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- By JohnEmmett
- Visual Arts
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Artist John Emmett
Artwork created through the use of artificial intelligence. Partially at least…
Vatican may add ‘spiritual abuse’ to crimes in Church law
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has commissioned a study group to consider how “spiritual abuse” could be classified as a distinct and particular crime under canon law.
Evidence from many cases suggests that a period of spiritual abuse can precede other forms of abuse, but often it can be seen as subjective or inconclusive when reported.
So could a delict of “spiritual abuse” actually make it into law — and if it does, how easy would it be to prosecute?
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Evidence from many cases suggests that a period of spiritual abuse can precede other forms of abuse, but often it can be seen as subjective or inconclusive when reported.
So could a delict of “spiritual abuse” actually make it into law — and if it does, how easy would it be to prosecute?
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Can the Church handle a spiritual abuse law?
Will new rules at the DDF actually do anything?
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Ancient Egyptians, modern Catholics, and cremation
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Last November, my wife and I traveled to Boston to visit our son. While there, he took us to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, an extraordinarily rich institution still—surprisingly—not overtaken by extreme wokeness.
The museum has a small but rich collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts whose main attraction, obviously, is mummies. But the exhibition also contains canopic jars. In case you’re wondering what canopic jars are, they are the vessels in which Egyptian embalmers preserved certain organs (the viscera and lungs) they extracted from a body during mummification.
It struck me that, in one sense, the pagan ancient Egyptians in one respect had a greater respect for human embodiment and incarnation than many modern semi-gnostic “Christians”.
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The museum has a small but rich collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts whose main attraction, obviously, is mummies. But the exhibition also contains canopic jars. In case you’re wondering what canopic jars are, they are the vessels in which Egyptian embalmers preserved certain organs (the viscera and lungs) they extracted from a body during mummification.
It struck me that, in one sense, the pagan ancient Egyptians in one respect had a greater respect for human embodiment and incarnation than many modern semi-gnostic “Christians”.
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Ancient Egyptians, modern Catholics, and cremation
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More than 100 members of Congress urge investigation into abortion funding
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Here is a roundup of recent pro-life related policy developments in the United States.
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Lawmakers ask for investigation into abortion funding
More than 100 members of Congress asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the amount of federal funding given to abortion providers nationally and internationally over the past three years, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates.Continued below.
More than 100 members of Congress urge investigation into abortion funding
One hundred and twelve members of Congress signed the Nov. 22 letter spearheaded by House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ).
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Kamala Harris mocks Trump call for mass deportation of illegal immigrants
- By wing2000
- American Politics
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Are you referring to the wholesale price of food?
There's a reason why over half of our vegetables come from Mexico....and a good portion of the remainder from the Imperial Valley where over half the workers are undocumented.
US Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Imports - Rural Migration Blog | Migration Dialogue
migration.ucdavis.edu
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Walmart to scale back 'woke' policies following pressure from conservative activist
- By Michie
Walmart has begun to scale back its progressive, diversity, equity and inclusion policies as major American companies face pressure to abandon their embrace of what critics call "woke" activism.
In an X post published Monday, conservative activist and social influencer Robby Starbuck, who has pressured other entities to end progressive DEI policies in recent years, announced that the major retailer Walmart is "ending its woke policies."
Starbuck has become the face of the movement to convince big businesses to abandon progressive political activism and company policies advancing the identity politics-focused diversity, equity and inclusion. Earlier this year, he called for a boycott of the retailer Tractor Supply Co. over advocacy that he characterized as at odds with the values of its customer base.
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In an X post published Monday, conservative activist and social influencer Robby Starbuck, who has pressured other entities to end progressive DEI policies in recent years, announced that the major retailer Walmart is "ending its woke policies."
Starbuck has become the face of the movement to convince big businesses to abandon progressive political activism and company policies advancing the identity politics-focused diversity, equity and inclusion. Earlier this year, he called for a boycott of the retailer Tractor Supply Co. over advocacy that he characterized as at odds with the values of its customer base.
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Walmart to scale back 'woke' policies following pressure from conservative activist
Walmart has begun to scale back its progressive, diversity, equity and inclusion policies as major American companies face pressure to abandon their embrace of what critics call woke activism
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Shocking video shows 2-year-old girl alone at border as illegal immigration concerns persist
- By Michie
Newly released video footage shows an unaccompanied toddler crossing into the United States to join her parents who are already in the country as concerns about illegal immigration continue to loom large in the minds of Americans.
Lt. Chris Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety shared video footage on X Sunday documenting an encounter employees of his agency had with a 2-year-old girl they encountered in the border county of Maverick County. Olivarez summarized the interaction between law enforcement officials and the girl, who communicated in Spanish, in a caption accompanying the video.
“An unaccompanied 2-year-old child from El Salvador explains she arrived in the U.S. by herself and that her parents are in the U.S. The child had a piece of paper with a phone number and name,” he explained. “This is a stark example of the precarious journey these children make from their home country and how criminal organizations traffic these children across the southern border and further into the interior.”
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Lt. Chris Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety shared video footage on X Sunday documenting an encounter employees of his agency had with a 2-year-old girl they encountered in the border county of Maverick County. Olivarez summarized the interaction between law enforcement officials and the girl, who communicated in Spanish, in a caption accompanying the video.
“An unaccompanied 2-year-old child from El Salvador explains she arrived in the U.S. by herself and that her parents are in the U.S. The child had a piece of paper with a phone number and name,” he explained. “This is a stark example of the precarious journey these children make from their home country and how criminal organizations traffic these children across the southern border and further into the interior.”
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Shocking video shows 2-year-old girl alone at border as illegal immigration concerns persist
Newly released video footage shows an unaccompanied toddler crossing into the United States to join her parents who are already in the country as concerns about illegal immigration continue to loom
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Human traffickers using AI to entice, exploit children online, expert warns
- By Michie
NEW YORK — Generative Artificial Intelligence, a type of AI that can create new content like text, images, audio and videos, is now being used by human traffickers to entice and exploit children, an official with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has warned.
Speaking at the national launch of global anti-human trafficking organization A21's “Can You See Me?” awareness campaign on Monday, Staca Shehan, vice president at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, said last year alone, nearly 5,000 instances of Generative AI were used or attempted to be used to exploit a child.
Use of the technology to exploit children is one of the reasons why the national nonprofit, which aims to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation and prevent child victimization, released its Take It Down tool last year, which helps combat child sexual exploitation by enabling youth to remove sexually explicit images of themselves from the internet, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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Speaking at the national launch of global anti-human trafficking organization A21's “Can You See Me?” awareness campaign on Monday, Staca Shehan, vice president at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, said last year alone, nearly 5,000 instances of Generative AI were used or attempted to be used to exploit a child.
Use of the technology to exploit children is one of the reasons why the national nonprofit, which aims to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation and prevent child victimization, released its Take It Down tool last year, which helps combat child sexual exploitation by enabling youth to remove sexually explicit images of themselves from the internet, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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Human traffickers using AI to entice, exploit children online, expert warns
Generative Artificial Intelligence, a type of AI that can create new content like text, images, audio and videos, is now being used by human traffickers to entice and exploit children, an official
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