayer or maybe Dallas Willard's Hearing God (In Search of Guidance) because I think there is a lot more to it than that two minute clip suggests.

Minister Monardo said:

Not my quote.

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Excuse me i thought it was

Can you please pray for an elderly woman who recently died?

Thank you

Please pray that my son Jakeb has a good night where he is not sad or stressed and his stomach can feel better. Please ask God that if it is His will I can hear his laughter. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and God bless you. Carmen.

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Jake Lang didn't have receive enough attention.

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Oh, he's about to have all kinds of attention:

On Friday, prosecutors charged Lang with first-degree damage to property, a felony. According to a criminal complaint, Lang requested and was granted protective custody at the jail. He also allegedly told authorities he was "exercising my First Amendment right to artistic expression."

"Complainant notes that the First Amendment does indeed protect artistic expression — the creation and display of an ice sculpture, for example," the complaint read. "The First Amendment does not, however, provide protection against damaging someone else's property."

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Maybe he will make enough noise to have the administration lean on the state to let him out like they have with Tina Peters

National Park Service Returns Brochure Calling Civil Rights Leader’s Klansman Assassin A ‘Racist’​

The National Park Service returned brochures they reportedly pulled from a monument honoring civil rights activist Medgar Evers on Thursday, calling his assassin, a Klu Klux Klan member, a “racist” following massive backlash.

Park Service officials told Mississippi Today the brochures at Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument describing Evers’ Byron De La Beckwith as “racist” had been pulled and set to be replaced with a new version, removing that description. The officials told the outlet the original brochures were “outdated.”

Evers, who Trump once called a “hero,” was a World War II veteran who fought segregation in Mississippi upon his return was killed by white supremacist Beckwith in 1963. The activist’s history, however, was wiped from sections of the Arlington National Cemetery website last year.

Haha - it was the worst snowfall I have seen in my life. I woke up during the night, saw it outside the window and it definitely took me by surprise. It is totally dark at night outside my house as there is no lighting and all you can see is a silhouette of trees from the woodland opposite. I had to take a photo and fortunately my camera has a "night mode" function so I think I managed to capture it well!

Prayers…with you

Say it aint so said:

Even if a Republican won the next POTUS, he'll be boxing his things up.

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Then off to the right-wing lecture circuit!

Proverbs 21:8,16,21,25,26 NASB1995


The Scriptures, both in the Old Testament and in the New, make a clear distinction between the righteous and the unrighteous, and between the saved and the unsaved. And it isn’t that one person made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and the other did not. It is that one person, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ died with Christ to sin, and is now walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord’s commands, by the Spirit, and the other has continued in habitual sin, and not in obeying God.

But this doesn’t make us perfect. It does not mean that we will never sin, or that we will never fail to be who God wants us to be, but that sin should no longer be our practice (addiction), and obedience to God should be what we practice, by his grace. For Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him so that by faith in him we will now die to sin and follow him in obedience to his commands, so that we will now serve him with our lives and no longer our flesh – all in the power of God within us.

So, we often find these comparisons between the righteous and the unrighteous, and the saved and the unsaved, in the Scriptures. And we need to pay close attention to what they teach us. For many people today are buying into the lies of the enemy, and they are being convinced that if they make a verbal profession of faith in Jesus Christ that now all their sins are forgiven and heaven is guaranteed them when they die, but regardless of how they live. But the Scriptures teach the opposite of that. Please know!

So, one who is a genuine follower of Jesus Christ should be one who is pure and upright in conduct, who lives to please the Lord and not the sinful flesh. They should be those who are walking in fellowship with the Lord, eager to do what is pleasing to the Lord, and not looking for loopholes to excuse away what they know is sinful behavior. They should be those who pursue righteousness and what is godly, and who are loyal to the Lord and to his word. Obedience to God should not be a drudgery, but their heart’s desire.

Yet we have many people today who give lip service to the Lord who are still deliberately and habitually walking in the ways of their sinful flesh. Their hearts never changed. Their desires never changed. They said the “magic words” to “get saved,” but their actions did not follow suit. They are those who deliberately wander from the right way in order to feed the sinful desires of their flesh, some of whom then give lip service to God to give an impression of all goodness, while they lie and cheat, and do their evil.

But Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

So, please know and live the truth. For your eternity depends on it.

The Heart of Man

Based off Matt. 15:1-20; Mk. 7:1-23
An Original Work / April 4, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Listen to me ev’ryone and
Understand this teaching of Christ:
Why do you break the commands
Of God for the sake of tradition?
When you follow the ways of man,
And don’t obey the words of Christ,
You nullify the words of God,
And you hold to the ways of man.

What comes out of a man’s mouth is
What makes him unclean and dirty.
The things that come out of the mouth
Come from the heart, from within him.
The heart of man is so sinful;
From his nature, out comes evil:
Lying, cursing, greed and malice,
Lust and lewdness, deceit, slander.

Jesus calls us to obey him;
Turn from our sins; follow His ways.
Yet, his people honor him with their lips,
but their hearts not with Him.
Their worship of God is in vain.
Their teachings are rules taught by man.
Jesus calls us; gently leads us
To return and follow His truth.

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The Desire of The Sluggard
An Original Work / February 6, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

God bless America!

@POTUS,

Thank you for this re-dedication of the United States to One Nation Under God!