By Bradley Shumaker, National Catholic Register – In our modern-day secular world and within popular culture, the term “supernatural” often has a non-religious connotation that, to some people, is associated primarily with ghosts and hauntings. The truth, however, is much more profound. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) clarifies that the supernatural is that which surpasses “the power of created beings.”

By Catholic World News – The costs of the clerical abuse scandal in the United States soared 82% in the July 2024—June 2025 reporting year, to $483,534,316, according to the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection… The USCCBs recently released the annual report mandated by the bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, adopted in 2002. The report found that the total cost of the scandal to American dioceses—including settlements, other payments to victims, support for offenders, attorneys’ fees, and other costs—increased 61% between 2023-24 and 2024-25 ….

By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine – Postliberalism represents a modern ideological shift, moving beyond the conventional liberal emphasis on individual freedom and neutrality toward a society shaped by specific, state-endorsed values. This framework rejects the classical liberal idea of a neutral public sphere, where a variety of ideas can coexist with minimal state interference. Instead, it advocates for a political structure where the state and society collaborate to promote particular moral goals.

By Paul Suski, Catholic Exchange – June is a month especially dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is the time when we give particular honor to the humility, love, and mercy of Our Blessed Lord, who died in atonement for our sins… Among the many Polish hymns sung on this occasion, one that Alicja surely knew by heart after singing it hundreds of times begins with these words: Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make our hearts like unto Thine! …

By Breccan F. Thies, The Federalist – The United States has shut down multiple birth tourism networks across Europe and Africa, the State Department announced Wednesday, stating, “No foreigner is permitted to obtain a visitor visa for the primary purpose of acquiring U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the U.S.”… According to the State Department, the networks have been trying to ship hundreds of pregnant foreign nationals into the United States homeland so they can give birth there and gain citizenship for the child.

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing – The bishops of the United States are gathered in Orlando, Florida this week for the USCCB’s annual June meeting. The conference’s June meetings are generally more low-key than the November plenaries in Baltimore. … If there is an aspect to this June meeting which is likely to garner attention, it is this: This evening, June 11, 2026, the bishops of the United States will gather in the Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe in Orlando and consecrate the United States of America to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. …

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine – (Larry) grew up thick-muscled and hard-working in the heavy winter snows of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. After earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Indiana University of Pennsylvania—when the last of the steel companies began to die—Larry and a college friend drove through the Allegheny Mountains to find a new life in Maryland… He met Tiffany at a Pasadena ice cream stand. They fell in love, married, and raised a humble baseball player, Nate, and Rachel, the daughter who became the apple of his eye. …

By Leila Joy Castillo, Catholic Exchange – Two popes referred to him as influential enough to be a Doctor of the Church in the twentieth-century. He converted to the faith at age 25, fled Germany because his courageous criticism made him number one on Hitler’s target list, and taught at Fordham University in New York for two decades. His name was Dietrich von Hildebrand… Dietrich von Hildebrand lived from 1889-1977. His expansive philosophy covered ethics, moral life, aesthetics, love, and much more—even shaping the Church’s stance on marriage, sexuality, and contraception.

By Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop Emeritus, Pillars of Faith – There is a passage in Scripture that has troubled me for many years. It is a passage that becomes more unsettling the older I get and the more I watch the world around me… Our Lord says: “For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive – if possible – even the elect” (Matthew 24:24)… Not sinners. Not unbelievers. Not those who have rejected God. The elect. Those who sincerely desire to follow Him. Those who pray. Those who go to church. Those who believe themselves faithful. …

By Dom Cingoranelli, Catholic Stand – Good manners have a significant spiritual aspect to them. Our outward movements—our behaviors—are directable by our reason. Through our reason we can eliminate, add or build on patterns of behavior. And creating patterns of good behavior—building virtue—is something we all need to work on. Our children need guidance to help them create good and virtuous patterns of behavior, including good manners. Scripture tells us: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)

By Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J., iCatholicRadio, “Faith in a Time of Crisis” – On May 18th, 2026, Father McTeigue gave a speech on “Faith in a Time of Crisis” at St. Gregory the Great in Buffalo, NY. Enjoy!

By Hannah Bates, The Federalist – In recent months, there has been no shortage of horror stories illustrating just how dangerous the surrogacy industry is for children. From same-sex couples with children charged with rape and sexual abuse to Chinese billionaires mail-ordering tiny U.S. citizens, the tragedies stack up as surrogacy use proliferates. Now a new pair of bills seeks to close the loopholes that enable the surrogacy industry and its abuse of both children and immigration laws.

By Patti Maguire Armstrong, National Catholic Register – Reflections on death draw us away from the world and deeper into the spiritual realm. The world has a strong gravitational pull on both the mind and the heart, which can lead to forgetting that the most important existence is yet to come. Christians don’t really ever forget that, yet the day-to-day can interfere with right balance between the visible and invisible.

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Matthew 5:17-19 – 17 “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away,not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. 19 Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven …

By Daniel McCarthy, NY Post – … Pope Leo called for “safe and legal pathways, a respectful welcome and real opportunities for integration” for migrants and refugees… Even when invoking “the right to remain in one’s own land,” the pope framed the issue as “working to ensure that no one has to leave their home due to lack of peace, security or decent living conditions, including economic inequalities and the effects of the climate crisis.”… Those last words are the stinger: A pope’s message will always include peace and compassion for the poor, but economic inequality and climate catastrophism are characteristically left-wing preoccupations. …