By Kathy Schiffer, Catholic World Report – When pizza magnate Tom Monaghan founded Legatus in 1987, its members had as their mission to “study, live and spread the Catholic faith” in their families, businesses, and communities… Today, almost 40 years later, that mission has attracted more than 5,500 Catholic business leaders and their spouses in more than 90 chapters across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, who gather each month for prayer and fellowship.

By Chris Jackson, Hiraeth In Exile, Substack – A Church that cannot speak with the authority of God eventually starts speaking with the voice of the age. The age currently wants climate liturgies, indigenous “wisdom,” migration talking points, and a priesthood domesticated into administration… So yes, the whale belongs in this story. It is not a random German eccentricity. It is a sacramental sign of the new religion, a religion that uses Catholic architecture as a shell while catechizing the faithful in a different gospel… And Aparecida, under an Amazon Synod archbishop, is the other half of the same picture: the revolution moving from the periphery to the shrine.

By Allen West, American Greatness – I have written and spoken on many occasions about the Marxist leftist enemy within our Republic and its persistent effort to capture the hearts and minds of American families through institutions such as PBS, NPR, MSNBC, and whatever rebranded iteration of progressive media emerges next. I have also written and spoken about the creeping advance of Sharia law advanced by the Muslim Brotherhood and the expansive ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party to shape a world ordered not by liberty, but by centralized control… Now we find ourselves confronting a convergence of these forces. The Red-Green alliance is real. ….

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal – Jack Fowler: Victor, your thoughts if we don’t take action because Iran is, despite what happened a few months ago, the bombing of the enrichment and the nuclear facilities, they are constructing new facilities even deeper in some other mountain. But is there any doubt in your mind that if Iran goes unchecked for the next months or years, that there will not be a catastrophe from them having nuclear capability?

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – Here’s a ghoulish statistic from Ontario’s “Medical Assistance in Dying” program: In 2023, more than 200 people who applied to the program were dead within 36 hours. For 65 people, the state program provided same-day service… Think about it: If you’re sick and suffering—or if you’re just suffering from a severe bout of depression—you can end it all, more or less immediately. You won’t have time (on his earth, anyway) to regret it. …

By Edward Pentin, Rome correspondent for EWTN’s National Catholic Register – Mr. Artiglieri, do you believe that the smear campaign started by the Soviets against Pius XII has been successful and that he will always be portrayed negatively in relation to the Nazis?… (ANSWER) I believe that, with regard to the “black legend” surrounding the figure of Pius XII, a distinction must be made between two levels: the scientific level and that of popular dissemination.

By Fr. Joseph Gill, Crisis Magazine – Just when we thought the world couldn’t become any more dystopian, enter Rent-a-Human. This AI platform allows Artificial Intelligence to hire humans (whom they call “meatware”) to do real-life tasks that AI cannot accomplish. The tasks (called “bounties”) are paid in cryptocurrency, and they have ranged from holding a sign stating, “An AI paid me to hold this sign,” to counting pigeons in a public park, to delivering food. But all of these bounties are completely initiated, designed, and paid for entirely by Artificial Intelligence. …

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – On Wednesday, police in Fairfax County, Virginia arrested and charged an illegal alien with more than 30 previous arrests who has been in the U.S. for 14 years, despite a final order of removal, with the murder of 41 year-old Stephanie Minter… Minter was murdered at a bus stop on Monday, February 23, two days before the illegal alien suspect’s arrest, the Fairfax County Police Department reports ….

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing – Nuclear weapons, like other modern technological developments, have placed great strains on traditional moral principles. Just as modern medicine has changed our appreciation of the beginning and end of human life, the tremendous destructive power of modern weapons, nuclear and not, has made careful thought about war not only urgent, but – to use the fashionable term – existential…. That’s probably the main reason why the Vatican has seemed quasi-pacifist in recent decades. But the Church has a well-developed set of criteria about just and unjust uses of force. Indeed, in the past, it even – rightly – called for crusades.

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal – The suspect gunman who killed two people at a bar in Texas early Sunday was wearing a hoodie that said “Property of Allah,” and another shirt with an Iranian flag design, the Associated Press confirmed… The mass shooter that left two dead and 14 others wounded has been identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne. Diagne was naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Senegal and lived in Pflugerville, Texas… According to the FBI, the shooting was “potentially an act of terrorism.” FBI agent Alex Doran told reporters on Sunday “there were indicators on the subject, and in his vehicle, that indicate a potential nexus to terrorism.”

By Gary Bauer, Patriot Post – “A few DHS staff had installed spying software on the phones and computers of myself and other political hires,” Kristi Noem has revealed… Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem made a shocking announcement Thursday. She said: “Performing my role as Secretary of Homeland Security has shown me just how real and dangerous the deep state really is. Elon Musk helped us find that a few DHS staff had installed spying software on the phones and computers of myself and other political hires.”

By McKenna Snow, Zeale – The FBI is investigating a shooting that killed two people and injured 14 others at a bar in Austin, Texas, in the early hours of March 1 as a “potential act of terrorism,” according to AP News… A law enforcement official described the suspect as “wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and the words ‘Property of Allah,’” the outlet reported… In a March 1 press conference, Austin Police Department’ Police Chief Lisa Davis said the suspect initially drove in an SUV several times around the block near the bar, Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden, which is close to the University of Texas, right before 2 a.m. local time.

By Donald DeMarco, National Catholic Register – The internet, that great distorter of information, tells me that Cardinal Robert Sarah is “a member of the right wing of the Catholic Church.” An outsider might look at this and wonder if the Catholic Church is a hockey team with right and left wings. If it were, Cardinal Sarah would be the center, harboring the hope that his two defensemen and goalie would protect his team against enemy assault… I recall speaking with a priest, who refused to wear clerical attire, telling me that he is so “left wing” that even when he enters a movie theater he feels obliged to sit on the left. I did not respond at the time. Sometimes silence is the best expression of charity. .

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Luke 6:36-38 – 36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.37 “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; 38 give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”

By Rob Marco, Crisis Magazine – The always-online smartphone culture is training our brains to favor passive behaviors and lazy thinking… When my wife and I were young parents trying to survive the days of toddlerdom, we made a gross misstep. We had YouTube on the TV, and our kids discovered a channel called “Ryan ToysReview” which was essentially a three-year-old boy named Ryan “unboxing” and playing with toys on camera. I felt instant revulsion at both the kid and the whole schtick, but my kids were transfixed. I’d like to think we were alone as young parents in accepting scraps of respite in such a way, but I doubt it. ….