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2026-03-18T15:57:58-06:00

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Pope Leo’s March Prayer Intention is a Prayer for Peace.

Last updated on: March 18, 2026 at 3:57 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

I’m late posting Pope Leo’s prayer intention for March. I apologize. The Holy Father’s prayer intention is, as usual, both powerful and needed for this time in which we are living. He asks us to pray for peace and an end to violence. In a genuine Christian manner, he exhorts us to pray first of all for God to help us purge the violence and hatred in our own hearts. Then, he goes on to pray to our dear Lord... Read more

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2026-03-17T15:33:19-06:00

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Nat Security Director Resigns: Iran Posed No Imminent Threat

Last updated on: March 17, 2026 at 3:33 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Trump had a hard time getting him confirmed because he was such a red meat MAGA. I didn’t pay much attention to his confirmation hearing at the time, but if I had, I’m sure I would have consigned him to the waste bin where I toss Trump boot-lickers. As it turns out, I would have been wrong. Joe Kent, the Director of America’s National Anti-Terrorism Center, just resigned from his position because (and I quote) I cannot in good conscience... Read more

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2026-03-16T18:15:28-06:00

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Oil, Money & Power. Trump’s Iran War is NOT a “Just War”

Last updated on: March 16, 2026 at 6:15 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Trump hops from one lunatic thing to another so fast it’s hard to remember what he did a few weeks ago. But let’s get into the not-so-wayback machine and remember the last time Trump used our military to take over a foreign country. A few months ago, Trump was blasting Venezuelan fishermen out of the water and pretending he thought he was killing drug smugglers. Republican Senator Rand Paul tried his best to make the point that this wasn’t true.... Read more

Trump Destroying America

2026-03-10T16:42:18-06:00

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God Warned Us About Trump. We Have No Excuse.

Last updated on: March 10, 2026 at 4:42 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

God has warned Christians repeatedly about their idolatry of Donald Trump. God allowed the Hollywood Access tape to come to light before the 2016 election. In that tape, we all heard Trump bragging about committing sexual assault. “When you’re a star, you can do anything,” he said. God allowed the interviews with Howard Stern to come out in which Trump bragged about going into the dressing rooms of the beauty pageants he owned and doing a peeping tom on the... Read more

2026-02-12T09:12:55-07:00

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Homan says Trump will End “Surge” in Minneapolis

Last updated on: February 12, 2026 at 9:12 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Americans are not that easy to push around. I have a friend who predicted from day one that if the Mad King tried to go head to head with the American people, he would be starting a fight that he could not win. All over the country, everywhere they’ve gone with one of their “surges,” ICE has been fought. The resistors have used humor by dressing up as ducks, and whistles, songs and prayer. But they have never quit, not... Read more

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2026-02-11T12:58:26-07:00

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Archbishop & Cardinal Oppose Trump’s Racist Obama Post

Last updated on: February 11, 2026 at 12:58 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Two of America’s senior Catholic officials have called for President Trump to apologize for a racist video he posted last week. The video depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. Cardinal Blasé Cupich of Chicago and Archbishop Edward Weisenburger of Detroit issued independent statements saying that the harm done by Trump’s action was serious, and that the explanations Trump has given so far are “inadequate.” The video showed Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as... Read more

2026-02-09T12:24:01-07:00

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Pope Leo Will Not Visit the USA this Year

Last updated on: February 9, 2026 at 12:24 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

Color me disappointed. Pope Leo is not coming to the USA this year. The talk for weeks has been that we would see a papal visit. I think it would have been a great help to this country. Above all things, we need the moral guidance of shepherds who are committed to Jesus Christ. Public morality in this country has been destroyed. Things have descended to such a low that Christians need to be taught basic Sunday school morality such... Read more

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2026-02-06T11:59:07-07:00

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Medicaid has Many Names. Losing Medicaid has one name: Death

Last updated on: February 6, 2026 at 11:59 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Remember back in the 2024 presidential debates? Trump was asked what his plan was for providing health care to Americans if he followed through on his idea to deep-six the subsidies in Obamacare. His answer was (I heard him say it) “I have concepts of a plan.” As soon as he took the oath a year ago, Trump began work on his Big Beautiful Bill. That bill lapsed the subsidies for Obamacare, which, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, raised the... Read more

2026-02-05T20:30:16-07:00

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Pope’ Prayer Intention for Feb: Pray for the Little Children

Last updated on: February 5, 2026 at 8:30 pm By Rebecca Hamilton

The Vatican just released this beautiful video of Pope Leo, praying his prayer intention for February. It is, as I said, beautiful. Our Holy Father asks us to pray for children with incurable illnesses. He asks us to pray that these children “may never be without proper medical care, human and compassionate care, and the support of a community that accompanies them with love. Sustain their families in hope in the midst of uncertainty, and make of them witnesses of... Read more

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2026-02-20T09:24:13-07:00

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Pt 2. Government by Pedophiles: This is Why They’re So Cruel

Last updated on: February 20, 2026 at 9:24 am By Rebecca Hamilton

Continued from Pt 1. Government by Pedophiles: This is Why They’re So Cruel. There’s a big reveal — a HUGE story — hiding in plain sight in the carefully curated, white-washed, “redacted” and sanitized Epstein Files that we’ve been allowed to see. I think the reveal is so obvious that Trump’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and Trump’s private attorney that he made Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche along with the others who were desperately trying to sanitize this mountain of... Read more

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