Why Pope Leo is legally allowed to vote in US election — despite being leader of Vatican City

By  Steven Nelson
Published Oct. 30, 2026, 11:47 a.m. ET


WASHINGTON — Pope Leo XIV has voted in the midterm elections despite serving as the head of a foreign country — but don’t bother trying to claim President Trump’s new $1 million voter fraud bounty.

Leo, 71, was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago on Sept. 14, 1955, and online Illinois records reviewed by The Post show that he’s registered to vote at his older brother John’s address in suburban New Lenox.

“He’s an American citizen living abroad. He didn’t lose his voting rights when he moved to the Vatican,” said Richard Hasen, a voting rights expert at the 

Pope Leo XIV voted this week in the midterm elections in Illinois, where he formerly lived.

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The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986 lays out the process for Americans living outside US borders.

That law requires states to allow “overseas voters to use absentee registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot.”

Overseas voters must cast ballots for offices “in the last place in which the person was domiciled before leaving the United States.”

Vatican City has been recognized as an independent state since 1929 and functions as an absolute monarchy without political elections. Unlike other nations, which mainly grant citizenship based on where or to whom a person was born, the Vatican grants citizenship by application — and only the pope holds the privilege for life.

Leo also holds American and Peruvian citizenship, and the Chicago Sun-Times reported that he requested a mail-in ballot from the Will County clerk’s office Oct. 3, ten days before undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his right lung.

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What People Don't Know About Halloween

 What People Don't Know About Halloween

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Why is Halloween on October 31st? Dr. Eric Walsh traces the holiday from the Celtic night of Samhain, when pagans

believed the veil between the living and the dead grew thin, to the popes who moved All Saints Day to line up with it.

He then asks what that history means for Christians who celebrate it today.

Dr. Walsh is a physician and preacher who returns to LED to compare Halloween's history with what the Bible says

about the dead. He, Scotty and Keith follow the same ideas into Hollywood, from Fantasia and I Dream of Jeannie to

Coco, Lucifer and Sinners. Near the end, Dr. Walsh walks through research on how scary movies affect children,

including G and PG films. The episode closes on the only knock at the door worth answering (Revelation 3:20).

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Scripture in this episode:

Deuteronomy 18:9-12 • Leviticus 19:31 • Isaiah 8:19-20 • Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 • 1 Chronicles 10:13 • Luke 16 • Ephesians 5:11

• 1 John 4:18 • Psalm 11:5 • Revelation 16:13-15 • Revelation 3:20

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Daylight saving time ends Sunday: Where the move to make it permanent now stands

Updated: Oct. 28, 2026, 3:36 p.m.

Published: Oct. 27, 2026, 7:00 a.m.

Daylight Saving Time will end for the season Nov. 1, as the move to make it permanent has stalled in Congress.Canva/Katherine Rodriguez

By Katherine Rodriguez | NJ.com


Daylight saving time is going away for the season on Sunday.

At that point, clocks will “fall back” one hour to 1 a.m.

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This means most Americans will gain an extra hour of sleep and experience earlier sunsets during the winter.

Although the Sunshine Protection Act to make daylight saving time permanent passed the House on July 14, 2026, the Senate failed to act on the bill.

After the bill passed the House, it was headed to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

However, no floor vote is scheduled, and congressional schedules for the remainder of the year leave the issue dormant until at least next year.

If the bill were to pass the Senate and get signed into law by the president, states would opt-in to year-round daylight saving time.

Congressional action is required due to the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which bans states from enacting permanent daylight saving time independently.

According to federal law, states may remain on standard time year-round, but there is no law that allows states to remain on year-round daylight saving time.

In 2026, daylight saving time will end for the season Nov. 1 at 2 a.m. and will start again March 14, 2027.

What states have passed permanent daylight saving time?

If permanent daylight saving time does pass Congress, there are 19 states that have passed legislation to move to permanent daylight saving time.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, these are the 19 states that passed legislation on permanent daylight saving time:

• Texas (2025)
• Oklahoma (2024)
• Colorado (2022)
• Alabama, Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi and Montana (2021)
• Idaho (Pacific time zone only), Louisiana, South Carolina, Utah and Wyoming (2020)
• Delaware, Maine, Oregon (Pacific time zone only)
• Tennessee and Washington (2019)
• Florida (2018)

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Catalyst: Building Community in Peru

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Oct 30, 2026

Maranatha’s Catalyst project connects like-minded young adults at 12,500 feet of elevation, as they construct a new church, provide medical clinics, and lead children's programs in southern Peru

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Halloween Is Everywhere. But Does It Belong in the Christian Church? Heritage & Hope Ministries

Halloween Is Everywhere. But Does It Belong in the Christian Church?

Heritage & Hope Ministries

Is Halloween really just harmless fun, or is there a spiritual danger that Christians are overlooking? 

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In this episode, Dr. Eric Walsh joins us to uncover the surprising history of Halloween, its connections to pagan traditions, spiritualism, and the Catholic church, and what the Bible really teaches about death and the supernatural. From trick-or-treating and church-sponsored Halloween celebrations to Hollywood's growing fascination with witchcraft, ghosts, and the occult, we examine how these influences may be shaping Christian beliefs without us even realizing it. Should Christians celebrate Halloween? Is there a biblical reason to avoid it? And could something that seems so innocent actually be opening the door to dangerous spiritual influences?

Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayer Leader Calls for Change in Iran’s Nuclear Doctrine

October 30, 2026
IranWire

Mohammad-Javad Haj-Ali-Akbari, Tehran’s interim Friday prayer leader, called for a revision of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear doctrine and a move toward acquiring nuclear weapons during his sermon on Friday, October 30, 2026. He claimed that the issue has now become a “national demand.”

The interim Friday prayer leader stated that, according to recent opinion polls, “70 percent of the public supports changing the nuclear doctrine,” though he did not cite the source of these surveys.

Haj-Ali-Akbari urged experts to draft proposals in cooperation with relevant institutions and submit them to Mojtaba Khamenei for a final decision.

According to him, dispatching mediators and sending letters from the United States will not reduce the risk of a resumption of war. He emphasized that Iran’s seven conditions for de-escalation and reopening the Strait of Hormuz must be implemented.

Meanwhile, Alireza Salimi, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s Presidium, wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “Revising defensive policy and changing the nuclear doctrine today enjoys both elite consensus and public demand. Parliament stands ready to introduce a triple-urgency bill in this domain at a moment’s notice.”

In a separate post, the lawmaker claimed: “Withdrawing from the NPT is a definitive right of the Islamic Republic under its various articles, and a draft bill for withdrawal has been prepared by several representatives and is on Parliament’s desk.

Salimi added that strategies must change and that the era of overbearing mandates and royal decrees has come to an end.

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A Religious Tsunami is Forming in America--Socialism

October 27, 2026 Gerry Wagoner



A religious tsunami is forming in America. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) do not just want higher taxes or a larger welfare state – they want a church. And they have built one, a sacred edifice with its own holy texts (the works of Marx, Engels, and the leftist chatter of 1,000 zealous university professors).

Its eschatology is a redeemed classless society, its doctrine of original sin is private property and the free market. It has prophets and martyrs, rituals of protest and moral purification, and a thick community that supplies friends, status, identity, and a sense of purpose. Its good work is social justice.

What was once a fringe movement has become the organizing force of its younger, more indoctrinated, and more urban devotees. Candidates who once treated socialism as a liability now treat it as an asset—to the delight of countless milennials who just want something different, without the historical awareneness of its cost.

Jeffrey Arm, vice president of external affairs at the Manhattan Institute, describes the DSA not as a political movement but as a congregation. It supplies the lonely, the underemployed, and the educationally indoctrinated with what churches once offered: moral vocabulary, social belonging, status, rituals, and a grand narrative of historical struggle in which the individual can play a redemptive role. The DSA offers an explanation and a cause. Capitalism, in this worldview, has cheated them, and they must oppose the owning of private property.

This is not politics as usual. It is the religious impulse emptied of God and poured into the state. Humans are created with a metaphysical hunger for answers about our existence, identity, the meaning of history, and the nature of man (Acts 17:27). When that hunger is denied its proper object, it does not disappear, it attaches itself to the nearest available substitute.

Marxism has always understood this. The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Communist Party did not merely nationalize industry. They offered a total account of history, a doctrine of original sin (class), a path of redemption (revolution), and a Promise Land (the classless society). The DSA is the American, post-Christian version of the same pattern. And it is coming fast.

Its leaders illustrate the point with particular clarity. The New York co-chair, a Yale graduate living in a $1.5 million townhouse, has claimed an immigrant background that does not exist. Zohran Mamdani, now mayor of New York, comes from an elite family. These are not dispossessed victims, they are educated, status-anxious zealous evangelists of this false religion. Their discontent is not primarily economic, but ideological, and spiritual, and they have been invited right into to Seventh-day Adventist churches.

Luther's Separation From Rome - Great Controversy (1911) Ellen

Luther's Separation From Rome - Great Controversy (1911) Ellen G. White

BeYeSeparate (2Cor.6:14-18)

Feb 15, 2014

Foremost among those who were called to lead the Church into the Great Reformation was the humble, but unshakable man, Martin Luther. What kind of a man was he? Where did he come from? And why did he do what he did? Martin Luther, the man who opened the Bible to a world. -- HISTORICAL DATING OF THIS CHAPTER: Events in this chapter covers the period of time between November 10, 1483 and January 2, 1521—the first 37 years of Martin Luther's life. He entered Erfert University in 1501, received his Master's degree in 1505, traveled to Rome in 1510, received his Doctor of Theology in 1512, and began preaching. Luther nailed the 95 theses to the Castle Church door on October 31, 1517. Two years later, Tetzel died. Phillip Melanchthon arrived in 1518. Luther's trial at Augsburg occurred in October 1518. Two years later, Pope Leo X's bull condemned Luther.

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The Bible and the French Revolution

Chapter 15—The Bible and the French Revolution

In the sixteenth century the Reformation, presenting an open Bible to the people, had sought admission to all the countries of Europe. Some nations welcomed it with gladness, as a messenger of Heaven. In other lands the papacy succeeded to a great extent in preventing its entrance; and the light of Bible knowledge, with its elevating influences, was almost wholly excluded. In one country, though the light found entrance, it was not comprehended by the darkness. For centuries, truth and error struggled for the mastery. At last the evil triumphed, and the truth of Heaven was thrust out. “This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light.” John 3:19. The nation was left to reap the results of the course which she had chosen. The restraint of God’s Spirit was removed from a people that had despised the gift of His grace. Evil was permitted to come to maturity. And all the world saw the fruit of willful rejection of the light.

The war against the Bible, carried forward for so many centuries in France, culminated in the scenes of the Revolution. That terrible outbreaking was but the legitimate result of Rome’s suppression of the Scriptures. (See Appendix.) It presented the most striking illustration which the world has ever witnessed of the working out of the papal policy—an illustration of the results to which for more than a thousand years the teaching of the Roman Church had been tending.

The suppression of the Scriptures during the period of papal supremacy was foretold by the prophets; and the Revelator points also to the terrible results that were to accrue especially to France from the domination of the “man of sin.”

Said the angel of the Lord: “The holy city shall they tread underfoot forty and two months. And I will give power unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.... And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.... And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. And after three days and a half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.” Revelation 11:2-11.

The periods here mentioned—“forty and two months,” and “a thousand two hundred and threescore days”—are the same, alike representing the time in which the church of Christ was to suffer oppression from Rome. The 1260 years of papal supremacy began in A.D. 538, and would therefore terminate in 1798. (See Appendix note for page 54.) At that time a French army entered Rome and made the pope a prisoner, and he died in exile. Though a new pope was soon afterward elected, the papal hierarchy has never since been able to wield the power which it before possessed.

The persecution of the church did not continue throughout the entire period of the 1260 years. God in mercy to His people cut short the time of their fiery trial. In foretelling the “great tribulation” to befall the church, the Saviour said: “Except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” Matthew 24:22. Through the influence of the Reformation the persecution was brought to an end prior to 1798.

Zineb Riboua: The West is facing rising third-worldism

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Oct 29, 2026  Inside Policy Talks

“A good chunk of the population” in France is opposed to what the French culture and way of life represents, and “that’s a huge, huge problem,” says an international security expert.

Zineb Riboua, a research fellow with the Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, said this is “a fundamental weakness” at a time when Europe faces not only great internal strife, but also external geopolitical threats, like an aggressive Russia.

“The majority are not willing to die for what the French Republic represents,” she said.

Riboua joined Inside Policy Talks to offer her reflections in the wake of destructive riots in France that saw symbols of French civilization burned to the ground.

On the podcast, Riboua and Casey Babb, director of The Promised Land at MLI, talked about this latest flashpoint for surging extremism in the West. They discussed the presence of Palestinian flags and related symbols like the keffiyeh at many of the riots, and whether this violence could soon spread to Canada.

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Something DARK Is Happening This HALLOWEEN… The BIBLE Warned Us

Something DARK Is Happening This HALLOWEEN… The BIBLE Warned Us

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Oct 18, 2026  Bible Stories

Before you hand out candy this Halloween, know what the night really carries. October 31, 2026 falls on a Saturday, and on that one square of the calendar sit a Celtic night of the dead, the door Martin Luther chose in 1517, and the Sabbath God blessed at creation.

Every custom carries a belief inside it, the way a seed carries a tree. This video follows Halloween from Samhain and the medieval soul cake, a sweet handed out for a prayer for the dead, to Wittenberg on the eve of All Saints, where Luther's ninety-five theses struck an economy built on the dead. Then it opens the Bible on the one belief that holds the whole night together, that the dead are awake and near, and shows where that belief is leading today: prayers for the dead, AI apps that speak in a dead parent's voice, and a sharp rise in exorcisms. It ends with what to do this October, and with the hope Martha held at her brother's tomb.

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📖 IN THIS EPISODE

• Why trick-or-treat began as a knock at the door for the dead

• Samhain, All Hallows and the medieval soul cake

• Wittenberg, October 31, 1517: relics, indulgences and the 95 theses

• Why the Reformation was born on Halloween

• What Luther and Tyndale saw in the grave

• What the Bible says happens when we die (Genesis 2:7, Ecclesiastes 9:5)

• The two errors the Reformation left unfinished

• Halloween 2026 falls on the Sabbath: why that matters

• AI "grief" apps and the voice of the dead

• Isaiah 8:20: to the law and to the testimony

• What your family can do this October, and the hope of the resurrection

Evangelization in the City

by Paul Gillam, SJ | Aug 31, 2026 



In August Pope Leo XIV asked the Church to pray for evangelization in the city, that in large cities, often marked by anonymity and loneliness, we find new ways to proclaim the Gospel, discovering creative paths to build community.

“For Christ plays in ten thousand places,” writes 19th-century Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/To the Father through the feature of men’s faces.”

Had Hopkins heard Pope Leo’s August prayer intention, I imagine he would have brought to prayer this rich line from As Kingfishers Catch Fire. The recognition of Christ’s expansive, incarnate presence, particularly in human persons, provides a lens that transforms the city, appearing initially insane, frenzied, and unrelenting, into fertile ground for evangelization. Not evangelization of the city but evangelization in it. In his wisdom, the Holy Father invites us not to crusade against the city but to open our hearts to it, so that evangelization both to me and through me might take place.

Evangelized by Christ in the City

I grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis – used to grassy fenced backyards; private driveway hoops; and generally unobtrusive neighbors – so the Concrete Jungle, the City that Never Sleeps, is not my ideal habitat. New York City can be a terrifying place for a small-city boy.

Once I waved “thanks” to a man who stopped for me at a crosswalk. He yelled at me: “Do you think you’re God or something?!” I don’t wave much anymore. Just last week, another racially charged argument between women at my apostolic site. I want to disengage myself. What’s the point if reconciliation never happens? And just today I again apathetically pass a person asking for my help. I fail to even pause to dignify him. He doesn’t exist to me. What has happened to my heart?

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New York Adventists Train for Active-Shooter Emergencies at First Church Safety Summit

Stanton Witherspoon|October 29, 2026

The New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists held its first Church Safety Summit at Split Rock Seventh-day Adventist Church in Syracuse, New York. In a Facebook post, the conference said the event focused on helping church leaders and members prepare for emergencies and understand their role in protecting congregations.

The summit included active-shooter response training. Participants practiced how to respond during an armed attack and how to help protect people inside the church. The training reflects a wider emphasis on church safety across the North American Division, which directs congregations to Adventist Risk Management resources on active-shooter preparation and emergency response. Adventist Risk Management also recommends emergency response teams, coordination with local law enforcement, evacuation plans, and the “Run, Hide, Fight” approach.

The Syracuse summit comes as Adventist organizations in North America continue to expand formal safety programs. Adventist Risk Management made active-shooter drills the focus of its 2024 Safety Sabbath and launched a new training series in 2026 for church and school safety officers. The issue has received added attention since the December 2024 shooting at Feather River Adventist School in California, which injured two young students.

Image: Participants practice active-shooter response during the New York Conference’s first Church Safety Summit at Split Rock Seventh-day Adventist Church in Syracuse, New York. Photo: New York Conference.

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The Riots in France Show Up the Dangerous Fiction That Public Spending and ‘Integration’ Create a Peaceful Society

The riots in France have shown up the Leftist claim that enough public spending and 'integration' will produce a happy, peaceful society as a dangerous fiction. But is anyone paying attention, asks Matt Roberts.

By Matt Roberts

27 October 2026 7:35 PM



The violence, looting and burning in France over the weekend of October 24th-25th was somewhat less intense and widespread than it had been on the previous weekend, but it was still significant. A demonstration comprising an estimated 400,000 people took place on the Saturday in Paris, confined to the south-eastern edge of the city, and this was followed by violent clashes with police near Porte de Vincennes, about a 45-minute walk from the Place de la Bastille. Water cannon and tear gas were used. Around 500 rioters were estimated to have broken off from the main protest. There were more clashes, as well as bin fires and looting in Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Lille, Toulouse, Nantes, Grenoble, Rennes and several other parts of France. There were around 1,000 arrests nationwide (1,300 by some reports), with 70,000 police having been deployed to the streets, which was a substantial increase on the previous weekend’s deployment. Activists have called for further action on October 31st, and it’s clear that the sentiment behind the unrest hasn’t gone away. The weather on the 31st is forecast to be mild and dry, more similar to that of the 17th than the wetter, colder 24th, so it remains to be seen how much the tensions have been defused, and to what extent the less dedicated were put off by the weather.

There are two competing narratives in the media (mainstream and alternative) about the motivations for the unrest, and indeed the nature of the unrest. On the one hand, this is a ‘mostly peaceful’ expression of the French people’s frustration with public services. It started with teachers and students protesting against the underfunding of schools, and has widened to express a broader discontent with austerity measures and the economy in general. On the other hand, this is a violent ethno-religious-communist uprising trying to bring down the French state and overturn French society.

“Fear as a Blueprint for Global Control”: COVID Conference in Brussels

“Fear as a Blueprint for Global Control”: COVID Conference in Brussels

The Financial Express 

Oct 28, 2026  

Hosted by MEPs Christine Anderson and Gerolf Annemans in Brussels, the conference “Pandemic Politics: Fear as a Blueprint for Global Control” features physician Dr Wolfgang Wodarg and pharmacist and microbiologist Freija Van den Driessche discussing their criticisms of the COVID-19 pandemic response. The speakers argue that fear was used to encourage public compliance, question the handling of vaccine safety and informed consent, and raise concerns about pharmaceutical interests and political accountability. They also warn that pandemic-era policies could provide a model for expanded digital identification, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and mass surveillance. The event calls for greater transparency, open scientific debate and scrutiny of government power. These claims and interpretations reflect the speakers’ positions at the conference and should be distinguished from established scientific findings and independently verified evidence.