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California Man Arrested For Threatening Boston Globe Employees, Feds Say

Matthew McDonald

A 68-year-old California man called The Boston Globe multiple times and threatened to shoot employees there after the newspaper coordinated anti-Trump editorials in mid-August over Trump's use of the term "enemy of the people" to refer to the mainstream media.

Robert D. Chain, of Encino, California, was arrested in California on Wednesday morning and charged with one count of making threatening communications in interstate commerce, according to U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, a Trump appointee.

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What Led To Archbishop Vigano Letter Against Pope Francis — But Still No Answers To Major Charges

Matthew McDonald

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano consulted with an anti-Pope Francis blogger in Italy twice before publishing his now-famous 11-page letter accusing the pope of knowing about former Cardinal Theodore McCormick's sexual abuse of young men several years ago.

Vigano, a former high-ranking Vatican diplomat, timed the simultaneous publication in several languages for the middle of Pope Francis's trip to Ireland last weekend partly because of the prominent coverage of the Pennsylvania grand jury report on sexual abuse by priests there and partly to give the pope a chance to respond during the flight back to Rome this past Sunday night, according to a Catholic News Service story.

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