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June 3, 2026
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, White House Correspondent, Daily Signal - “We now can do it a very straightforward way for the 44 states that don’t have state-based Medicaid plans for us to be able to audit it,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said ... “The people that we’re paying for, our citizens or not, in the state-based plans, like I mentioned in California, there’s a few other states, Colorado, Washington, Illinois, they have their own plan, so we have to now audit their plans.”... Oz said in November that “more than one billion of federal taxpayer dollars were being spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants” by five states and the District of Columbia.
June 3, 2026
By Garrett D. Johnson, Crisis Magazine - St. Charles Lwanga and his companions, whose feast day is June 3rd, are red martyrs. They are patron saints of those served by the Courage apostolate, who are called to white martyrdom by striving to live according to the Church’s teachings regarding same-sex attraction... The inspiration we need to live out white martyrdom comes, in part, from bishops, priests, and deacons speaking clearly about the specific reasons for St. Charles and his companions’ martyrdom ....
June 3, 2026
By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - .... Maria Montserrat Alvarado was born in Mexico City. But she is now a US citizen, and her professional background—first at the Becket Fund, more recently at EWTN—has been formed in the US. At Becket she learned, and demonstrated, how to run an effective public-relations campaign to influence public opinion. As president of EWTN News, she presided over an international media organization that is, frankly, more impressive than the one she will oversee in Rome.
June 3, 2026
By Linda Pieper, Catholic Exchange - “John Paul II taught that the body has a ‘spousal meaning.’ It is made to express love as a free, total, faithful, and fruitful gift.”... I graduated from high school in May of 1968. With my whole adult life ahead of me and college on the horizon, I wasn’t paying much attention to what was happening in the Church or in Rome. The world around me was in turmoil—the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and its protests, the Civil Rights movement, and the unfolding of the sexual revolution.
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