Vatican Publishes ‘Emerging Issues’ Report On Engaging With The Gays

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A Vatican report, released on Tuesday, aimed at creating a “paradigm shift” in how the Church talks about same-sex attraction, has sparked its own conversation about its direction regarding same-sex unions.

The report, published by the General Secretariat of the 2023 Synod on Synodality, was drafted by Study Group No. 9 — of the 10 study groups established by Pope Francis in February 2024 — to understand how to engage with “controversial” or “emerging issues.”

While not having been credited in drafting the report, Fr. James Martin, SJ, who has been accused by many church leaders of undermining the church’s teachings on same-sex attraction, played a large role in promoting the report and holds personal ties with one of the authors of its cited testimonies.

Although the report was supposed to cover the concern of dealing with controversial topics at large, the highlight of the 30-page final report was the testimonies of two openly gay “married” men, the first time such testimonies have been included in a report from the Vatican, the Religion News Service reported.

One of the men said that his “sexuality isn’t a perversion, disorder, or cross; it’s a gift from God. I have a happy, healthy marriage and am flourishing as an openly gay Catholic.” (Read more from “Vatican Publishes ‘Emerging Issues’ Report On Engaging With The Gays” HERE)

Former Trump Advisor Says Anyone Who Thinks Iran Conflict Was Unjustified Is ‘Testicularly Challenged’

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Deputy assistant to the President of the United States Sebastian Gorka defended the Iran war during a Wednesday press call, using colorful language to dismiss criticisms of the conflict.

Gorka called the previous wars led by Republican administrations in the Middle East “forever wars” in a press call on Wednesday. When the Daily Caller News Foundation asked Gorka how specifically the war in Iran was not a “forever war,” he called the belief that it was “a bad joke” and people who do not want to “deal” with the Iranian regime “testicularly challenged,” pushing forward the assertion that the war would remain a “limited air campaign.”

“They have been plotting to kill President [Donald] Trump, members of his cabinet, former military commanders, former members of the administration, the idea that after just one incident like the Beirut bombing or after one attempted plot against the lives of U.S. personnel here in the United States, we don’t deal with this regime means you are testicularly challenged,” Gorka said in his response to the DCNF.

“Let me just say that that is a low T [testosterone] approach to threat to the United States,” he emphasized.

At the same time, Gorka asserted that the Trump administration “is not a nation-building administration.” (Read more from “Former Trump Advisor Says Anyone Who Thinks Iran Conflict Was Unjustified Is ‘Testicularly Challenged’” HERE)

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Intelligence Report Points to Chilling Potential Motive for Alleged WHCD Shooter

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The deranged White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting suspect, Cole Allen, may have been triggered by the Iran war when he stormed the event and allegedly tried to assassinate President Trump and other top administration officials, according to a new ‌Department of Homeland Security intelligence report.

A preliminary assessment by the department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, dated April 27, stated that Allen had “multiple social and political grievances” with the Trump administration — and concluded that the conflict in Iran “may have contributed to his decision to conduct the attack.”

The report, marked as a “Critical Incident Note,” was first obtained by Reuters and offers the clearest evidence yet on a possible tipping point that led to the heinous attack. The suspect criticized US actions in the war in several social media posts.

Prosecutors in court documents have alleged that Allen “disagreed” with Trump politically and “wanted to ‘fight back’ against government policies and decisions that he found morally objectionable.”

He sent an anti-Trump email to his family members just moments before the April 25 shooting in which he called himself the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and appeared to refer to the president as a “traitor.” (Read more from “Intelligence Report Points to Chilling Potential Motive for Alleged WHCD Shooter” HERE)

Health Officials Think They’ve Tracked Down Source of Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak

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Two MV Hondius passengers who died from hantavirus likely contracted the deadline infection while bird-watching in Argentina, investigators believe – then brought it on board the now-stranded cruise ship.

Argentine officials say a Dutch couple that succumbed to the virus last month picked it up from rodents while visiting a landfill during a bird-watching tour in the city of Ushuaia in mid-March, they told the Associated Press Wednesday.

However, there’s one big hole in the theory. Authorities previously said that the area and the surrounding province of Tierra del Fuego had never recorded a case of the hantavirus.

The passengers then boarded the MV Hondius, which departed on its 35-day-long expedition trip from the Argentine port on March 20.

Hantavirus is usually transmitted by inhaling the virus from infected feces or urine from mice or rats.

The 70-year-old Dutchman reportedly began feeling sick on April 6, with a fever, headache, abdominal pain and diarrhea. (Read more from “Health Officials Think They’ve Tracked Down Source of Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak” HERE)

Judge Apologizes to Alleged WHCD Attacker for Treatment in Jail

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A judge issued an apology to Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner attacker, for how he has been treated while being held in jail.

During a hearing on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui expressed his apologies to Allen, who has been “held in the safe cell,” according to ABC7 News. Faruqui reportedly said the safe cell was “tantamount to solitary confinement.”

The judge also gave the Washington, DC, Department of Corrections a deadline of Tuesday “to notify when the jail’s housing board will” make a decision regarding “which section of the jail” Allen will be placed in, according to the outlet.

Faruqui’s apology to Allen comes after Allen’s attorneys said in court filings that Allen “was placed on suicide watch shortly after arriving at the D.C. jail.”

Due to Allen being placed on suicide watch, he was put in “what’s known as a ‘safe cell,’ a padded room with constant lighting and 24-hour lockdown conditions,” according to the outlet. Allen’s attorneys claimed that he showed “no signs of being a risk.” (Read more from “Judge Apologizes to Alleged WHCD Attacker for Treatment in Jail” HERE)

Tucker Carlson Reveals Main Issue He Feels Is On Young Voter’s Minds. It’s Not What You Think.

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During an interview published Saturday, Tucker Carlson told the New York Times he believes the most important issue impacting young Americans in the long term is access to economic opportunity.

In response to the NYT’s question about how he thinks controversial 27-year-old podcaster Nick Fuentes fits into the future of the American right, Carlson responded it is “so hard to know” adding that most “of the debates about race, ethnicity, religion, to some extent immigration, are less resonant long-term than debates about economics.”

“I think the main frustration among young people is not just that the composition of the country is changing too fast, which it definitely is,” the Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder said. “But the main concerns are about the lack of economic opportunity for American young people, who are totally screwed at a more profound level than people acknowledge. Older people do not acknowledge that.”

Carlson also told the NYT’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro that he had recently had dinner with “a bunch of really smart kids from Stanford.”

“And one of them said that his best friend just graduated with a degree in computer science last year and has not been able to find a job,” he recounted. “So that’s a window into the total destruction of the economic opportunity for young people, and what looks to me as a non-economist like the true hoarding of capital by a tiny group of people.” (Read more from “Tucker Carlson Reveals Main Issue He Feels Is On Young Voter’s Minds. It’s Not What You Think.” HERE)

Video Shows United Flight Strike Truck on Turnpike before Landing at Newark Liberty Airport

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An investigation is underway after a United Airlines plane struck a light pole and a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike as it was coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon, officials said.

Dash cam footage from the truck shows the moment it is struck by Flight UA169, a Boeing 767 that originated in Venice, Italy, with 221 passengers and 10 crew members on board. . .

New Jersey State Police said a preliminary investigation indicated a tire from the plane’s landing gear and “the underside of the plane” hit both the pole and the tractor-trailer. The pole also struck a Jeep traveling on the turnpike, state police said.

The truck was traveling to Smith’s Bakery depot in Newark and was about to exit the turnpike when it was hit, according to Chuck Paterakis, senior vice president of transportation and logistics and co-principal at Baltimore-based H&S Bakery. One of the plane’s landing gear tires went through the truck’s window and windshield, Paterakis told CBS Baltimore.

The driver of the tractor-trailer, identified by Paterakis as Warren Boardley, was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and was later released, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. Paterakis said he was treated for injuries resulting from glass in his arm and hand. (Read more from “Video Shows United Flight Strike Truck on Turnpike before Landing at Newark Liberty Airport” HERE)

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Priest Says Hospital Asked Him To Consider Assisted Suicide Twice After Broken Hip

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A Catholic priest said that while seeking treatment for a hip injury at a Canadian hospital, medical workers twice offered him the option of assisted suicide, despite knowing that he was religiously and morally opposed to the practice.

Fr. Larry Holland, 79, fractured his hip after falling in his bathroom on Christmas Day 2025 and subsequently went to Vancouver General Hospital to seek treatment for his injury, The B.C. Catholic, the official media outlet of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, first reported. However, despite the priest’s assertion that his condition is not and never was fatal, he says a doctor had raised the possibility of him taking his own life through Canada’s taxpayer-funded and government-run Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program in the event his injury worsened.

“I think I was very shocked. It is such a sensitive subject,” Holland told The B.C. Catholic about being given the option of MAiD, in an interview published Tuesday. “There are some things you just don’t talk about to some people.”

The priest told the outlet that the doctor said to him that MAiD is “something they have to discuss with someone who’s been given a terminal diagnosis.” Holland had at the time known made his moral opposition to euthanasia — which Catholic doctrine explicitly forbids.

After weeks passed, a nurse would also offer MAiD to Holland, he told The B.C. Catholic, adding that the nurse’s offer appeared to come out of a sense of “false compassion.” (Read more from “Priest Says Hospital Asked Him To Consider Assisted Suicide Twice After Broken Hip” HERE)

Inside Jordan Peterson’s ‘Brutally Painful’ Illness as His Wife Reveals He’s Suffering Serious Side Effects from Benzo Withdrawal

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Tammy Peterson says her husband, author and podcast superstar Dr. Jordan Peterson, is suffering a “neurological injury,” which has taken him out of the spotlight.

The clinical psychologist and young man whisperer stepped away from recording his popular YouTube show and podcast recently, prompting questions from fans.

His family told The Post he is primarily suffering from a “neurological injury,” from previously taking psychiatric medications.

“Dr. Peterson is at home with family and helpful companions,” Tammy reported. “His mornings are brutally painful and discouraging for him. Later, much later in the day, he sometimes feels some relief.”

Peterson had been taking the benzodiazepine Klonopin when his wife, Tammy, was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2019. Getting off the medication caused nightmarish withdrawal symptoms. (Read more from “Inside Jordan Peterson’s ‘Brutally Painful’ Illness as His Wife Reveals He’s Suffering Serious Side Effects from Benzo Withdrawal” HERE)

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Here’s the Background on the Two American Soldiers Who Went Missing Over the Weekend

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Two American service members went missing over the weekend while participating in a joint military exercise with partner nations in North Africa. Search and rescue efforts are still underway.

CBS has reported that the two soldiers were off-duty and had decided to go on a hike to observe the sunset when one fell off of a cliff and into the water below. A number of soldiers then attempted to form a human chain to rescue their comrade in the water, but failed to pull them up. The second soldier then jumped into the water for a rescue attempt, but failed. A third soldier also attempted a rescue, but returned to shore after likewise failing.

(Read more from “Here’s the Background on the Two American Soldiers Who Went Missing Over the Weekend” HERE)