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Opinion: Reflections On a Week When Madness Overwhelmed Public Discourse, by Marcus Peter – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Marcus Peter, Catholic World Report, April 17, 2026

Dr. Marcus Peter is the Director of Theology for Ave Maria Radio and the Kresta Institute, radio host of the daily EWTN syndicated drivetime program Ave Maria in the Afternoon, TV host of Unveiling the Covenants and other series, a prolific author, biblical theologian, culture commentator, and international speaker. Follow his work at marcusbpeter.com.

Live the faith steadily and, perhaps equally important, don’t lose your sense of humor. A little jocularity helps when the circus insists on calling itself statesmanship.

These past few days have given us a series of civic episodes in which the public square seems to lose its mind all at once. Let’s consider just a few of them.

Joy Behar said on ABC’s “The View” that Jesus never went around declaring Himself the Messiah and then got corrected in real time by her own co-host. Tucker Carlson amplified the line that “Muslims love Jesus” in the middle of a broader anti-Israel turn. President Trump publicly attacked Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social, and Vice President Vance publicly joined the criticism. And Trump also circulated imagery on Truth Social that drew outrage for casting him in overtly messianic terms during his feud with the Pope. …

Opinion: Reflections On a Week When Madness Overwhelmed Public Discourse, by Marcus Peter

Will the Young Catholic Surge Find Ephesus — or the City of Man? by Kevin Wells

Trump Issues Sharply Worded Notice to Israel: ‘Enough Is Enough!’, by Chris Nesi

By Marcus Peter, Catholic World Report, April 17, 2026

Live the faith steadily and, perhaps equally important, don’t lose your sense of humor. A little jocularity helps when the circus insists on calling itself statesmanship.

These past few days have given us a series of civic episodes in which the public square seems to lose its mind all at once. Let’s consider just a few of them.

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