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The Protestant Petros/Petra argument only works if you forget Jesus spoke Aramaic. Here's what the grammar actually shows. When Jesus renamed Simon in John 1:42, he called him "Cephas." That's not a Greek word. It's the Greek transliteration of the Aramaic "Kepha," meaning rock or stone. No masculine ending. No feminine ending. Just one word, one meaning, one man. The Petros/Petra split exists only because Greek has grammatical gender. You cannot call a grown man "Petra" in Greek without it sounding absurd. So the translator used "Petros" as the name and "petra" as the substance. That's a grammatical necessity, not a theological signal. In the Aramaic Jesus actually spoke, there was no split to exploit. Paul confirms this independently. In Galatians 1 and 2, and again in 1 Corinthians 15, he calls Peter "Cephas" without any reference to Matthew's Gospel. The Aramaic rock-name was already Peter's recognized title across the earliest churches before Matthew was written down. That's not a Roman invention. That's the apostolic record. The Petros/Petra argument doesn't fail because Catholics say so. It fails because it depends on a Greek grammatical artifact while ignoring the Aramaic foundation underneath it. Read the text in the language Jesus spoke. The distinction collapses. What other Greek-based objections to Peter's primacy do you want addressed?

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US to withdraw world's largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford from the Middle East.

EXCELLENT breakdown of what Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and 18 other Democrat Governors, including DC, have signed to permanently change how we elected the President of the United States “Virginia's governor just signed a law that makes your vote for President irrelevant — On April 13th, governor Spanberger quietly signed HB 965, a bill that joins Virginia to something called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Here's what that actually means. If Virginia votes one way for president, but the rest of the country goes the other direction, Virginia's electoral votes go with the country, not with who you voted for. Now, the framing they're selling is every vote matters equally, which sounds great, but here's what they're not telling you. The Electoral college wasn't broken. It was designed specifically to make sure that rural states, small states and communities outside of major cities still had a voice in who becomes president. Under this compact presidential campaigns would have zero reason to care about Virginia outside of Richmond and Northern Virginia. I mean, why would they? You just hand your votes to wherever New York and California go? Some legal scholars have argued, the framers of the Constitution explicitly rejected the idea of popular elections for President, and that changing the system requires a constitutional amendment, not a state level workaround. And here's the part that should bother everyone regardless of party. As of March, 2026, every single governor who has signed this compact into law has been a Democrat, not one Republican. This wasn't bipartisan reform. This was a party using a legislative shortcut to restructure how presidents get elected without touching the constitution. We are a republic, not a pure democracy. That distinction matters because pure democracies let 51% of the country permanently ignore the other 49%. Virginia just took a step toward erasing its own voice in national elections, and they did it while nobody was watching.”

The Albanian Muslim Ali Pasha, on January 11, 1801, executed the Greek Christian woman Kyra Frosyni together with 17 other Greek women by drowning them in the lake of Ioannina. According to Islamic customs, women could only be executed at night. In the freezing midnight hours of January 11, the women were all led together into boats on Lake Pamvotida in Ioannina. The executioners threw them into the water – tied up and not inside sacks, as was the Islamic custom. One version states that they were put into sacks, but Frosyni and her servant (possibly her elderly nurse) managed, before being placed in the sacks, to jump into the water tied up and drowned like the rest. Some of the women submitted fatalistically, reciting their prayers, while others shouted “Help!” One of the executioners later said that he had seen many tortures, but he would never forget the faces of the women in the water and that he would wake up many nights hearing their screams in his nightmares. The bodies washed ashore and were buried amid general outrage, but Ali Pasha announced that the Greeks were wrong to protest, since he would have spared their lives if even one of their relatives had appeared in time. For the 18 women, it was also decided to seal their houses at the same time and confiscate their properties. 200 years ago, the Greeks were literally liberated from barbaric tyrants, filthy disgusting barbarians. These stories remind us why Islam and mosques should either stay far away from us, or we should destroy them completely. -Homer Pavlos

Make no mistake, when the Democrats regain power they will conduct a Nuremberg trial for Trump and his administration. And by extension, MAGA. It will be sham trials, with only one outcome possible. Prison for the administration. Not hyperbole, fact.

🇺🇸 Bishop Robert Barron participated in an Easter Lunch for Faith Leaders at the White House today

Iran just announced the end of the US dollar. Any ship trading in Chinese Yuan can pass through the Strait of Hormuz for free, while Western ships will be forced to pay massive tariffs. They are actively destroying American economic dominance.

Trump: "If I didn't terminate Obama's horrible deal, the Iran nuclear deal, you would've had nuclear holocaust."