Pope says he's thought about when it's time to 'take leave'

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis says he has thought about when it might be time to "take leave" of his flock.

Francis made the comment during his morning homily Tuesday; the Vatican didn't release the full text.

Francis was reflecting on St. Paul discerning when to leave his flock in the care of others, a decision Francis said all bishops must make.

He said: "When I read this, I think about myself, because I'm a bishop and I'll have to take my leave."

Francis has said retired Pope Benedict XVI "opened a door" to future popes by resigning. While the 81-year-old pope has said he didn't envisage a long papacy, he hasn't said explicitly if he'd retire.

Francis may have also been referring to Chilean bishops implicated in a sex abuse cover-up scandal.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12052033

Hamas Planned The Violence On The Gaza Border. The Media Act As Their Propaganda Arm.

He explains openly on Al Jazeera (translation via MEMRI):

When you are in possession of weapons that were able to withstand the occupation in the wars of 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2014, when you have weapons that are being wielded by men who were able to prevent the strongest army in the region from entering the Gaza Strip for 51 days, and were able to capture or kill soldiers of that army is this really ‘peaceful resistance’? This is not peaceful resistance. Has the option [of armed struggle] diminished? No. On the contrary, it is growing and developing. … So when we talk about peaceful resistance, we are deceiving the public. This is peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force and by security agencies and enjoying tremendous popular support. … This deception does not fool the Palestinian public.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/30638/hamas-planned-violence-gaza-border-media-act-their-ben-shapiro

Massive Day-Care Fraud In Minnesota May Have Ties To Terrorism

A day-care scandal in Minnesota has exploded; investigators have discovered day-care centers that are bilking the government of out hundreds of millions of dollars are funneling the money to the Middle East, and some of that money may be being used to finance terrorism.

The discovery came as a result of a investigation started five years ago into huge day-care fraud; day-cares were supposed to receive government subsidies meant to help low-income families with their childcare expenses. As FOX 9 reports:

Surveillance videos from a case prosecuted by Hennepin County show parents checking their kids into a center, only to leave with them a few minutes later. Sometimes, no children would show up. Either way, the center would bill the state for a full day of childcare. Video from that same case shows a man handing out envelopes of what are believed to be kickback payments to parents who are in on the fraud.

Then, Glen Kerns, a former Seattle police detective who spent 15 years on the FBI’s joint terrorism task force, got involved. He followed millions of dollars in cash transported out of Seattle, and found it was coming from Hawalas, businesses used to courier money to countries that have no official banking system. He tracked some of the money, and discovered it was sent to a Hawala in the region of Somalia controlled by the al Shabaab terrorist group, which pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda in 2012. Al Shabba is banned as a terrorist group by both the U.S. and the U.K.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/30650/massive-day-care-fraud-minnesota-may-have-ties-hank-berrien

A DAYCARE CENTER USED FOR LAUNDERING MONEY FOR MIDDLE EAST TERRORISTS IN MINNESOTA…wow. just wow.

Horrified Moviegoers In Cannes Walk Out Of ‘Vomitive,’ ‘Torturous' Serial Killer Film ‘The House That Jack Built’

You don't hear the word "vomitive" too often from a critic reviewing a new movie.

But then, this is a Lars Von Trier movie, and anything goes with this "artist," who's put out such wonderful films as "Antichrist" and "Nymphomaniac."

His new movie “The House That Jack Built,” starring Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman, drew mass walkouts on Monday night when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Critics hated it — one went so far as to say the director had “gone too far this time.”

The Danish director said the new movie is his most violent film to date — and he's proud of that. Movie review site Rotten Tomatoes summed up the plot this way: "Lars von Trier's upcoming drama follows the highly intelligent Jack (Matt Dillon) over a span of 12 years and introduces the murders that define Jack's development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack's point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the ultimate artwork."

Blurgh.

In the course of the "art," women and children are brutally — and graphically — murdered.

That led to a mass walkout in Cannes.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/30640/mass-walkouts-vomitive-torturous-serial-killer-joseph-curl

people don't like seeing women and children mutilated and murdered..

REPORT: 'Ren & Stimpy' Creator Allegedly Preyed On Teen Girls

"One of the alleged victims, Robyn Byrd, says she first met Kricfalusi when she sent him a videotape of herself at 13, talking about her dreams of becoming an animator. He responded by offering to mentor the young teen, chatting with her through an AOL account he helped her set up. He then reportedly flew her to Los Angeles to become his live-in girlfriend, and hired her as an intern at Spumco," reports Vulture.

happy, happy, joy joy no more…

https://www.dailywire.com/news/30629/report-ren-stimpy-creator-allegedly-preyed-teen-amanda-prestigiacomo

Churches Leading An Exit From Girl Scouts Over Its Ties To Planned Parenthood

After several consultations with the Presbyteral Council and with the recommendation of our Office for Youth Ministry, I have asked the pastors of the Archdiocese to begin the process of transitioning away from the hosting of parish Girl Scout troops and toward the chartering of American Heritage Girls troops. …

Eventually it came down to this. Our greatest responsibility as a church is to the children and young people in our care. We have a limited time and number of opportunities to impact the formation of our young people. It is essential that all youth programs at our parishes affirm virtues and values consistent with our Catholic faith.

To follow Jesus and his Gospel will often require us to be counter-cultural. With the promotion by Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) of programs and materials reflective of many of the troubling trends in our secular culture, they are no longer a compatible partner in helping us form young women with the virtues and values of the Gospel.

The national organization, for example, contributes more than a million dollars each year to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGS), an organization tied to International Planned Parenthood and its advocacy for legislation that includes both contraception and abortion as preventive health care for women.

Margaret Sanger, Betsy Friedan and Gloria Steinem are frequently held up in materials as role models for young Scouts. These as well as many other “role models” in the GSUSA’s new manuals and web content not only do not reflect our Catholic worldview but stand in stark opposition to what we believe.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/30615/churches-leading-exit-girl-scouts-over-its-ties-hank-berrien

>>1420873

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>>1420936

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Elon Musk Explains Improvements to SpaceX's Falcon 9 Block 5 Rocket

https://www.space.com/40582-elon-musk-explains-spacex-falcon-9-block-5.html

SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk on May 10 went into detail on modifications made to the latest version of the Falcon 9, including redesigning a pressure vessel implicated in the rocket’s 2016 pre-launch explosion.

In a briefing with reporters hours before the scrubbed launch of the first Block 5 Falcon 9 rocket, Musk said the Block 5 is designed to be "the most reliable rocket ever built."

"That is the design intent," he said. "I hope fate doesn’t punish me for these words, but that is unequivocally the intent. And I think our most conservative customers would agree with that." [See the Evolution of SpaceX's Rockets in Pictures]

A last-minute glitch May 10 postponed the Block 5 Falcon 9's debut launch 24 hours to May 11. SpaceX blamed "a standard ground system auto abort" for halting the countdown 58 seconds before liftoff. The rocket lifted off successfully May 11 at 4:14 p.m. EDT, landed its first stage 11 minutes later and deployed Bangladesh's first telecom satellite, Bangabandhu-1, to geostationary transfer orbit just under 34 minutes later.