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Dear Brown Pelican Patron – After twenty years of faithful service, Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana announces a new chapter in its Mission.  After the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Country, July 4, 2026, Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana website will be discontinued as we transition from online news and commentary to addressing unmet needs within the Catholic Church, primarily in South Louisiana, but supporting Catholic apostolates both Nationally and Internationally.

By Mark Alexander, Patriot Post – … how (can) I honor this Independence Day in one column?… I decided to focus only on what is most significant — our Declaration of Independence and the Founders tasked with affirming the Rights of Man — and then close with some perspective on where we are now, 250 years later… It was on June 11, 1776, during the Second Continental Congress, comprising delegations from the 13 sovereign states, convened in Philadelphia, that a Committee of Five was appointed to draft what would become our Declaration of Independence — a document that was, and remains, the most consequential political declaration in the history of the world.

By Sarah Roderick-Fitch, Just the News – Following a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold birthright citizenship, Republicans and the Trump administration are seeking ways to curb babies born in the U.S. to noncitizens… The 5-4 decision in Barbara v. Trump, stemming from President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, granted American citizenship to any baby born in the U.S… While Democrats hailed the ruling, less than 24 hours after the decision was released, Republicans and the Trump administration began a new fight to end birthright citizenship, with the president calling on Congress to act.

By Dan Hart, The Washington Stand – In the wake of a series of electoral and primary victories in deep blue cities by politicians who profess to be socialist, many are wondering how voters in the country with the foremost free enterprise economy in the world are voting for political candidates who espouse anti-capitalist wealth redistribution policies that have a track record of deepening corruption and spreading poverty.

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – There are a multitude of reasons the rent-a-womb industry should be banned. Surrogacy denies children’s natural rights to life, to a mother and father, and to freedom from commodification; exploits vulnerable women; and creates reproduction loopholes for pedophiles and other bad actors unfit to be parents. The most imminent and possibly important justification for taking swift and legal action to shut down America’s proxy pregnancy market is the increasing exploitation of birthplace citizenship by America’s sworn enemies.

By Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Contributor, Daily Signal – We’re watching a modern-day French Revolutionary-like takeover of the Democratic Party. We could call it the Reign of Terror or the Democratic guillotine. … What I mean by that, in 1793 and ’94, when the French Revolution was well on its way to fruition, a group of radicals called Jacobins, led by the Robespierre brothers, hijacked that revolution and decided that they were going to go far, far to the left of the effort to abolish the monarchy and rename the days of the week, the months, start with a year zero concept, go out and attack private property, and execute people.  

By Father Mike Johns, Public Discourse – Put simply, the underlying impulse of the Declaration is the conviction that the human person is prior to government. Government is both necessary and good, but it can only order and safeguard what is already there, namely, the community of persons created by God. As the Declaration asserts, government derives its “just powers from the consent of the governed.” The priority of the human person is taken, moreover, as a self-evident truth. …

By Kennedy Hall, Complicit Clergy – The principal contention of those sympathetic to the SSPX, but in disagreement with the consecrations of bishops in 2026, is as follows: While in 1988 it could have been argued that a state of necessity for the survival of Catholic Tradition existed, this is not the case today because the Traditional Latin Mass is more accessible, even after Traditionis Custodes, when compared to 1988; and, men who wish to become Traditional Priests do not have to join the SSPX because of the FSSP, and other such groups.

By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing – The canonically illegal consecration/ordination (the terms are interchangeable) of four new bishops by two Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) bishops who were themselves illegally ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre 38 years ago is a renewed wound upon the Mystical Body of Christ. This schismatic act of disobedience carried out in direct defiance of Pope Leo XIV’s public warning has resulted in the incurring by the six bishops of latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication.