By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – There are a multitude of reasons the rent-a-womb industry should be banned. Surrogacy denies children’s natural rights to life, to a mother and father, and to freedom from commodification; exploits vulnerable women; and creates reproduction loopholes for pedophiles and other bad actors unfit to be parents. The most imminent and possibly important justification for taking swift and legal action to shut down America’s proxy pregnancy market is the increasing exploitation of birthplace citizenship by America’s sworn enemies.

By Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Contributor, Daily Signal – We’re watching a modern-day French Revolutionary-like takeover of the Democratic Party. We could call it the Reign of Terror or the Democratic guillotine. … What I mean by that, in 1793 and ’94, when the French Revolution was well on its way to fruition, a group of radicals called Jacobins, led by the Robespierre brothers, hijacked that revolution and decided that they were going to go far, far to the left of the effort to abolish the monarchy and rename the days of the week, the months, start with a year zero concept, go out and attack private property, and execute people.  

By Father Mike Johns, Public Discourse – Put simply, the underlying impulse of the Declaration is the conviction that the human person is prior to government. Government is both necessary and good, but it can only order and safeguard what is already there, namely, the community of persons created by God. As the Declaration asserts, government derives its “just powers from the consent of the governed.” The priority of the human person is taken, moreover, as a self-evident truth. …

By Kennedy Hall, Complicit Clergy – The principal contention of those sympathetic to the SSPX, but in disagreement with the consecrations of bishops in 2026, is as follows: While in 1988 it could have been argued that a state of necessity for the survival of Catholic Tradition existed, this is not the case today because the Traditional Latin Mass is more accessible, even after Traditionis Custodes, when compared to 1988; and, men who wish to become Traditional Priests do not have to join the SSPX because of the FSSP, and other such groups.

By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing – The canonically illegal consecration/ordination (the terms are interchangeable) of four new bishops by two Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) bishops who were themselves illegally ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre 38 years ago is a renewed wound upon the Mystical Body of Christ. This schismatic act of disobedience carried out in direct defiance of Pope Leo XIV’s public warning has resulted in the incurring by the six bishops of latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication. 

By Victoria Cardiel, EWTN News, (Catholic World Report) – Pope Leo XIV is not even two years into his pontificate and he is already facing one of the most delicate episodes of his ministry: a new rupture within the Church… In a defiant move and despite repeated warnings from Rome, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) went ahead Wednesday with the consecration of four new bishops without a pontifical mandate — an act of open disobedience to the authority of the pope that, under canon law, carries automatic excommunication for the six bishops involved.

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine – When Venerable Emil Kapaun’s earthly remains were returned home to his native Kansas in 2021, Sgt. 1st Class Herbert Miller, at attention from his wheelchair, extolled him: “You don’t have ’em like that anymore.”… Perhaps. But the raw material is there. Kapauns don’t spring fully formed out of the earth; they’re cultivated by hard work and difficult circumstances. Emil Kapaun grew up in a bare-bones Kansas household in the 1930s, doing heavy physical labor to help keep the farm going. That’s good training for a sacrificial life.

By Henry Zavalick, The American Spectator – The run of Democratic socialist upsets in Democratic primaries has spread from New York to Colorado. On June 30, 29-year-old Melat Kiros unseated 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette for the Democratic nomination in Colorado’s First Congressional District… Kiros finished with 51 percent of the vote to DeGette’s 42 percent as ballots were counted Tuesday night, shocking many establishment Democrats. DeGette, who entered Congress in 1997 just months before Kiros was born, was no mealy-mouthed centrist …

By Hunter Oswald, The American Spectator – Charles Carroll of Carrollton had much to lose for his actions. Had the revolution failed, he would have lost everything his family acquired, not to mention the repercussions of his actions as a Catholic. Yet it was his statesmanship and firm conviction in the traditions of Western civilization that not only helped the colonies eventually secure their independence but also laid the foundations for the nation’s republican ideals and structure. Carroll deserves profound respect from us today and should inspire future generations to preserve the values that he and his fellow signers so deeply believed in. …

By Kevin Wells, Catholic Exchange – As our nation turns its attention to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I’ve found myself wrapped up by a sobering event: 9/11. I am recalling the manner Americans instantly sought God in our collective grief… A quarter century after America’s worship spaces overflowed with grieving citizens, there is little reason to believe the anniversary of our nation’s birth will unite us—not even briefly. The heartbreaking truth is that our divisions seem only to deepen year by year.

By America Needs Fatima – During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries there lived in Quito, Ecuador, a Spanish nun whose little-known but extraordinary life has a direct connection with our days. Mother Mariana of Jesus Torres y Berriochoa, a nun of the Conceptionist Order, surpassed the already strict discipline of her congregation in the traditional penances she undertook. Beyond even those, she lovingly accepted unprecedented sacrifices and sufferings directly asked of her by Our Lord and Our Lady.

Source: FSSPX News, June 30, 2026 – Most Holy Father, Thank you very much for the letter you were kind enough to send me… I was deeply touched by your fatherly concern… For a long time, I have wished to have the opportunity to meet with you in order to personally express our sincere desire to serve the Church. Unfortunately, this opportunity has not arisen.

By Chris Jackson, Hiraeth in Exile – Leo XIV warmly receives the Orthodox, pleads with the SSPX at the last hour, and exposes the postconciliar rule: everyone gets dialogue except Tradition.

By Stephany Flemings, LifeNews – Yet another Planned Parenthood referral clinic has shut down operations. The Gainesville location notified the public that its last day of scheduling patient appointments was June 26, 2026… Over the last year or so, the abortion giant has seen record-breaking closures amidst the loss of federal tax funding, numerous lawsuits, and reports of financial malfeasance and abusive work conditions made public by its own employees.

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – (Thanks to Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Barrett and the liberal justices…) … a major blow (was dealt) to American sovereignty … the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that children born to illegal aliens and foreign “birth tourists” on U.S. soil are citizens under the 14th Amendment. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissented, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in the court’s judgement and dissented in part.