Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Luke 11:29-32 – 29 When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Jonah. 30 For as Jonah became a sign to the men of Nineveh, so will the Son of man be to this generation. 31 The queen of the South will arise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. …

By Catholic Apostolate Center – St. Gabriel Possenti was born in 1838 in Italy and spent much of his teenage years pursuing girls and social recognition. After great tragedy struck his family at the end of his teenage years, he decided to enter the Passionists because of his new devotion to Christ in the Passion. He took the name Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows because his own grief led to a growing devotion to the sorrows of Mary. …

By James Jeffrey, Catholic Herald – One of the more surprising lines of scripture that I have come across is Hebrews 3:13, which simply states: “Keep encouraging one another as long as the day lasts.”… Perhaps it is just me, but I find that short line both striking and rather moving in its simplicity: it is not about God or warning us to pray or about anything obviously related to religion. Rather, it gives a simple message about how we should engage with each other…

By Bryce Sibley, University of Notre Dame – Seminarians often conflate intellectual formation with academics, and while the two do overlap, they are distinct categories. Intellectual formation is more than passing exams or making good grades; it is about forming the seminarian so that he can think with the mind of Christ and the mind of the Church. This formation is about working to develop habits that allow him to study better and to communicate what he has learned. While these are not necessarily measurable, they must be qualities that the formation staff can evaluate.

By Brianna Lyman, The Federalist – It appears that not a single congressional Democrat at the SOTU agreed that the U.S. gov’t. is meant to serve Americans, not illegal aliens… Speaking to the American people, Pres. Donald Trump offered an opportunity for legislators on both sides to acknowledge that the “first duty of American government is to protect American citizens.”… White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller said in a post on X, “The immortal visual of the entire Democrat party — upon explicit repeated invitation — refusing to stand for the core moral principle that US government owes its allegiance to US citizens and not foreign criminal invaders, is the most shocking image in the history of the US Congress.” …

By Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchange – The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being… Is that true? Was man formed from clay, and God blew into his nostrils? How did Moses and the Jewish priests who wrote Genesis—men the modern world would hardly deem scientists—know about the origin of the species? The Origin of the Species was the title of Charles Darwin’s 1858 book—a book a professor wrote which finds the origin of no species and posits that monkeys turned into men.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – (Here is) the pastoral solicitude that Pope Benedict XVI displayed in 2009, when he lifted the excommunications of the SSPX prelates, explaining: Can we be totally indifferent about a community which has 491 priest, 215 seminarians, 6 seminaries, 88 schools, 2 university-level institutes, 117 religious brothers, 164 religious sisters, and thousands of lay faithful? Should we casually let them drift further from the Church?… Since Pope Benedict wrote those words, the number of SSPX priests has jumped by almost exactly 50%, the number of seminarians by 25%. Insofar as an institution is known by its fruits, this group appears healthier than most other Catholic ecclesial units in the early 21st century. …

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Louisiana pressed a federal judge Tuesday to block a Biden-era Food and Drug Administration rule that eliminated the in-person dispensing requirement for the dangerous abortion drug mifepristone that has killed millions of babies and injured thousands of women… Louisiana is arguing the change enables illegal chemical abortions in the state, endangers women through unsupervised use and coercion, and directly undermines Louisiana’s ban on abortion.

By Scott Ventureyra, Crisis Magazine – Harari, much like that ancient serpent, seeks to subvert humanity’s purpose, as he has said elsewhere himself: “Human history began when men created gods. It will end when men become gods.”… I believe the real danger lies not in machines attaining genuine personhood but in that we will forget our own. Assigning agency, consciousness, and moral responsibility to objects is to fundamentally misunderstand such capacities. Intelligence belongs to a unified and self-aware subject that is ordered toward truth, not to systems that process large amounts of data without really understanding what is being processed.

By Jerry Cox, LifeNews – On February 13, Family Council joined 43 other pro-life leaders in a legal brief challenging mail-order abortion drugs… The case is Louisiana v. FDA, in which the State of Louisiana is challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 2021 and 2023 rule changes that removed important restrictions on RU-486 and allowed abortion drugs to be delivered through the mail without an in-person visit with a doctor… Since then, abortionists in other states have marketed abortion drugs to women in Arkansas even though abortion is generally prohibited except to save the life of the mother and it is a crime to deliver abortion drugs by mail into the state. …

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Matthew 6:7-15 – 7 “And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread; 12 And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors; 13 And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. …

By S.A. McCarthy, The American Spectator – America’s Catholic hierarchy preaches open borders but whispers about abortion… In the late fifth century, St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland, wrote a letter to the army of the British warlord Coroticus, condemning the practice of slavery. He did so not because condemning the then-profitable slave trade put a penny in his pocket (it did not) but because it was the right thing to do, in accord with Christian moral teaching. Over a century later, St. Benedict of Nursia held himself and his fellow monks to such a high moral standard that some of his own monks tried to assassinate him.

By Daniel McCarthy, Patriot Post – Promoting his new memoir to a largely black audience in Atlanta, the California governor decided to forge a connection by boasting about his poor SAT scores and difficulty reading… “I’m like you,” he said… “You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy” and “you’ve never seen me read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech.”… Newsom suffers from dyslexia, but he obviously wasn’t assuming he was addressing a room full of voters with the same debility.

By Diane Montagna, Substack – Cardinal Robert Sarah has expressed his “grave concern” following the Society of Saint Pius X’s announcement that they intend to proceed with episcopal ordinations on July 1 without a pontifical mandate… In an appeal published in the prominent French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche on Feb. 22, Cardinal Sarah urged the SSPX to reconsider its decision and called for unity in the Church through obedience to the Vicar Christ…

By Madalaine Elhabbal, EWTN News – Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska is “full of extraordinary gratitude” to not only be Nebraska’s leader but also to simply be alive… He emphasized his love for the Catholic Church and its disciplines, noting his own devotion to praying the rosary. He described his day as “really simple,” telling EWTN News: “I get up and I pray to do God’s will.”… Reflecting on how his faith has influenced his governance, Pillen said: “Pro-life is everything.”