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William Damroth, the pastor of St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Newburg, New York, pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny and will pay the church $300,000 in restitution.
Father William Damroth pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny charges on Dec. 17, and will pay $300,000 in restitution to St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Newburgh. Damroth is scheduled to appear in court for sentencing on March 18, 2025.
The case stemmed from an investigation that began in the summer of 2022 when the Archdiocese of New York conducted an audit and discovered financial discrepancies at the parish. Damroth, who served as pastor of St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, which included Saint Francis and Sacred Heart churches in Newburgh, was transferred to Immaculate Conception Parish in Port Jervis that same summer.
Following news of the investigation, parishioners were informed by letters sent out by the archdiocese. Damroth stepped away from his duties during the investigation, which led to grand larceny charges in December 2023.
Damroth’s case is being handled in Orange County Court, with his next appearance scheduled before Judge Craig Brown. His defense attorney, Joseph Gulino confirmed the plea and explained that prosecutors had recommended five years of probation. However, Judge Brown imposed a split sentence: six months in Orange County Jail, followed by five years of probation.
A split sentence, also known as shock probation, involves serving part of the sentence in jail and the remainder on probation.
Gulino stated he plans to argue for straight probation at sentencing, citing mitigating circumstances, but withheld further details until then. He also clarified that the $300,000 restitution would cover all allegations against Damroth. Gulino did not provide specifics on how the funds were used, if at all.
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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Kevin McDonald, the pastor of Landmark Church of the Nazarene in Phenix City, Alabama, and Linda Jenkins, stand accused of robbing the Phenix City Girard Bank.
A Nazarene pastor arrested by authorities in connection with the armed robbery of an Alabama bank had a female accomplice, according to news reports.
Kevin Robert McDonald, 40, entered the Phenix City Girard Bank with a handgun and demanded money, reported by News 3 WRBL. Police say an undisclosed amount of money was taken from the bank and no injuries were reported, according to the local news report.
McDonald was taken into custody in Columbus and was being held in the Russell County Jail on $100,000 bail, a jail employee confirmed.
A message left for a detective at the Russell County Sheriff’s Office after hours was not returned.
Also taken into custody was Lindsay Dara Jenkins in Columbus. The Occupational Therapy Assistant Physician faces a first-degree robbery charge, as reported by CNAW2 News.
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McDonald and his wife Jennifer pastored the Landmark Church of the Nazarene in Phenix City. Social media posts show the last mention of McDonald was April 2024. The church’s website does not identify McDonald in any pastoral or leadership role.
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This is not a debate about policy as such—in fact, many of the people doing the argument seem to have a very vague idea about how the program works—but, as the antagonists realize, about the ideological content of MAGA. Some liberals have pointed out the irony tech-lords’ views on immigration align with their own and they should’ve remained Democrats. But I’m not sure I agree that the tech-bosses are just cosmopolitan liberals who disguised their views in order to get one over on the MAGA dupes. I thought I had to revise my view that the tech oligarchs would be closer to the MAGA core on immigration because they ultimately had a program to replace mid-level work with AI. This is not practical in the short-term However, on reflection, I think their position on immigration still reveals a highly illiberal and authoritarian conception of capitalism, something that even dimwitted critics like Steve Bannon have noticed in their references to “techno-feudalism.” There are three illiberal sources of pro-immigrant Trumpism so far as I can see:
H1-B is not exactly a liberal model of employment, in the classical sense of an economic regime where workers can leave their employment at will and seek jobs elsewhere. Of course, as critics of liberal capitalism have long pointed out, that’s a bit of a myth—the imperatives of hunger make freedom of contract a false freedom—but H1-B workers are particularly chained to their jobs: they cannot simply quit, and look for employment elsewhere without losing their legal status in the country. Some right-wing critics have labeled this a form of indentured servitude. And, indeed, because of this precarious status, these workers are particularly liable to discipline and exploitation, which is the point.
The vision of immigration they are propounding is not one of free movement of people and free trade in goods and services but a jingoistic and mercantilist one. You grab “the best people” from foreign countries to ensure productivity, export-led growth, and autarchy. This obviously appeals to Trump: it’s exactly how he views the world. And some centrist liberals are tempted by this because of their investment in a new Cold War with China.
Related to this “grab the best guys”-type mercantilism is the tech-lord’s highly racialized conceptions of labor and capital. The fight here is not between, on the one hand, colorblind cosmopolitan liberal meritocracy and, on the other, a backward ethnonationalism, but between fundamentally racist worldviews. The élite side of the debate advocates race science that organizes productive workers by intrinsic qualities, a kind of caste capitalism that purports to use “objective” measures to discover the highest IQ individuals and put them in the right spots. The “sophisticated” race science humpers are ready to gamely admit that sometimes whites, especially working-class and poor ones, are not as genetically fit as other race—particularly Asians and Jews—and therefore their subordination is justified in some way. Conveniently, this serves capital’s need for a disciplined and divided labor force. I called this once Lord of the Rings or Star Wars-type racism that puts different workers into species-containers and thereby tries to solve issues of labor unrest and the competitive marketplace. It usually provides a shared anti-blackness that glues together a coalition that might otherwise be torn asunder. (Antisemitism can also be of use here by attacking liberal cosmopolitan and “globalized” conceptions of capital as secret racial insider trading or national betrayal.)
Capital as such is notoriously free-floating and mobile—it cannot be pinned down—but this particular iteration of fetishized capital is static and implies a world of permanent hierarchies of value in terms of race, national interests, and, with cryptocurrency, deflationary notions of hard currency. It implies not a world of trade and exchange, but one of plunder, a kind of primary accumulation of human capital.
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my inauguration. They think it’s so great and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don’t love our country, they only think about themselves.
In any event, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast. Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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If we were to go through and just put in restraints on the use of food stamps to feed our people sugar, for example…we can save hundreds of billions of dollars.
We can do a lot of savings right out of the gate to reverse the Biden damage, get the economy going, reduce regulations – but not touch benefits that our seniors rely on – yes, we need to address Medicare and Social Security in the long haul, no question, but right now we should reverse Biden damage, get spending restraint on Medicaid, reforms that need to be put in place [and] tax policy that matches all of that.
That would only be a 13 percent cut, you and I can find 13 percent of waste, and I think the DOGE guys too and that would be fiscally responsible and the American people would cheer President Trump and Republicans if we do that.
U.S. Representative Chip Roy (R), as reported by Raw Story
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I am supporting the speaker and let me say, if, you know, I hear from President Donald Trump, who I do speak with relatively regularly and I have a relationship with him, to the contrary, that would change my mind.
Let me say this, I’m a very independent person. So, I get it. I get it. Members of Congress want to express their individual viewpoint, ’We’re a coequal branch of government, etc, etc… but there was a mandate from the people of the United States of America in both the popular vote and the electoral vote to make change.
U.S. Representative Jeff Van Drew (R), as reported by the Huffington Post
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Minutes after a terrorist attack killed fifteen people in New Orleans, Trump blamed the attack on illegal immigrants. Not long after, we learned that the perpetrator was a U.S. citizen, a member of the military.
When I said that the criminals coming in [illegal immigrants] are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true.
The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!
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Could the American flag be adding another star in 2025? Well, Trump’s idea of making Canada great again by turning it into the 51st state is gaining some serious traction, especially from Canadian citizens.
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World! This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership. The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job. They are incompetent and corrupt, having spent all of their waking hours unlawfully attacking their political opponent, ME, rather than focusing on protecting Americans from the outside and inside violent SCUM that has infiltrated all aspects of our government, and our Nation itself.
Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to our Country. The CIA must get involved, NOW, before it is too late. The USA is breaking down – A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation. Only strength and powerful leadership will stop it. See you on January 20th. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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From time to time, Evangelical preachers from Africa will send me emails asking for financial support. Recently, Elder James Mwaba, allegedly from Zambia, contacted me, asking for Bibles and money for his needy ministry. What follows is the conversation that transpired between Mwaba and Dr. Bruce Gerencser, director of the C. Hitchens World Evangelization Ministry. 🙂 (All spelling, grammar, punctuation, and delusions in the original.)
James:
Dear saints of the most High God, special christian greetings to you in the name of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ who is soon to come. Continue being faithful to Him who called you and send you for many be called but very few are chosen who are blessed like you. Continue the tremendous work you are doing by proclaiming the Everlasting Gospel which is needed in these last days of Earth’s history and very soon you will be rewarded. I’m here humbly request crying to you if you can help us materially in our missionary work here in Zambia. We are in much need local language bibles for these poor Souls who are hungering and thirsting for God s word but they cannot afford to purchase Bibles on their own in remote areas and villages. I write to you because through Jesus Christ you are my only hope. Your help will mean a lot to me and will bringing a lot of Lost souls to Jesus Christ. It’s paining me to see these poor Souls who are hungering and thirsting for God s word but they cannot afford to purchase Bibles on their own but unfortunately nothing l can do much as iam an independent and self -supporting elder here in Zambia. Your local language is Bemba. Your local language KJV Bible is Baibele OV 52. I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon and God bless you all and May His coming rejoice your Hearts. Please pass my warm Christian Greetings to your ministry. With much of christian love.
Bruce:
Brother James,
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you for contacting me about your urgent need for King James Bibles. I would love to help meet your need for the precious Word of God.
Please let me know what you would like me to do.
Sincerely,
Dr. Bruce Gerencser, director of the C. Hitchens World Evangelization Ministry
James:
Thank you so much for the kindness and concerning for my missionary work here in Zambia. God bless you. You can order from bible society of Zambia their online shop. Shop.biblesocity-zambia.org
But the bible society of Zambia they need transportation fee’s but if you order from this book store they don’t want transportation fee’s. This is the email address of this christian book store. bookstorefinalwarningchristian@gmail.com if you order bible from this christian book store l can receive bibles very soon. This christian book store they selling Bibles at a very good price $8 each. But Iam not forcing you you can do what you want to do. I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.
James:
Sorry brother I make a mistake to write website of bible society of Zambia. This is online shop of bible society of Zambia shop.biblesociety-zambia.org
But there is a Christian book store here who selling Bibles at a very good price $8 each and they don’t want transportation fee’s. But if you order bible from the bible society of Zambia they need transportation fee’s because it’s too far from bible society of Zambia to here2000 km , bible society of Zambia is in Lusaka your capital city here in Zambia so it to far. So it’s better to purchase Bibles from this christian book store here because they don’t want transportation fee’s.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon. Your local language is Bemba. Your local language KJV Bible is Baibele OV 52.
James:
Hello real man of God. I’m waiting to hear back from you.
Bruce:
James,
Sorry for the delay. I spend Sundays preaching and fasting, so I don’t typically respond to emails.
I’m fine with you buying the Bibles locally. How would we go about doing so? I want to get the precious Word of God to as many people as possible.
Dr. Bruce Gerencser
James:
Thank you so much and God bless you. The poor Souls who need bibles is 300-400 but you can help what you can afford to purchase. If it can be possible to you, you can send this support to me through western union money transfer or money Gram and if you want to contact this christian book store this is the email address: bookstorefinalwarningchristian@gmail.com the price of one bible is $8 each. If you send the support for local language bibles for these poor Souls l can send you All pictures and lvoice to show you all the poor Souls who received free bibles through your faithful help.
If you want to send this support to me through western union you can use this details:
ELDER JAMES MWABA BOX 730086 KAWAMBWA DISTRICT LUAPULA PROVINCE NTULO STREET ZAMBIA
What a great work you are doing here for these poor Souls who are hungering and thirsting for God s word but they cannot afford to purchase Bibles on their own God bless you. I’m not forcing you but you can do what you want.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon
James:
Sorry brother in Christ. If you send this support through western union or money Gram send me all the details from the western union.
Thank iam waiting to hear back from you soon.
James:
Hello dear brother in Christ. I’m waiting to hear back from you. Are you busy for God s work? Thanks and God bless you all and May His coming rejoice your Hearts.
Bruce:
How did you decide to contact me? Do you use a bot to find people to send you money?
James:
I did find you via website, and when I find that your Ministry really contains the accurate truth of the Bible,I decided to write to you. I find your website to be my tool for My missionary work as iam an independent and self -supporting. I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.
I am an atheist. I love it when guys like you contact me, trying to get me to send you money. You might want to pay attention to what sites you are posting your “urgent” needs on.
Dr. Bruce Gerencser
James:
Thank I checked out your website and thank you so much for your kindness and concerning for my missionary work here in Zambia. Yes I will be paying attention to every website. Thank you so much for your encouragement.
I’m looking forward to hearing back from you soon.
Bruce:
I’m an atheist. Do you really think I’ll send you money to buy Bibles? How about if I send you 100 copies of the Satanic Bible?
Drop the schtick, James. I “see” through your con. I suggest you go to Christian sites and see if they will send you money.
Happy New Year. May Loki be praised.
Dr. Bruce Gerencser, Snarkologist and Bullshit Detector
James:
I thought you are a Christian, because you told me that you were preaching and fasting on Sunday. I can’t purchase Satanic Bibles God forbid. Iam a Christian.
Bruce:
I was pulling your leg because you went to an ATHEIST website and sent me an email asking for Bibles/money. I’ve received numerous emails such as yours from con artists trying to get money from unsuspecting Christians. Well, I’m neither Christian or unsuspecting.
James:
It will never happen in Jesus name -Amen. Know one above Jesus Christ. God s great than you.
Bruce:
There is no God and Jesus is dead. Neither are greater than me. If Jesus was alive, what do you think he would say about you asking a child of Satan for Bibles/money? Surely, other Christians can provide what you need, instead of you begging atheists to meet your needs.
All praise be to Loki.
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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