By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Senate Majority Leader John Thune hems and haws about getting the SAVE America Act to President Trump’s desk, his home state just showed him up by passing its own version of it… The South Dakota House of Representatives passed SB 175 on Wednesday. Much like the SAVE America Act, the SB 175 seeks to require documentary proof-of-citizenship for residents registering to vote. The House approved the measure in a veto-proof 64-3 vote after it successfully cleared the Senate (28-6) last month.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – In Indiana, a Marion County Superior Court judge issued a permanent injunction March 5 blocking enforcement of Indiana’s abortion ban on the outrageous claim that there is a so-called religious right to kill babies in abortions… The judge blocked the ban for a certified class of people who claim killing a baby in an abortion is an exercise of their religious beliefs… The ruling is prompting sharp criticism from pro-life advocates, who called the decision a perversion of religious freedom protections.

By Jim Graves, Catholic World Report – Bishop Francis Malone, 75, has served as Bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana, since 2020. Shreveport is the northernmost of the seven dioceses of Louisiana and serves nearly 40,000 Catholics. Shreveport borders Arkansas to its north, with Texas to the west and Mississippi to the east. While much of the southern region of Louisiana is Catholic, Shreveport has a large Baptist population.

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture – It’s going well so far, isn’t it? It always goes well. At first… Nevertheless, I wish he hadn’t done it… I am referring to President Trump’s decision to launch Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran that has, thus far, decapitated Iran’s leadership and damaged its missile infrastructure, naval forces, and military command systems so as to…well, to do what, exactly?… Don’t get me wrong. Some of my earliest political memories from my childhood are of the Iranian hostage crisis.

By Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop Emeritus, Pillars of Faith – There are moments in history when evil hides in shadows. And then there are moments when the shadows themselves begin to tear open and people see things that reveal how far a human soul can fall when it turns away from God… We are living in such a moment… Across the world, things are being revealed that many people once would have thought impossible – corruption intertwined with power, influence shielding crimes, institutions struggling to explain their silence while truths long buried begin to surface. …

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing – In one of the great ironies of linguistic history, the English word “bedlam,” suggesting frenzy, madness, chaos, and noise, comes from what was then the common British pronunciation of the sacred name Bethlehem, in the Hospital of Saint Mary in Bethlehem, a monastery dedicated in 1402 to the housing and treatment of lunatics.

By Mary Frances Devlin, The American Spectator – Personnel is policy — especially in the academy… The University of Notre Dame makes headlines at least once a year for reasons that fly in the face of the school’s Catholic identity, but the administration never seems to learn its lesson. Time and time again, they step on the same proverbial rake. This time, however, the incident that sparked national commentary was favorably resolved — for now, at least.

Catholic Apostolate Center – Sts. Perpetua and Felicity were martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church. Perpetua and Felicity lived very different lives before their eventual martyrdom. Perpetua was a well-educated noblewoman while Felicity was a slave woman. They became acquainted in prison, awaiting their death for being Christians. The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity is Perpetua’s diary of their time in prison together before their martyrdom. …

By Joseph Pronechen, National Catholic Register – At the Crucifixion, two men encountered Christ in a way that changed their lives forever. Both later came to be honored as saints. One was the Good Thief, St. Dismas. Jesus told him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43). The other was the Roman centurion who pierced the side of Christ with a lance and later came to be known by the name of Longinus.

By Fr. Francesco Giordano, STD, Catholic Exchange – The Gospel of the Holy Family presents us with something very concrete and very fragile: a child who must grow, parents who must protect him, and a family that must find a place where life can be lived. Before ideals, before projects, before explanations, there is something simpler and more decisive: a place where one can dwell.

By McKenna Snow, Zeale New – A Spanish father is praising the protection of the Sacred Heart of Jesus — whom his family has been cultivating a special devotion to on the first Friday of every month — after he and his family survived a horrific car wreck with no injuries… “For our family, what happened was a confirmation that our trust was well placed. The Sacred Heart of Jesus had protected us,” José María Mayoral told ACI Prensa in early February. …

By Ken Cuccinelli and Benjamin Osborne, Chronicles – America’s Constitution is not a manifesto. It is a structure. Like all enduring structures, it was built not only for fair weather but for storms. The men who framed the schematics had lived through rebellion, occupation, and civil war. They knew that a republic without a final authority is not a republic at all, but a temporary truce among factions. For this reason, they designed a political framework that tolerates dissent, sanctifies local life, and yet reserves, in the last instance, a national power capable of preserving the whole.

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine – There are a host of Catholic commentators who express their disdain for the “disobedience” of the SSPX but at the same time find themselves disobedient to certain Vatican commands. … All people of good sense should understand that obedience is not the same thing as blind compliance, and, if obedience is a virtue, which it surely is, it must be oriented toward the good—the highest of which is the salvation of souls… Granted, I understand men of good will disagree on the SSPX question. But please, unless you are prepared to swallow the whole Conciliar Experiment hook, line, and sinker, do not accuse the SSPX of disobedience as if it is a sin unique to them. Things are more complicated than that, so we should speak and act accordingly.

By Scott McKay, The American Spectator – Paxton may have just turned a Texas primary into a test for the entire Senate GOP… 1. The Art of the Deal in Texas?… In yesterday’s column discussing the utter weirdness of the Democrats’ gay-preacher Senate nominee in Texas, James Talarico, I floated a rumor that had been circulating that President Trump would endorse incumbent Republican John Cornyn in return for some specific performance by the Republican Senate Caucus… Specifically…

The Dynamic Catholic Institute – Saint Colette Boylet faced the stark choice of absolute surrender or personal struggle when she received a vision of Saint Francis of Assisi. She could either argue with this divine message, or give her complete surrender, not just of her own plans, but of her whole life to God’s will.