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I am interested in your views on the short, medium and long term effects. Especially if reciprocal tariffs are imposed.

How do you people feel about this? President Donald Trump rolled out sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs Wednesday on trading partners and allies across the globe. Declaring that foreign trade practices have created a “national emergency,” the president unveiled a baseline 10% levy on all international im...

Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the...

Just days after a stunning public clash with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today underscored that he wants to "make things right" with Trump and wanted to work under his "strong leadership" to secure a lasting peace in Ukrain...

Poland’s democracy hero Lech Wałęsa and dozens of other former political prisoners in Poland have written a letter to President Donald Trump, telling him that his treatment of Ukraine’s president at the Oval Office last week filled them “with horror and distaste.” Wałęsa, who served as president soo...

Fair call periginator.

As the Trump administration begins preliminary talks with Russian officials about ending the war in Ukraine, intelligence from the United States and close allies shows that Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to control all of Ukraine, according to four Western intelligence officials and tw...

Putin & Trump are cut from the same cloth - nasty and evil bullies. Trump and his supporters can f*ck off. It is amazing that you think these kinds of childish insults and temper tantrums will either persuade anyone or prove yourself to be morally superior. You don't seem to realize that it is ...

Putin & Trump are cut from the same cloth - nasty and evil bullies.
Trump and his supporters can f*ck off.

Statement of Bishop Michael F. Burbidge on President Trump’s In Vitro Fertilization Executive Order: President Trump’s executive order “Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization” is a disappointing and unnecessary action. While the Church proclaims the dignity of all persons and affirms the truth t...

The Turnip: Vice President Vance appointed adjunct professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville

The following statement was issued in response to action taken by the Trump Administration rescinding guidance related to "protected areas" in immigration enforcement. “Catholic health care, Catholic Charities agencies, and the Church’s other social service ministries work daily to feed, h...

My faith is based on public revelation i.e. the Scriptures, Tradition and Magisterium I read in particular the early Fathers and there is stream of authentic Catholic Christianity that continues for 2,000 years. Private revelation (approved or not) and objects like the Shroud neither increase or dec...

Pope Francis has named for the first time a woman, Sister Simona Brambilla, to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia, continuing to add to the number of women in leadership roles at the Vatican, a hallmark of his pontificate. The 59-year-old Brambilla, a member and former superior general of the Conso...

I and most of my friends have been Charismatics for over 40 years. We have toned down the emotionalism over the years. We also tend to be more theologically (and generally) educated than the average Catholics. These days we tend to be more liturgically mainline and do not hold hands etc. Many of my ...

This blog gives an historical summary of the American (and Universal) Church in regards to Holy Days and Fasting. From what I can see in the US the pre V2 holy days were: Christmas Circumcision Epiphany Ascension Immaculate Conception Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Saints Peter and Paul All Saints...

I am happy with the explanation in the Catechism: 1374 The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend."199 In the most blessed sacr...

Pope Francis, who will celebrate his 88th birthday in December, has approved simplified liturgical rites for the death of a pontiff. Source: NCR Online. His body will rest in a zinc-lined wooden casket, according to the new rites. Recent popes had been buried inside a cypress wood coffin surrounded ...