By H. W. Crocker III, Crisis Magazine – According to the extraordinary research of Dr. Ryan Burge, Catholic seminaries are producing the most orthodox seminarians in living memory. Of priests ordained between 1965 and 1969—graduating in the immediate post-Vatican II world—68 percent described themselves as theologically progressive, and only 16 percent described themselves as theologically conservative. In every subsequent four-year period, however, those numbers shift—and always in the same direction. Of priests ordained since 2020, two percent describe themselves as theologically progressive and 84 percent describe themselves as theologically conservative.

By Carole Lieberman, The American Spectator – It is no secret that RFK Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, doesn’t like psychiatrists, and he has had good reason, based upon his personal life experiences. For example, his aunt, Rosemary Kennedy, was treated with a prefrontal lobotomy at age 23 in 1941, a dark chapter in the history of psychiatry which left her institutionalized for life. He credits his own recovery from addiction to abstinence-based 12-step programs, focusing on spiritual principles and peer support, rather than on psychiatrists or medication.

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International – On May 8, Päivi Räsänen, a Christian Finnish parliamentarian and former Minister of the Interior, announced that she will take her case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. This follows seven years of police investigations, two unanimous acquittals overturned by the state, and finally a 3-2 conviction by Finland’s Supreme Court this past March under a statute on “war crimes and crimes against humanity.”… Her offense? Authoring a 2004 pamphlet for her Lutheran congregation, titled Male and Female He Created Them ….

By Danielle Chaffin, The Federalist – Thirty people died in 17 semi-truck crashes caused by noncitizen commercial truck drivers in 2025, according to the Department of Transportation. That number is almost certainly an undercount. Prior to 2025, the immigration status of a commercial truck driver was mostly not recorded in crash reports, court filings, or news coverage. The national conversation focuses on the truck driver at fault for the latest accident, but rarely goes deeper.

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing – Philip Neri had the custom of rising late at night or in the first hours of morning, making his way through the sleeping city of Rome, outside the city walls, to the Basilica of Saint Sebastian. There he would descend beneath the church, to the ancient catacombs, where the first Christians of Rome met for Mass, where so many martyrs slept. In that sacred place he would spend time in prayer.

By Mario Smith, Catholic Exchange – The Catholic view on Renaissance humanism has generally been positive, understanding it as an important cultural and intellectual movement that enriched Christian civilization. It especially views its 13th- through 15th-century forms as compatible with faith, where most of its works were grounded in the dignity of the human person created in God’s image (imago Dei).

Vatican News, St. Philip Neri – When Philip Neri arrived in Rome in 1534, it was as if a light were lit in the darkness of misery that nestled amidst the glories of the Ara Pacis and the lustrous travertines of the noble palaces. The center of the city had the dirty face of the outskirts, and Philip would go and get a small room, in San Girolamo in via Giulia.

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Mark 10:28-31 – 28 Peter began to say to him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed you.” 29 Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, 30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. ….

By Riaan Van Zyl, Integrity Magazine – Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, arrived with immense fanfare from the sycophantic “Catholic” media, as well as global and globalist attention… Presented as a social encyclical for the age of artificial intelligence (AI), it seeks to apply Catholic social doctrine to the digital revolution in an attempt to mimic how Leo XIII applied it to the Industrial Revolution in Rerum Novarum in 1891. …

By Bishop Joseph Strickland, Bishop Emeritus, Pillars of Faith – There is an old song by Simon & Garfunkel called “The Sound of Silence.” Many of you know it. One line says, “People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening.” Those words have echoed in my mind as we approach Pentecost… Because we are living in an age filled with noise. Endless talking. Endless commentary. Endless statements. Endless meetings. Endless documents. Endless discussions. And yet beneath all the noise, there is a terrible silence growing in the world and even within parts of the Church… Not the holy silence of prayer. …

By Ray Sullivan, Catholic Stand – Catholic time-travel happens through the Eucharist, looking at the crucifix, saying the Rosary, and remembering the day of your marriage… Catholic time travel? Are you kidding me?  According to the rational mind, we live in the present age, and time travel is only something we read about in sci-fi novels or see in the movies. But in reality, everyone participates in time travel when we look up at the stars in the night sky. …

By Tessa Gervasini, DC Bureau, EWTN News – The 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, “One Nation Under God,” will kick off on May 24 in St. Augustine, Florida… In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, the pilgrimage will begin in Florida, where the first recorded Catholic Mass within the future continental United States was celebrated, highlighting the country’s Catholic roots… “We have to return to one nation under God, and I think that by beginning this pilgrimage at St. Augustine, weʼre returning to one of the major start points for Catholicism,” …

By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine – Something weird and wonderful is happening across the globe and is even reaching the grass roots in my own hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. This year, the five Catholic parishes in Greenville (Our Lady of the Rosary, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Mary’s, St. Mary Magdalene, and Prince of Peace) have seen a remarkable 44 percent increase in the number of adults being received into the Church compared to 2025.

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – John 21:20-25 – 20 Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved, who had lain close to his breast at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?” 21 When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?” 22 Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!” …

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture – One of the most troubling aspects of arguing with those who hold all the standard popular errors is that false positions are so often advanced and defended based either on personal “feelings” (for which we can often read personal “desires”) or on what “everybody knows”, meaning that counter-opinions are instantly categorized as both inadmissible and personally vicious. Moreover, the intellectual and spiritual darkness is so willfully pervasive that it is hard even to get in a position to open a window to shed some light.