By Elise Winland, Zeale – As the Iran war entered its 24th day, President Donald Trump halted U.S. strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure amid “constructive conversations” with Iran and suggested the U.S. could jointly control the Strait of Hormuz along with a new Iranian regime. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country would continue striking targets in Iran while other Israeli officials signaled a deeper push into Lebanon.
Trump postpones strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure, citing ‘productive’ talks

By S.A. McCarthy, The Washington Stand – The era of mass immigration to the U.S. is slowly, painfully drawing to a close, according to new statistics, but much work remains to be done to secure the American homeland. The Washington Post on Sunday published an analysis of new U.S. State Department numbers tracking a modest but meaningful decrease in legal immigration into the U.S., the first time in over 50 years that more immigrants left the U.S. than entered.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture – God created us to live forever. Our longing for eternal life unfolds as a continuum of human love finding its fulfillment in divine union. This yearning is not accidental; it is an essential part of our human nature. Because God created us in His image, human love cooperates with God in bringing forth new life. Our cooperation fulfills the command at creation to “be fruitful and multiply”—and extends our existence over generations. …

By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing – When Fr. Richard John Neuhaus introduced the concept of the “naked public square” in a 1984 book with the same name, he argued that it was anti-democratic because it required citizens to strip off their religious identities as the price of admission to public life and discourse… The naked public square paradigm of church/state relations requires the majority of citizens, who are believers, to disavow that basic identity to participate in political and social life. Religion needs to be hidden from public view. In public life. In schools. On the subway.

By Dr. Marcus Peter, Catholic Exchange – Our sins pierced His hands. Our transgressions required His sacrifice. He entered the grave for our redemption and rose for our justification. Consequently, when we hear Him speak about the chair of Moses and the dangers of spiritual pride, we stand before Him as brothers and sisters under one Father, guided by one Teacher, redeemed by one Lord. In that humble posture, the covenant lives within us, and through the grace of the Spirit, we learn to serve with sincerity and to walk in the path that leads to exaltation in Him.

By Dr. Edward Feser, Catholic World Report – The main point of just war doctrine is to guide public authorities in determining whether a military action they are considering is morally defensible. In a democratic society, it also assists citizens in carrying out their own duties as voters, opinion makers, and so on… But what of the servicemen who have to fight in the wars their governments decide to wage? Do they have an obligation to make a moral judgment about these wars in light of just war criteria? Must they refuse to fight in an unjust war?

By Gregory Lyakhov, Patriot Post – One of the clearest indicators is generational imbalance. Millennials number roughly 74 million in the United States, while Generation Z — despite being the younger cohort — is approximately five million smaller. The older members of Generation X, at around 65 million, are already approaching retirement age. Under normal demographic patterns, each successive generation should be larger or at least comparable in size, particularly in a country with steady population growth. That pattern has broken down.

By Zeale News, March 24, 2026 – St. Catherine of Sweden was born in 1330, a noblewoman and daughter of St. Bridget of Sweden. As a young girl, Catherine was sent to a monastery to be educated until she was 13, and her parents had arranged a marriage for her… Catherine married a German nobleman named Egard, but her time in the monastery had led her to desire religious life. She persuaded her husband to take a mutual vow of celibacy with her, and the couple practiced mortification and acts of charity together.

By Joseph Ford Cotto, Chronicles – According to recent data, Pennsylvania employs over 72,000 state workers, many of whom are concentrated in and around the Harrisburg region. These employees have an average tenure of 11.6 years. This is not a dynamic, market-driven environment. It is a system designed to reward the concentration of power, ideological conformity, and institutional continuity. In other words, all of the things that benefit the Democratic Party… Washington operates on the same model, only on a vastly larger scale.

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine – What then is death but an event that follows upon birth, the dread certainty of which awaits us all. Indeed, says Pascal, “it makes all the difference in the world, if it is certain that we shall not be here for long, and uncertain whether we shall be here even for an hour.” There can be no exceptions, each of us having been predetermined to die at a given time and place none of us knows in advance—toward which we find ourselves inexorably moving from the first moment we begin to exist in our mother’s womb.

By Dina Fathi, Catholic Exchange – The Church’s devotion to Our Blessed Mother is simply the will of God, as we saw in the fourth article of this Magnificat series (“All Generations Will Call Me Blessed”). Pope Benedict XVI called it “a command of the Holy Spirit” (Homily, August 15, 2006)… And so it is that “the Church rightly honors [the Mother of God] with special devotion,” as the Catechism says (971), and par excellence in the prayer of the Holy Rosary. In the Hail Mary, “all generations” call Our Blessed Mother “blessed,” a fulfillment of Luke 1:48, and in the Mysteries of the Rosary we come to know the “great things” God has done for Her (Lk. 1:49).

By Ralph Rodriguez, The Federalist – Nineteen hours after the hearing began, I finally stood before the Connecticut Education Committee to testify against House Bill 5468, which would end the state’s longstanding tradition of homeschool freedom. It was 4:45 a.m. on a Thursday… Hundreds of parents, students, and supporters filled the hearing room and lobby of the legislative office building in Hartford and waited hours for their turn at the microphone, demonstrating an amazing commitment to take a stand against this bill. …

By Pam Key, Breitbart – Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Trump border czar Tom Homan said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be in U.S. airports Monday… Host Dana Bash said, “President Trump posted on Truth Social, ‘If the radical left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our country, in particular our airports, be free and safe again, I will move to move our brilliant and patriotic ICE agents to the airports where they will do security like no one has ever seen before. Now, in a subsequent post, he said that he instructed ICE agents to be ready by Monday.

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – John 8:1-11 – 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?” …

By S.A. McCarthy, The American Spectator – A Catholic Priest in Iceland becomes a test case for freedom of conscience… A Catholic priest in Iceland is facing a potential prison sentence for upholding the Catholic Church’s moral teaching on homosexuality. According to EWTN News, the French-born Fr. Jakob Rolland caused a bit of an uproar when he was interviewed for a radio program and chose to defend the Church’s age-old moral teachings on marriage, sexuality, and the Blessed Sacrament.