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In Vatican summit’s final document, delegates call for more lay and female church leaders

In Vatican summit’s final document, delegates call for more lay and female church leaders

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VATICAN CITY (RNS) – After three years of discussions at every level of the Catholic Church, a summit of Catholic bishops and lay people at the Vatican ended Saturday (Oct. 26), with the publication of a document laying out a vision for structural reform of the church and calling for the hierarchy to make more room for lay leaders, especially women. The final document of Vatican Synod on Synodality presented pathways to a more inclusive and transparent church that gives all Catholics a say on the future of the institution. It proposed changes to canon law that would allow lay people to be better heard by their bishops, national bishops’ conferences and even the pope. The 52-page document serves as the final statement on the summit, which brought nearly 400 prelates, lay Catholics, nuns and brothers to Rome for the past month. Pope Francis announced that he will not publish an ‘apostolic exhortation’ as is customary at the end of a synod. The pope signed Saturday’s document instead, suggesting that it constitutes official church teaching. …

Trump Classified Document Trial Postponed Indefinitely Days After ‘Mishandled Evidence’ Bombshell

Trump Classified Document Trial Postponed Indefinitely Days After ‘Mishandled Evidence’ Bombshell

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One day after postponing a filing deadline in Donald Trump’s classified documents case, Judge Aileen M. Cannon has postponed the whole thing indefinitely. In a Tuesday decision, Cannon vacated (canceled) Trump’s May 20 trial date, and wrote that setting a new date given the enormous stack of pre-trial matters would be “imprudent.” NEW: Judge Cannon officially vacates May 20 trial date, says setting a new date with so many outstanding matters would be “imprudent.” pic.twitter.com/A8QwNmuQ6o — Julie Kelly ???????? (@julie_kelly2) May 7, 2024 On Monday, Cannon postponed a filing deadline for Trump’s team to provide a list of classified documents they want to present at trial – which was supposed to be filed by this Thursday. Cannon did not announce a new deadline, perhaps the first clue into today’s decision. The move also comes after special counsel Jack Smith’s team admitted that the classified files at the heart of the case had been tampered with, and they needed more time to assess that revelation. Smith also misled the court, after originally telling U.S. District Judge …

How to add check boxes to a MS Word document

How to add check boxes to a MS Word document

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When you’re looking to organize tasks or create a checklist in Microsoft Word, adding check boxes can be a very useful feature. Adding checkboxes to a Microsoft Word document can be useful for creating interactive checklists or forms. Here’s a concise guide on how to insert checkboxes in your Word documents. Adding Check Boxes to a Word Document Open your Microsoft Word document. Go to the “Developer” tab in the ribbon. If it’s not visible, enable it by going to File > Options > Customize Ribbon and check the “Developer” box. In the “Developer” tab, find the “Controls” group. Click on the checkbox icon under the “Controls” group to insert a checkbox into the document. Click on the document where you want to add the checkbox. To change the properties of the checkbox, right-click on it and select “Properties.” Customize the checkbox properties as needed. Repeat the process to add more checkboxes as required. How to Add Microsoft Word Check Boxes First, you need to access the Developer tab on the ribbon. If it’s not …

King praises artists who worked on Coronation document, telling them: ‘You deserve a very stiff drink’ | UK News

King praises artists who worked on Coronation document, telling them: ‘You deserve a very stiff drink’ | UK News

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The King has praised the team which created the official record of his coronation, telling them: “You deserve a very stiff drink.” He made the comments as he viewed the Coronation Roll with the Queen on Wednesday, in his second public-facing event since his cancer diagnosis. The King told heraldic artist Tim Noad and calligrapher Stephanie Gill, who said she worked 56 consecutive days writing the roll: “Thank you very much, I cannot tell you how grateful I am.” Image: Pic: PA The document follows a centuries-old tradition of creating a handwritten record of a monarch’s coronation, but is the first to use paper, not the usual animal skin. It was authored by Antonia Romeo, the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, who signed the document on Friday and described its key features to the King and Queen. She told them: “It’s stitched together, so it’s paper, there’s no animal product involved and they’re sown in what’s known as Chancery stitch, there’s 30 pages, something like 11,600 words and it’s rolled up.” Image: The Coronation …

Oh, The Irony: Congress Passes FISA-702 Extension, Allowing Warrantless Document Searches & Electronic Surveillance Of Americans, On Patriots Day 2024

Oh, The Irony: Congress Passes FISA-702 Extension, Allowing Warrantless Document Searches & Electronic Surveillance Of Americans, On Patriots Day 2024

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Authored by ‘Sundance’ via TheConservativeTreehouse.com, The fourth amendment to the United States constitution says: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” Late last night, early this morning (after midnight), the United States Senate passed a FISA reauthorization bill that directly and specifically violates every tenant of the 4th amendment. The senate voted to authorize warrantless federal government searches of every American’s private papers, effects, emails, electronic data records, cell phone calls, contact lists, text messages, buying habits, purchases, banking records, social media posts, direct messages, private communications and every keystroke of every electronic device in your life.  All of it continues to be subject to the capture, review and surveillance of an unelected opaque law enforcement mechanism, and congress supports it. The issue is magnified because the Supreme Court has …

Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.

Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S.

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Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the United States, and leverage the Ukraine war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, according to a secret Foreign Ministry document. In a classified addendum to Russia’s official — and public — “Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation,” the ministry calls for an “offensive information campaign” and other measures spanning “the military-political, economic and trade and informational psychological spheres” against a “coalition of unfriendly countries” led by the United States. “We need to continue adjusting our approach to relations with unfriendly states,” states the 2023 document, which was provided to The Washington Post by a European intelligence service. “It’s important to create a mechanism for finding the vulnerable points of their external and internal policies with the aim of developing practical steps to weaken Russia’s opponents.” The document for the first time provides official confirmation and codification of what many in the Moscow elite say has become a hybrid war against …

Vatican to publish document on gender, surrogacy and human dignity next week

Vatican to publish document on gender, surrogacy and human dignity next week

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ROME (AP) — The Vatican will publish a document next week on gender theory and surrogacy that was announced in a bid to respond to opposition from conservatives over Pope Francis’ willingness to bless same-sex unions. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, will hold his first news conference to present the document “Infinite Dignity, on human dignity,” on April 8, the Vatican announced Tuesday. Fernández, who is very close to Francis, revealed the declaration was in the works after he came under criticism for the roll-out of a December document from his office authorizing priests to offer non-liturgical blessings to same-sex couples. Conservative bishops, including entire national bishops conferences in Africa, blasted the document as contrary to biblical teaching about homosexuality and said they wouldn’t implement it. Fernández, who is from Argentina, has said in various media interviews since then that the new document will offer a strong critique of “immoral tendencies” in society today, including surrogacy, sex changes and gender theory. While Francis has …

Trump’s hush money case set for critical hearing over document dump

Trump’s hush money case set for critical hearing over document dump

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The judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money case will hold a consequential hearing Monday to sort out who is to blame for a curveball that delayed the trial at the last minute. Trump’s trial had been widely expected to begin the same day as the hearing until federal prosecutors this month began turning over what would become more than 100,000 pages of records. The trial is now delayed until at least mid-April. On Monday, the parties are set to battle in a New York courtroom over whether the records require another delay — or even sanctions — as Judge Juan Merchan attempts to ascertain why they weren’t turned over earlier. “It’s like ‘I Love Lucy.’ ‘Lucy, you’ve got some ‘splaining to do!’” said Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former Manhattan chief assistant district attorney. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) charged Trump last year with 34 counts of falsifying business records related to reimbursements to his then-fixer, Michael Cohen, who paid adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 just before the 2016 election to stay quiet …

I got my own Trump document dump — and it makes clear why his election interference case is delayed

I got my own Trump document dump — and it makes clear why his election interference case is delayed

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Our government lies. Two and a half years ago, while doing some research, I filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request for information on former Trump fixer Michael Cohen and the investigation that led to his prosecution. Cohen gave me permission to pursue the information; he wanted it too. So for the last two and a half years, with the assistance of brilliant FOIA attorney Mark Zaid and his firm, we have pursued the information to no avail. I’ve sat in Zoom meetings listening to excuse after excuse. I’ve appeared in court. Nothing has ever been done.  If you’ve ever filed a FOIA with any branch of the federal government, be prepared for a wait. It is always a long wait and the amount of information you obtain is usually minimal. The idea behind the FOIA Act is to provide transparency in government. The reality is that the act is often used to obscure governmental activities. Often, we are told, the FOIA offices in the federal government are underfunded and overworked, thus producing a backlog …

Classified Document Hearing Shows Stiff Partisan Divides on Biden’s Responsibility, Memory

Classified Document Hearing Shows Stiff Partisan Divides on Biden’s Responsibility, Memory

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WASHINGTON —  Members of Congress on Tuesday turned a hearing about President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents into a charged referendum on a question central to the upcoming presidential election: the 81-year-old’s mental fitness. The Biden administration and their main challengers, the backers of presumptive Republican candidate Donald Trump, emerged from the House Judiciary Committee’s five-hour grilling of Special Counsel Robert Hur with radically different answers to that question. They also starkly disagreed over Hur’s decision not to file criminal charges, despite concluding in his February report that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials as a private citizen.” Criminal charges were not warranted, Hur argued in announcing his decision in early February, because, he said, Biden would likely present himself to a jury as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” — words that Republican legislators repeated, repeatedly, during the hearing. Afterward, Ian Sams, spokesperson for the White House counsel’s office, gave his take: “The main thing I took away from the hearing today was that we had three hours of the …