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January 8, 2026

Picking Up the Golden Thread of Western Civilization, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report - What would the collapse of civilization look like?... We might immediately think of cutoff utilities, disruptions in the supply chain, violence in the streets, and the lack of functional government. While it’s true these might serve as external indicators of a functioning modern society, they do not constitute the essence of civilization. A civilized person doesn’t just live in the city (the civitas that gives civilization its name) but conforms to an ideal of culture. A barbarian lives for immediate needs and wants ...
January 8, 2026

MN Gov. Walz Appears to Threaten to Use National Guard Against Federal Government, by Craig Bannister

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV - “I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed, if necessary," Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz threatened Wednesday, denouncing the federal government’s efforts to enforce U.S. immigration law in his state... Gov. Walz made the apparent threat during a press conference following the death of a Minnesota anti-immigration enforcement protester who was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent as she, according to video of the incident, drove her vehicle into the agent. ...
January 8, 2026

Decades After Banning the Death Penalty, Canada Kills Inmates by ‘Assisted Suicide’, by Nancy Flanders

By Nancy Flanders, Live Action News - According to new reports, Canada is allowing prisoners to end their lives through assisted suicide despite having banned capital punishment decades ago... Canada fully banned capital punishment — the death penalty — in 1998... Medical Assistance in Dying was approved in Canada in 2016... From 2016 to 2025, at least 67 prisoners in Canada have requested assisted death, with at least 15 approved and killed. ...
January 8, 2026

Why We Go to Mary, by M.C. Holbrook

By M.C. Holbrook, Catholic Exchange - John the Evangelist begins his Gospel account of the wedding feast at Cana by pointing out first that Mother Mary is in attendance. That Jesus is also there is secondary. But isn’t Jesus always the most important character in any of the Gospel stories? Of course—which is perhaps the reason John references the Blessed Mother namelessly, pointing to her instead as “the mother of Jesus.” Still, the fact that John singles her out, all in her own

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