Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, OMV, Catholic Exchange – A well-loved and revered priest and seminary theologian left the priesthood during the early years of my seminary formation because of gravely scandalous relationships. His departure and the scandal involved left many of us, his students, devastated, confused, and discouraged. Someone quipped about him, “He knows theology and scripture well, but he probably did not know himself well.”

By Rob Bluey, The Daily Signal – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday that more reporters would have more access to President Donald Trump, who is already one of the most accessible world leaders in recent history… Yet in the bizarro world of Washington, D.C., the elitist White House press corps reacted with scorn, calling the move a threat to the free press… It’s not. But the legacy media’s once-might monopoly is crumbling like a house of cards—and there’s nothing they can do to salvage their role as gatekeepers of news and information.

By Brian Lonergan, Chronicles Magazine – Among all the moves Trump has taken to combat illegal immigration, however, one executive order signed last week stands out and could be the game changer the country so desperately needs… President Trump’s  order to end federal… A report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last year targeted federal expenditures on illegal aliens during the four years of the Biden administration. The CBO claimed that that the federal government spent $177 billion in benefits for adult illegal aliens and their children who were admitted under Biden. Add that to another $101 billion of other federal spending on illegals, and CBO’s figure comes to $277 billion.

By Maureen Mullarkey, The Federalist – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in accord with Pope Francis, opposes Trump’s resolve to curtail illegal migration… America’s Catholics are facing a crisis of authority… The social and economic realities of mass migration contradict the Vatican’s facile theologizing on open borders. The USCCB, in accord with Pope Francis’ globalist conceits, opposes President Donald Trump’s resolve to curtail illegal migration. Catholics are caught between fidelity to ecclesial leadership and obedience to the just laws of our own country.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture – The driving theme of The Godfather movie is summed up in the line: “Tell Mike it [Sonny’s betrayal] was only business.” But in matters of injustice, everything is personal, provoking acts of retribution. Most of us favor receiving forgiveness, but granting forgiveness, after suffering a personal offense or insult, is—like courage—far more enigmatic… We see God’s mercy and forgiveness throughout the Scriptures. Cain murders Abel out of envy, and God catches him in the act. God punishes him by sending him to wander, but He spares him. He places the “mark of Cain” on him to warn others not to mess with his life.

By Matthew McCusker, LifeSiteNews – LifeSiteNews recently reported that the health of Francis is feared to be worse than previously believed. This raises the possibility of a conclave in the near future. In any case, the day will come when the current college of cardinals will gather with the intention of electing a new pope… There are many, coming from a variety of perspectives, who would deny or doubt that the present college has the capacity to carry out such an election. In this article, I wish to set aside those questions – as important as they are – and focus on the most important question of all – who is actually capable of being elected to the papacy.

By James Baresel, Crisis Magazine – Western patriarchy had nothing to do with blanket, across-the-board control of women by men. Patriarchal authority of husbands over wives was one form of hierarchical authority among others, some of which gave women authority over men.

Franciscan Media, Feb 26, 2021 – If anyone knew rejection, ridicule and disappointment, it was today’s saint. But such trials only brought Maria Bertilla Boscardin closer to God and more determined to serve him… Born in Italy in 1888, the young girl lived in fear of her father, a violent man prone to jealousy and drunkenness. Her schooling was limited so that she could spend more time helping at home and working in the fields. She showed few talents and was often the butt of jokes.

By Marge Fenelon, National Catholic Register – You may have more on your plate than you can manage, and so thinking about Lent ahead of time may be completely off your radar. Yet now is precisely the time to think about it so that you can take full advantage of those 40 precious days marked out by the Church for your benefit. Lent is a sacred time during which we are invited to reflect, re-evaluate and renew our faith and relationship with God. But all that takes time and effort that we might think we do not have.

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing – I have been committing Paradise Lost to memory – in emulation of a farmer who lived one big field over from a professor of mine, the medievalist George Kane, when George was a boy in Saskatchewan.  Yes, I know what Milton thought of the Catholic Church.  But Paradise Lost is still the greatest single poem in English, and I find Milton quite shrewd in his psychological analysis of good and evil, and what moves a presumably intelligent being to do wrong.

By Msgr. Charles Pope – Are you a Christian? Before you answer, consider these other questions: Do you love your enemy? Do you do good to them who hate you? The honest answers to these questions are at the very heart of Christianity and represent what distinguishes a Christian from others. Let’s follow Jesus’ teachings in several stages. In so doing, we can learn our truest identity and how He seeks to transform us.

By Complicit Clergy Staff – After publishing our original analysis of federal immigration funding of Catholic NGOs on January 24, we were alerted to a number of NGOs we missed in our original analysis… Under the Biden administration, Catholic NGOs were awarded nearly $3.2 BILLION in immigration funding. That’s more than QUADRUPLE the level of funding under Trump’s first administration and more than DOUBLE the amount awarded under the Obama administration over the course of EIGHT YEARS!

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal – We talk about this white, monolithic, racist society that has to be overturned under DEI, but let me go back to 1960. I was born here, where I’m speaking, on 125-130 acres of a family farm that had been in my family since 1870… But my point is this, over where I’m pointing now, there was a farm run by Harry Gusegian. I shouldn’t even mention his name. It was a wonderful family. And they were from, they had escaped, his family, the Armenian genocide in Turkey. And he was very ethnic. He was very strong, proponent of Armenian culture.

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Mark 9:2-13 – 2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. 4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, who were talking with Jesus. 5 Then Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” 6 He did not know what to say, for they were terrified. 7 Then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, “This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!”

By Mark Lambert, LifeSiteNews – Last month, the USCCB issued guidelines for immigration reform, encouraging lawmakers to safeguard communities in a “targeted, proportional, and humane” manner. In analyzing the U.S. bishops’ guidelines, it’s essential to distinguish between binding Church doctrine and prudential judgments. The Catholic Church upholds the dignity of every human person and acknowledges the right of nations to secure their borders and enforce immigration policies. These teachings are complementary, not contradictory. Misrepresenting them as opposing views indicates a misunderstanding or intentional distortion of Church teaching.