By Elise Winland. Zeale News – Israel pushed deeper into Lebanon than it has in decades and announced new strikes in the country. Trump also said U.S. talks with Iran were still ongoing, despite Iranian reports that Tehran suspended negotiations because of Israel’s offensive… In a Truth Social post, Trump said he had a “very productive call” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “there will be no Troops going to Beirut.” He said any troops en route to Lebanon had “already been turned back.”

By Samuel Gregg, The American Spectator – In economic terms, Europe’s importance is diminishing by the year, whereas the U.S. economy, for all its problems, continues to streak ahead. And although America has plenty of political difficulties, they pale next to those of many European countries, where accelerating bureaucratization and out-of-control welfare spending are steadily crippling the ability of political leaders to reform their economies, let alone tackle the cultural and political challenges associated with severely mismanaged immigration policies.

By Francis X. Rocca, National Catholic Register – By contrast, Olah told the Pope from the dais, AI systems “are not the cold, calculating robots we were promised,” but more like fictional characters come to life. He said that he and his colleagues who are studying AI models “find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief and unease.”

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Mark 12:13-17 – 13 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to entrap him in his talk. 14 And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? 15 Should we pay them, or should we not?” But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test?

By Elise Winland, Zeale News – Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, signed a resolution designating June 2026 as “Nuclear Family Month” in the state, declaring that the nuclear family — defined as one husband, one wife, and their children — is “God’s perfect design for humanity… Lee signed the measure, HJR 182, on April 9. It states that the nuclear family has “been the bedrock of society since the creation of the world” and has served as the “basic building block of Tennessee’s society throughout her formative years” and helped foster prosperity within the U.S.

By Fr. Eric J. Banecker, Catholic World Report – Midtown brought its usual array of professionals in business casual attire and AirPods. When I was in high school, one of the assistant principals would encourage us to look at the faces of people on their way to work. He said it would tell you a lot about whether they like their jobs or not. He said this to encourage us to choose a career that we really enjoyed, and that also benefited others. As I looked at the faces of the people on the Avenue of the Americas—many right around my age—I had to wonder if they had the gnawing sense that they had chosen incorrectly …

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine – Fr. Alex was only an infant when his father was killed in war. He and his mother, defrauded of the means of support available to them, were driven into the brush, where they were forced to survive with virtually nothing but themselves. He lived there until the age of seventeen… When he was eleven, his mother could find no more odd jobs. She told the boy Alex that she could no longer afford to send him to school, where he had been an A-student. In the years that followed, Alex fell into a deep sadness. …

By Andrew Peach, Catholic Exchange – Thérèse of Lisieux is justly famous for her “little way” of practicing “little virtues”—“making some small sacrifice” and “always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.” Catholic ethics teachers should also follow the “little way,” urging students to fight for the daily good with seriousness and rigor… The first half of my course covered the philosophical and theological underpinnings of Catholic ethics—anthropology, divine revelation, natural law, the natural and theological virtues, the parts of the moral act, and so on.

By Liberty Counsel, (LifeNews) – The study, released last week by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), found that 64 drug sellers (81 percent of online vendors) are willing to dispense Mifepristone to women beyond the FDA’s 10-week gestational limit for the drug. The report also noted that 10 companies are violating federal law by selling “unapproved and misbranded abortion drugs” while eight online-only vendors are violating the federal Comstock Act and state abortion bans by shipping the drugs into pro-life states. …

By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine – the Vatican’s attention economy contributes to the idea that belief or practice X is widespread enough that X can appear to the faithful (or even the hierarchy) as something definitively Catholic, without it actually being a permanent or even important part of the Church’s faith. This overwhelming focus on the papacy distracts Catholics from all the beautiful sources of the Christian Faith that can help us through this vale of sorrow, denying us the spiritual riches of the great Tradition that originally attracted some of us to the Catholic Church in the first place.

By Alden Abbott, The Catholic Thing – But good moral ends do not guarantee sound economic means. The encyclical criticizes market economics for allowing profit, technological efficiency, and concentrated ownership to outrun solidarity. It warns that automation may displace workers, data may become an instrument of control, and the benefits of innovation may be captured by a narrow elite… It therefore calls for stronger public oversight, redistributive taxation, social criteria for innovation, protection of workers, and regulation of AI and data so that economic life becomes more inclusive from the beginning rather than corrected after the fact. …

By Paul Gottfried, Chronicles – In April, I listened to Greg Gutfeld on Fox News’ The Five explain to his colleagues, who nodded in agreement, that the RNC should carefully avoid bringing up social questions in Ken Paxton’s battle with James Talarico. If Republicans don’t heed this advice, he said, they would be acting foolishly and could lose in November. The focus in the Senate race should be on the cost of living, because that’s what the voters care about most, and presumably that’s what they should care about most… These talking heads, it would seem, have no problem surrendering moral and social issues to the woke left. …

By Angeline Tan, LiveAction – US marriage rates have dropped drastically over the past five decades, and a new Heritage Foundation report found that the main causes of marriage decline are cultural changes toward sexuality and childbirth outside of marriage, together with escalating financial and lifestyle expectations linked to marriage… Though earnings for men in their 20s and 30s have remained stable, marriage rates have plummeted, weakening the argument that poor economics are responsible for the decline. …

Catholic Culture – Justin, the son of Priscus, was a Greek by race, and was born at Nablus in Palestine. He passed his youth in the study of letters. When he grew to manhood he was so taken with the love of philosophy and the desire of truth, that he became a student of philosphy and examined the teaching of all the philosophers. He found in them only deceitful wisdom and error. He received the light of heaven from a venerable old man, who was a stranger to him, and embraced the philosophy of the true Christian faith.

By Mary Rose, Zeale News – President Donald Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV’s meeting with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on May 30… (Trump wrote) the mayor is “useless” and reiterating his opposition to Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon… “Someone should explain to the Pope that the Mayor of Chicago is useless, and that Iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon!” Trump wrote, attaching screenshots of social media posts showing Johnson with the Pontiff… As Zeale News reported, Johnson met privately with Pope Leo at the Vatican on May 28, where the two discussed social justice issues. The mayor also invited the Chicago-born pontiff to visit the city in 2027 and celebrate Mass in Grant Park.