By Walter Sánchez Silva, EWTN News – The Holy See “will not participate in the Board of Peace due to its particular nature, which is clearly not that of other states” … When asked about Italy’s participation as an observer on the Board of Peace, Parolin stated: “There are some points that leave one somewhat perplexed. There are critical pointsthat need to be explained.”… according to Vatican News, adding that “one concern is that, at the international level, it is primarily the U.N. [United Nations] that manages these crisis situations. This is one of the points on which we have emphasized.”

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – When he became prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, then-Cardinal Prevost inherited the members of that dicastery who had been appointed by Pope Francis. If the new Pontiff wanted to change the composition of the group, and thereby change the sort of clerics chosen to become diocesan bishops, he could have done so last week, when he made his own appointments to the dicastery. He didn’t.

By Jim Mishler, Newsmax – Speaking on “The Dan Bongino Show,” Patel said the FBI under President Donald Trump has been conducting a financial investigation into how demonstrations linked to the loosely organized far left movement are supported… “These organizations don’t operate alone or in silence,” Patel said. “They operate with a heavy, heavy stream of funding… And we started looking into it, and guess what? We found them.” …

By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine – This year marks the ten-year anniversary of the martyrdom of Jacques Hamel, the 85-year-old French priest who was brutally murdered on July 26, 2016, by two Muslim men inspired by the terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, otherwise known as ISIS or ISIL. During the Prayers of Petition, the two men, wielding knives and a handgun, entered the 16th-century church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy and took Fr. Hamel and five others hostage.

By Derek Rotty, Catholic Exchange – Having examined St. Francis de Sales’s exhortation to perseverance (in Part Four of the Introduction), which is helpful at the beginning of Lent, it is right to turn and examine the pilgrimage along which he guided “Philothea”—the soul interested in growing in devotion. The bishop and spiritual director aimed to move souls from initial desire toward a resolution to total espousal of the devout life. Thus, from its first pages, this entire text intended to guide readers toward the transformation their wills—that is, the seat of the deepest desires of their souls.

By Teagan Gambert, LifeNews – Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus, Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), and 58 other members of the House and Senate joined together to file an amicus brief in support of Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s lawsuit seeking to restore the in-person dispensing requirement—negligently reversed by the Biden-era Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—for the chemical abortion drug, mifepristone… “Mifepristone is baby poison that starves the innocent unborn child to death and is extremely dangerous to women,” said Rep. Chris Smith. “Under ‘Abortion President’ Joe Biden, the FDA recklessly circumvented the law to remove the in-person dispensing requirements for mifepristone ….

By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Catholic World Report, March 4, 2025 – Fr. Laurence Carney sees devotion to the Holy Face as a call to spiritual arms and as the banner of a Catholic counter-revolution… On September 13, 1843, Our Lord spoke to the heart of a Carmelite nun in the city of Tours, France. Jesus told her that He was calling her to a program of reparation for sins against the first three of the Ten Commandments, especially sins of blasphemy, indifference, and the profanation of Sundays. Over the next several years, that nun, Sister Mary of St Peter, received a series of mystical experiences known as “interior locutions” which spelled out the nature of that work of reparation: It would all center on devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.

By Elizabeth Zelasko, Denver Catholic – Understanding Christ’s Love through Iconography and the Cross… “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”  Isaiah 53:3… If you have ever loved someone who was suffering, you will know, deep in your soul, what it is to make this face… This is not only the face of a man who has known suffering but the face of a man who is profoundly sorrowful for the suffering of his beloved. His expression reaches from the Cross, back in time to Adam and Eve, and forward through time to you, in your suffering today. …

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report – “The greatest of these,” wrote the Apostle Paul, “is love” (1 Cor. 13:13). Many centuries later, in a culture quite foreign to the Apostle to the Gentiles, the singer John Lennon earnestly insisted, “All we need is love.”… Different men, different intents, different contexts. Even different types of “love.” You hardly need to subscribe to People magazine or to frequent the cinema to know that love is the singularly insistent subject of movies, songs, novels, television dramas, sitcoms, and talk shows—the nearly monolithic entity known as “pop culture.” We are obsessed with love. Or “love.” With or without quotation marks, it’s obvious that this thing called love occupies the minds, hearts, emotions, lives, and wallets of homo sapiens.

By Nathan Stone, The Federalist – We can exercise power, or we can allow our enemies to exercise it. Choose wisely… Unless Virginia voters reject the new congressional district plan created and passed by a Democrat legislature and signed by a “moderate” Democrat governor, Republicans are set to lose four congressional seats they currently hold. The new map allows only one of Virginia’s 11 districts to be represented by a Republican, despite Republicans representing almost half of the Virginia electorate. Meanwhile, Republicans in Indiana refused to redraw their congressional maps because of “principle.”

Catholic Herald Today – Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s legacy is most notable for his charisma and his ability to use modern media to evangelise. However, his personal piety and devotion to the Eucharist inspired generations of Catholics, particularly priests, to commit themselves to Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. He famously encouraged the practice of spending a Holy Hour in front of the Eucharist, crediting it as the “secret of whatever success I have had in my life.”

By Alyssa Murphy, National Catholic Register – As Pope Benedict XIV reminded us: ‘The Eucharist inexhaustibly strengthens the indissoluble unity and love of every Christian marriage.’… We are in the midst of National Marriage Week, an annual event that has been in practice for 30 years, always centered around Valentine’s Day, where love is in the air and couples actually do try to take the time to get a babysitter for a quick date night… Founded in the United Kingdom by Richard Kane, his motto was: “If you’re fortunate enough to be in a marriage, you should look after it.”

By Ammon Blair, The Federalist – “If these are not attacks upon the stranger among us, what is?” Mamdani asked. “There is no reforming something so rotten and base.”… This is an inversion of moral authority… Mass migration is framed as a moral and civilizational imperative, demanding compassion and openness, while serious pushback on enforcement is recast as intolerant, unjust, or even xenophobic. This framing mirrors elements of the Muslim Brotherhood’s doctrine of tamkeen (institutional entrenchment)… a phased civilizational strategy built on population presence, parallel institutions, resistance to full assimilation, and long-term influence over policy, law, and public narrative… The result is a classic hypocrisy cost in the weaponization of mass migration …

By Donald DeMarco, National Catholic Register – Welsh Archbishop John Murphy knew that the secular world places its hope on career, comfort and cash… During his tenure as archbishop of Cardiff, Wales, from 1961-1983, he became rightly known as “The Builder.” When he arrived in Cardiff, there were only two Catholic secondary schools in the whole of South Wales… Before the end of the decade, the archdiocese had established 14 comprehensive schools… (betwn.) 1960 and 1980, Archbishop Murphy supervised the building of 39 churches, 14 new secondary schools and 33 new primary schools. His achievement was both singular and historic. …

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Mark 8:1-10 – 1 In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him, and said to them, 2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days, and have nothing to eat; 3 and if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come a long way.” 4 And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these men with bread here in the desert?” …