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.

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.

By Elizabeth Weiss, Zeale – A Christian pastor was recently arrested by British police while preaching the Gospel on a public street of Watford, England, on suspicion of a public order offense, according to reports… Pastor Steve Maile, a prominent evangelical figure, was arrested April 18 in front of his wife and children and was reportedly interrogated for hours in police custody before being released on three months’ bail, according to Britannia Daily. He said the experience left him “brutalized” and “victimized” by the police.

By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – So what on earth does Benghazi have to do with abortion factory Planned Parenthood? It appears to be the codename for cover-up involving some $90 million in taxpayer-funded Covid-era forgivable loans to a nonprofit organization ineligible to receive the government handout… Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is asking the Department of Justice to open an investigation into why President Joe Biden’s Small Business Administration used “Benghazi” in the subject lines of internal communications regarding the funding. …

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – As I write, the Supreme Governor of the Church of England is addressing a joint session of the US Congress. But don’t expect any uproar about unconstitutional efforts to establish a state religion… King Charles has not come to our shores to establish a religion. Any questions about his authority to establish anything in these former colonies was settled 250 years ago, and he has shown no interest in relitigating the matter. Instead he has come to remind our legislators of the “special relationship” that exists between the US and the UK. …

By Catholic Online – St. Catherine of Siena was born during the outbreak of the plague in Siena, Italy on March 25, 1347. She was the 25th child born to her mother, although half of her brothers and sisters did not survive childhood. Catherine herself was a twin, but her sister did not survive infancy. Her mother was 40 when she was born. Her father was a cloth dyer… At the age of 16, Catherine’s sister, Bonaventura, died, leaving her husband as a widower. Catherine’s parents proposed that he marry Catherine as a replacement, but Catherine opposed this. She began fasting and cut her hair short to mar her appearance.

By Mike LaChance, The Gateway Pundit – During a recent episode of his radio show, Scott Jennings of CNN examined some of the rhetoric surrounding the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, in which a crazed school teacher rushed the event in an effort to kill Trump and members of his team, and concluded that we have a left-wing violence problem in America… It is impossible to disagree… Some days, it actually feels like we are already engaged in a sort of civil war, where the bullets are only flying from one direction. The left has acted out in violence so many times over the last decade that it is starting to seem normal, which is not good. …

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – John 12:44-50 – 44 And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. 45 And he who sees me sees him who sent me. 46 I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. 47 If any one hears my sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. …

By Breccan F. Thies, The Federalist – Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey has been indicted by the Justice Department on charges related to an apparent threat, “86 47,” posted to social media in May 2025… Comey is charged with “knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of, or inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States and knowingly and willfully transmitting a communication in interstate and foreign commerce that contained a threat to kill President Donald Trump,” the indictment states.

By M.C. Holbrook, Catholic Exchange – In the biography of St. Catherine, we hear that this holy saint once complained to God with sorrow and frustration that her prayers and offerings could not prevent the loss of salvation for certain souls. In her great anguish, God responded with perhaps the most famous quote of all time attributed to her Dialogue with the Lord: “Daughter, thou art she who is not. I am He who is.” …

By Edward Pentin, Substack – Mullally, like all her Anglican predecessors, does not possess valid orders. She leads a community separated from Rome that has drifted further from Catholic teaching, particularly over the past sixty years since the historic meeting of Paul VI and her predecessor Michael Ramsey. Her recent appointment as the first female archbishop of Canterbury only reinforces the judgment of Leo XIII in Apostolicae Curae (1896), which declared Anglican orders “absolutely null and utterly void.”… Yet throughout her visit, Rome received Mullally — who has described herself in the past as “pro-choice rather than pro-life” and supports blessings for same-sex couples — with an enthusiasm that conveyed precisely the opposite impression. …

By Alberto M. Fernandez, EWTN News – An attempted attack on the WHCDs’ Dinner points to a deeper trend: In a polarized West, violence is becoming thinkable again… The infatuation today with revolutionary violence is not limited to words. Cole Allen — the 31-year-old teacher and Caltech graduate who attempted to shoot up the WHCD in an effort to target the U.S. president and senior Trump administration officials on April 25 — seems to have been steeped in the online fever swamps of anti-Trumpism. He had moved from social-media posting on Bluesky and protests to traveling across the country to try to commit murder. …

By Scott McKay,  The American Spectator – On Wednesday of last week, Hakeem Temu Obama Jeffries, the hand-talking cretin who serves as the Democrats’ leader in the House of Representatives, declared after the Virginia gerrymandering bill passed by a close margin (before being immediately blocked by a judge based on its manifest legal infirmities) that his party was to engage in “Maximum Warfare, Everywhere, All The Time” against President Trump, the Republican Party and its supporters.

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International – On March 24, Jocelyn Downie, a leading activist for assisted suicide and euthanasia, and professor emerita at Dalhousie University, appeared before Canada’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying… There, she urged legislators to proceed with the planned 2027 expansion of so-called medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to individuals whose sole underlying medical condition is mental illness. If the Canadian government does not legalize euthanasia for the mentally ill, she said, the mentally ill will just kill themselves anyway. …

By Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop Emeritus, Pillars of Faith – Christ has not abandoned His Church… Because the Eucharist is the true representation of the Sacrifice of Calvary, the priest stands in the person of Christ the Bridegroom, who offers Himself for His Bride, the Church. This nuptial mystery is not symbolic – it is sacramental and real. Any gesture that obscures this truth, or blurs the distinction between valid Holy Orders and those communities that do not possess them, risks weakening the faithful’s understanding of the Eucharist itself. …