By Mary Rose, Zeale News – Federal officials announced sweeping new Medicaid fraud charges in Minnesota May 21, accusing 15 defendants of schemes involving more than $90 million in alleged losses tied to autism services, disability care, housing support, and child care programs. The announcement came just hours after Aimee Bock, the “mastermind” behind the massive Feeding Our Future case, received the longest sentence yet connected to that fraud investigation.

By Mary Rose, Zeale News -Emotional scenes unfolded across Miami on May 21 after U.S. officials announced the indictment of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro over the 1996 shootdown of civilian aircraft operated by the humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue… Outside Miami’s historic Freedom Tower — long regarded as a symbol of refuge and hope for Cuban exiles — crowds waved Cuban and American flags, prayed, and chanted slogans celebrating an act of justice they had waited three decades for. …

By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing – The dignity of the human person was so central to the pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II that it was the focus of his inaugural encyclical, “The Redeemer of Man” (Redemptor hominis). Nor did that pope tire of quoting Gaudium et spes (no. 22) that Jesus Christ “fully reveals man to himself.” Note what the Council says – and doesn’t. The Council doesn’t say Christ “fully reveals God to man” (though that’s true). It affirms Jesus “fully reveals man to himself.”

By Auguste Meyrat, Crisis Magazine – President Trump recently signed an executive order to pull the United States out of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). Affiliated with the United Nations’ Global Compact for Migration, GFMD was one among countless organizations devoted to promoting “the right to migration.” In a written statement, Trump’s spokesman Tommy Pigott explained, “For too long, international organizations have fueled an endless flow of mass migration and have sought to compel Americans to accept the same destructive agenda.”

By J. J. Ziegler, Catholic World Report – 3,035 diocesan seminarians are preparing for priestly ordination in the Latin-rite dioceses of the United States, an increase of nearly 2% over the previous year, according to data published in the most recent (2025) edition of The Official Catholic Directory… Diocesan chancery offices supply statistics to the Directory, which also offers, as of January 1, 2025, an authoritative list of tax-exempt entities under the umbrella of the USCCBs. The statistics published in the 2025 edition of the Directory are thus over a year old ….

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – John 21:15-19 – 15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 A second time he said to him, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” …

By Guy McClung, Catholic Stand – A human person is an ensouled body, an embodied soul  –  you can’t have one without the other. The “One Flesh” resulting from a  sacramental, covenantal marriage is not simply a physical-union, nor is it simply and entity of two physically intimate spouses. The 2/1 Person  of a marriage is a totally new individual entity, the result of divine design… “One flesh” appears in both the Old and the New Testaments: Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19: 5-6; Mark 10:8; 1 Corinthians 6:16; and Ephesians 5:31. …

By Ann Schneible, National Catholic Register – The synod working group’s document on homosexuality has broader implications for Courage International… As the hymn O God Beyond All Praising echoes through the church, the atmosphere is bittersweet for marking the end of another annual Courage International conference… It has been a few years since I attended the annual conference for the apostolate, where I worked as communications director from 2017 to 2021, but I still carry with me the stories of the men and women I encountered …

By S.A. McCarthy, LifeNews – President Donald Trump and his administration are restoring a religious liberty office dismantled under former President Joe Biden. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on Monday that it is reorganizing its Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and establishing three divisions: the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, the Civil Rights Division, and the Health Information Privacy, Data, and Cybersecurity Division ….

By The Catholic Esquire, (Integrity Magazine) – A new revelation would align quite well with the Modernists’ vision to transform the Church into a new, Synodal institution… The UFO and space alien conspiracy is in full swing now that President Trump has released files supposedly documenting what the government has rebranded as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Perhaps not surprisingly, there is a strong contingent of mainstream Catholics and Catholic media outlets promoting the existence of aliens.

Bellarmine Forum – ST. YVO HELORI, descended from a noble and virtuous family near Treguier in Brittany, was born in 1253. At fourteen years of age, he went to laris, and afterwards to Orleans, to pursue his studies. His mother was wont frequently to say to him that he ought so to live as became a saint, to which his answer always was, that he hoped to be one. …

By Daniel B. Gallagher, Crisis Magazine – When 60 Minutes is interested in you, you know you’re doing something either really good or really bad. The program’s April 12th segment on the surge in Catholic conversions suggests that the Church is doing something really good. Somehow, we’ve managed to welcome record numbers of converts into the Church, and there are signs the trend will continue, at least for the near future.

By Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange – I had a very difficult situation arise in the wake of my father’s death. A person in a position of authority, who by all accounts was filled with light and joy, led us astray. I knew it was false. I battled against it alone. The difficulty for me was the seemingly radiant light and joy emanating from this person. The things they said were half-truths and reminiscent of Pilate, which is why I left the situation deeply troubled in spirit. I was left to fend for myself spiritually ….

By Daniel Payne, EWTN News – The Diocese of Ogdensburg, New York, will pay out $45 million to abuse victims, part of a yearslong bankruptcy process that began after dozens of sex abuse cases were filed against it… The diocese said in a May 19 statement that the diocesan administration, along with “parishes, schools, and other Catholic entities,” would contribute into the settlement, which would be organized as a “survivor trust.”

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – The United Nations’ climate panel has admitted its extreme climate modeling is “implausible” as it backs away from climate alarmism dogma… “GOOD RIDDANCE!” posted President Donald Trump after the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ditched its use of extreme climate modeling scenarios known as the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5. Trump added, “After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that ‘Climate Change’ is going to destroy the Planet …..