By Chris Jackson, Hiraeth in Exile, Substack – Cardinal Robert McElroy welcomed the 2026 Outreach Conference to Washington… The letter is dated June 19, 2026, on the letterhead of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.. (says) … “My Dear Fellow Pilgrims in Faith.” Then McElroy tells the conference that he is “delighted” to welcome it to Washington. He says he knows the Holy Spirit will be “profoundly present” in its meetings and discussions… This is Father James Martin’s Outreach conference, held at Georgetown University, built around ministry to LGBTQ Catholics …..

By Robert G. Marshall, Catholic Culture – As of June, 2026 ten states have added voter-approved constitutional Reproductive Freedom Amendments (RFA’s) to their state constitutions: Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New York, Ohio, and Vermont. Nevada voters passed an abortion-rights amendment in 2024 but have to approve it again in 2026 to make it part of their Constitution.

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Matthew 6:24-34 – 24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? …

By Zeale News – Israel and Hezbollah agreed June 19 to a truce after overnight strikes in Lebanon initially threatened the progress of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, with Iranian officials pulling out of planned talks in Switzerland slated to take place the same day… According to CBS News, Lebanese officials reported at least 18 civilians died “in Israel’s deadliest attacks since the U.S. and Iran finalized their agreement.” Israel “said four soldiers were killed in an attack on a tank,” the outlet reported. …

By Raimundo Rojas, LifeNews – A young woman named Ashley has taken to Facebook with a now-viral set of videos to describe a painful and frightening situation. She says she is pregnant, but that her baby has died. She says she has had multiple scans. She says the baby has measured around five weeks and six days, with little or no change, while she is nearly eight weeks along. She also says she has suffered several miscarriages already.

By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine – Belloc and Manning deserve to emerge from the shadows of Chesterton and Newman… Regular readers of this illustrious journal might recall that I recently wrote a multipart series titled “Unsung Heroes of Christendom,” which focused on heroic figures from history who are not as well-known as they should be. This series came to mind as I received three newly published books from Mysterium Press, an intrepid new publisher in England. ….

By Emily Chaffins, Catholic Exchange – Dads, grandfathers, mentors, clergy—so many men in our communities are uplifting friends and loved ones, many going unseen. This Father’s Day, Catholic Exchange brings you true stories of fathers transforming lives… -Lynne Parker Davis (says) My dad, Jack Gordon Parker, made friends easily and for life… He was born in the late “roaring” 1920s. His father died in 1932 of the Spanish flu as the economy crashed. Dad always remembered the hungry times too well. There was never a creamed meat dish or seltzer served in our home…

By Nate Jackson, Patriot Post – President Donald Trump has been teasing a deal with Iran since the middle of March, just a couple of weeks after the initial operations were launched. By early April, he announced a ceasefire that, as the weeks progressed, didn’t have much “cease” to it. Well, here we are, with the 14 points (transcribed below from a Trump administration official’s reading) of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to keep working toward a final deal. This isn’t the actual deal.

By Patriot Post – “Today, the Democrats are economically enslaving Blacks and have turned inner city communities into modern plantations of welfare and economic dependence,” noted Allen West, former Chairman of the Texas Republican Party. “Juneteenth is a celebration of why the Republican Party was established in 1854, the abolition of slavery. Only a flaming incompetent idiot would give the party of the jackass any credit for Juneteenth.”… Democrats were, and remain, the architects of white supremacy, and the political beneficiaries of the “systemic racism” they propagate …

By Catholic Culture, Staff – The Vatican newspaper warned that half of the world’s children face “daily threats from at least three dangers linked to extreme weather events.”… In “Emergenze climatiche: Il cielo sopra i bambini“ (Climate Emergencies: The Sky Above Children)—the most prominent front-page article in L’Osservatore Romano‘s June 16 edition—Beatrice Guarrera listed eight extreme weather events: coastal flooding, drought, extreme heat, wildfires, heatwaves, river flooding, sand and dust storms, and tropical storms. …

By Elizabeth Ervin, Zeale News – York Revolution, a minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania, canceled its 11th annual “Pride Night” game scheduled for June 18 after several players refused to wear uniforms featuring a rainbow design… in an official statement, saying that the decision to cancel the game was “not reached lightly.”… “Unfortunately, several of our players have refused to wear the scheduled Pride Night jersey and the club decided that hosting the event is more important than forcing players to wear jerseys they are not comfortable with and playing the game.” …

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine – Most of us know the expression, “my heart dropped into my chest.” Until these past few weeks, I don’t remember experiencing it. Now, I know the sensation well. The expression of a “heart dropping” is remarkably accurate; the sensation is uncannily similar to the feeling that overtakes you while plummeting down the roller coaster’s steepest hill.

By James Kalb, Catholic World Report – Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, which, he had prophesied, was doomed to end in catastrophe… He lived without worldly ties: without a job, wife, children, steady source of income, or fixed place of residence. He recommended the same to others and commented on the narrowness of the way that leads to life. And he called Satan “the prince of this world.” …

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register – Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas primarily deals with artificial intelligence in the context of human dignity, but one particular passage also addresses the topic of “just war theory” which the document describes as “outdated.”… The Pope’s comments have caused controversy and prompted thoughtful responses from Catholic scholars. Among them is Professor John Rist, a distinguished philosopher and historian of the early Church, who questions whether considering just war theory “outdated” adequately accounts for the enduring reality of sin and the persistence of political evil.

By Richard A. Spinello, The Catholic Thing – There are many crises in the Catholic Church today, but one of the most serious is the dismal state of moral theology.  That crisis has its roots in the confusion and intellectual ferment that ensued in the aftermath of Vatican II.  Progressive moral theologians proposed questionable moral theories like proportionalism and the “fundamental option,” while prominent scholars like Bernard Häring dissented on vital issues of received moral teaching such as the inadmissibility of contraception and the indissolubility of marriage.