By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, White House Correspondent, Daily Signal – “We now can do it a very straightforward way for the 44 states that don’t have state-based Medicaid plans for us to be able to audit it,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said … “The people that we’re paying for, our citizens or not, in the state-based plans, like I mentioned in California, there’s a few other states, Colorado, Washington, Illinois, they have their own plan, so we have to now audit their plans.”… Oz said in November that “more than one billion of federal taxpayer dollars were being spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants” by five states and the District of Columbia.

By Garrett D. Johnson, Crisis Magazine – St. Charles Lwanga and his companions, whose feast day is June 3rd, are red martyrs. They are patron saints of those served by the Courage apostolate, who are called to white martyrdom by striving to live according to the Church’s teachings regarding same-sex attraction… The inspiration we need to live out white martyrdom comes, in part, from bishops, priests, and deacons speaking clearly about the specific reasons for St. Charles and his companions’ martyrdom ….

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – …. Maria Montserrat Alvarado was born in Mexico City. But she is now a US citizen, and her professional background—first at the Becket Fund, more recently at EWTN—has been formed in the US. At Becket she learned, and demonstrated, how to run an effective public-relations campaign to influence public opinion. As president of EWTN News, she presided over an international media organization that is, frankly, more impressive than the one she will oversee in Rome.

By Linda Pieper, Catholic Exchange – “John Paul II taught that the body has a ‘spousal meaning.’ It is made to express love as a free, total, faithful, and fruitful gift.”… I graduated from high school in May of 1968. With my whole adult life ahead of me and college on the horizon, I wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in the Church or in Rome. The world around me was in turmoil—the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and its protests, the Civil Rights movement, and the unfolding of the sexual revolution.

By Roger Kimball, American Greatness – Magnifica Humanitas is not only long. It is also prolix. Like the eponymous river in Turkey, it meanders. Its ostensible subject—the threat that artificial intelligence may pose to human flourishing—is counterpointed throughout by nuggets of politically correct sentiment. There is a lot about “economic injustices and the climate crisis” in this expostulation. Also migrants. He quotes with approval Pope Francis’s insistence that we view migrants “not simply as a problem to be managed but as a living image of the People of God on the move.” Leo is also against war, you will be relieved to hear, but he writes as if war were a modern invention. …

By Chuck Donovan, LifeNews – A new report from the Guttmacher Institute from its Monthly Abortion Provision Study estimates a total of 99,470 abortions for January 2026. The estimate follows a Guttmacher calculation of 1,126,470 abortions for all of 2025, or an average of 93,872 abortions per month for that year. The Guttmacher figures are indeed estimates, given the number of abortions taking place at home via the mail, with limited data regarding what proportion of pills mailed are actually consumed by the recipient… However imprecise the data are, they are disturbing numbers that should trouble the conscience of a nation.

By Alex Rosado, The American Spectator – Cassidy, Massie, and Cornyn are out, but they aren’t leaving without a fight. Cassidy may embrace being a nuisance with institutional weight. Massie can prove that a determined backbencher can still force votes and complicate Trump’s messaging. Cornyn, should he choose to go rogue, could use Senate insider tactics to pick and choose fights selectively… These congressional renegades can create visible GOP dissent at exactly the moment Trump and national Republicans need party discipline — a performance that will be remembered far after they leave office. For the sake of the GOP — and America — let’s hope they don’t put on a show.

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Mark 12:18-27 – 18 And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying, 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the wife, and raise up children for his brother. 20 There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no children; 21 and the second took her, and died, leaving no children; and the third likewise; 22 and the seven left no children. …

By Gigi Duncan, EWTN News – “In observance of the United States’ 250th anniversary in 2026, and rooted in the Church’s pastoral mission of welcome, accompaniment, and solidarity,” the instructions state, the service seeks “to acknowledge and honor the many diverse communities that have journeyed to the United States in search of hope, safety, and opportunity.”…

By Dan Fitzpatrick, The Catholic Stand – Today’s profane, pagan secular society says the month of June is for promoting and praising sexual disorder.  They say June is Pride Month. … You can’t avoid it, as every minute of every day in June you’ll find “pride” on display. … The month-long celebration of homosexuality and other perverted sexual behaviors loudly and proudly promotes disordered sexuality.  The Catholic Church, however, defines such behavior as acts of grave depravity, intrinsically disordered, and contrary to the natural law. …

By John B. Manos, The Bellarmine Forum – While the world argues whether AI will replace us, the Vatican just released a 42,000-word encyclical on the topic and managed to avoid the single sentence that actually matters… It never once said: Man has an immortal soul. AI does not. … Not once… Seventy-two pages later, after all the talk of dignity, imago Dei, and “humanity’s unique role,” the document still refuses to draw the line that separates persons from processors. … Even if you give the encyclical every benefit of the doubt — even if you accept its diffuse, post-Vatican II register — it still fails basic Catholic theology. …

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – But the mass graves hoax in Canada stands as a stark reminder of how the left can, under the right circumstances, gin up a moral panic. … The real story of Canada’s “mass graves,” then, isn’t about residential schools or racism or the Catholic Church. It’s about how liberals are willing to demonize their opponents with outlandish fabrications and calumnies, destroy free speech under the color of law, incite violent mobs to punish perceived evildoers — and years later, when the dust clears and it turns out the whole thing was a hoax, you might get a single editorial to admit that, in hindsight, mistakes were made.

By Elise Winland. Zeale News – Israel pushed deeper into Lebanon than it has in decades and announced new strikes in the country. Trump also said U.S. talks with Iran were still ongoing, despite Iranian reports that Tehran suspended negotiations because of Israel’s offensive… In a Truth Social post, Trump said he had a “very productive call” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “there will be no Troops going to Beirut.” He said any troops en route to Lebanon had “already been turned back.”

By Samuel Gregg, The American Spectator – In economic terms, Europe’s importance is diminishing by the year, whereas the U.S. economy, for all its problems, continues to streak ahead. And although America has plenty of political difficulties, they pale next to those of many European countries, where accelerating bureaucratization and out-of-control welfare spending are steadily crippling the ability of political leaders to reform their economies, let alone tackle the cultural and political challenges associated with severely mismanaged immigration policies.

By Francis X. Rocca, National Catholic Register – By contrast, Olah told the Pope from the dais, AI systems “are not the cold, calculating robots we were promised,” but more like fictional characters come to life. He said that he and his colleagues who are studying AI models “find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief and unease.”