So true.

essentialsaltes said:

The FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel says​

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using to share information about federal immigration agents’ movements, launching a new front in the Trump administration’s conflict there with potential free speech implications.

The investigation quickly drew skepticism from free speech advocates who said the First Amendment protects members of the public who share legally obtained information, such as the names of federal agents or where they are conducting enforcement operations.

“There are legitimate reasons to share such information, including enabling members of the public to observe and document law enforcement activity and to hold officials accountable for misconduct,” Aaron Terr, director of public advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said in an email.

Patel did not say which laws he thought Minnesota residents may have violated. An FBI spokesperson said the bureau had no further information to provide.

“Unless the FBI has evidence of a crime, and not just evidence of activity the Constitution protects, it should stand down,” [free speech expert guy] said.

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R.I.P. Probable Cause.

Funny how, for a president so keen to claim he doesn't want to be a dictator, the Trump administration sure seems more than willing to follow the dictator handbook.

-- A2SG, almost like those claims are a lie....but why would a felon convicted for fraud lie?

FaithT said:

Instead of buying from Catholic Sprouts I found two books on Amazon that I ordered. One is a Lenten book, the other is a devotional written by a Catholic author, Gary Zimak who has had anxiety and found help in Jesus. He’s been on EWTN.

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Very nice!

If you have any doubts, you can always have your books or devotional items blessed.

That’s what I do, anyway!

Peace

jas3 said:

It continues to elude me why a Catholic is promoting anti-Catholic articles.
The distinction between worship (a better word to use would be adoration) and veneration is important because if what's prohibited is adoration, but we're not adoring icons, then we're not doing what's prohibited. It's worth noting that his interpretation would make things like crosses in church prohibited as well.
Carpenter ignores that the commandment against images doesn't only prohibit "bowing down" and "serving them," but it actually forbids even making them: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." So if icons are forbidden, then even artistic depictions of cherubim or snakes are forbidden.
One could just as easily argue against Carpenter using his own words: "the intricate theological debate over the distinction between artistic and devotional use is moot. The commandment forbids making images. When an image is made of a martyr, it's an image of something 'in the earth beneath,' and the second commandment explicitly forbids it."

This is a serious problem for iconoclasts: their argument proves too much. Even if they themselves strictly hold to "four bare walls and a sermon," they've made God contradict Himself in the examples of the images on the Ark of the Covenant and the bronze serpent. And let's be honest, the vast majority of Protestants who point fingers at Orthodox Christians and say "idolater" have images of the Cross in their churches and on their Bibles, if not full-on Nativity scenes around Christmas.

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Discussion in an area where all can participate is not a bad thing. It’s how people learn. Add the fact it’s not about Trump but faith… it’s a win anyway you look at it. I post many things I’m not on board with but others are. It promotes discussion.

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All Glory to God and thanksgiving for the intercession of St Charbel.

I was seeing the exorcist at this time as well, who I do think included his prayers for healing.

I could dig up the medical record for visiting the surgeon and also his assistant for an assessment

I was told that a bad meniscus tear is no longer sewn like it used to be and so would not be done

I went home in sorrow

But on Sunday, I went to as special mass to venerate St Charbel and just completely abandoned myself over

Just praying and trusting w/o any doubt at all

I went up to kiss his relic and to place my prayer in a basket of prayers

Any one can do this kind of thing, so just ask and trust and maybe you will receive consolation, as thousands already have all over the world according to the testimony of this Maronite priest I had.

Keep the faith.

Work hard at it

Just keep plowing forward and don't look back

This is the One True Chruch.

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Amen. Thank you.

On Tuesday, Jan. 27, an Iowa man went viral after spontaneously praying for President Donald Trump while President Trump visited the Machine Shed restaurant in Urbandale, Iowa.

Trump’s restaurant stop came as he prepared to give a speech in Des Moines to encourage Republican support for this year’s midterm elections in November.

Video footage shows the man asking Trump if he could pray for him as the president greeted people at their tables.

“Absolutely! Come on. Let’s go,” Trump replied.

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There's a long history of US States prosecuting Federal officials for criminal activities conducted within their jurisdiction.

The precedent goes back more than 160 years. Supreme Court rulings are very clear on this. From Johnson v State of Maryland (1920):

"Of course an employee of the United States does not secure a general immunity from state law while acting in the course of his employment. That was decided long ago by Mr. Justice Washington in United States v. Hart, Pet. C. C. 390, Fed. Cas. No. 15,316; 5 Op. Attys. Gen. 554. "

Saying children’s needs are more important than adult desires, a new coalition has launched to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage.

Greater Than, which kicked off today(Jan. 28), is spearheaded by Them Before Us, a nonprofit group founded by advocate Katy Faust. For years, Faust has led “a global defense of children’s rights and natural marriage,” providing allies with “the language to challenge divorce, IVF, and surrogacy.”

Faust, a pastor’s wife and mother of four, said same-sex marriage victimizes children by making parenthood adult-centered. She speaks from experience: After Faust’s parents divorced when she was 10, her mother began a relationship with a female partner.

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Lately, I started playing a video game again but mostly NOT for entertainment. In fact, the game I'm playing now (Battlefield 2) is not even one of my favorites. But found it significantly improved my situational awareness and mental focus in street skating, and improving safety as well. So I play the video game immediately before my skating sessions.

It's disturbing how the AI in the 20 year old video game mimics the behavior of people on the road both as motorist and pedestrian. Taught me fairly accurately to anticipate people's next moves on the road. Either the game AI is that surprisingly advanced for the period or people have become quite distracted all the time, they act worse than AI on the road.

2PhiloVoid said:

It sounds like he has trouble from childhood with aligning with God's will for whatever reasons.

To be frank, this is a public forum and it's no one's place here to tell you to divorce him if he is indeed NPD, and I'd prefer to think that if you could just sit down with him and read the New Testament together that even he could get a clue.

But being that I'm aware of human psychological reality, that sometimes certain people are just broken inside.......................then if things are bad between you and him, get some certified professional counseling before you make any important, final decisions.

It would be ideal if both of you could work it out over the next few months, but if he's NPD, I know that's a low probability.

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Thank you so much for your feedback. He’s refusing to go to counseling and he doesn’t read the bible. So I’m going to keep praying and continue trying to talk things over with him. Not sure where things will end up but I am taking this decision very seriously and will not make any final decisions until I know God has confirmed it.

I think he has a really good point. Me? I've never used chat bots and I have no desire to.

BukiRob said:

Both ROME and the Church in Asia minor celebrated AND OBSERVED PASSOVER exactly as prescribed in scripture. A disagreement over when was to be observed rose. Rome departed from scripture opting for a FIXED Sunday was chosen by the Bishop in Rome(Victor) and Polycarp the bishop of SMYRNA and a direct disciple of John the apostle disagreed and said that John taught otherwise that it was to be observed the 14th of Nissan.

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False. Eusebius's account identifies both the Nisan 14 practice and the Sunday practice as being old and established by the time the quarrel between Victor and Polycrates (not Polycarp) broke out. The Sunday practice was the majority practice (Church History 5.23). The Nisan 14 practice was used only in the Roman Province of Asia (not all of Asia Minor).

Christsfreeservant said:

And this ministers to me, too: For all the times in my life where I was walking by faith, and I was obeying God, which was the majority of my life, I kept getting mistreated by men, many of them serving as pastors, who had no regard for me, for I was a woman and I didn’t have credentials that made me important in their sight. And so some of them misjudged me because of my sincerity of faith in the Lord and my seriousness of purpose in speaking the word of the Lord, and many of them just cast me aside as a nob

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I think that over the last half century, men have engaged in corrupt professional practices here and there, while women were still wisely staying at home. And instead of reforming themselves, some have degraded them in turn, so as not to have to face their shame in their eyes.
Corrupting one's brother (or sister) has been an international sport. Facing this is probably the only policy that can prevent decadence.

Evil communication corrupts good manners... Or in his words... Bad company corrupts good morals.

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The Liturgist said:

To clarify: @MarkRohfrietsch didn’t say that you had, after all, you identify as non-denom so one would assume you don’t accept her writings as inspired prophecy. Rather, he was giving an example of what he believed St. Paul was referring to.

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I am fully aware of the intent of his posts. But thank you for your reply.

And yes, according to his post, I gather that he believes Paul was teaching to the Colossians; "It was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. ... Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. ... Let us ... studiously avoiding all contact "with that evil way". ..

But it is clear that the Jews were not following God's Feasts, or His Judgments or His Sabbaths. This I know because EVERY Word Jesus used to define the doctrines and philosophies of the Pharisees religion, exposed this undeniable truth. And the Law and Prophets is full of the rebuke of the "Jews Religion", as Paul calls it, who despised God's Laws, Judgments and Commandments, and went about establishing their own.

So the religious philosophy being promoted here, in my view, is promoting the rejection of God's Word, because of the disobedience of men who rejected God's Word. As if it was the Feasts of the Lord, that caused them to persecute and murder the Lord's Christ. When the truth is, they polluted and defiled the Feasts of the Lord, and rejected His Judgments.

According to what is actually written in scriptures, had the rebellious Jews repented and turned to God, like Peter and Paul did, and, as Paul teaches both Jew and Gentile, "Yielded themselves" a servant to obey God, which Paul said was simply "their reasonable service", they wouldn't have murdered anyone.

They would have known the Lord's Christ, just as Zacharias and Elizabeth knew the Lord's Christ, before HE was even born, as Simeon and Anna did. And the Wise men did.

I do not believe Paul was promoting the rejection of God's sabbaths or Feasts to the Colossians based on what is actually written, as they are shadows of things yet to be fulfilled.

While The Jewish feast of Hanukkah, and other man made high days created by this world's religions, are shadows of nothing to come.

I am happy to discuss this understanding, and I appreciate your zeal and willingness to engage. And I know we might not agree concerning Paul's teaching. But the discussions are a good thing in my view.

Homan is giving them every opportunity. However, it seems to me that the agitators, led by Walz, Frey, and Omar, are not going to comply with federal law.

JacquelineDeane55 said:

Have any of you ever felt this way about where you were born?

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Yes, and it is a long way from a small town in Florida - it is on the southern edge of London.

My birth, in my family's then home, caused a load of complications in life too.

I have been back to the town a few times, it is only an hour away, I can get there. But it is not the same now, the local community has changed beyond all recognition since the army were moved to somewhere else.

London is not exactly the same, but London is much harder to change...it has been there, being itself, for a very long time.

Um, hi earthbear. I am not going to ask you what wrong deed you did that made you a criminal, but I implore you to ask Jesus to help you develop more empathy. Jesus can do everything after all.

Fred Flinstone

I will never grow facial hair. I'm fine looking young as possible.

Please pray for an elderly woman who recently died.

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace. Amen. May her soul, and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen!

Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy on the Russian faithful! Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

Well, look at that, federal funding for higher education is the next thing the administration is trying to break.