As just announced in the @UN First Committee, Russia’s COSMOS 2612 military satellite has been exhibiting threatening behavior by intentionally maneuvering dangerously close to a commercial satellite, behaviors consistent with on-orbit weapons operations. This violates long-established safety thresholds in low Earth orbit. The United States will continue to secure and defend American vital national security interests in, from, and to space.
Pope Leo XIV’s doctors have confirmed that the tumor removed on October 13 was a lung adenocarcinoma and that the disease was localized.
Dr. Luigi Carbone and Professor Stefano Margaritora said on Wednesday evening that a subsequent oncological assessment has confirmed that “no further treatment is necessary.”
1996 Greater Coat of Arms proposal, likely being used due to a resolution from back in 2020 to adopt a Greater Coat of Arms that while adopted, never went anywhere given the, uh, more pressing issues.
Ukraine appears to have adopted a monarchical coat of arms, with a crown, which is odd since it has no history as a kingdom and has never had its own king.
Houston-area Antiochian mission purchases new property
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St. Thekla Orthodox Church, a new mission in the greater Houston area, has bought a property that it’s now converting into its new church.
"Those who say, 'I love God,' and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen."
Catholic priest Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari was killed when a crucifix fell on him during a service in Ecuador. Congregants tried to help, but he died from his injuries.
“The situation has never been so serious; the Fifth Republic is on the verge of collapse. My family has served France for centuries, and if France calls upon me, I will be at its service. The indispensable condition is that France desires the return of the monarchy - a monarchy above parties, unifying.”
- Luís de Bourbon, direct descendant of Saint Louis IX
Read the Didache for the first time. Not sure why Catholics keep waving it at Protestants.
No pope. No priests. Overseers picked by the congregation. A Eucharist eaten as a full meal, no body-and-blood language. Confession before the assembly.
Where's the Rome in this?
I can't possibly imagine why they might do this when the Russian state is only... *checks notes* murdering their countrymen and actively targeting their churches
Scandalous scenes in Kiev – The Zelensky regime continues the persecution of believers.
Clergy and faithful of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) are forced to trample on the Russian flag and the images of Russian Patriarch Kirill and President Putin.
Had the opportunity to sit in on my parish's adult catechism class.
I was immediately hit with bitching about the ACNA's existence and the Pope apparently having been the spokesman/hype guy for Western Christianity, as well as the Reformation starting in 1200.
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Crusader imagery in the world wars was such a larp. "Yea a crusade against European Christian monarchies". Only men from the 19th century could larp this much and so badly
The Magician's Nephew being set in the 50s implies that the Pevensies were sent to the countryside in the 90s to escape the woes of Margaret Thatcher's fiscal policy.