On Sunday, Chicagoâs first openly gay mayor, Lori Lightfoot, mounted a raid on a black South Side church for holding services in defiance of her coronavirus lockdown orders. Lightfoot reportedly sent three marked squad cars and two unmarked cars full of officers to the Chicago Cornerstone Baptist Church in the South Sideâs Woodlawn neighborhood. Woodlawn […]
ROME â The director general of the Vatican bank, Gian Franco MammĂŹ, confirmed this week that the institution holds no investments in the fossil fuel industry, apparently in response to challenges from climate change activists. Mr. MammĂŹ told the U.S.-based National Catholic Reporter that the Vatican bank follows the same practices as other European banking institutions, […]
Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker said Thursday that the push for reopening society from lockdowns comes from Christianityâs âmalignant delusionâ of belief in an afterlife. Atheists who believe in this life alone are more concerned with health and safety, Professor Pinker suggested in a Tweet, while Christians tend to devalue âactual livesâ and live a […]
