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Ronni's avatar

and today the WH put out a whole web site to try to rewrite history about this day as peaceful protests, antagonism to the protestors by police which caused violence, the removal of barriers and opening of doors by police to let them in, repeated claims that the election was stolen and a cowardly Pence. How's that for being a denier on official letterhead? they think all those photos and videos have been redacted like they've tried to do to the Epstein files?

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Julie Hicks's avatar

So sad. This is just so sad.

It is so hard to believe this is really happening.

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Mary E's avatar

My question remains…where were the bishops during the campaigning in 2024? They hid behind one narrow definition of pro-life. At that time, treatment of those fleeing their countries did not receive the commentary from the Catholic Church that it is receiving now.

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Bette Jayne Wheaton's avatar

Sadly, after years I have lost faith in Bishop Barron.

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REPUBLIA's avatar

Independent of party affiliation, we freely support our fellow Members of this American republic who hold the Office of President, as Presiders protecting our Rights whilst the rest of us occupy ourselves in the Pursuit of Happiness—but accepting the bombing of innocent People in eight (8) different countries, is a bridge too far: 

SCOTUS unanimously declared that the current Presider participated in an insurrection, by omitting any rebuttal that he participated in one (it’s on tape), from their Opinion(s) concerning Trump v. Anderson (March 4, 2024). (a) 

Thereby confirming the presence of a Disability (Ineligibility) from holding Office, under the Article of the Fourteenth (Amendment) of our Constitution “for the United States of America” (the Legal name of our Republic; see Preamble, or Recitals Clause). (b)

Now all we need to do is contact our representatives and instruct them to try and remove it, which would require 2/3rds of both houses—such that as a feat unattainable, the Act of just moving to the Floor for a vote to remove it, even if the vote is blocked from taking place, will thereby prove he is ineligible for office. Making a powerful case for impeachment inevitable.

In these Seas of Airs, America,

REPUBLIA

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(a) The Constitution, As Finally Amended. The Papers of James Madison Purchased by Order of Congress, Volume 3. Washington, Langtree & O'Sullivan, 1840. See page 1605 ("We, the people"), https://archive.org/details/papersofjamesmadi03madi/page/1605/mode/1up [accessed 6Jan2026]

(b) Trump v. Anderson 601 U.S. 100, 

 https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf [accessed 6Jan2026]

} urho & usko {

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Today was a hard day for everyone as January 6th the fifth year anniversary of the attack on our Capitol. Thank you, Chris for these news letters.

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Julie Hicks's avatar

God knows the truth.

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Tanya Rodich's avatar

This whole thing is a real pain in the toucas. Why did that violence fall on Epiphany is beyond me.

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Stefanie's avatar

This is false reporting. Not the part about the Church’s condemnation, but the premise for it. January 6th, 2020, was a government set-up. 275 FBI agents were planted at the gathering. The “protestors” were escorted peacefully into the Capitol by the DC police. There is videotape of that. Nancy Pelosi (a “Catholic”?) refused to provide the National Guard as requested by President Trump. President Trump’s speech was edited and altered to make him appear responsible. I listened to the entire 1-hour speech as it was delivered. It was so badly altered that he won a court settlement against the media for what they did. Ashli Babbitt was murdered by a policeman who has ties to the Minnesota daycare fraud scandal. People were arrested and detained in jail for years without due process. Some of them died in prison, some by suicide. Why doesn’t the Church address any of this? I am beginning to think these clerics are part of the problem, not part of any solution. They are living in fairy-tale land, not in reality. Their judgements are specious and libelous. They should be ashamed of themselves. They do not represent Truth and Jesus Christ is the Truth. If Christopher Hale believes all they say, he is way off-base.

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Ann Wilson's avatar

The Church doesn’t address it because most of what you just wrote is factually incorrect, aka BS. Just because you waste your time on amoral delusions doesn’t mean anyone needs to dignify it.

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Stefanie's avatar

It is factually correct, not BS. It is hardly AMORAL. What was done is highly IMMORAL.

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Stefanie's avatar

It is all true. Do some serious research.

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M.E. Woodward's avatar

Challenge accepted. I did some research and NO, it is NOT “all true” what you said.

Case in point, the Capitol police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt has NO ties to the “Minnesota daycare fraud scandal” (as you put it) - that is a lie.

The "daycare fraud scandal" info circulating in some social media posts & blogs concerns a separate, unrelated incident involving a different former police officer in Maryland, whose name isn’t even the same!

The claim about a "daycare fraud scandal" stems from a different news story involving a Maryland woman, Shanteari Young (also referred to as Shanteari Weems), who shot her husband, James Weems Jr., a former Baltimore police officer, after she discovered he was abusing children at the daycare center she owned.

James Weems Jr. then faced allegations of professional & criminal misconduct, and the daycare center was closed.

That particular “daycare scandal” doesn’t involve fraud (as in accepting public funds when services are not rendered) as you said it did, rather it involves heinous crimes against children.

The Capitol police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt was not involved in any “daycare fraud scandal,” including having NO ties to the “Minnesota daycare fraud scandal” as you assert.

You need to STOP spreading lies and false information.😤😠😡

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Stefanie's avatar

It has nothing to do with the Weems family. It was Washington DC police officer Michael Byrd and his wife who did it in Aberdeen, Maryland, and they scammed the taxpayers out of $190 MILLION. There are multiple reports about it.

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Stefanie's avatar

YOU are the one spreading lies and false information.

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M.E. Woodward's avatar

An “unaccredited” daycare center is not a “fake” daycare center nor is it “fraudulent” and in no way proves any ties to the “Minnesota daycare fraud scandal.”

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Stefanie's avatar

It is fake and it cost the US taxpayers $190 MILLION. That’s a lot of (fake) children in a day care center.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

I watched live and uncensored video as it happened. The insurrection was entirely from Trump, his minions, and his groupies.

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Stefanie's avatar

That is simply untrue.

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Stefanie's avatar

AND, Michael Byrd and his wife have raked in $190 MILLION HHS taxpayer monies since 2021 with their fake day care center.

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Stefanie's avatar

See the 06 Jan 2026 article in The Gateway Pundit about Michael Byrd, the police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt dead on 06 Jan 2020, and his unaccredited day care center, called “CareLuLu” in Aberdeen, Maryland.

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Stefanie's avatar

See the 06 Jan 2026 article in The Gateway Pundit about how Michael Byrd who shot Ashley Babbitt dead on January 6, 2020, operates an unaccredited day care center in Brandywine, Maryland. Yes, it is the same Police Officer, Michael Byrd. It is called, “Care LuLu”.

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David Hope's avatar

MAGA’s Christ is crowned with a cheap red cap, with even cheaper predator rhetoric printed across it.

Blasphemous.

Our holy church sees our Lord crowned with thorns.

The difference is obvious.

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Sandra's avatar

So Sad

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David Hope's avatar

“Or in the blunt words of Lexington Bishop John Stowe, “You reap what you sow” — a direct rebuke to the lies and rage that set the stage for the Capitol siege.”

Exactly. As true today as it was in the time of King David.

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