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This week on A Podcast About Catholic Things, Eric (The Ambassador of Common Sense) discuss the latest pop-topic: Alien Life. Are Catholics allowed to believe in alien life? What about alien intelligent life? Could UFOs be demons? Angels? Is it all a big government psy-op? And what about the terrible train wreck in Ohio? Is AI evil? Could that be the third beast, talked about in Apocalypse?
In current events, Data center outage takes down Twitter. Earthquake mayhem. Poland closes border, and proclaims NWO. 1 meter asteroid predicted. Cars to be banned in Europe. WHO warns about H5N1. Man couldn't desecrate tabernacle. UK priest charged with praying. Most abortions coerced. Mississippi won't let people not get vaxed. Newborn baby holding birth control device. Alberta says no to digital ID. FDA extends COVID emergency use. Bishop in Nicaragua jailed. Prolifers continue to pray illegally. Vatican to send out climate change books. Freemasons want to be allowed to be Catholic.
In the land of nonsense, Indians steeling St. Valentine's Day. People almost burie
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Nonsense Notes:
I think we Christians have a legit BEEF against this cultural misappropriation
https://apnews.com/article/pol
Rather than going the whole euthanasia route, just bury them alive...
https://wgntv.com/weird-news/a
https://www.theguardian.com/us
The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain. The clothes, however...
https://www.reuters.com/world/
Eric's News:
- A data center outage leaves Twitter users in the United States and Canada unable to send messages and receiving an error message informing them that they have "exceeded the daily limit for sending tweets". (Fortune)
- The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria increases to 21,051. (AFP via RFI)
- The death toll of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria surpasses 37,000. (Al Jazeera)
- Four people are killed and several houses and buildings are destroyed by a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Papua, Indonesia. (Xinhua via The Star)
- Poland announces the closure of a major border crossing with Belarus "until further notice" amid heightened tensions between the two countries. There are currently only two checkpoints open between the two nations. (Reuters)
- Researchers at the Konkoly Observatory in Hungary discover 2023 CX1, a 1-metre (3.3-foot) asteroid predicted to fall harmlessly as a fireball over the English Channel at 03:00 UTC, making it the seventh asteroid to be discovered before impacting Earth. (JPL Center for NEO Studies)
- The European Parliament formally approves a law to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles in the European Union from 2035, citing the need to combat climate change in Europe, and promote electric vehicles. (Reuters)
- Poland’s prime minister says his nation is ready to help shape ‘new world order’
- ‘We must prepare’: WHO director warns of potential bird flu outbreak among humans
- Illinois citizens file lawsuit to shut down abortion facility in their neighborhood
- Pro-life pregnancy centers in Tennessee to receive up to $100 million from governor
- Man who smashed monastery altar says statue of Mary kept him from desecrating tabernacle
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/man-who-smashed-monastery-altar-says-statue-of-mary-kept-him-from-desecrating-tabernacle/
- The suspect 'looked up and saw a statue of Mary,' and couldn’t bring himself to break open the tabernacle in front of her,' a sheriff recounted.
- A man in Arkansas who was arrested for destroying the altar of a Benedictine monastery is reported to have withheld from desecrating the tabernacle of the church when he looked at a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- UK priest charged after silently praying outside abortion facility, holding free speech sign
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/uk-priest-charged-after-silently-praying-outside-abortion-facility-holding-free-speech-sign/
- A Catholic priest is facing a legal battle after he was charged for breaching a censorship zone by silently praying, in addition to holding a sign with the words “praying for free speech,” near a closed abortion facility in Birmingham.
- Over 60% of abortions are coerced in some way: peer-reviewed study
- Mississippi Republicans kill vaccine religious exemption bill for school kids: report
- The state remains one of the few under Republican control that does not offer a religious exemption for vaccination. “As it stands, Mississippi is 1 of 6 states out of 50 and the only red state that does not offer this religious freedom by way of childhood vaccination exemption,” American Family Association reported.
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mississippi-republicans-kill-vaccine-religious-exemption-bill-for-school-kids-report/
- Newborn baby boy shocks nurses by emerging from mother’s womb holding IUD
- Alberta becomes second Canadian province to reject national healthcare digital ID
- FDA to extend COVID emergency use authorizations for ‘as long as we need,’ commissioner says
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fda-to-extend-covid-emergency-use-authorizations-for-as-long-as-we-need-commissioner-says/
- The Emergency Use Authorizations are 'independent' of the COVID-19 emergency and do not expire, Dr. Robert Califf said.
- Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega’s regime sentences Catholic bishop to 26 years in prison
- Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos of Matagalpa was convicted of being 'a traitor to the country' for the alleged crimes of 'undermining national security and sovereignty, spreading fake news through information technology, obstructing an official in the performance of his duties,' and 'aggravated disobedience or contempt of authority.'
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nicaraguan-dictator-daniel-ortegas-regime-sentences-catholic-bishop-to-26-years-in-prison/
- ‘It ain’t over’: Pro-life group will keep praying outside Planned Parenthood despite $1 million in fines
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/it-aint-over-pro-life-group-will-keep-praying-outside-planned-parenthood-despite-1-million-in-fines/
- A Christian pro-life group was forced to pay nearly $1 million in fines for allegedly “disturb[ing] the peace within” an abortion mill by praying, preaching, and singing hymns outside, a judge ruled earlier this month.
- Vatican partners with leftist Swedish group to send ‘climate change’ books to parishes worldwide
- Freemasons appeal to Pope for support after bishop repeats Church’s condemnation
- Archbishop Bruno Forte re-issued the Vatican's 1983 condemnation of Freemasonry, which prompted local Masons to appeal to the Pope.
- https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/freemasons-appeal-to-pope-for-support-after-bishop-repeats-churchs-condemnation/
d alive. Man doesn't wear pants in Spain.
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