TLDR Headlines According to Bridget

May 31, 2024

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Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said that both China and the Vatican hope that the controversial deal on episcopal appointments will be renewed for a third time this year. The deal is considered “secret”, as the terms have never been made public.
Although the details are unclear, the fruits have not been good for religious freedom, or Catholics in China. Twice now, the CCP has appointed bishops without Vatican approval.
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Democrats recently urged Justice Alito to recuse after it was found an upside-down American flag flew outside his home and a historical “Appeal to Heaven” flag flew at his beach house. They stated that since the flags have been flown by people who assert the 2020 election was rife with fraud, Justice Alito “clearly created an appearance of impropriety in violation of the Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States” and “created reasonable doubt as to his impartiality in certain proceedings, thereby requiring his disqualification in those proceedings.”
Alito’s response? He blamed his wife. Yes, really.
Justice Alito wrote in response, “As soon as I saw it, I asked my wife to take it down, but for several days, she refused. My wife and I own our Virginia home jointly. She therefore has the legal right to use the property as she sees fit, and there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly.”
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House COVID-19 Committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup said there is new evidence suggesting Fauci used his personal email and cellphone for government communication.
The request comes after Fauci’s Senior Advisor Dr. David Morens emailed former EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak and stated that he could send messages to Fauci privately to dodge Freedom of Information Act requests. “I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work," Morens wrote in the email, dated 2021. "He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble."
Wenstrup wrote, "This new evidence raises additional, serious concerns about public health officials purposefully concealing information and behaving as if they are unaccountable to the American people they serve.”
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Located on the former Springfield, Illinois, campus of the Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross, who operated the St. James Trade School there from 1928 to 1972, the new school will have the Norbertine order as their chaplains and program guides.
The project is supported by various labor unions, who will pay all costs for apprenticeships.
A graduate of Wyoming Catholic College, the founding president, Kent Lasnoski says he will pitch the college to prospective students as offering, “an authentic Catholic formation, training in the Great Books, which prepare people for any career and exposure to trades, and then choose a trade that can pay them, come out of college without debt, and with a useful degree.”
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Ummm, is anyone else getting nervous about flying? This week, two passenger jets nearly collided at Reagan Washington National Airport, the second such incident in the past two months.
VA Senator Tim Kaine said, "I’m relieved no one was hurt, but this incident underscores again that DCA is at capacity. This shows why Senate action to jam even more flights into DCA was so dangerous. The FAA must resist any new flights that compromise safety."
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