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April 24, 2024

Speaker Johnson Allies Himself With GOP-Hating Republicans, Democrats, by Jordan Boyd

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will travel to Texas this week, not to make another performative visit to the border he abandoned when he banded with Democrats to pass $95 billion in foreign spending, but to aid a fundraiser for his “endangered” GOP colleague (Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales) who smeared Republicans opposed to the Ukraine package... In return, Johnson will overlook Gonzales’ egregious maligning of conservatives while wining and dining voters in the San Antonio area into throwing more money at the establishment Republican’s reelection campaign.

April 24, 2024

The Face of God, by Francis X. Maier

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - As we get older, the temptation to be dissatisfied with our lives can grow. A fear of aging, along with memories of past failures and mistakes, can obscure the good in the world around us. A culture of consumption, distractions, and anesthetics, which is what we’ve created, feeds on that restlessness and profits from the anxiety that so often animates our desires. In the process, it steals something uniquely human from us. It reduces us to a bundle of material appetites.

April 24, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Parolin Confirms Vatican Aims to Renew Secretive Deal With China This Year, by Michael Haynes

By Michael Haynes, LifeSite News - The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has confirmed to LifeSiteNews that the Holy See intends to renew its secretive deal with Communist China later this year... Cardinal Parolin affirmed that the highly controversial Sino-Vatican deal that the Holy See has with the Communist authorities in Beijing is set for renewal this autumn... Parolin stated “with reference to your question about the Holy See’s agreement with China … we hope to renew it.”... “We are also in dialogue on this point with our Chinese interlocutors." ...

April 24, 2024

Catholic Vote: Biden Makes Sign of the Cross at Pro-Abortion Campaign Rally in Florida

By Catholic Vote - President Joe Biden made the Sign of the Cross in response to pro-abortion comments made by Democrat Nikki Fried, who was standing next to the president. The gesture came while the president was listening to Florida Dem. Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried slam her state’s pro-life law... “Where … 15 weeks wasn’t good enough so we had to go to six weeks,” Fried said, referring to the gestational limit up until abortion is allowed under state law... As soon as Fried said “wasn’t good enough,” Biden began to make a slow sign of the cross ....