By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine – The president seems to be surprised that Catholics of all stripes are rushing to defend Pope Leo from his odd attacks… On Tuesday he went after Giorgia Meloni of Italy. She said his attacks on Leo were “unacceptable.” He said, “She’s unacceptable. She’s unacceptable because she doesn’t mind that Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if they had the chance.”

By Amanda Head, Just the News – Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, has disclosed to Just The News that the House of Representatives, where President Donald Trump was impeached during his first term over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is moving to expunge that impeachment from the congressional record… “You need a majority vote, we need a bill, and it’s actually something we’re looking at,” Jordan told Just The News.

By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange – Isn’t it interesting that when Jesus appeared to two “downcast” (Lk. 24:17) disciples on Resurrection Day, He didn’t do the very thing that would have broken through their despair—identify Himself?  Why were these men traveling away from Jerusalem?  Surely it was because Jesus’ death there had deeply disappointed them.  They had been “hoping that He would be the one to redeem Israel” …

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – John 6:1-15 – 1 After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 2 And a multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he did on those who were diseased. 3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there sat down with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a multitude was coming to him, Jesus said to Philip, “How are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” …

By Fr. Jerry J. Pokorsky, Catholic Answers – … even the worst of times cannot extinguish our obligation for patriotism, which struggles against national suicide… Patriotism is a form of piety—the acknowledgment that we owe our gratitude to God, our family, and our nation for the gift of life and sustenance. We owe our lives to God, our parents, and to a country that provides the soil and cultural structures for communal living. Piety—and, deriving from it, patriotism—renders the affection and loyalty due to our benefactors. Patriotism is indispensable to our love of God and neighbor. …

By: Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – “Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government,” Thomas said. “It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights.”

By Craig Bannister, LifeNews – A new Justice Department (DOJ) report details specific ways the Biden Administration weaponized its law enforcement arm to persecute pro-life individuals and organizations… Titled “The Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act,” the report released Tuesday presents the findings of the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group’s review of more than 700,000 internal records and provides more than 800 pages of exhibits documenting abuse of federal law enforcement power.

By Catholic Culture, April 17, 2026 – St. Robert was born in 1027 near Troyes, Champagne, France, of noble birth. At age 17 he entered the Benedictine Abbey Montier-la-Celle, quickly rising to be prior of the abbey. He was made Abbot of Saint-Michel-de-Tonnerre in 1070, but considered it to have lax standards and the monks were quarrelsome, so he returned to Montiers-la-Celle. The same year he was placed over the priory Prior of Saint-Ayeul Abbey, which was connected to Montiers-la-Celle.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture – During Lent this year, I emphasized the need to not consider the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as a mere motive of credibility, that is, an attractive concept or circumstance which might predispose us to accept the Christian religion (see The Resurrection: Mere attraction to truth is not enough). Rather the Resurrection is the basis of our faith, and the fundamental fact that conditions our spiritual existence.

By Samantha Kamman, (The Christian Post), The Washington Stand – In a statement provided to The Christian Post, Brave Books noted that, in 2022, the Nation’s Report Card revealed that only 13% of U.S. eighth-grade students performed at or above the NAEP Proficient level, a 2-point drop from 2018… “It’s unfortunately something that happens in a lot of countries before they fall,” Carson told CP in an interview. “They neglect their history, or they allow their history to be rewritten.”… “We have an incredible history with this country, from a bunch of ragtag militiamen to the pinnacle of the world in record time” …

By Christopher Tremoglie, The Washington Examiner – Much has been made about the recent social media post made by President Donald Trump criticizing Pope Leo XIV as being “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.” In typical Trump-responsive fashion, many expressed outrage at the gall of the president to criticize the leader of the Catholic Church. Political charlatans rebuked Trump, accusing him of many false things that accompany hyperbolic and senseless condemnations predicated on emotional outbursts and not facts or reality.

By Fr Richard Heilman, Roman Catholic Man – To those who faithfully follow Our Lady’s requests for the Five First Saturdays, she has made a wonderful promise which she, as Mediatrix of All Graces, will certainly fulfill: “I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation.” This means that our Blessed Mother will be present at the hour of death with the actual grace of final perseverance, (which after the gift/grace of Faith), is the most important grace.

By Mike McCormick, Substack, “Midnight in the Laptop of Good and Evil” – Pope Leo, CBS and Cardinal McElroy can’t admit to the unholy BILLIONS the cartels earned for the Vatican under Biden… When President Trump states Pope Leo is “weak on crime,” he’s talking about how the Vatican and its media pals are concealing the drug smuggling and human trafficking conspiracy they entered into with Joe Biden and his cartel associates… Cardinal Robert McElroy is an evil man disguised as a Catholic cardinal. Here are the unreported facts—except by me—about his crime of conspiracy as indicated in the Grok assessment I requested of how much government assistance his San Diego diocese pulled in ….

Catholic Culture – St. Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879). Bernadette, the oldest of six children, was born in Lourdes, France, in 1844. At the age of 14, between 11 February 1858 and 16 July 1858, Bernadette had 18 visions of the Immaculate Conception in a local grotto near the bank of the River Gave, near Lourdes. During the visions, Mary requested prayer and penitence, asked for the construction of a new church, and led Bernadette to a freshwater spring believed to have miraculous healing powers.

By Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal – Two mothers who lost their sons and another whose daughter remains permanently injured will testify before Congress on Thursday about how these tragedies—each involving illegal aliens—could have been prevented through stricter enforcement of immigration law… This forum could be uncomfortable for House Democrats who oppose enforcing immigration laws, said Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, which is holding the hearing.