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Two police officers were hospitalized and nine people were arrested after more than 1,000 teens rushed ICON Park in Orlando during a “teen takeover,” with some parents now calling for officers to be suspended over alleged “unnecessary force.”

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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump TERMINATED the Obama-era mandate that pushed auto start-stop systems into vehicles. You know the one. You stop at a red light. Your engine shuts off. Every. Single. Time. Doesn’t matter if you hate it. Doesn’t matter if it wears down the starter. Doesn’t matter if you have to turn it off manually every time you start the car. It was forced in the name of “efficiency.” Trump just ended it. No more government telling automakers how to design your engine. No more being annoyed at every stoplight. Build better cars. Let consumers choose. Common sense is back.

I get the impression that some Catholics, especially recent converts, live in a fantasy world about women priests. In my experience our ministries and orders are widely recognised by Catholics, many of whom hope deeply for women priests and are not afraid to say so.

The French Revolution didn't come from nowhere. It was the logical conclusion of a principle Martin Luther introduced in 1517: that individual conscience overrides institutional authority. That same principle built America. And it's destroying it. At the Diet of Worms in 1521, Luther stood before the Holy Roman Emperor and declared: "My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant." In that moment, he elevated private judgment above every institutional authority — papal, conciliar, and imperial. It was the most consequential theological statement of the millennium. Not because of what it said about Scripture. Because of what it said about authority. His own followers grasped the implication immediately. The Peasants' War of 1524-25 saw German peasants apply Luther's logic to political authority: if the Pope can be defied on grounds of conscience, why not the prince? Luther was horrified. He called for their slaughter. But the principle was already loose. Over 100,000 died. The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) killed roughly 8 million people — nearly one-third of the German population. The English Civil War (1642-51) saw Protestant factions execute their own king. Each generation applied the same principle to the next level of authority. The French philosophes — Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot — did not invent their arguments from nothing. They explicitly extended the Protestant case against Church authority to all authority. If Rome could be wrong about salvation, why couldn't the monarchy be wrong about governance? If Scripture alone is the authority, why not reason alone? The French Revolution was the Reformation's grandchild. America was founded as the ultimate Protestant experiment — no creed but the Bible, radical individual conscience, suspicion of every hierarchy. "We hold these truths to be self-evident" is the political translation of "my conscience is captive to the Word of God." Once "my conscience alone" becomes the supreme principle, you cannot contain it to theology. It extends to morality. To anthropology. To the definition of truth itself. Every moral boundary that erodes follows the same logic Luther introduced: I answer to no authority but my own reading of the text. The Reformers wanted to free Christianity from Rome. Five hundred years later, the civilization most shaped by their principles is freeing itself from Christianity altogether. Who bears responsibility for that?

It’s crucial that we answer this challenge, because the most important question in abortion debates is “What are the unborn?” If the unborn are not human beings, abortion is no worse than having your wisdom teeth removed. But if the unborn are humans, then we should treat them like we treat any human. In other words, we should not kill them because they are unwanted.

This is how cells translate raw DNA data into functional proteins, which form the building blocks of all the machines that run your cells. This is obviously designed, but the details make evolution impossible 👇