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In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Evening Edition) : The Other McCain
Posted on | October 7, 2025 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho Happy birthday, Stacy!Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM357 Magnum: Someday Corporate Executives Will Take Security SeriouslyEBL: District Judge Karin…
Pope Leo XIV allows outside banks to manage Holy See investments
Pope Leo XIV has permitted the Holy See’s main financial body to use financial institutions outside the Vatican for its investment activities, reversing Pope Francis’ 2022 instruction to move all funds to the so-called Vatican bank. In the legal…
How will the USCCB move on from ‘Durbingate’?
When Cardinal Blase Cupich announced that he would not give an award next month to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, he also offered a statement explaining why he’d offered the award in the first place, and what he hoped would come after a…
Jerusalem’s Patriarch Pizzaballa welcomes ceasefire talks as first step
As indirect ceasefire talks began in Egypt between Israel and Hamas yesterday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt – aimed at finalizing a ceasefire deal based on a proposal from U.S. President Donald Trump – the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem lauded it as…
True Charity Is Sacrificial and Personal
Charity in the sense that the Sermon on the Mount demands costs on a personal level, requires sacrifice, and often beckons us to reach out in love even to those we do not like. It beckons us as well to love our enemies, since they, too, have…
10 Years after ISIS: Catholic University in Erbil Flourishes
In the summer of 2014, Yohana Al-Zebbaree was a 12-year-old boy when his world turned upside down. From his home in Duhok, a city in northern Iraq, he recalls the whispers spreading across neighborhoods, saying that ISIS was moving closer.…
Spanish Priest Convicted of “Islamophobia” Could Spend Three Years Behind Bars
Photoboyko/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Spanish priest faces up to three years in prison after being convicted of the “hate crime” of “Islamophobia.”Last week, the Provincial Court of Málaga found Father Custodio Ballester guilty of…
In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain
Posted on | October 6, 2025 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho Trying to get ahead a bit by cleaning up the weekend Substack stuff.Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. Maybe Trump should start cleaning up Chicago and Portland by jailing…
Education Tech Leading to Technocratic School Dystopia: Expert
The proliferation and acceleration of technology in education is leading to a technocratic, totalitarian model of schooling that will eventually force public, private, and home education into the…
Church Organist Close To Figuring Out What All These Pedals And Buttons Are For
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A new milestone in church history was in the verge of being reached this week, as the organist at St. Stephen Lutheran Church was reportedly close to figuring out what all those pedals and buttons are for."I've been…