The man named to be next president of the Vatican Bank has sparked wild claims that an ancient conspiracy is taking direct control of the Catholic Church.

François Pauly has been elected to serve as the president of the supervisory board for the Institute for the Works of Religion, the official name for the financial group in Vatican City which manages the church's money, property and charitable works.

Pauly, who has served on the Vatican's board since 2024, will now lead the seven-member panel that supervises the bank's strategic guidelines, makes sure international financial standards are followed and oversees day-to-day operations.

However, conspiracy theorists immediately seized on Pauly's ties to the powerful Rothschild group - one of the most famous international banking families in history that has been alleged to be part of the secret society known as the Illuminati.

Theories about the Illuminati claim the mysterious order is comprised of a shadowy collection of elite bankers, politicians, Freemasons and powerful families worldwide who manipulate governments, wars, economies and even religions.

Pauly, who is set to take over as the Vatican Bank's board president on April 28, previously served as general manager of the Edmond de Rothschild group, a private banking arm of the Rothschild family in Switzerland.

The Paris headquarters of Edmond de Rothschild was raided by police on March 20 as part of an investigation into a former employee’s links to Jeffrey Epstein. Files released in February show Epstein exchanged several emails with the bank, but was never in contact with Pauly.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15681389/vatican-bank-francois-pauly-illuminati-rothschild.html

Democrats at the city and state levels in Illinois have not exactly covered themselves in glory in the aftermath of the murder of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University freshman who was gunned down a week ago in what has been described as an execution-style killing while she was out taking a walk with friends on Chicago's lakefront.

The suspect in her murder is 25-year-old Jose Medina, a repeat offender who is, surprise surprise, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who came here under the Biden-Harris administration, being caught and released in 2023.

Apallingly, the state's Democrat governor, JB Pritzker, did not address Gorman's murder until shamed into it. And the initial (written) statement actually came from a spokesperson, not him, four days later, with half of it whining about the alleged politicization of Gorman's death. Incredibly, two days after that, Pritzker himself tried to blame President Trump even though Pritzker has staunchly opposed Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration in the Windy City.

Chicago's woke Democrat mayor, Brandon Johnson, also took several days to chime in on the Gorman case as it was getting more and more national attention. When asked about it on Tuesday, he called it "senseless violence" and offered condolences to Gorman's family, but refused to acknowledge the illegal immigrant aspect of it.

As one might imagine, the family of Sheridan Gorman was not amused. They issued a statement that let Johnson and other "leaders" in the state know that they were not going to rest until those in positions of power and influence confronted and corrected the underlying issues that led to her murder in the first place, so that this never happens to another family again.

We acknowledge Mayor Johnson’s statement five days after our daughter, Sheridan's murder and his condolences to our family, as well as his recognition of the work of the Chicago Police Department.

But what happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to a “senseless tragedy,” nor can it be explained in general terms about public safety. Sheridan was our daughter. She was 18 years old. She was doing something entirely normal—walking near her campus with friends. She should be here.

This was not random. It was not inevitable. And it cannot be treated as though it were.

We appreciate the efforts of law enforcement in making an arrest. But safety is not defined by how quickly a case is solved after the fact. It is defined by whether a young woman like Sheridan is protected in the first place.

Our daughter was not in the wrong place at the wrong time. The system failed her.

Calling this "senseless" is not enough. There must be a clear and honest accounting of what went wrong.

We are not interested in rhetoric. We are asking for accountability.

We will not allow Sheridan’s life to be reduced to a talking point or a generalization. We expect leadership that is willing to confront hard truths and ensure that what happened to her does not happen again.

We stand ready to engage with the Mayor and any public official willing to approach this with seriousness, transparency, and a commitment to real change.

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/03/26/brandon-johnsons-statement-on-sheridan-gorman-prompts-response-from-family-n2200674

Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen was found guilty of hate speech and fined by the Supreme Court of Finland on Thursday over a pamphlet describing homosexuality as a psychosexual development disorder more than 20 years ago.

Räsänen, who led Finland's Christian Democratic Party from 2004 to 2015 and served as the country's interior minister from 2011 to 2015, was found guilty in a slim 3-2 decision of "making and keeping available to the public a text that insults a group," according to a press release from the U.S.-based legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International.

Convicted under Chapter 11 of the Finnish Penal Code, which deals with "agitation against a minority group," Räsänen was ordered to pay a fine of 1,800 euros ($2,080), and the court prohibited physical and digital copies of the pamphlet from being distributed following the ruling.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/finnish-mp-pivi-rsnen-found-guilty-of-hate-speech.html

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https://harbingersdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-misquotes-the-bible-up-to-60-of-the-time/

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Google is courting fresh controversy after starting to test a feature that rewrites article headlines without seeking permission or even notifying the publishers. The trial expands on earlier artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as AI Overviews, which condense articles into short summaries.

Media leaders voiced outrage at the complete lack of communication or approval, with one executive calling it “another overreach by Google taking liberties with content without permission.” They regard headlines as a core part of “editorial judgment” and essential to journalistic integrity. Changing them without disclosure could create serious problems, including a loss of reader confidence if the new versions turn out to be inaccurate or misleading.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/03/26/google-is-now-changing-news-headlines-without-permission/

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