
By Fr. Bill Peckman, Facebook – Today, I start the new temporary schedule that will mean I am providing pastoral care to 8 churches and two schools. I am not worried or anxious… But…… why is this happening?… A chronic lack of priestly vocations… We can get into the dirt about who is to blame. We can get into the decades old arguments about changing who we ordain or relaxing celibacy. Has that been remotely helpful? Or is it self absolution?… We can get into the collapse of the family, smaller families, fewer families. We can get into our society that focuses and prizes overconsumption as the primary good of life. …
By Mary Rose, Zeale – In the latest episode of his Virtue of Patriotism video series, Cardinal Raymond L. Burke draws on the Fourth Commandment and the teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas to argue that love of country is not mere feeling but a moral obligation rooted in the order God has written into creation… The series is produced by the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and hosted on CatholicVote’s Zeale for America 250 campaign page. New episodes drop every two weeks in the lead-up to July 4, 2026 — the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence …
By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing – God made man in His own image and likeness. God Himself, then, is the primary reference point for man’s self-understanding. Accordingly, when man loses sight of God, he loses sight of his own humanity… This is the story of our secular age writ large. It is also, in some vaguely reassuring sense, the story of man writ large. I say “reassuring” in the sense that our failings are rarely quite so novel as we think they are, which means the remedies are less inaccessible than we might otherwise suppose.
NEWS
The Biden Admin’s Anti-Christian Bias Was Even Worse Than You Think, by Tyler O’Neil
By Tyler O’Neil, The Daily Signal – Joe Biden’s presidency was even worse for Christians than you think, according to an exhaustive report from the Justice Department’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, published Thursday… The anti-Christian bias seeped into official policy across the federal government, from personnel matters—where Christians’ requests for time off around Easter Sunday were met with suspicion in the State Department—to the IRS investigating churches for traditional Christian values perceived to be aligned with the Republican Party ….
Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: The One Who Receives Me
Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – John 13:16-20 – 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 18 I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled, `He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ …
Women Are Having Fewer Kids Because They Don’t Want Them, by Matt Boose
By Matt Boose, Chronicles – Mothers provide not only sustenance and affection but moral and religious formation. You can’t place a monetary value on this kind of work. It is indispensable labor, labor which a feminist society wants literally anyone but mothers to perform. It has largely shifted to strangers, iPads, or possibly reluctant (hopefully, loving) grandparents… Feminism punched a giant hole in nature’s safety net, and what’s left is a sad patchwork. There is a quiet understanding that this arrangement cannot be disturbed but must simply be made more manageable so women can pursue their careers. …
Supreme Court Unanimously Stops Democrats From Harassing Pro-Life Pregnancy Center
By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled in favor of a pro-life pregnancy center fighting harassment from Democrat state officials… The high court ruled that a pro-life pregnancy center can challenge in federal court a sweeping subpoena from New Jersey’s attorney general demanding the identities of its financial supporters and other internal records… In First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the unanimous court that the New Jersey pro-life group has standing to bring its First Amendment claim. …
Supreme Court Smacks Down Rampant Race-Based Gerrymandering, by Shawn Fleetwood
By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – ‘Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 … was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it,’ wrote Justice Alito… The U.S. Supreme Court released a bombshell ruling on Wednesday significantly curtailing states’ use of race in the redistricting process… “Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 … was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court’s §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids,” Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority (6-3). …
REPORT: Biden Administration Secretly Funneled $90M to Planned Parenthood, by Nancy Flanders
By Nancy Flanders, Live Action – According to The Daily Wire, the Biden administration used the code word “Benghazi” to ensure Planned Parenthood kept $90 million in small business loans that it wrongly accepted during the COVID-19 pandemic… During the COVID-19 pandemic, the SBA gave loans to small businesses and Planned Parenthood ‘self-certified’ itself as a small business to receive loans… Planned Parenthood received $90 million in SBA loans, but was later deemed ineligible by the SBA and was told it would need to repay the loans. It never did. …
Today’s Saint: St. Catherine of Siena, April 30
By Bellarmine Forum – By Bellarmine Forum – St. Catherine of Siena (1380). … CATHERINE, the daughter of a humble tradesman, was raised up to be the guide and guardian of the Church in one of the darkest periods of its history, the fourteenth century. As a child, prayer was her delight. She would say the “Hail Mary” on each step as she mounted the stairs, and was granted in reward a vision of Christ in glory. …
‘Benghazi:’ The Illegal Lengths Democrats Took to Kill Kids, by Aubrey Harris
By Aubrey Harris, The American Spectator – Don’t ignore behavior you don’t want repeated… Planned Parenthood isn’t doing well… Some 50 clinics closed in just the last year, including in states where abortion is still legal. It’s probably just as well because, according to the New York Times, patients at PP have experienced botched abortions, misplaced IUDs, and sewage leaking into recovery rooms… The organization and its affiliates blame funding issues on the Trump administration’s recent moves to cut the federal flow of cash by refusing to cover the organization under Medicare. That’s not quite accurate ….
Our Disintegrating Society, by Eric Sammons
By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine – The latest assassination attempt on President Trump is shocking only in that it is no longer shocking. Every American should be alarmed at what happened at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner this past Saturday, yet what prevails instead is a “ho-hum” attitude, as if violence against our political leaders—especially against Trump or anyone associated with him—is almost expected at this point.
Spiritual Motherhood: The Unexpected Gift of Surrendering to God’s Plan, by Constance T. Hull
By Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange – On a warm spring evening recently, I stood outside the entryway to the chapel on campus while one of my students said good-bye to me. When I first started in campus ministry, he was the one I was most worried about. He was withdrawn, overwhelmed, and barely spoke to me the first semester of my ministry back in Spring 2025. Now there he stood, thanking me for everything I had done to help him over the course of the last 1.5 years. …
You Are Invited: One Day Retreat with Kevin Wells on May 12, 2026
By The Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana, The Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana – You’re invited to an exclusive one day retreat with award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and renowned Catholic speaker, KEVIN WELLS!
Pope Leo XIV Rejects Homosexual Unions, Yet Liberalism Continues to Guide the Holy See, by Augustine Franer
By Augustine Franer, Crisis Magazine – With regard to sexual matters, contrary to the pope’s analysis of the situation, nothing could be more important in facing today’s great evils. Disobedience to the commandments of God and nature regarding sexuality are at the root of the moral decay of Western civilization, the civilization the Catholic Church has had the greatest hand in constructing. Abortion, divorce, fornication, homosexuality, gender dysphoria, pornography—not to mention other evils that can be very nearly linked to these, including religious indifferentism and scandalous hypocrisy leading people away from the Church—are all caused directly or indirectly by a neglect of God’s commandments regarding sexuality.
Bullet Points and Blind Spots, by Itxu Díaz
By Itxu Díaz, The American Spectator – From left-wing leaders, we’ve once again seen reactions of condemnation with conditional nuances, almost apologizing to their supporters for condemning the attack. Without realizing it, they aren’t really condemning the violence against Trump, but rather seem to be hoping the next shooter isn’t so clumsy… It’s fascinating to read accounts of the shooting in the progressive press. Almost all of them talk about a mysterious “climate of political violence,” only to end up blaming Trump for his own assassination attempt.
Catholic Bishops’ Empty Moralizing, by R. R. Reno
By R. R. Reno, First Things – The USCCB(s) made an ill-considered intervention in the legal battle over birthright citizenship. After taking office in 2025, Donald Trump issued an executive order stipulating that those in residence in the United States illegally are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S., and thus their children do not qualify for birthright citizenship. The executive order was challenged in court. The Supreme Court will soon rule on the issue (Trump v. Barbara). The USCCB submitted an amicus brief in the case, urging the court to rule against Trump’s executive order.
‘LUDICROUS’: Rabbi Slams Latest Attempt to Defend SPLC Paying Klan Members, by Tyler O’Neil
By Tyler O’Neil, Senior Editor, Daily Signal – Jewish groups have used paid informants to protect synagogues from antisemitic violence, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has claimed that it was funding KKK members for similar reasons, but a group that represents 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is crying foul… Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges for sending money to members of the very white supremacist groups the center claims it exists to dismantle.
Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: The One Who Receives Me
Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – John 13:16-20 – 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 18 I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled, `He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ …
Founder’s Quote
Patriot Post – “The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of its political cares.” —Alexander Hamilton (1787)
Today’s Saint: St. Catherine of Siena, April 30
By Bellarmine Forum – By Bellarmine Forum – St. Catherine of Siena (1380). … CATHERINE, the daughter of a humble tradesman, was raised up to be the guide and guardian of the Church in one of the darkest periods of its history, the fourteenth century. As a child, prayer was her delight. She would say the “Hail Mary” on each step as she mounted the stairs, and was granted in reward a vision of Christ in glory. …






