By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International – On March 24, Jocelyn Downie, a leading activist for assisted suicide and euthanasia, and professor emerita at Dalhousie University, appeared before Canada’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying… There, she urged legislators to proceed with the planned 2027 expansion of so-called medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to individuals whose sole underlying medical condition is mental illness. If the Canadian government does not legalize euthanasia for the mentally ill, she said, the mentally ill will just kill themselves anyway. …

By Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop Emeritus, Pillars of Faith – Christ has not abandoned His Church… Because the Eucharist is the true representation of the Sacrifice of Calvary, the priest stands in the person of Christ the Bridegroom, who offers Himself for His Bride, the Church. This nuptial mystery is not symbolic – it is sacramental and real. Any gesture that obscures this truth, or blurs the distinction between valid Holy Orders and those communities that do not possess them, risks weakening the faithful’s understanding of the Eucharist itself. …

The risen Christ draws close to walk with His unfaithful disciples who abandoned Him during the suffering of His passion (see Luke 24:13-35). They also abandoned the community of faith after they heard news of His resurrection. They were discouraged when He spoke to them. “They stopped, looking downcast.” They are overwhelmed and disappointed by all the events of Christ’s death, explaining, “But we were hoping that He would be the one to redeem Israel.” They did not believe His words ….

By Margot Cleveland, The Federalist – This morning Sen. Chuck Grassley released the FBI Washington Field Office’s 12-page “electronic communication” (EC) that opened a preliminary investigation into the Clinton Foundation. Its extensive evidence of potential pay-to-play criminality among the Clinton family confirms the politicalization and weaponization of the Department of Justice… Late last year, another trove of documents—also released by Grassley—summarized the origins of three separate FBI investigations into the Clinton Foundation, opened respectively out of the New York, Little Rock, and Washington D.C. field offices. …

By Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Contributor, The Daily Signal – Well, my point is this. If all these celebrities are talking about killing him, burning him, cutting him in pieces, blowing him up—remember Madonna and Moby, “Let’s blow him up”—if they all do that ad nauseam again and again over a decade, and then you have this new heartthrob, the Nick Fuentes of the left, Hasan Piker, and he’s really legitimizing murder by contextualizing Luigi Mangione and making him into a hero, then everybody knows what you have to do.

By  Kenneth Craycraft, Catholic World Report – On the one hand, Colorado’s hostility toward free speech and religious liberty is alarming. On the other hand, ironically, Colorado has served up softballs to the United States Supreme Court, resulting in strengthening protections for speech and religious exercise. Where Colorado has attempted to infringe religious liberty, SCOTUS has used the state’s bigoted laws to strengthen and clarify First Amendment protections. The latest battle in the war will be heard by SCOTUS next term, and it will probably be another defeat for Colorado’s religious hostility and another win for religious freedom.

By Steven Tucker, European Conservative – Some incredibly depressing footage went viral across the UK this month, taken in the countryside around the village of Lower Darwen, near the northern town of Blackburn. Here could be observed a remarkably stupid young man who, when confronted by a small wall blocking his path towards a nearby hill, decided the best way to proceed would not be to walk towards the gate, nor even to climb over the feeble obstacle, but instead to stand there laboriously demolishing it with his bare hands, stone by heavy stone, until there was a hole large enough for him to slink through.

By Anne Hendershott, First Things – What (Peter) Thiel adds is a warning of a technological dimension that Girard anticipated but did not systematically explore before his death in 2015. In his lectures, Thiel turns to the Book of Daniel’s prophecy on the end times, interpreting it through the lens of technological and global acceleration—a world propelled by scientific innovation yet paralyzed by fear of its own inventions. He warns of “danger in the one-world state of the Antichrist.”

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture – Jesus is the Good Shepherd and Prince of Peace who guides us through the narrow gate to heaven. He sends shepherds to protect us from wolves threatening our faith, leading us to “life in abundance.” The shepherd’s first duty is to safeguard and feed the flock… God appoints the Pope as His chief shepherd on earth. He is the Vicar of Christ, the successor of Peter. As Christ’s “vicar,” his authority is not his own. He is Christ’s emissary. The pope carries the weighty responsibility of guiding the faithful to the saving truths of Jesus. He guards the Deposit of Faith—the teachings of Christ handed down in the Church since apostolic times.

By Chris Jackson, Hiraeth in Exile, Substack – Leo XIV’s Rome makes room for Anglican theatre, German homosexual blessings, and ecumenical word salad, while preparing excommunications for the Society of St. Pius X… Sarah Mullally, the newly installed Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, arrives in Rome for the full ecumenical treatment. She is scheduled to meet Leo XIV at the Vatican, worship with Anglican communities in Rome, pray at the tombs of Peter and Paul, meet officials from the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and join Leo for midday prayer in the Apostolic Palace. The official ecumenical framing is not subtle. This is about “deepening dialogue,” “shared witness,” “bonds of communion,” and the familiar postconciliar language of walking together toward visible unity.

By Nathanael Blake, The Federalist – Even those who doubt the truth of Christianity should not be surprised at a religious resurgence. Here’s why… The revival is real, but the devil has backup plans. The evidence that the youth are turning to Christianity is going from anecdotal to data. In particular, young people on the right, especially men, seem to be finding faith… As InteractivePolls noted on X, a recent Gallup poll found that “42% of men aged 18-29 now say religion is ‘very important’ in their lives — a sharp jump from just 28% in 2022-2023. Monthly religious attendance among young men has climbed to 40% (up from 33%), the highest level in over a decade.”

By Mary Rose, Zeale – President Donald Trump said he wants the White House Correspondents’ Dinner rescheduled within 30 days after a gunman opened fire at the event April 25, in what the president called the third attempt on his life…. Speaking with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell in an interview that aired on 60 Minutes April 26, Trump recounted the moments of chaos after suspect Cole Thomas Allen ran through metal detectors at the Washington Hilton and discharged one or two rounds before being subdued by Secret Service agents.

FROM THE FOUNDER: After twenty years of faithful service, Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana announces a new chapter in its Mission.  After the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Country, July 4, 2026, Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana website will be discontinued as we transition from online news and commentary to addressing unmet needs within the Catholic Church, primarily in South Louisiana, but supporting Catholic apostolates both Nationally and Internationally.

By Tessa Gervasini, EWTN News – A Pew Research Center study found that more adults leave the Catholic Church than enter it in most countries, but Catholics still make up the majority of the population in a number of countries analyzed… The research released April 23 found that Christianity has experienced some of the largest losses of followers due to religious switching, when people identify with a different religion in adulthood than they were raised in as a child, compared with other faith groups around the world.

By John Zmirak, Chronicles – A new film from the Discovery Institute, The Story of Everything, opens nationwide on April 30. Based on philosopher of science Stephen Meyer’s The Return of the God Hypothesis, the film’s ambition matches its title. It scrutinizes scientific materialism’s claims at every pivotal point, marshaling physicists to show the theistic implications of the Big Bang. Those implications so troubled scientists such as Fred Hubble and Albert Einstein that for years they refused to accept the evidence that kept trickling in to prove that the universe had a definite beginning, as the Book of Genesis teaches.