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.”

By Joseph Reciniello, Catholic Exchange – Fasting, like all other religious practices, can turn into an idol if we are not mindful of this temptation. God is not impressed with our fasting—He is God! God wants us to use our fasting to temper our secular worldview, to cling to heavenly pursuits, to sharpen our prayer, and to bring to our attention our great need for divine assistance. This is the purpose of fasting, and this will open us up to God’s grace… But the devil is shrewd; he works in our lives subtly. Radical fasting, especially when we accomplish what we set out to fast from, can easily feed our pride ….

By Kenneth Craycraft, Catholic World Report – The three pillars of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—must always be our primary focus during these forty days. The purpose—or end—of these disciplines is to grow closer to God through spiritual and corporal works… While we should never shun or even diminish those essential elements of Lent, some adjunct activities may both subsidize traditional Lenten disciplines and serve the purpose of spiritual development. Lent can be a time to grow in our understanding and appreciation of the three transcendentals of truth, beauty, and goodness. …

By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine – United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a noted Christian Zionist, speaking on The Tucker Carlson Show last Friday, said Israel would be “fine” to take control of territory stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates. Huckabee was pressed repeatedly on the biblical boundaries he cited as divinely promised to the Jewish people as the host asked him “what land” specifically he was talking about, noting the remit in the biblical book of Genesis is greater than the borders of modern-day Israel.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture – When the Lord caught Adam and Eve red-handed after their deal with the Devil, Adam explained, “The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” So much for marital bliss. Adam implies that God was responsible for the woman who successfully tempted him to sin. Adam used the very gift God had given him to evade personal responsibility—and subtly to indict God Himself… In turn, Eve offered her own deflection. “The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.”

By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, The Catholic Thing – In 1986, the State of the Union had been prepared; there was a midday luncheon to brief the media on what to watch for… President Ronald Reagan would speak to the American people that day, but at 5 p.m., not prime time, from the Oval Office, not the Capitol, and from a brief text quickly drafted… The space shuttle Challenger had exploded upon lift-off. …

By Greg Maresca, The American Spectator – The Trump administration recently announced that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially ditched the 2009 “endangerment finding” that for two decades has been referred to as the Holy Grail of the climate change cult. Greenhouse gases are no longer a menace to humanity. In government terms, the agency is admitting it has been chasing its own tail for years and finally decided to stop the spin… This grand “finding” managed to unleash trillions of dollars into regulations that squeezed whole sectors of the U.S. economy like a boa constrictor on a crash diet. Moreover, Washington shoveled hundreds of billions into green energy projects that were about as ready for prime time as a unicycle ridden by a tax auditor juggling flaming spreadsheets.

By S.A. McCarthy, The American Spectator – I worry at times, writing this column, that I may sound like a broken record, harping on immigration issues and the Catholic Church’s teachings on the subject ad nauseum. But America’s Catholic bishops clearly have no such qualms; indeed, it seems as though their excellencies issue some new (often whiny) immigration missive every other week, horrifically misrepresenting the Church’s age-old teachings on matters of national sovereignty, borders, and the moral responsibilities that immigrants and refugees owe to their host nations. Well, last week was one of those weeks.

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing – We live in a culture that rejects limits and embraces the demonic concept of freedom. We think that to be free we must shed the limits even of our human nature. For us, freedom requires that husband and wife be released from their union, a mother be liberated from her unborn child, a boy become a girl, and our souls be uploaded into machines… In the desert, the Incarnate Lord shows us the true path. By humbling – limiting – Himself in our human nature and trusting in His Father, He overcomes the Devil’s temptations. He has done so not for His own sake, but for us. So that we can humbly follow in the path He has traced for us and come to the “glorious freedom of the children of God.” (Romans 8:21)

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Matthew 25:31-46 – 31 “When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left.34 …

By Ngala Killian Chimtom, Catholic World Report – The Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation by St. Pope John Paul II was a landmark document that affirmed the vitality and maturity of the African Church… Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, the Archbishop of Kinshasa and President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), recently emphasized the enduring relevance of Pope Saint John Paul II’s 1995 Apostolic Exhortation, Ecclesia in Africa, as the Church marks its 30th anniversary.

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – In a game for the ages, the U.S. men’s national hockey team defeated Canada in the 2026 Winter Olympics championship on Sunday. The victory came on the 46th anniversary of the infamous 1980 Miracle on Ice, which was the last year the American men’s team won gold… The Americans’ road to the winner’s circle was by no means an easy feat… Leaving everything out on the ice — including some of his teeth — Team USA forward Jack Hughes delivered when it mattered most. …

By Mike Parrott, Crisis Magazine – In such a landscape, audiences may rediscover an older standard: stories rooted in truth, animated by moral imagination, and ordered toward meaning rather than spectacle. The future of storytelling may depend less on innovation than on recovery: a return to forms and themes that have always spoken most deeply to the human heart.