By Margo White, Crisis Magazine – The emergence of MAHA in the Republican Party is blurring political lines and reshaping American politics for the better… Many of us are mothers—or hope to be mothers one day. Some of us work outside of the home and then come home to our more important roles of being mothers and wives… Regardless of our current situation, we care deeply about the health of our children and are increasingly skeptical of industrially-produced food and the harmful ingredients used in their production and to increase their shelf life.

By Cardinal Willem Eijk, National Catholic Register – By elevating such testimonies without doctrinal commentary, the report effectively normalizes homosexual relationships within a Church context… The recently published report from Synod Study Group 9 represents a troubling departure from the Catholic Church’s consistent moral teaching. While the authors claim they lack “the expertise or, above all, the necessary ecclesiastical authorization” to address individual moral issues definitively, the report’s methodology and framework systematically undermine the Church’s ability to proclaim and apply her moral doctrine. …

By Robert G. Marshall, Catholic Culture – Secularist politicians, primarily state and federal elected Democrats, seem personally and constitutionally driven to turn what Christian Ethics previously held to be private vices into public virtues, if not actual legal obligations, which are to be funded with public money… Here I will analyze these efforts which have occupied public discussion in the last several years as both ordinary legislation and voter-passed amendments to State Constitutions.

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, LifeNews – The acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration has promised to prioritize a safety review of the abortion pill after his predecessor was accused of delaying it, pro-life leaders say… Though the Trump administration is reportedly soon picking a permanent commissioner to lead the agency, Diamantas promised he will be the “most pro-life FDA commissioner that the FDA has ever had” …

By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register – The Vatican has authorized an investigation of Baton Rouge Bishop Michael Duca over the way he handled a complaint against a pastor accused of soliciting sex from an adult parishioner and reminiscing over purported past sex acts with boys, according to an official Church communication to a whistleblower.

By Stephan Kapustka, The American Spectator – Republicans have been on a roll in the redistricting wars as of late. However, some Republican state legislators in many states appear to be wary of fully pressing their new advantages. In doing so, they threaten to leave winnable congressional districts that could decide the majority on the table.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The top pro-life bishop for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging Congress to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business once again this year… Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, wants Congress to block Planned Parenthood from receiving millions more in taxpayer dollars through the Title X family planning program.

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing – Whether the Evil One is operative in many of the current approaches to Scripture – in university departments and some Church circles – is a question best left to true authorities and even exorcists. But there’s no question that the people who wrote Final Report of Study Group Number 9: Theological Criteria and Synodal Methodologies for Shared Discernment of Emerging Doctrinal, Pastoral, and Ethical Issues, which appeared just last week, were engaged in serial Scriptural abuse. …

By Mary Rose, Zeale News – The White House released a sweeping new counterterrorism strategy that calls for “the rapid identification and neutralization” of violent extremist domestic political groups, especially those it describes as anti-American, anarchist, and radically pro-transgender.

By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky, Catholic World Report – When life is separated from Christ, it does not become freer or fuller—it becomes spiritually unfruitful. We lose the life of His saving grace… Jesus makes it clear that there is a distinct relationship between love, keeping His commandments, and bearing fruit. God’s law, authentic Christian love, and life in abundance are inseparable. The unity helps us reject popular cultural patterns with false promises of fulfillment….

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito had some choice words for their Supreme Court colleagues on Thursday over their “remarkable” decision “undermin[ing]” the court’s historic Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade…. The stinging rebukes came in an order the high court handed down to temporarily pause an appellate court ruling that halted a Biden-era FDA rule allowing the mailing of mifepristone to women without an in-person doctor visit. …

By Nancy Flanders, Live Action – The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision on May 14 stating that the abortion pill can continue to be dispensed through the mail as Louisiana’s lawsuit proceeds… Following the filing of a lawsuit by the State of Louisiana that sought to reverse the FDA’s 2023 changes to abortion pill regulations, the Fifth Circuit paused mail order dispensing… The abortion pill manufacturer Danco Laboratories filed an emergency application before the Supreme Court on May 2, requesting a stay be placed on the Fifth Circuit’s decision. …

By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange – Ascension Sunday presents a paradox:  Jesus leaves His apostles for Heaven, but He assures them He is always with them.  What kind of departure was this?… Gospel (Read Mt. 28:16-20) … Sunday’s Gospel records the end of Jesus’ forty days of post-Resurrection appearances and teaching.  The account of what actually happened during those days is quite spare. 

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine – The Final Report of Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality is a jaw-droping attack on Scripture and everything that the Church has ever taught concerning sodomy… Is sodomy no longer a sin? Are instances of same-sex attraction among those inclined to commit it no longer to be viewed as a disorder? Will the sacrament of marriage soon be administered to couples in committed homosexual relationships?… Has the Church, in other words, changed her mind on the subject of sexual perversion, no longer insisting sodomites cease and desist from a practice that, until quite recently, she had unequivocally condemned?

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – Many faithful Catholics were shocked last week when a Vatican document quoted a man who proclaimed his homosexual inclination a “gift from God.” They were shocked again when they learned that the pop song “Dancing Queen”—widely recognized as a “gay anthem”—had been played by a visiting band at the Pope’s weekly public audience.