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SignUp Now!The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, on Sunday and was headed for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport.
As Breitbart News reported, the plane inexplicably turned around over New York’s Long Island and flew a straight path down over D.C. before it crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia, around 3:30 p.m.
Flight tracking sites showed the jet suffered a rapid spiraling descent, dropping at one point at a rate of more than 30,000 feet per minute before crashing in the St. Mary’s Wilderness.
It was not immediately clear why the plane was nonresponsive or why it crashed after descending so rapidly.
The plane flew directly over the nation’s capital, though it was technically flying above some of the most heavily restricted airspace in the nation.
The two fighter jets chasing the Cessna trailed a sonic boom in their wake.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is suggesting that the city’s government may soon pay New Yorkers to open their homes to border crossers and illegal aliens who continue arriving in the city on a weekly basis.
Since the spring of last year, more than 72,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in New York City, the majority of which — 37,500 — remain in the city’s shelter system, which now includes hotel rooms, homeless shelters, and a former jail paid for by local taxpayers.
On Monday, while announcing that the city will begin housing about 1,000 border crossers and illegal aliens in 50 churches and faith-based shelters, Adams suggested that he eventually hopes the city will pay New Yorkers to house migrants in their homes.
“It is my vision to take the next step to this faith-based locales and then move to private residences,” Adams said:
There are residents who are suffering right now because of economic challenges; they have spare rooms, they have locales, and if we can find a way…we can take that $4.2 billion, $4.3 billion maybe, now, that we potentially have to spend, and we can put it back into the pockets of everyday New Yorkers, everyday houses of worship instead of putting it in the pockets of corporations. [Emphasis added]
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone laments that the United States has done a better job overcoming racism than coming to terms with its long history of anti-Catholicism.
In a June 1 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Archbishop Cordileone writes that Catholics are “under attack” in America, noting that at least 260 attacks on church property have occurred across 43 states and the District of Columbia since May 2020.
Universally ignored is America’s “long, deep and sordid history of anti-Catholicism,” the archbishop observes, a phenomenon that continues to this day. He cites numerous recent incidents “from arson to spray-painting, beheading and toppling statues, to defacing gravestones with swastikas and anti-Catholic messages.”
Despite the magnitude of the problem, arrests in these cases, and especially prosecutions, have been “extremely rare,” Cordileone adds.
Of particular note is the unwillingness to treat these aggressions with the seriousness they deserve, he suggests.
One recent example is the case of the five vandals stormed the property of California’s Mission San Rafael in 2020 “carrying paint, tools and rope with the intention of desecrating and destroying a beloved statue of St. Junípero Serra.”
The perpetrators were charged with felony vandalism at the time, but last month, the Marin County district attorney’s office inexplicably decided to reduce the charges to a misdemeanor.
“Catholics believe in contrition, but we also believe in justice. This is neither,” the archbishop states. “These five committed a felony, which was witnessed, recorded and widely publicized.”
The next annual visit on September 22, 1827, would be, Smith told associates, his last chance to receive the plates.[75] According to Brigham Young, as the scheduled final date to obtain the plates approached, several Palmyra residents expressed concern "that they were going to lose that treasure" and sent for a skilled necromancer from 60 miles (96 km) away, encouraging him to make three separate trips to Palmyra to find the plates.[76] During one of the trips, the unnamed necromancer is said to have discovered the location but was unable to determine the value of the plates.[77] A few days prior to the September 22, 1827, visit to the hill, Smith's loyal treasure-hunting friends Josiah Stowell and Joseph Knight Sr. traveled to Palmyra, in part, to be there during Smith's scheduled visit to the hill.
Smith used scribes to write the words he said were a translation of the golden plates, dictating the words while peering into seer stones, which he said allowed him to see the translation. Smith's translation process evolved from his previous use of seer stones in treasure-seeking.[103] During the earliest phase of translation, Smith said he used what he called Urim and Thummim, two stones set in a frame like a set of large spectacles.[104] Witnesses said Smith placed the Urim and Thummim in his hat while he was translating.[105]
After the loss of the first 116 manuscript pages, Smith translated with a single seer stone, which some sources say he had previously used in treasure-seeking.[106] Smith placed the stone in a hat, buried his face in it to eliminate all outside light, and peered into the stone to see the words of the translation.[107] A few times during the translation, a curtain or blanket was raised between Smith and his scribe or between the living area and the area where Smith and his scribe worked.[108] Sometimes, Smith dictated to Harris from upstairs or from a different room.