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By Itxu Díaz, The American Spectator – From left-wing leaders, we’ve once again seen reactions of condemnation with conditional nuances, almost apologizing to their supporters for condemning the attack. Without realizing it, they aren’t really condemning the violence against Trump, but rather seem to be hoping the next shooter isn’t so clumsy… It’s fascinating to read accounts of the shooting in the progressive press. Almost all of them talk about a mysterious “climate of political violence,” only to end up blaming Trump for his own assassination attempt.
By R. R. Reno, First Things – The USCCB(s) made an ill-considered intervention in the legal battle over birthright citizenship. After taking office in 2025, Donald Trump issued an executive order stipulating that those in residence in the United States illegally are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S., and thus their children do not qualify for birthright citizenship. The executive order was challenged in court. The Supreme Court will soon rule on the issue (Trump v. Barbara). The USCCB submitted an amicus brief in the case, urging the court to rule against Trump’s executive order.
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‘LUDICROUS’: Rabbi Slams Latest Attempt to Defend SPLC Paying Klan Members, by Tyler O’Neil
By Tyler O’Neil, Senior Editor, Daily Signal – Jewish groups have used paid informants to protect synagogues from antisemitic violence, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has claimed that it was funding KKK members for similar reasons, but a group that represents 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is crying foul… Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges for sending money to members of the very white supremacist groups the center claims it exists to dismantle.
Christian Pastor Arrested in UK While Preaching in Public, by Elizabeth Weiss
By Elizabeth Weiss, Zeale – A Christian pastor was recently arrested by British police while preaching the Gospel on a public street of Watford, England, on suspicion of a public order offense, according to reports… Pastor Steve Maile, a prominent evangelical figure, was arrested April 18 in front of his wife and children and was reportedly interrogated for hours in police custody before being released on three months’ bail, according to Britannia Daily. He said the experience left him “brutalized” and “victimized” by the police.
Senator: Biden Agency Used ‘Benghazi’ To Hide Emails On Planned Parenthood Loans, by Matt Kittle
By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – So what on earth does Benghazi have to do with abortion factory Planned Parenthood? It appears to be the codename for cover-up involving some $90 million in taxpayer-funded Covid-era forgivable loans to a nonprofit organization ineligible to receive the government handout… Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is asking the Department of Justice to open an investigation into why President Joe Biden’s Small Business Administration used “Benghazi” in the subject lines of internal communications regarding the funding. …
The ‘Special Relationships’ Built on Pretense, by Phil Lawler
By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – As I write, the Supreme Governor of the Church of England is addressing a joint session of the US Congress. But don’t expect any uproar about unconstitutional efforts to establish a state religion… King Charles has not come to our shores to establish a religion. Any questions about his authority to establish anything in these former colonies was settled 250 years ago, and he has shown no interest in relitigating the matter. Instead he has come to remind our legislators of the “special relationship” that exists between the US and the UK. …
Scott Jennings: ‘We Have a Left-Wing Violence Problem in America’ (VIDEO), by Mike LaChance
By Mike LaChance, The Gateway Pundit – During a recent episode of his radio show, Scott Jennings of CNN examined some of the rhetoric surrounding the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, in which a crazed school teacher rushed the event in an effort to kill Trump and members of his team, and concluded that we have a left-wing violence problem in America… It is impossible to disagree… Some days, it actually feels like we are already engaged in a sort of civil war, where the bullets are only flying from one direction. The left has acted out in violence so many times over the last decade that it is starting to seem normal, which is not good. …
James Comey Indicted For ‘86 47’ ‘Threat’ Against Trump, by Breccan F. Thies
By Breccan F. Thies, The Federalist – Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey has been indicted by the Justice Department on charges related to an apparent threat, “86 47,” posted to social media in May 2025… Comey is charged with “knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of, or inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States and knowingly and willfully transmitting a communication in interstate and foreign commerce that contained a threat to kill President Donald Trump,” the indictment states.
Letting Go of Outcomes, Adversaries, and Anxious Love with St. Catherine of Siena, by M.C. Holbrook
By M.C. Holbrook, Catholic Exchange – In the biography of St. Catherine, we hear that this holy saint once complained to God with sorrow and frustration that her prayers and offerings could not prevent the loss of salvation for certain souls. In her great anguish, God responded with perhaps the most famous quote of all time attributed to her Dialogue with the Lord: “Daughter, thou art she who is not. I am He who is.” …
The Vatican’s Feting of the First Female Archbishop of Canterbury, by Edward Pentin
By Edward Pentin, Substack – Mullally, like all her Anglican predecessors, does not possess valid orders. She leads a community separated from Rome that has drifted further from Catholic teaching, particularly over the past sixty years since the historic meeting of Paul VI and her predecessor Michael Ramsey. Her recent appointment as the first female archbishop of Canterbury only reinforces the judgment of Leo XIII in Apostolicae Curae (1896), which declared Anglican orders “absolutely null and utterly void.”… Yet throughout her visit, Rome received Mullally — who has described herself in the past as “pro-choice rather than pro-life” and supports blessings for same-sex couples — with an enthusiasm that conveyed precisely the opposite impression. …
The WHCD Attack and the Revolutionary Vanguards, by Alberto M. Fernandez
By Alberto M. Fernandez, EWTN News – An attempted attack on the WHCDs’ Dinner points to a deeper trend: In a polarized West, violence is becoming thinkable again… The infatuation today with revolutionary violence is not limited to words. Cole Allen — the 31-year-old teacher and Caltech graduate who attempted to shoot up the WHCD in an effort to target the U.S. president and senior Trump administration officials on April 25 — seems to have been steeped in the online fever swamps of anti-Trumpism. He had moved from social-media posting on Bluesky and protests to traveling across the country to try to commit murder. …
Now We Know What ‘Maximum Warfare, Everywhere, All the Time’ Means, by Scott McKay
By Scott McKay, The American Spectator – On Wednesday of last week, Hakeem Temu Obama Jeffries, the hand-talking cretin who serves as the Democrats’ leader in the House of Representatives, declared after the Virginia gerrymandering bill passed by a close margin (before being immediately blocked by a judge based on its manifest legal infirmities) that his party was to engage in “Maximum Warfare, Everywhere, All The Time” against President Trump, the Republican Party and its supporters.
Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Canada’s Euthanasia Regime: Efficiency and Death vs. True Compassion and Dignity
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. …
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland: A Pastoral Statement on Recent Events at St. Peter’s Basilica and the Integrity of the Priesthood
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. …
Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, OMV: 5 Steps to Recognize the Risen Christ in Our Lives
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 ….
Breaking: New FBI Clinton Doc Reinforces Deep State’s Dual Standard Of Justice, by Margot Cleveland
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. …
They Said ‘Punch Him’—Now It’s Bullets: The Dangerous Escalation No One Wants to Admit, by Victor Davis Hanson
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.
Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: I Am the Good Shepherd
Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – John 10:11-18 – 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, 15 as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. …
Founder’s Quote
Patriot Post – “The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of its political cares.” —Alexander Hamilton (1787)
Today’s Saint: St. Zita, Virgin, April 27, 2026
By Bellarmine Forum – ZITA lived for forty-eight years in the service of Fatinelli, a citizen of Lucca. During this time she rose each morning, while the household were asleep, to hear Mass, and then toiled incessantly till night came, doing the work of others as well as her own. Once Zita, absorbed in prayer, remained in church past the usual hour of her bread-making. She hastened home, reproaching herself with neglect of duty, and found the bread made and ready for the oven.






