By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register – A rapidly growing pilgrimage in western France is showing how a new Catholic movement can be successfully founded by focusing on mission, tradition and heritage… The Feiz e Breizh pilgrimage, meaning “Faith in Brittany,” began in 2017, the initiative of four lay Catholic friends and backed by their local ordinary, Bishop Raymond Centène of Vannes.

By Mary Rose, Zeale News – Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said lawmakers heard testimony detailing the allegations that prisoners of conscience and religious minorities in China are being systematically targeted for forced organ harvesting, as he urged the Senate to advance legislation aimed at combating the practice.

By Gaetano Masciullo, The European Conservative – This urgent crisis for the Vatican dicasteries is the ecological crisis. For this reason, the text goes so far as to suggest that a Catholic family, in order truly to be such, cannot exempt itself from educating its members in ecological respect. Indeed, that the very concept of Catholic spirituality includes an “integral ecological” consciousness.

By Paul Suski, Catholic Exchange – On May 18, as the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception marks the birthday and liturgical memorial of its founder, St. Stanislaus Papczynski, it is fitting to reflect on this. One of the Congregation’s three principal aims is to help the dead suffering in Purgatory, especially the victims of wars and epidemics.

By Lou Aguilar, The American Spectator – Along time ago, the 20th Century, Hollywood knew how to make movies that entertained and enlightened. Their writers weren’t young saps indoctrinated by academia-boosted French Theory with disdain for more than half the audience, or DEI hires filling a quota. They were artists who respected the world they lived in and the history they inherited, whether they liked it or not. Any criticism of either came through in their storytelling, rather than sermonizing to people who know better than they.

By Mary Rice Hasson, Catholic World Report – A Synod Study Group Report (“Report”) published in early May has drawn searing criticism and predictable plaudits for its “paradigm shift” towards same-sex sexual relationships. New reports that Fr. James Martin, SJ, the founder of Outreach, an “LGBTQ Catholic Ministry,” likely secured publication of the two controversial testimonies in the Vatican Report are no surprise, if true.

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report – May is designated by the Church as the Month of Mary. It is the time of the year in which we especially celebrate the many graces and virtues of the Blessed Mother of Our Lord—her sinlessness, her dedication and constancy, her solace for sinners, and any of a long list of attributes and patronages… St. Mary is an icon of devotion and docility, providing the model of how to say, “be it done according to your will.” …

By Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop Emeritus, Pillars of Faith – The crisis of our age is not merely rebellion against truth. It is the slow training of souls to forget it… Not all at once. Not through open hatred of Christ in every case. Not always through direct attacks against the Church. The enemy has learned a quieter strategy, a more subtle corruption. If souls can be taught to forget, then eventually they will surrender truths they once would have died defending… And so we find ourselves living through a crisis of forgetting. …

By Brianna Lyman, The Federalist – When President Donald Trump descended the escalator in June of 2015, he reminded Americans of something many of their leaders had forgotten: “Our country has tremendous potential. We have tremendous people.”

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.