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Pew: Confidence in Pope Francis Plunges Among U.S. Catholics

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Pope Francis’ approval rating among U.S. Catholics has struck an all-time low in the face of his refusal to answer allegations that he rehabilitated serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Pew revealed Tuesday.

Only 30 percent of Catholic adults say Francis is doing an “excellent” or a “good” job addressing the sex abuse crisis, Pew said, a decline of 24 points since 2015 and 14 points from when the Research Center last asked the question this past January.

A CNN poll earlier this month showed the pope’s approval rating among U.S citizens falling to an all-time low, dropping below 50 percent for the very first time since his election.

Francis’s approval rating of 48 percent represented a significant drop since January 2017, when the pope enjoyed a two-thirds favorable rating, CNN said. In December 2013, the year of his election, Francis’s popularity was higher still, with 72 percent of Americans giving the pope a favorable rating.

According to Tuesday’s Pew report, some 60 percent of American Catholics say that Francis is doing an “only fair” or “poor” job handling the sex abuse scandal. More than half of these say his efforts on this front have been poor.

The survey comes at a time of turmoil for Francis, who has refused to answer allegations that the former papal nuncio to the United States informed the pope of McCarrick’s abuse in 2013 and that the Francis rehabilitated him anyway, elevating him to a position of influence in the Vatican.

On August 25, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released an 11-page report laying out a series of allegations against a number of high-ranking prelates, including the pope himself. Confronted by journalists about the report, Pope Francis refused to confirm or deny its contents, acknowledging only that he had read the document.

The pope went on to compare his accuser to Satan, while insisting that he would keep silence over the matter, like Jesus on Good Friday.

Francis’ fellow Jesuit, Father Joseph Fessio, the editor of Ignatius Press, said he found this position “deplorable” and told the pope to stop “attacking Vigano and everyone who is asking for answers.”

“Be a man. Stand up and answer the questions,” he said.

The pope’s refusal to answer allegations against him may not be the only thing bothering American Catholics. Francis has also refused requests by the U.S. bishops to open a formal Vatican investigation into the McCarrick case and in this way seems to be hindering rather than helping efforts to get to the bottom of the crisis.

Last month, the president of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB), Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, traveled to Rome to urge Francis to launch the investigation but met with the same refusal.

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POLL: TRUMP APPROVAL 50%...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.

That is quite an improvement. Healthy political position.

Clinton: 'Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy' Against New Deal, Turn-of-Last-Century Progressive Era

BY BRIDGET JOHNSON

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, during The Atlantic Festival on Oct. 2, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

WASHINGTON -- Former presidential candidate and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked at The Atlantic Festival today whether she contributed to the devolution of political discourse by blaming the "vast right-wing conspiracy" as first lady in 1998.

"Do you regret using that kind of language?" Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg asked. "Do you think that, that over the past 15, 20 years we all have not been as careful as we should have been about the way we describe political opposition, political opponents?"

Clinton replied that when she used the term she was "aware of a very well-organized effort that had been going on for some years -- it didn't not start in the '90s; it predates the '90s -- of powerful interests on both economical and ideological grounds, trying to undo a lot of the progress that we've made as a country."

"They were against -- some of them -- against the New Deal. Maybe some against, you know, the progressive era back in the turn of the last century," she added. "But they were certainly against the great society, against a lot of what President Johnson was able to accomplish in terms of supporting people, providing Medicaid, providing Medicare. There is a very significant, and influential, and well funded, and quite persistent effort in the country that has been going on for quite some time."

"Now, I think it is important to kind of keep doors open, but it's difficult to keep doors open when there seems to be this concerted effort to slam doors in the faces of people with whom the other side disagrees, or on grounds of economics or healthcare, you know, want to make life more difficult."

Clinton added that "when you are dealing with a political entity like the modern Republican Party, that is trying to win at all costs, it's hard to know quite how to get in there to have that conversation."

She singled out "two major, substantive reasons" why Republicans supported Donald Trump "despite the doubts of other Republicans": the Supreme Court and "cut taxes, cut it to the bone."

"Disable the government as much as possible. Throw us into exploding deficits and unbelievable debt, then go after Social Security, and Medicare and Medicaid, which they've never liked anyway, and they're are on the path to doing that," she added. "And they seem almost lethal about it, you know, their budget process up on the Hill right now is all about, how do we take money out of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, using the excuse that, well, we're going to have these big deficits and debts. And of course they are the ones who have really hit the ignition on having such a fiscally irresponsible policy."



Report: Catholic Church Faces Gravest Crisis Since ‘Protestant Reformation’

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The Catholic bishops are gathering in Rome for a synod in a moment in which “the Church faces perhaps its gravest crisis since the Protestant Reformation in the form of the worldwide clerical sexual abuse scandals,” according to veteran Vatican analyst John L. Allen, Jr.

Allen, who heads up the Catholic online news outlet Crux, added that “the eyes of the Catholic world will be on how they choose to engage it.”

Much of this will depend on Pope Francis, since he currently seems to be the Church’s biggest obstacle to tackling the sex abuse crisis head-on. He has repeatedly refused to confirm or deny allegations that he knowingly rehabilitated serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and elevated him to a position of influence in the Vatican.

Moreover, the United States bishops have petitioned the pope to launch an “apostolic visitation” — a full Vatican investigation — into the McCarrick case, which so far has fallen on deaf ears. The president of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB), Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, followed up on the petition by traveling to Rome last month to urge Francis to open the investigation but returned to the U.S. empty-handed.

Wednesday was the opening day of the Vatican Synod of Bishops on youth, and, according to Allen, it may well be “the most significant summit so far on this pope’s watch.”

“The clerical abuse crisis has badly damaged the Church’s moral credibility, made it difficult to move the ball on anything else the Church cares about, and called into question the standing and personal integrity of Church leaders at all levels,” Allen noted.

“Inside the Church and out, there’s a level of anger and disillusionment that’s crippling,” he said.

On August 25, a former papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, released an explosive, 11-page report in which he laid out a series of allegations against a number of high-ranking prelates, including Pope Francis.

The central accusation against the pope was that Viganò had personally informed him in 2013 of McCarrick’s record of abuse against priests, seminarians, and lay people, as well as telling him of sanctions imposed on McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI. Despite this knowledge, Viganò alleged, Francis lifted the sanctions, involved McCarrick in diplomatic missions on behalf of the Holy See, and consulted him regarding the naming of new bishops for the United States.

News reports from early in the Francis pontificate would seem to corroborate charges that the pope gave McCarrick a new lease on life shortly after his election.

A 2014 article in the Washington Post stated that McCarrick was “one of a number of senior churchmen who were more or less put out to pasture during the eight-year pontificate of Benedict XVI.”

“But now Francis is pope, and prelates like Cardinal Walter Kasper (another old friend of McCarrick’s) and McCarrick himself are back in the mix, and busier than ever,” the article stated.

“Francis, who has put the Vatican back on the geopolitical stage, knows that when he needs a savvy back channel operator he can turn to McCarrick,” it said.

When challenged by journalists to respond whether the allegations made by Archbishop Viganò were true, the pope refused to answer, and has kept silence regarding the charges ever since.

A number of U.S. bishops have come forward to ask the pope to break his silence regarding when he learned of the crimes of former-cardinal McCarrick, insisting that the Viganò report contains a number of “credible allegations” that demand a response.

Last Thursday, Viganò himself said that the pope’s silence on the matter must be interpreted as a confirmation of the allegations.

“Neither the pope, nor any of the cardinals in Rome have denied the facts I asserted in my testimony,” Viganò wrote in a 4-page memo, adding that according to the law, silence denotes consent.

If they deny my testimony, he added, “they have only to say so, and provide documentation to support that denial. How can one avoid concluding that the reason they do not provide the documentation is that they know it confirms my testimony?”

“The pope’s unwillingness to respond to my charges and his deafness to the appeals by the faithful for accountability are hardly consistent with his calls for transparency and bridge building,” he said.

So, no matter what the official subject of the current synod of bishops is, Mr. Allen has suggested, the bishops themselves will want to talk about the sex abuse crisis, “and whether it’s on the synod floor or during coffee breaks or at lunches and dinners, that’s exactly what they’ll spend a good chunk of the month doing.”

The bishops gathered in Rome during October will feel “enormous pressure” to face up to the realities of the moment, Allen said, with victims of abuse, child protection advocates, and ordinary rank and file Catholics stung by the scandals “will all be looking to these bishops to supply some sort of hope.”

Whether Pope Francis will address the issues himself or continue to act as if they are unimportant remains to be seen.



Dershowitz wants criminal investigation for Kavanaugh accuser Swetnick, could face ‘prison’ for perjury
Frieda Powers

Alan Dershowitz believes Julie Swetnick’s evolving story in her accusations against Brett Kavanaugh could land her in jail if she is tried and found guilty of perjury.

The Harvard Law professor spoke with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Wednesday following Swetnick’s interview with NBC News on Monday where the details of her claims that Kavanaugh was present at parties where “gang” or “train” rapes were occurring.

Swetnick, who is represented by Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti, appeared to backpedal on several key statements during her interview, contradicting a sworn statement provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Kavanaugh accuser’s trainwreck NBC interview: Backpedaling, 4 useless ‘witnesses,’ threats on boyfriend’s life https://t.co/yFPLqNsLmq pic.twitter.com/DKzV6CEt4b

— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) October 2, 2018

Carlson asked Dershowitz about his belief that Avenatti has “a legal obligation to withdraw” Swetnick’s previous statement.

“I have done some research on it and there are some ethical and bar rules that say when you submit an affidavit even to Congress and you later learn that there are things in the affidavit that are false you have a continuing obligation to withdraw the affidavit,” Dershowitz replied.

“You cannot allow an affidavit to remain on the record if you have information suggesting it’s false,” he added.

“She has to be investigated independently of the background check, criminally investigated to see if she deliberately and willfully… made a decision to frame somebody that he had nothing to do with. The evidence seems to suggest they never knew each other they were years apart. They were operating in different circles,” Dershowitz explained.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if an FBI investigation proved they never met each other. And if that turns out to be the fact she belongs in a court of law being prosecuted, with the presumption of innocence, he said.  “But if the evidence shows she committed perjury, prison.”

“Deliberately false frame-ups of rape have to be taken seriously,” Dershowitz concluded.



Howie Carr: Elizabeth Warren's castoffs? Priceless!

Howie Carr

More than three years ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told the Internal Revenue Service that she had donated $50,000 in used clothing and “household items” to local thrift stores in 2014.

Fifty grand worth of clothes! Donated! In one year.

That was the fake Indian’s story and she was sticking to it — until late yesterday afternoon, after we inquired about her rather, uh, profligate spending habits.

Suddenly, the fake Indian’s story changed.

The totals, her flack said, were “entry errors.”

Hey, Senator, glad I could be of service, in helping you correct your false filing. (And I assume the returns, signed under pains and penalties of perjury, will now be corrected.)

Entry errors — I must remember that the next time I get busted lying on my taxes. If only President Trump had thought to claim “entry errors” when The New York Times came to him for their magnum opus on his taxes in this morning’s editions.

How far do you think Judge Kavanaugh would get with the old “entry errors” alibi? Or Warren’s GOP opponent, state Rep. Geoff Diehl?

The fake Indian’s flack said her entry errors “did not affect the ultimate amount that she owed to the IRS because the deductions taken (column h) were correct.”

She continued, “The accurate original value was closer to the original value of similar clothing and household items in Senator Warren’s 2012 taxes (around $8,000).”

Actually, $9,376. I might say something about a forked tongue, but perhaps the better phrase would be “entry errors.” Whatever, it’s almost as difficult to pin her down on how much she’s spending on clothes as it is to get her to admit exactly how high she wants to raise your taxes.

But the other question is this: How much do you spend on clothes?

I’m guessing it’s less — a lot less — than the fake Indian.

Even if it’s only 10 grand that she spends on clothes every year, that seems like an awful lot for someone who grew up on the jagged or ragged edge of the middle class (it all depends on what day you ask her).

Are you telling me she spent that kind of dough on clothes while she was a teacher at Harvard Law School?

As someone who went to Harvard Law — to drop off and pick up my kids at the daycare center there — I can tell you that you could clothe most of the faculty there for ... closer to $35 than $35,000. Total.

According to her bogus 2014 returns, the $50,000 also included certain “household items.”

It would be interesting to know exactly what the latter is. Back in the first presidential campaign in 1992, the Clintons reported “donating” used underwear and mildewed shower curtains for $3 per item.

I have a theory that the fake Indian’s breathtaking expenditures on clothes are related to her abrupt announcement last weekend in Holyoke that she’s taking a “hard look” at running for president.

She spent all that money on pant suits, matching outfits, shoes, cashmere sweaters and the like, and there she was last week, all dressed up and nowhere to go, for one simple reason.

She’s not on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Imagine how it felt to be watching her fellow legends in their own minds grabbing record numbers of eyeballs on television as they sanctimoniously asked Judge Brett Kavanaugh about high-school flatulence jokes.

But all the facetime went to Da Nang Dick Blumenthal, and T-Bone’s friend, Cory Booker, the groping Spartacus from New Jersey. Not to mention Kamala Harris, Willie Brown’s ex-girlfriend.

It’s not fair that she didn’t get to harangue Kavanaugh like the Democrats on the committee did.

All that money spent on clothes, and she still has to compete against not only the solons on Judiciary, but all the other Democrat statesmen who dream of running for president.

Hacks like, say, Joe “Hands” Biden, a plagiarist. And Bernie Sanders, he of the 1972 piece in the hippie weekly in Vermont about how women “fantasize about being raped by three men simultaneously.”

Suck it up, fake Indian. I have just the cure for your sadness about being relegated to a town hall meeting in Holyoke when everyone else was raising the big bucks on their Instagram hits.

Shop til you drop.

Buy Howie’s book “Kennedy Babylon” at howiecarrshow.com.

(Howie, job well done ‘ole pal...Moe)



PENCE: GOOGLE SHOULD ‘IMMEDIATELY’ END CHINA CENSORSHIP PROJECT

Vice president says Dragonfly app would ‘strengthen Communist Party censorship’
Mikael Thalen | Infowars.com

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged Google Thursday to end its development of a Chinese search engine that would track users and censor content.

While delivering a speech at the Hudson Institute, Pence argued Google should follow the lead of other companies who refuse to enter the Chinese market “if it means turning over their intellectual property or abetting Beijing’s oppression.”

“For example,” Pence said, “Google should immediately end development of the ‘Dragonfly’ app that will strengthen Communist Party censorship and compromise the privacy of Chinese customers.”

US vice president @Mike_Pence just gave a speech in which he called on @Google to “immediately end development of the Dragonfly app that will strengthen the Communist Party’s censorship & compromise the privacy of Chinese customers.” pic.twitter.com/hUEDre45LB

US vice president @Mike_Pence just gave a speech in which he called on @Google to “immediately end development of the Dragonfly app that will strengthen the Communist Party’s censorship & compromise the privacy of Chinese customers.” pic.twitter.com/hUEDre45LB

— Ryan Gallagher (@rj_gallagher) October 4, 2018
The secretive project, first revealed by The Intercept last month, would
allow Google to re enter the Chinese market after initially pulling its services in 2010 due to attempted hacks and censorship of users by the Communist government.

A prototype of the app reportedly blacklists terms including “Nobel prize,” “human rights” and “student protest” and would also track the location of users.

After declining to publicly comment on the project for weeks, Keith Enright, Google’s chief privacy officer, confirmed the project’s existence during a hearing in front of the Senate late last month.

Enright, however, denied having detailed knowledge of the app and claimed it was not nearing completion.

“I am not clear on the contours of what is in scope or out of scope for that project,” Enright said. “But I can say that if we were close to launching a search project in China, myself and my team would be very actively engaged to ensure that it was going through the appropriate privacy review process and that it was consistent with our privacy values and the commitments that we’ve made to our users.”

Google appears to be going forward with the project despite receiving a letter from 1,400 Google employees as well as 14 human rights organizations demanding the company reverse its decision.

Former Google research scientist Jack Poulson also came forward last month to reveal his resignation from the company in protest of Dragonfly.

“Due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents,” Poulson wrote in his resignation letter to Google. “I view our intent to capitulate to censorship and surveillance demands in exchange for access to the market as a forfeiture of our values and governmental negotiating position across the globe.”

Pence’s comments come amid escalating tensions between D.C. and Beijing over numerous issues including trade and espionage.

A report in Bloomberg Thursday also claimed that China has “compromised America’s technology supply chain” by embedding secret chips inside Amazon and Apple products.

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Helen and Moe Lauzier

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