By Kate Quiñones, Catholic News Agency – Evangelist and theologian Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s response to modern culture continues to resonate today, according to those who have studied his life… Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895–1979) was an award-winning radio and television personality who, amid fame and success, kept Christ at the center of his life… Now, he’s on the path to sainthood, with the Vatican recently announcing that his beatification — the second of three major steps in the canonization process — will be moving forward following a six-year delay.

By Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, EWTN News – Rooted in first principles, these students are reshaping campus debates through moral courage rather than outrage… There is a new kind of radical on college campuses today, and they look nothing like what we have come to expect… They are not barricading buildings or shouting down speakers. They are not demanding the overthrow of institutions or vilifying those who disagree with them. Instead, they are challenging institutional decisions and the dominant culture of their peers while living according to their deepest Christian beliefs. …

By Carole Novielli, Live Action News – The State of Louisiana faced off against the FDA in a US District Court this week over mail-order access to the abortion pill. The State is seeking a preliminary injunction against the FDA’s 2023 REMS safety protocol changes, which included the removal of in-person dispensing requirements for the abortion pill mifepristone (200mg)… The State argues that allowing the abortion pill to be dispensed via the mail violates the Comstock Act, causes sovereign harm by facilitating illegal abortions, and causes economic harm by increasing Louisiana’s Medicaid costs. …

By Daniel Payne, EWTN News – A pro-abortion professor at the University of Notre Dame is turning down a leadership appointment there after weeks of backlash that included more than a dozen U.S. bishops criticizing the school for its decision… Mary Gallagher, the dean of the university’s Keough School of Global Affairs, wrote in an email on Feb. 26 that Professor Susan Ostermann “has decided not to move forward as director” of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.

By Benjamin M. Osborne, Chronicles – The media instantly framed the Supreme Court’s recent tariff ruling as a decisive curb on presidential trade authority. Yet President Trump rejected that interpretation within hours, telling reporters that the decision actually clarified and strengthened his tariff power. His reasoning was not mere bravado. Read carefully, the opinion does not deny presidential tariff authority. It rejects only one statutory pathway. Everything else remains in play… Justice Kavanaugh’s dissent makes this clear. His argument is straightforward: tariffs have historically served as instruments of import regulation, not merely as a means of raising revenue. …

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International – Isadora Borges is a 34-year-old veterinary student from Paraíba, Brazil. She is not a politician, a lobbyist, or the leader of any protest movement. She is simply a young woman who, in November 2020, posted two comments on X stating what the vast majority of human beings have always understood: that a person born male is male, and that no surgery, hormone, or change of clothing alters that biological fact.

By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine – If you are not following Jeff Childers, you are missing out!… We are living in a Golden Age of long-form punditry. Of course, this started with the advent of the Internet and blogging, but it has just gotten better and better. Imagine back in the day when newspapers and magazines were the gatekeepers for matters of policy and opinion. An awful lot of very smart people were not heard, except maybe in the letters to the editor.

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing – Lent is in full swing now. If you are like me, you enter this season full of determination and enthusiasm: My prayer will be deeper. My penance will be purer. My almsgiving will be richer. And may it well be so for all of us!… But if you are like me, you also know that the Lenten journey doesn’t always finish with the same fervor with which it began. I can remember Lents – more than I care to admit – in which my best laid plans for fasting or scheduled prayer were soon derailed.

Catholic Apostolate Center – St. Gabriel Possenti was born in 1838 in Italy and spent much of his teenage years pursuing girls and social recognition. After great tragedy struck his family at the end of his teenage years, he decided to enter the Passionists because of his new devotion to Christ in the Passion. He took the name Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows because his own grief led to a growing devotion to the sorrows of Mary. …

By Gary A. Anderson, Church Life Journal, University of Notre Dame – It would be hard to overemphasize the importance of Psalm 51 in the history of Christian spirituality. In Dante’s Divine Comedy it is referred to by simply citing its first word, miserere (“have mercy on me”).[1] Or consider its place in the Liturgy of Hours. This is the cycle of prayers that is obligatory for priests and religious but is also said by many lay persons. Its basic structure is built around a four-week rotation of Psalms. None of them are repeated except for Psalm 51, which is read every Friday morning.

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report – We do not obey the bishop because we like him, or because he’s always right in his decisions, but because he is the one who has received the care of the Church and acts on behalf of Christ in our diocese. To obey God, we must obey all those placed in lawful authority over us. The communion of the Church continues in the world because God has placed a head over it, maintaining its integrity through its teaching, sacraments, and governance… To those who abide in this communion, who observe all that Christ has commanded, he gives the assurance: “Lo, I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).

By Auguste Meyrat, Crisis Magazine – It is highly unlikely that any Catholic Democrat would even entertain such an effort. But for Catholics who really do worry about their brothers and sisters around the world suffering persecution, deprivation, and constant strife, they should start considering what they can do personally and stop trying to foist unsustainable burdens onto their countrymen. If the calling is strong and persistent, God might be asking them to serve as missionaries or as the patrons of missionaries, not to engage in nihilistic agitation to erase borders and invite barbarism.

By Fr. John A. Perricone, Crisis Magazine – ’Tis a pity when a word dies. It is conceived in the womb of a certain culture, and it gestates in that culture until its meaning is set as firmly as the facets of a diamond. Words then become the privileged communication of truth to other men. If reckless men begin assigning different meanings to words, different from the meanings that they have borne over time immemorial, human communication comes to a halt. One man will mean one thing, still another man something completely different. Manipulating words weakens a culture, casts it into a spiral of disequilibrium. Chaos results.

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal – In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump tapped Vance to lead the “war on fraud” throughout the country… Vance announced the first move in this war on Wednesday—withholding reimbursements for $259.5 million in Medicaid funds for Minnesota pending investigation… “The providers on the ground in Minnesota have actually already been paid. The state has paid those providers the money,” Vance said. “What we’re doing is we are stopping the federal payments that will go to the state government until the state government takes its obligations seriously to stop the fraud that’s being perpetrated against the American taxpayer.”

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Matthew 7:7-12 – 7 “Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! …