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Francis, ‘Deaconettes,’ and the St. Gallen Mafia

“No,” Pope Francis said.

He was answering Norah O’Donnell’s question about whether “a little girl growing up Catholic today” could “ever have the opportunity to be a deacon and participate as a clergy member in the Church.” Directly and tersely, the pope said, “No.”

It was a seemingly definitive response—and across the social media site X, a myriad of Catholics celebrated it as such.

And yet Francis—to borrow a term from vaticanista Sandro Magister—has a history of pulling “u-turns.”  That is, t...

Is There a Real Possibility of World War III Starting in 2024?

According to www.ndtv.com– The concept of a Third World War has been a topic of intense speculation and debate for decades. With the devastating impacts of the first two world wars still etched in global memory, the idea of another large-scale conflict is both terrifying and compelling. Many astrologers, including Nostradamus and Baba Vanga, have made predictions about WW3 but its possibility remains uncertain. Still, from time to time, news about such predictions keep surfacing on social media ...

Common Signs of Vitamin B1 Deficiency

Thiamine (vitamin B1) is used by nearly all your cells and is essential for several functions in the body. Thiamine is considered an “essential” vitamin because your body can’t produce it on its own; it must be obtained from outside sources; be it diet or supplementation.

Health Benefits of Thiamine

Thiamine’s key health benefits and mechanisms of action include:

Energy production — Thiamine plays a central role in metabolizing glucose to produce energy for the body. It is essential for the prop...

Fraying at the Edges: America’s Descent Into Chaos

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Arrest These Insane NATO Warmongers!

Incredibly, the world is being pushed to the abyss of nuclear war by nonentity Western numbskulls who are not even elected.

Jens Stoltenberg, the civilian head of the NATO military bloc, is the latest blockhead to advocate for the United States to permit the targeting of Russia with long-range weapons.

The Norwegian figurehead, we are led to believe, made the conceptual breakthrough (how much was he paid and by whom or what was the blackmail used?) by telling the Economist magazine that the Ukra...

Here’s Why We’re Where We Are

It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. Here is a paragraph that tells a story:

“Former United States President Donald J. Trump, currently facing 34 felony counts in criminal court, is campaigning for re-election this fall by taking shots at the increasingly popular electric car industry. Trump has already called for oil and gas industry executives to donate significant campaign funds in exchange for a reversal of Biden administration climate policies. If elected this November, Trump wo...

Hugh Owen on Creation and War

When I was growing up, I was taught that the world started with an explosion. But even as a child I thought: Okay. But where did the stuff that exploded come from? Who put it there? What made it explode? The ultimate question is: Why is there something rather than nothing? We all know this is a question that science cannot answer. 

I recently recorded one of my favorite episodes on the Catholics Against Militarism podcast.

My guest was Hugh Owen, founder of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Crea...

Neocon Nikki Signs Israeli Bombs Urging Israel To Kill Palestinian Civilians

Just when you thought “Neocon Nikki” could not sink any lower, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has posted on Twitter/X a deeply disturbing photo of former Republican presidential candidate – and reportedly in the running for Trump’s VP pick – in Israel signing bombs destined for Palestinian refugees living in tents in Rafah with the slogan, “FINISH THEM!”

Just one day after the Israeli military incinerated untold scores of Palestinian refugees in Rafah and after the International ...

We Oppose the State, Its Socialism, and Its Wars

In case you haven’t read it lately—or perhaps you’ve never read it—the mission statement of the Mises Institute states that the Institute “exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.”

For those who find this mission statement too non-specific, I recommend consulting the decades’ worth of commentary and research published by the Institute over ...

Meme Stock Mania and Impending Financial Disaster

International Man: There is growing interest on social media in gambling on companies based on hype rather than business fundamentals like growth and profits.

What do you make of the rise of so-called meme stocks?

Doug Casey: First, let’s define some relevant words: Investing, speculating, and gambling.

When you invest, you’re allocating capital to create more wealth. In effect, you’re planting a seed of corn to get back an ear of corn. That’s how you grow wealthy in a free and stable society. I...