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By Michael Gerson – washingtonpost.com – September 10, 2018 Since the Council of Nicaea, Christians have been prone to issue joint statements designed to draw the boundaries of orthodoxy — and cast their rivals beyond them. Another one, not quite in the same league, was recently issued by a group including John MacArthur, a prominent (and very conservative) evangelical pastor…

By: Doug Stanglin & Jane Onyanga-Omara – usatoday.com – September 12, 2018 Pope Francis, signaling the Catholic Church’s inability to defuse long-running clergy sex scandals, on Wednesday summoned the presidents of Catholic bishops conferences worldwide to the Vatican in February to discuss protecting children and preventing sexual abuse by priests. The meeting, on Feb. 21-24, is believed to be the…

By: Antonia Blumberg – huffingtonpost.com – September 11, 2018 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday became the latest Republican to say Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) faces a difficult fight in the Texas Senate race against Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas). “I think Ted’s got a competitive race by all indications,” McConnell told reporters at a news conference. “We certainly…

By Manny Fernandez and Mitchell Ferman – nytimes.com – September 11, 2018 Days after a top adviser to President Trump questioned Senator Ted Cruz’s chances of winning re-election, the Texas lawmaker casually stepped into the pinnacle of his hometown’s energy industry on Tuesday — the lobby of the Petroleum Club of Houston, on the 35th floor of a downtown skyscraper….

By: Tom Sileo – stream.org – September 11, 2018 This morning in Afghanistan, thousands of American warriors woke up in the country where 9/11 was planned. Some were just toddlers on September 11, 2001. Today marks the 17th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in American history. While the horrors of that day drift in and out of our national…

By: Tim Sullivan – foxnews.com – September 11, 2018 “Tim, get to work,” my brother solemnly said over the phone. “It’s going to get worse.” I had received the call just as the first tower was struck, and we didn’t know all that was yet to come. Like so many other Americans on September 11, 2001, I had simply been…

By: Michael Burke – thehill.com – September 9, 2018 President Trump’s top aides on Sunday ramped up talks of a possible investigation into the identity of an anonymous “senior administration official” who authored an explosive op-ed last week describing an internal “resistance” seeking to undermine the president. The op-ed, published in The New York Times, roiled the White House as…

By: Staff – newsmax.com – September 9,2018 Donald Trump’s defenders, led by Vice President Mike Pence, were out in force on Sunday following a turbulent week capped by the publication of an anonymous New York Times opinion piece savaging the president. Pence sat for two interviews on Sunday talk shows, telling CBS that there has “never” been a discussion of…

By: davenj1 from the diaries by strife – redstate.com – September 9, 2018 ========= Promoted from the diaries by streiff. Promotion does not imply endorsement. ========= The editorial board of the New York Times recently penned an editorial titled “Confirmed: Brett Kavanaugh Can’t Be Trusted.” If one wants to read this partisan piece of journalistic drivel, see here. Let me…

By: Rob Schwarzwälder – stream.org – September 8, 2018 “What we heard is the noise of democracy,” declared Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, praising those who tried to break up Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing. “This is what happens in a free country when people can stand up and speak and not be jailed, imprisoned, tortured or killed…

By: Jeff Cox – cnbc.com – September 7, 2018 Long-awaited wage growth posted its biggest increase of the economic recovery in August while payroll gains beat expectations and the unemployment rate held near a generational low of 3.9 percent, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday. Average hourly earnings rose 2.9 percent for the month on an annualized…