President Trump headlines campaign rally in Georgia as midterm races enter final stretch, talks billion-dollar GA investments, Laken Riley and Alien Enemies Act, Dems’ desire to pack the SC …; Catholic bishops intensify immigration campaign against Trump before midterms, Cdl. Cupich preaches ‘advocacy for immigrants as act of divine worship’; Catholic Charities paid MILLIONS to resettle tens of thousands of Somalis in Minnesota per New York Post; Feds ‘dumpster dive’ for DNA before raid on Ilhan Omar’s DC home; Pope improving, expected to lead Angelus on Sunday, his oldest brother also being treated for cancer; Catholics celebrate a great bishop of the early Church – the second successor to the apostle Peter in the see of Antioch – who was devoured by lions in Rome for refusing to deny Christ; and more –
President Trump headlines Dalton rally for GOP candidates as Georgia early voting underway
47th president left the White House at 1:30 | Former UGA star running Todd Gurley hitching a ride on Air Force One.
President Donald Trump headlined a campaign rally in Dalton on Friday as Georgia’s nationally watched midterm races entered their final stretch.
The event took place at Dalton Municipal Airport, where newly elected U.S. Rep. Clay Fuller — facing a challenge from Democrat Shawn Harris in the 14th congressional district — appeared.
Republican candidates U.S. Rep. Mike Collins (U.S. Senate); Rick Jackson (governor); state Sen. Greg Dolezal (lieutenant governor); Brian Strickland (attorney general); Tim Fleming (secretary of state); John King (incumbent Insurance and Fire commissioner); and Fuller spoke to the thousands in attendance ahead of Trump’s arrival.
Collins and U.S. Reps. Andrew Clyde, Rich McCormick and Austin Scott met the president at the steps of Marine One when he arrived.
Friday marked Trump’s third stop in Georgia this year, after visits to Rome in February and Wheeler High School in Cobb County in July. He last appeared in Dalton on Jan. 4, 2021, ahead of Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoffs.
Read more at Atlanta News First
Clip of Trump’s Georgia Rally
Watch @RapidResponse47; watch Trump’s full speech at Atlanta News One
First photo of Pope Leo from Gemelli Hospital, to lead Angelus on Sunday
Three days after his surgery, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass in a room set aside for him at Gemelli Hospital. Members of the medical and nursing staff, as well as the Vatican Gendarmerie, were in attendance.
Watch at Rome Reports
Pope’s oldest brother also being treated for cancer
Read @Guzik_Paulina
Pope urges humanitarian ceasefire in Oleshky in call with Russian President
Speaking by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pope Leo XIV expresses his “deep concern about the grave humanitarian situation in the city of Oleshky, in the Kherson region,” and calls for a ceasefire to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid.
The Holy See Press Office released a statement on Friday afternoon, saying that Pope Leo XIV spoke by telephone with Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation.
“During the conversation, the Holy Father expressed his deep concern about the grave humanitarian situation in the city of Oleshky, in the Kherson region, and called for a ceasefire to allow the delivery of food and medical assistance, and the voluntary and safe evacuation of the civilian population,” said the statement.
“Finally, the Holy Father reaffirmed the Holy See’s commitment to promoting dialogue and peace,” it concluded.
Read more at Vatican News
Katie Zacharia announces departure from Press Secretary position
See @KatieZacharia
Public policy commentator: Catholic bishops have intensified their immigration campaign against Trump
See @realchrismanion
Bishops’ Immigration Campaign Intensifies by Christopher Manion
Should We Be Surprised?
Yesterday we reported that after 25 years of promising “transparency” and “accountability” regarding the American hierarchy’s abuse and cover-up scandals, Archbishop Blase Cupich has doubled down in the heat of election season. Abortion is no longer the “preeminent political issue” for the USCCB – immigration is.
The cards are now face-up on the table: it’s election season again, and the bishops have returned once more to the fold. They’ve been Democrats since James Cardinal cheered on Woodrow Wilson’s War in 1917, even though most Catholics had supported Wilson six months earlier because he had promised to “Keep Us Out of War.”
Betrayal? Never mind. The grateful Democrats and their welfare state have treated them very well ever since.
Bottom Line: A Democrat victory this November will get the USCCB back on the road to getting their taxpayer billions back in 2029.
Read more at Shenandoah Sodbuster
Leftist Chicago archbishop sells immigration as an act of divine worship
See @complicitclergy; read Cdl. Cupich’s full speech at the Archdiocese of Chicago
Two Christian groups were paid $62M to resettle tens of thousands of Somalis in Minnesota
Two church non-profits have taken in at least $62 million to build the Somali community in Minnesota — leading to the rise of Ilhan Omar and the fraud scandals that have gripped that state, The Post can reveal.
Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid Land of 10,000 Lakes thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations.
“This is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it,” Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, DC-based Capital Research Center, told The Post.
He added the total money pouring into Minneapolis resettlement programs alone is “in the hundreds of millions.”
Read more at the New York Post
New reports show Feds searched Ihan Omar’s dumpster for DNA, also carried out multiple simultaneous raids
Watch @EricLDaugh
Catholic and Evangelical Leaders Unite in Call for Compassionate Immigration Reform
Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on Immigration releases statement on the effects of enforcement actions on families
“There is much that can be done to avoid the rupturing of our families and communities brought about by indiscriminate and aggressive enforcement actions,” said Bishop Brendan Cahill and Rev. Walter Kim in an ecumenical statement released Tuesday.
Bishop Cahill serves as the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Migration and Rev. Kim as the president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). Together, they lead the Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on Immigration (ECDI) as its co-chairs.
Today’s statement, “A Call for Christian Compassion and Wisdom in the Immigration Debate,” represents the first such statement on immigration in U.S. history to be jointly issued by senior leaders of the Catholic and evangelical traditions.
Read more at The Good Newsroom
Texas bishop affirms right to life after Catholic voter challenges Talarico on abortion
The bishop’s remarks come as Texas Senate nominee James Talarico faces scrutiny over his interpretation of Scripture’s stance on abortion ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
Fort Worth, Texas, Bishop Michael Olson emphasized Oct. 14 that all human rights depend on the right to life, following a town hall exchange over Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico’s support for abortion.
Bishop Olson commented in a post on X after Catholic voter Jodi Hunt challenged Talarico’s claim that the Bible is silent on abortion.
“The right to life is the premier moral issue because all human rights depend upon the human person being alive. The right to life is the common ground for the morality of all issues considered in policies involving human dignity and the common good,” the bishop wrote.
Read more at Zeale
AOC sends $1 million to Abdul El-Sayed
See @dcexaminer
Patriot encourages pro-family citizens to vote
See @FearlessPatriot
Today is the Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch
‘No Father of the Church expressed with such intensity, as Ignatius did, the desire for unity with Christ and life in Him … Thus Ignatius also begs the Christians of Rome not to prevent his martyrdom …’ (Benedict XVI)
See @benedict_kiely; see also at @father_rmv
