By Elise Winland, Catholic Vote – Airlines and travelers are rushing to adjust plans after U.S. transportation officials announced a 10% reduction in flight traffic at 40 major airports beginning Nov. 7. The officials cited safety concerns related to the government shutdown as it drags into its second month… Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Nov. 5 that the cuts, coordinated through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), will “lead to more cancellations” but are necessary to maintain safety.

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Luke 16:1-8 – 1 He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. 2 And he called him and said to him, `What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’ 3 And the steward said to himself, `What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? …

By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal – President Donald Trump is drawing attention to the persecution of Christians in Africa, which has created a moment of “leverage” and momentum for “real action,” according to a new report from The Heritage Foundation… “Human rights attacks against Christians occur too often, though [they] escape mainstream America, given unfamiliarity, distance, and competing priorities,” Ned Rauch-Mannino, a visiting fellow for The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for National Security, wrote in the report.

By Steve Cortes, Chronicles – How do we understand the victory of a Marxist radical?… It’s a sad day for the de facto capital of the world, New York City. The epicenter of American finance, media, and dynamism now enters a self-imposed trajectory of decline… But those of us on the populist right should not merely shake our heads and bemoan the extremism of Mamdani, frightening though it is. Instead, we must understand his appeal, so that we may most effectively counter his un-American ideas and continue to build on our 2024 triumph ….

By Joshua Monnington, The Federalist – But to imply that the problem of leftist extremists in political office is limited to Mamdani and Jones would be inaccurate. There is, of course, Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, “a big supporter of infamous anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,” who has been accused of physical abuse by multiple women. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat congresswoman from Minnesota, has blamed Charlie Kirk for his assassination and said that on 9/11 “some people did something.” Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Maxine Waters have been anything but shy about inciting intimidation and violence against their political opponents.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois has issued an urgent plea for Catholics and all people to contact Gov. J.B. Pritzker and demand he veto a controversial assisted suicide bill that pro-life advocates say would endanger vulnerable residents and undermine the sanctity of human life… The call to action comes just days after the Illinois State Senate approved Senate Bill 1950 in a surprise early-morning vote on October 31, amending the measure onto an unrelated food sanitation bill to legalize the use of lethal drugs for assisted suicide.

By Susan Hanssen, Crisis Magazine – Young conservatives debate “Christian nationalism” while Catholic students still ask about Washington’s connection to Freemasonry at the founding of our nation. It’s time to unpack these myths… It might strike many college professors—immersed in a campus atmosphere that writes off the American Founders for complicity in slavery—as odd that I still get, at my little Catholic liberal arts college, questions every year from students about George Washington being a Freemason.

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing – I take it as given that God commands only what is good for us and forbids only what is bad, which means sometimes also not permitting others to do what’s bad.  For we are social beings, and permission slides into participation, and participation slides into approval, and approval eventually demands celebration, and sometimes even compulsion.

Franciscan Media – Didacus is living proof that God “chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.”.. As a young man in Spain, Didacus joined the Secular Franciscan Order and lived for some time as a hermit. After Didacus became a Franciscan brother, he developed a reputation for great insight into God’s ways. His penances were heroic. He was so generous with the poor that the friars sometimes grew uneasy about his charity.

By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register – than 25 years as a neurosurgeon… Doran, 62, who was ordained a Roman Catholic deacon in 2021, chronicles both types of exits and offers advice to fellow Catholics for how they can follow the Church’s teachings and prepare to meet their Maker in his 2023 book, To Die Well: A Catholic Neurosurgeon’s Guide to the End of Life, published by Ignatius Press. ….

By James Kalb, Catholic World Report – Compared with secular and certain other religious tendencies, Catholics and Catholic organizations seem unusually resistant to the appeal of political violence… But what about Catholic political behavior when aligned with power?… Integralism, which might be defined as the view that Catholicism ought to play a political role rather like that now played by the liberal conception of human rights, is commonly considered extreme. And indeed a pope like Innocent III exercised extensive political power—organizing crusades, intervening in the choice of emperors, annulling Magna Carta, and so on.

By Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., OnePeterFive – WHEN the bases of the interior life are considered, we cannot discuss the action of Christ, the universal Mediator, on His Mystical Body without also speaking of the influence of Mary Mediatrix. As we remarked, many persons delude themselves, maintaining that they reach union with God without having continual recourse to our Lord, Who is the way, the truth, and the life. Another error would consist in wishing to go to our Lord without going first to Mary, whom the Church calls in a special feast the Mediatrix of all graces.

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop Emeritus, Pillars of Faith – On 4 November 2025, the Holy See released a Doctrinal Note through the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) entitled Mater Populi Fidelis, signed by DDF Prefect Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez. In the document, Cardinal Fernandez declares “it would not be appropriate to use the title ‘Co-redemptrix’ to define Mary’s cooperation.” The stated reason is that such a title “risks obscuring Christ’s unique salvific mediation and can therefore create confusion and an imbalance in the harmony of the truths of the Christian faith…” (Paragraph 22)… Because many of the faithful are unsettled by these words, and because love for the Blessed Virgin is the heartbeat of authentic Catholic faith, I feel compelled as a successor of the Apostles to reaffirm the perennial teaching of the Church regarding Our Lady’s singular cooperation in the Redemption. …

By Gregory Lyakhov, Patriot Post – If the GOP wants to recover in 2026, it must rediscover its purpose and learn how to communicate it. Voters must see Democrats for what they have become — a party increasingly defined by socialism, anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and identity politics. Democrats across the country, from mainstream leaders to grassroots organizers, supported Mamdani and others like him. That alignment gives Republicans a moral and political opening.

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Luke 15:1-10 – 1 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.2 And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” 3 So he told them this parable: 4 “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ….