By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – The fingerprints of top deep-staters in President Joe Biden’s weaponized DOJ all over the launch of the corrupt “Arctic Frost” investigation, according to a document just dropped by Sen. Chuck Grassley… “Just received this doc from DOJ Proof that Biden Atty General Merrick Garland+ Deputy Atty General Lisa Monaco+ FBI Dir Chris Wray all PERSONALLY APPROVED opening Arctic Frost” … “This investigation unleashed unchecked govt power at the highest levels. My oversight will continue,” Grassley added.

By David Clements, The Stream – In this powerful 30-minute video essay, former prosecutor and longtime election integrity crusader David Clements examines the legal and historical precedents which President Trump could use against states that refuse to run honest elections, enforce immigration laws, or respect the Constitutional authority of his office.

By Rob Sexton, Catholic Exchange – In our walk with Christ, we can mistake “sanitizing” our lives for purity. This is especially true in the media we consume. Indeed, there are books, films, and television shows Christians simply should not expose themselves to—but the solution is not to avoid everything that seems questionable. Nor is it to arbitrarily baptize content to permit ourselves to consume it. For example, having a priest in a film does not make it inherently Catholic, but the presence of a Catholic imagination does.

By Olivia Gans Turner, LifeNews – Never has this been the norm in our society, but it has become so in Virginia during this off-year election cycle… “How has this happened?” many of us ask. Why has the Democratic candidate for Virginia Attorney General, Jay Jones, been given a pass by his running mates after it was brought to light that he had texted a colleague about his fantasies involving shooting the Republican House Speaker, as well as his young children?  Is his limp semi-apology enough to make him eligible to be the state law enforcement officer? These are questions only the voters of Virginia can answer this month. ….

By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis  Magazine – The Sino-Vatican deal continues to empower the CCP to subjugate Catholicism in China under Marxist ideology… On September 29, 2025, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping demanded that the pace of Sinicization of religions—that of bringing them in line with the principles of Maoism, which sought the total eradication of religion through the destruction of thousands of houses of worship and the imprisonment, torture, and murder of religious leaders and laypersons—be stepped up.

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing – This year marks the 30th anniversary of Christopher Lasch’s final book.  Published just a few months after his death, The Revolt of the Elites (1995) capped a series of five extraordinary works starting with his Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged (1977).  An accomplished historian, Lasch was also a penetrating social critic.  He was never religious and always a man of the old, democratic left. 

By Alyssa Murphy, National Catholic Register – Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla is not one to hide his Catholic faith. Known to make Gospel references during press conferences, have special seats reserved courtside for Catholic priests, and carry a gargantuan Rosary around, the NBA coach just revealed the biggest news of all: his desire to become a Catholic deacon… Speaking to Dominican Father Joseph Anthony Kress on the Godsplaining podcast, Mazzulla was asked, “What would you say is your next professional goal?”

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word- Luke 12:54-59 – 54 He also said to the multitudes, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, `A shower is coming’; and so it happens. 55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, `There will be scorching heat’; and it happens. 56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? 57 “And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? …

Franciscan Media, Oct 24, 2020 – The “spiritual father of Cuba” was a missionary, religious founder, social reformer, queen’s chaplain, writer and publisher, archbishop, and refugee. He was a Spaniard whose work took him to the Canary Islands, Cuba, Madrid, Paris, and to the First Vatican Council…

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing – Pope Leo XIV took his name to signal his closeness to Leo XIII, and yet in his recent Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi te, his statements sometimes seem at odds with his predecessor: on the root of social evils, the remediation of poverty, and private property… For Leo XIV, the root of social ills is inequality.  Reaffirming Francis, he says: “I can only state once more that inequality ‘is the root of social ills.’” (n. 94)  But for Leo XIII, in his first encyclical, “On the Evils of Society” (Inscrutabili Dei consilio), the root of social ills is rather the rejection of Christianity by civil powers: “the source of [social] evils lies chiefly, We are convinced, in this, that the holy and venerable authority of the Church, which in God’s name rules mankind, upholding and defending all lawful authority, has been despised and set aside.” (n. 3)

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – This (2nd) time around, at least so far, Democrats are shouldering most of the blame. Indeed, Trump’s polling numbers have actually risen slightly, with a slim majority blaming Democrats for the shutdown… The pressure to pass a clean continuing resolution to fund the government before negotiating new budget items has placed Democrats in an unusual situation, in which they are the ones making demands while simultaneously blaming Republicans for the government shutdown. What continues to make that a hard sell is that Senate Majority Leader John Thune has been holding votes to report the government, which Democrats continue to vote down.

By Mark Lambert, Catholic Unscripted, Substack – The Holy See opens its doors to Muslim devotion while sidelining its own liturgical inheritance… No, it’s not a joke, Recent reports show that the Vatican Library has granted visiting Muslim scholars a dedicated space for prayer. The Library’s Vice-Prefect, Father Giacomo Cardinali, confirmed that some Muslim scholars had asked for a room with a carpet for praying and that they had been given it. The sede-vacantist site Novus Ordo Watch, immediately interpreted the move as yet another sign of the Vatican’s shift away from authentic Catholic worship. …

By Kevin & Theresa Burke, Catholic Exchange – One of the appeals of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries is the unique talent of the private detective to see beyond the apparent facts of a crime. He discovers and tests what look like unrelated threads from a criminal event that, in the end, prove essential to the resolution of the case… There is a similar dynamic at work when examining the unrelated threads of the digital tech revolution, the explosion in online gambling and pornography addiction, and complicated grief after abortion.

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – The most important debate in America today is not about immigration policy but about what it means to be an American. Our immigration debate is of course a proxy for that. It’s easier to argue over asylum policy, or ICE enforcement protocols, than it is to tackle the fraught question of who is an American and who isn’t, who really belongs here and who doesn’t… At the heart of this debate are competing historical narratives about our heritage. On the right, there’s a growing willingness to argue straightforwardly and unapologetically that America isn’t just a creed or a proposition but a nation with a shared history and culture.

By John Clark, National Catholic Register – One would be hard-pressed to find an error that has been condemned more often, more strongly, by more popes, for more serious reasons, than socialism… Recently in “America” magazine, there appeared an article titled, “Yes, democratic socialism is compatible with Catholic social teaching.” While it may be exasperating to see pro-socialism columns like these appear again and again, it’s not surprising. As it turns out, the core philosophy we now call “socialism” has been one of the most persistent errors in Church history… While the word “socialism” only found its way into common parlance in the 19th century, its underlying philosophy dates back several millennia.