Trump hopes peace-making efforts get him into Heaven; Newsom’s political chaos in CA is spreading to the rest of the country; Crime rates plummet in DC after Trump orders federal takeover; More Americans joining Catholic Church than leaving for first time in decades; Cardinal Pizzaballa warns Satan trying to rule where Jesus lived; Pope Leo designates August 22 a day of prayer and fasting for peace; and more —
White House eyes Budapest for peace talks with Zelenskyy and Putin
The White House is planning for a possible trilateral meeting between the U.S., Russian and Ukrainian presidents in the Hungarian capital of Budapest as the next steps in negotiating an end to the years-long war, according to a Trump administration official and a person close to the administration.
The U.S. Secret Service is preparing for the summit in the Central European nation led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has been close with President Donald Trump since the American president’s first term in office.
While the Secret Service often scouts multiple locations and the ultimate venue could change, Budapest is emerging as a first choice for the White House, said the two people, both granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. …
Read more at Politico
President Trump tells Fox News he hopes his efforts to end wars will bring him closer to Heaven
Tulsi Gabbard Revokes Nearly 40 More Security Clearances In Wake Of Russiagate Fallout
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard announced Tuesday that she pulled 37 security clearances from former and current intelligence professionals.
Gabbard claimed they “abused public trust by politicizing and manipulating” information in a post on X. Several were connected to the assessment of alleged Russian influence in the 2016 election ordered by former President Barack Obama, the New York Post (NYP) first reported.
Read more at The Daily Caller
Gabbard: Russiagate Undermined the Integrity of Our Republic, The Real Crime Was Against the American People
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to FOX News host Sean Hannity about the “seditious conspiracy” in the Obama intelligence community to undermine President Donald Trump’s first presidency after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. …
[According to Gabbard,] they created this politicized, weaponized piece of fake intelligence that, as you mentioned, then went on to serve as a foundation for everything that came after, the multiple investigations, the years-long Mueller investigation, two congressional impeachments, investigations in the raid at Mar-a-Lago. The list goes on and on.
Ultimately, the real crime here was against the American people because this action singularly undermined the integrity of our democratic republic.
Read more at RealClear Politics
DOJ investigating DC police over allegations of manipulated crime data
The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating whether the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. has been manipulating crime statistics following allegations made by President Donald Trump and the head of the district’s police union. …
Reports on the investigation surfaced a day after Trump suggested the MPD is being investigated over its allegedly fake crime data.
“D.C. gave Fake Crime numbers in order to create a false illusion of safety,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and they are under serious investigation for so doing!”
Read more at the Washington Examiner
Crime rates plummet in DC after Trump orders federal takeover
Crime in Washington, DC, has declined sharply since President Donald Trump ordered federal law enforcement and National Guard troops to assume control of policing the capital earlier this month, according to new data.
FOX News reported Aug. 19 that since the Aug. 7 intervention, carjackings have dropped by 83%, robbery by 46%, violent crime by 22%, and car theft by 21%.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an Aug. 19 press briefing that federal officers have made 465 arrests since the operation began. On the night of Aug. 18 alone, she said officers arrested 52 people, including an illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member.
Read more at Catholic Vote
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey stepping down to become FBI co-deputy director
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a staunch supporter of President Trump, announced he’s resigning from his state post to take a high-ranking leadership position at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Bailey’s last day as attorney general will be Sept. 8, he announced Monday. After that, he will serve as co-deputy director of the FBI alongside Dan Bongino, who fell out of Trump’s good graces amid infighting surrounding the contested Epstein Files.
“My life has been defined by a call to service, and I am once again answering that call, this time at the national level,” Bailey said in a statement.
Read more at the New York Post
DHS Blames Gavin Newsom After Illegal Alien Is Charged with Killing Three Americans: ‘How Many More Innocent People Must Die?’
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are blaming Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and his continued support for sanctuary policies after an illegal alien trucker, who was given a driver’s license in California, was charged with making an illegal U-turn that killed three Americans this month.
As Breitbart News reported, Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India, was driving a semi truck in St. Lucie County, Florida, when he made an illegal U-turn that ultimately left three Americans dead.
Read more at Breitbart
Media Insist Mail Voting Is Secure Days After MI Councilman Investigated For Stuffing Ballot Boxes
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he would work to “get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS.” Democrats and their media allies reflexively attacked the president, insisting that mail-in voting is secure — as if repeating it often enough makes it true. …
Just this month in Hamtramck, Michigan, surveillance video purportedly captured several people — allegedly including Abu Musa, an incumbent city councilman running for reelection — stuffing ballot drop boxes. …. Notably, Musa won his reelection after receiving 1,129 votes … “Of the total 1,129 votes received by Musa, 843 were cast by absentee ballot,” [according to the Daily Mail]
Read more at The Federalist
Trump Vows To Gut Wokeness From Our Museums: ‘We Are Not Going To Allow This’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to gut all “woke” nonsense from our museums, specifically calling out the Smithsonian.
The president criticized our museums for downplaying American greatness, and instead promoting “woke” ideology that denigrates our nation. …
“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future,” he criticized.
Read more at the Daily Wire
Court says California school district must allow Christian club access to facilities
A federal district court has ordered that a California school district must grant a Christian children’s club equal access to school facilities, arguing that the denial of that access violates the club’s free speech rights.
The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) will be required to provide “equal access to available spaces and benefits” to the group Child Evangelism Fellowship of NorCal, District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. said in an Aug. 15 ruling.
The court order found that the school district apparently engaged in “viewpoint discrimination” in violation of the U.S. Constitution when it barred the group from after-school use of campus facilities.
Read more at the Catholic News Agency
Education Dept places five Virginia school districts on high-alert status over transgender bathrooms
The Department of Education on Tuesday announced it was placing five northern Virginia school districts on “high-risk status” within the federal grant system, after they declined to obey the department’s directive to change their policies regarding transgender students using bathrooms that align with their chosen gender identity. …
The Education Department found last month that Arlington Public Schools, Alexandria City Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools and the Prince William County Public Schools violated Title IX by allowing students access to “intimate, sex-segregated facilities” based on the students’ chosen gender identity instead of their biological sex.
Read more at Just the News
Doctor Wants to Redefine Death So Hospitals Can Harvest More Organs
The New York Times just published an opinion piece with a shocking headline: “Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death.”
Yes, you read that correctly. The authors, a cardiologist and two heart transplant directors, argued that the rules for declaring someone dead should be loosened—so hospitals can harvest more organs.
Read more at LifeNews.com
Canada is Killing Itself – The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.
When Canada’s Parliament in 2016 legalized the practice of euthanasia—Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, as it’s formally called—it launched an open-ended medical experiment. One day, administering a lethal injection to a patient was against the law; the next, it was as legitimate as a tonsillectomy, but often with less of a wait. MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer.
Read more at The Atlantic
More Americans joining Catholic Church than leaving for first time in decades
The Catholic Church in the United States appears to be entering a period of renewed growth, with the latest data showing that more people are now joining than leaving.
Figures compiled by Shane Schaetzel, using research from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), the Pew Research Center, the National Catholic Register, and Vatican statistics, suggest that after two decades of decline, adult conversions are once again on the rise.
At the beginning of the millennium, annual conversions stood at around 175,000. Over the following twenty years, the numbers steadily diminished, reaching a low of 70,000 in 2020. Since then, however, the trend has reversed sharply. … Importantly, these conversions are domestic in character. They do not represent Catholic immigrants being counted anew, but rather Americans themselves choosing to embrace the faith.
Read more at The Catholic Herald
Search underway for vandal who destroyed windows of Anchorage cathedral
Police in Anchorage, Alaska, are searching for a man who, according to security camera footage, damaged several windows of a historic Catholic cathedral Aug. 13.
Must Read Alaska reported that the suspect approached Holy Family Cathedral in the middle of the night and used bricks from a nearby planter to shatter the cathedral’s windows, damaging sections of stained glass.
“Holy Family Cathedral, a central place of worship for Anchorage’s Catholic community, has endured past incidents of vandalism, but parish members say this attack is especially painful because of the damage to its irreplaceable stained glass,” the outlet noted.
Read more at Catholic Vote
Cardinal Pizzaballa Warns that Satan is Trying to Rule Where Jesus Lived
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa [in a recent homily] warns of Satan’s desire to rule where Jesus lived. The Patriarch’s diocese encompasses people living in Israel and those living in Gaza, the Palestinian territories and the West Bank.
“It really does seem that our Holy Land, which houses the highest revelation and manifestation of God, is also the place of the highest manifestation of Satan’s power. And perhaps precisely because it is the Place where the heart of salvation history is located, it is also the place where “the Ancient Adversary” tries to assert himself more than anywhere else,” said the prelate.
Read more at Catholic News World
Pope Leo XIV to Amazon bishops: Nature is not to be worshipped but exists to praise God
Pope Leo XIV sent a telegram to the bishops of the Amazon region participating in a meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, this week, reminding them of the importance of caring for nature without becoming slaves or worshippers of it.
In his message, addressed to Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno, president of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon, the Holy Father thanked the prelates for their “efforts made to promote the greater good of the Church in favor of the faithful of the beloved Amazonian territory.”
Read more at the Catholic News Agency
Cardinal Burke: Leo XIV’s papacy is ‘characterized by Christo-centrism’
Praising Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Burke has said that the new Pope “is characterized by Christo-centrism” …
In [Cdl.] Burke’s assessment, Leo has shown himself to be a Pope centered upon Christ. Speaking to Italian outlet La Stampa, Burke commented:
“The pontificate of Leo XIV is characterized by Christo-centrism; he always speaks of the Lord and his Church. It is important that the Church not be reduced to an NGO.”
Read more at Per Mariam
Pope says forgiveness means evil doesn’t have to have the last word
During his General Audience, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the importance of forgiveness in the lives of people, looking at the story of Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus.
“How many relationships are broken, how many stories become complicated, how many unspoken words remain suspended,” the pontiff said in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican on Aug. 20.
“And yet the Gospel shows us that there is always a way to continue to love, even when everything seems irredeemably compromised. To forgive does not mean to deny evil, but to prevent it from generating further evil. It is not to say that nothing has happened, but to do everything possible to ensure that resentment does not determine the future,” Leo said.
Read more at Crux
Pope Leo XIV has called for a day of fasting and prayer this coming Friday for peace throughout the world
