Why Iran Could Choose to Escalate the War nytimes.com/…/03/opinion/trump-empowers-iranian-e… Oct. 3, 2026 By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist In early March, nine days after starting his war with Iran, President Trump held a news conference to crow about his “military success, the likes of which people haven’t seen.” “We’re winning very decisively,” he claimed, and “the result will be lower oil prices.” Peter Navarro, a White House senior counselor, wrote an essay in March explaining why: “Iran War Will Lower Energy Prices.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in April announced “a historic and overwhelming victory” that had rendered Iran “combat-ineffective for years to come.” Instead, Trump’s Iran war should be taught for decades as a model of how not to conduct either war or foreign policy. It’s an example of how hubris can swamp a presidency and lead it to military solutions for difficult global problems — and, in the process, make everything worse. Now Trump finds himself stuck in …കൂടുതൽ
In the New World Taking Shape, We’re All on Our Own nytimes.com/…/22/opinion/trump-deportation-third-… Costa Rica has become one of the biggest recipients of third-country nationals from the United States By Krista Mahr Photographs by Hope Mora Ms. Mahr is a senior international editor for Opinion. She reported from Costa Rica. Ms. Mora is a Mexican American photographer based in Texas. Sept. 22, 2026 Leer en español This essay is part of “The New World Disorder,” a series exploring the disintegration of the postwar international system and how countries are adjusting as America steps aside. Each month, tens of thousands of tourists arriving from the United States descend over the green mountains of Costa Rica to touch down at Juan Santamaría International Airport outside San José. They shuffle through immigration and then past images of sloths hawking 5G SIM cards, toucans selling rum distilled with renewable energy and someone doing yoga at sunset. Costa Rica is the happiest country …കൂടുതൽ
Leo XIV “largely continues the post-conciliar revolution,” Edward Pentin said October 3 at the Catholic Identity Conference in Pittsburgh. “Pope Leo… is very much a continuity figure, continuing the post-conciliar course mapped out by Pope Francis,” Pentin said. While Leo has “changed the tone for the better,” his improvements remain “largely symbolic and small scale.” Pentin said he has “often heard in recent months in Rome” that many around Leo “helped him get elected precisely so he might continue the revolution.” On Leo XIV’s emphasis on unity, Pentin said the pontificate has avoided many “neuralgic issues” by “essentially not talking about them.” He added that “what is unacceptable among the Church’s leadership is fidelity to the Church’s doctrine and tradition”. Pentin said some call Leo XIV’s priority a “false peace and false unity,” and cited two anonymous Roman priests warning against unity through silence about error.
Edward Pentin on Leo XIV at the CIC conference: Leo XIV continues Francis's work with a better style.
Italian Archbishop celebrates priestly ordination wearing sandals without socks. On 14 June 2026, Archbishop Paolo Giulietti of Lucca, Italy, ordained Emanuele Martinelli and Samuele Ghiselli to the priesthood at the Cathedral of San Martino in Lucca. Photographs of the ceremony show Archbishop Giulietti presiding in liturgical vestments while wearing sandals without socks.
Mons. Giulietti (Lucca) e la nuova moda “scalza” dei Vescovi alle ordinazioni
Martinez said he told Baldacchino during the April 22 meeting that his parish is aware of the music minister’s homosexual relationship and that his position as a music minister has been held “for a long time,” at least 20 years. The pastor, Fr. Pacquing, reportedly told Martinez that the minister does not receive Holy Communion, confirming his awareness of the man’s homosexual lifestyle. Bishop Baldacchino’s response was to say we must “be merciful,” that they would “investigate and look into it,” and that “we’re all sinners here,” Martinez recalled.
US Bishop attends smudging ceremony. On July 11, the Diocese of Raleigh hosted its first multicultural celebration honoring St. Kateri Tekakwitha - the first North American Indigenous saint - at Holy Cross Church. The gathering included discussions, music, and indigenous dances. Richard Duran, a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe from Arizona, led a smudging ceremony, which the diocese described as sharing cleansing smoke “as an act of prayer and spiritual connection.” Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama was present and drew laughter when he said he would dance with his heart, not his body, because dancing to music can frustrate him. Smudging has nothing to do with St. Kateri. She left her indigenous community and moved to the Christian Mohawk community at Kahnawake, where she could freely live her Catholic faith.
The bishop of Raleigh, North Carolina participated over a shamanistic “smudging” ceremony to celebrate St. Catherine “Kateri” Tekakwitha, who rejected her native Mohawk religion. Pascua Taqui tribe member Richard Duran led the congregation of Holy Cross Catholic Church in Durham in a “smudging” ceremony in July. Smudging is a shamanic ritual that involves burning herbs and resins to “cleanse” a space of negative energy.
Canadian Orthodox church burned to the ground on "truth and reconciliation" day, destroying priceless icons and stained glass. More than 130 Canadian churches have burned since 2021.
The Dissenter @disntr UCC "pastor" Rev. Nathan Dannison gives long-winded explanation of why he can call his god a "queer god." He then explains why there is ackshuuually "no biblical definition of marriage" and the language of "one man and one woman" was added in 2003 to benefit "people in power."
Some folks are so narcissistic that everything they look at and perceive is interpreted a reflection of themselves. "Eat of the fruit, and you will be like gods..."
Advocate General Laila Medina at the European Court of Justice has issued an opinion in a Belgian case that could have wider implications across the EU for how churches handle requests to erase baptismal records under the GDPR. She concluded that everyone has “in principle, the right to have his or her personal data erased from the baptismal register where the controller fails to demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject.”
WHITE SMOKE 1958 -72- ABDICATION Third point: The abdication of the elected pope on October 26, 1958, did indeed take place, which allowed the conclave to continue and elect another pontiff. The certainty of this abdication—which is neither a hypothesis nor a conjecture—is corroborated by another fact that, too, cannot be disputed since it is verifiable. Indeed, during the election of a Pope, before the elected candidate steps out onto the balcony, three things are absolutely necessary, namely: - that he accepts, - that he takes a name, - and while the white smoke rises toward the sky, that he receives the first homage from all the cardinals. And only then does he step out for the urbi et orbi blessing. These three things occurred for John XXIII, which means that all the cardinals paid him homage, including the one elected on October 26, which means that the latter had indeed abdicated. Everything I have stated in these three points cannot be disputed by anyone. The question remains as …കൂടുതൽ
Thursday, 2nd October 1913: Solicitor At Work Preparing Answer To Frank Motion, The Atlanta Journal The Atlanta Journal, Thursday, 2nd October 1913, PAGE 1, COLUMN 7. Dorsey Has Dropped All Other Business and Will Devote His Time Exclusively to New Trial Fight JUROR JOHENNING SAYS HE WAS UNPREJUDICED He Declares He, Henslee and All the Others Served Only Through a Sense of Duty Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey has dropped all other business and is devoting his exclusive attention to the preparation of his answer to the defense's motion for a new trial for Leo M. Frank. The case is set for argument before Judge L. S. Roan on Saturday, but there is little chance of it being heard then. The amended motion is a voluminous document containing 115 different counts upon which a new trial is asked, and by devoting all of his time to it, the solicitor will scarcely be able to get his answer in shape in less than two weeks, and it is extremely probable that he will ask a postponement until at …കൂടുതൽ
The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox Joe Rogan and Andrew Huberman look up how many Americans die from medical error each year, and the answer floors them both. ROGAN: “Okay, so medical error is responsible for 251,000 deaths a year.” HUBERMAN: “Whoa, that’s crazy.” ROGAN: “Do you understand how insane that is? Imagine if that was Pop-Tarts.” That number comes from a 2016 Johns Hopkins study published in the BMJ. It estimated medical errors kill 251,454 Americans a year, which makes them the third leading cause of death, behind only heart disease and cancer. And it gets worse. A 2023 Johns Hopkins and Harvard study found that misdiagnosis alone kills an estimated 371,000 Americans a year and leaves another 424,000 permanently disabled. If an airline killed that many people, nobody would ever board a plane again.
Monsignor Gilles Wach, founder and prior general of the traditionalist Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (ICRSP), has been an honorary member of the Rotary Club Firenze Valdisieve for years. Medias-Presse.info highlights Rotary publications from both 2014 and 2024 describing Monsignor Wach as an honorary member, including on occasions when the club was received at the ICRSP seminary in Gricigliano. In 1950, the Holy Office issued a decision, approved by Pope Pius XII, forbidding Catholic clergy from joining Rotary Clubs or attending their meetings. Catholic authorities at the time cited concerns including religious indifferentism and Masonic or anticlerical influences. Medias-Presse.info asks: how does Monsignor Wach reconcile his Rotary affiliation with the tradition his Institute professes to uphold?
Diabolical disorientation. Saint Lucia of Fatima says it: Diabolical disorientation. Saint Matthew 24:24 says it: ...insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.
Daily Scripture Readings | 4 October 2026 | 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) Book of Isaiah 5,1-7. Let me now sing of my friend, my friend's song concerning his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside; He spaded it, cleared it of stones, and planted the choicest vines; Within it he built a watchtower, and hewed out a wine press. Then he looked for the crop of grapes, but what it yielded was wild grapes. Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard: What more was there to do for my vineyard that I had not done? Why, when I looked for the crop of grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes? Now, I will let you know what I mean to do to my vineyard: Take away its hedge, give it to grazing, break through its wall, let it be trampled! Yes, I will make it a ruin: it shall not be pruned or hoed, but overgrown with thorns and briers; I will command the clouds not to send rain upon it. The vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel …കൂടുതൽ
27. Sonntag im Jahreskreis - Erntedanksonntag Buch Jesaja 5,1-7. Ich will singen von meinem Freund, das Lied meines Liebsten von seinem Weinberg. Mein Freund hatte einen Weinberg auf einer fruchtbaren Höhe. Er grub ihn um und entfernte die Steine und bepflanzte ihn mit edlen Reben. Er baute in seiner Mitte einen Turm und hieb zudem eine Kelter in ihm aus. Dann hoffte er, dass der Weinberg Trauben brächte, doch er brachte nur faule Beeren. Und nun, Bewohner Jerusalems und Männer von Juda, richtet zwischen mir und meinem Weinberg! Was hätte es für meinen Weinberg noch zu tun gegeben, das ich ihm nicht getan hätte? Warum hoffte ich, dass er Trauben brächte? Und er brachte nur faule Beeren! Jetzt aber will ich euch kundtun, was ich mit meinem Weinberg mache: seine Hecke entfernen, sodass er abgeweidet wird; einreißen seine Mauer, sodass er zertrampelt wird. Zu Ödland will ich ihn machen. Nicht werde er beschnitten, nicht behackt, sodass Dornen und Disteln hochkommen. Und den Wolken gebiete …കൂടുതൽ
A nearly 70-year-old Orthodox church in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, was destroyed by fire on September 30, along with icons, stained glass and artwork. No one was injured. Authorities have not determined the cause. #newsOownbfodmq
The Plandemic in the Dock
