News
January 7, 2026
By Sarah Cain, Crisis Magazine - The new and already infamous Bishop Michael Martin began by targeting the reverent churches that have produced vocations, and he has now turned to target the seminarians themselves. He wishes to delay the ordination of young men by a year, forcing them to work as lay teachers midway through the seminary program. After they have received their bachelor’s degree in philosophy through Belmont Abbey College, and before they begin their theology education for their master’s, they will work as teachers in diocesan schools.
January 7, 2026
By Edward Welsch, Chronicles - Unlike my ancestors, the Somalis did not come to the United States to work. They came to America to become government dependents and clients of the Democratic Party... They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country, I’ll be honest with you, okay? Someone will say, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks and we don’t want them in our country.
January 7, 2026
By Terry Hursh, Catholic Exchange - Many people are incredibly active, yet spiritually stagnant—especially in the most important aspect of life: knowing, loving, and serving God... Fr. Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009), former editor of “First Things,” once observed, “It seems like most of us spend our lives discovering we are merely ‘creatures’ and not the Creator. We want to create our own successful world…without understanding that it is the Creator—not the created—who is in control.”
January 7, 2026
By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency - “Now you have to be a little flexible on Hyde,” the president said. “You know that you got to be a little flexible. You got to work something [out]. You got to use ingenuity. You got to work. We’re all big fans of everything, but you got to be flexible. You have to have flexibility.”... Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, criticized Trump for urging flexibility on the provision, calling its support “an unshakeable bedrock principle and a minimum standard in the Republican Party.”
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