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By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, Andreas Wailzer, LifeSiteNews – John Gregory Kelly, the new bishop of Tyler, Texas, was among the 68 bishops who wanted to delay the vote by U.S. bishops on denying pro-abortion Catholics Holy Communion back in 2021. He also appears to share Pope Francis’ pro-immigration stance… Kelly has expressed his pro-immigration stance in the past, showing that he is in line with Francis on the issue. In 2017, he shared a statement by Cardinal Cupich, who lamented President Donald Trump’s decision to temporarily close the border to immigrants from Muslim-majority countries via executive order.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised to implement President Donald Trump’s pro-life policies if he is confirmed as HHS Secretary. That has earned him support from pro-life Republican senators but also from Republican voters, according to a new poll… Republicans overwhelmingly support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to polls from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and AP VoteCast.

CV News Feed – Trump posted on Truth Social:
“I am pleased to announce that Brian Burch will serve as the next United States Ambassador to the Holy See. Brian is a devout Catholic, a father of nine, and President of CatholicVote. He has received numerous awards, and demonstrated exceptional leadership, helping build one of the largest Catholic advocacy groups in the Country. He represented me well during the last Election, having garnered more Catholic votes than any Presidential Candidate in History! Brian loves his Church and the United States …

By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – Speaker Mike Johnson is getting some well-deserved coal in his stocking from conservatives livid with the Louisiana Republican’s attempt to play Santa with a Christmas list stopgap spending bill… The massive house-of-cards measure Johnson countenanced collapsed Wednesday amid scathing criticism from conservatives and an incoming president who urged Republicans to get “SMART and Tough” with Democrats… Turning from his reported intentions to deliver a clean “continuing resolution” to keep the bloated federal government fully open for another few months, the simple spending plan has grown to a bloated 1,500-plus pages. ….

By Bill D’Agostino, LifeNews – While polling demonstrates a majority of Americans approve of President-elect Trump’s handling of the transition process, the coverage by broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC has been almost uniformly negative. In addition to a whopping 96 percent negative tilt across their flagship evening newscasts, these networks also appear to have paid the most attention to cabinet nominees who appeared to have the highest chances of sinking.

By Jim Hᴏft, Gateway Pundit – Sen. Mike Lee: “Schumer, McDonald, Johnson, Jeffrey—the firm. They did this. Okay, McDonald and Schumer cooked this up for the last 85 days in secret, dropped it on everybody Wednesday, and this is where we are… Yes, it has failed. It’s failed miserably because the American people are awake. They have access to X, they have access to Watters’ World, they have access to information and to apps that will help quickly digest this information.”

By Stephen Kokx, LifeSiteNew – Donald Trump is doubling down on his intention to study a possible link between vaccines and autism in children… During a free-flowing press conference at Mar-a-Lago Monday, the incoming president said there are “problems” with the massive increase in autism cases in America over the past several decades and that he intends to get to the bottom of it… “30 years ago, we had, I’ve heard numbers like 1 in 200,000, 1 in 100,000. Now I’m hearing numbers like 1 in 100.

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – Collins Sells His Soul… Twenty years later, the best of times had turned into the worst of the worst of times. China had poured its apocalyptic bowl of COVID-19 on an unsuspecting world — and Francis Collins had morphed into Judas Iscariot. My hero, who was heading the National Institutes of Health (NIH), struck a Faustian bargain with Mephistophelian Big Pharma, Big Government, and Communist China.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – Drone swarms over American cities spark frustration as a distrustful public suspects the Biden administration knows more than it admits… New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the airspace of airports and military bases… Then, under mounting public pressure, it assured the public to be calm, given that most of the drones were likely launched by hobbyists and private citizens. …

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – President-elect Donald Trump is “totally against” the bloated omnibus bill representatives led by House Speaker Mike Johnson are trying to cram through the lower chamber to keep the federal bureaucracy funded through March 2025… In a joint statement posted to incoming Vice President J.D. Vance’s X account, Trump and Vance scolded congressional Republicans for trying the “most foolish and inept thing ever” and “allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025.”… According to a Wednesday afternoon report from Politico, Trump’s allies’ firm rejection of the bill seemed to be pushing Johnson toward a “spending plan B.” The incoming president’s rebuff could be the final nail in the coffin for the omni if Johnson wants to stay on Trump’s good side.

By Matt Lamb, LifeSiteNews – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly said he believes there are “too many abortions in the world,” while meeting with Republican Senators as he works to build support for his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services… He also reportedly made promises that the Trump administration would reinstate pro-life policies from its first term and suggested he opposes efforts to include “gender identity” in federal healthcare law and mandate medical professionals provide transgender drugs and surgeries.

By Rob Bluey, Daily Signal – Elon Musk isn’t messing around, and he just got a massive scalp to prove it… The billionaire owner of X started his day by posting a photo of the 1,500-page spending bill in Congress with this question: “Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?”… Scores of Musk posts and reposts followed Wednesday, sending members of Congress scrambling to quickly declare their opposition as calls and emails began flooding the Capitol… “Elon just became the most powerful person in Washington, D.C., today,” social media influencer Wall Street Mav told The Daily Signal. “He proved he can flip enough votes in Congress to halt a spending bill.”

By Al Perrotta, The Stream – We are six days from Christmas, but Congress is already offering enormous gifts to the Washington establishment and a lump of coal to the American taxpayer… A 1,547-page continuing resolution that will keep the government running is loaded with provisions that should put anyone who supports it on Santa’s naughty list… For example, Congress is giving itself a $69,000 pay raise, plus they want to exempt themselves from Obamacare. And in a rather insidious move, tucked away in the massive document is a provision that would block subpoenas for House data.

By Mary Margaret Olohan, Daily Wire – In the face of critical legacy media reports and opposition on Capitol Hill, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is working to forge a more direct line of communication with the American people through a playbook-style newsletter… The Trump transition is launching a newsletter on Tuesday with the goal of establishing “transparent communication” with the public on Trump’s future policies and plans, The Daily Wire has exclusively learned. That newsletter is specifically aimed at Americans looking for real information about the transition process, who are frustrated with the mainstream media’s aggressively critical reporting on Trump.

By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine – Trump’s election is a reaffirmation of the basically liberal character of United States; it was moderate liberals forced right by the far left wing of the Democratic Party that carried him to his win… The election of Donald Trump has brought relief to many who feared another four years of Democratic Party rule. For some, his reelection represents the triumph of a nationalist conservatism after four years (or more, if you think of Joe Biden’s presidency as a third term for Barack Obama) of progressive mania. ….

By Jamie Dangers, Daily Signal – Can you imagine being thrown in jail for peacefully protesting the deaths of babies in the womb? Well, you don’t have to, because it has happened… Today, the Left’s weaponization of a federal law called the FACE Act has led to exactly that, unjustly persecuting pro-life advocates who are its ideological opponents… But finally, after years of this form of persecution from the Biden-Harris administration, a much-needed airing will occur this week.

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, LifeNews – The Biden administration is pressuring Sierra Leone to pass an unpopular pro-abortion bill before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a former senior U.S. government official who has worked in the West African region told The Daily Signal… It is common knowledge among nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, in Sierra Leone that a U.S. foreign aid agency called the Millennium Challenge Corporation is threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars from a U.S. agreement with Sierra Leone unless the West African country’s parliament passes the bill decriminalizing abortion, the former government official said.

By Jim Hᴏft, Gateway Pundit – The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has confirmed that radioactive material was lost in transit earlier this month, heightening fears about public safety and sparking theories about mysterious drone activity in New Jersey… “While looking at the NRC Alerts. I can confirm that there is radioactive material that has gone missing on Dec 2nd, 2024 out of New Jersey. This might be the reason for the drones… just speculation at this point,” he wrote.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – When President-Elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary, tapping him to an important post that makes significant health care policies related to abortion and pro-life issues, pro-life Americans were concerned about his stance on abortion… But Kennedy assured senators in multiple meetings on Capitol Hill today that he will ensure President Trump restores a host of pro-life policies that will save babies from abortions.

By Breccan F. Thies, The Federalist – McConnell has spent his career selling America’s domestic interests down the river in favor of funding foreign conflict… (he) wrote an ode to foreign governments on Monday, calling for Donald Trump to reject an America First foreign policy in favor of funding forever wars, doubling down on “free trade,” and lying prostrate before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)… McConnell, in an op-ed for Foreign Affairs magazine, criticized what he described as “right-wing flirtation with isolation and decline,” calling on the incoming government to “restore American hard power.” …

By Jim Hᴏft, Gateway Pundit – The Vatican, the spiritual and administrative heart of the Catholic Church, faces an unprecedented financial crisis, with reports suggesting it is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy… A combination of plummeting revenues, disillusioned donors, and mismanagement under Pope Francis has left the institution struggling to meet its pension obligations, Daily Express reported… In 2023, the Vatican reported an operating deficit of $87 million, an increase of $5.3 million from the previous year.

By Peter Laffin, National Catholic Register – President-elect Donald Trump joined dignitaries from around the world in Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral. It surprised no one that he was accompanied by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk — the two have been inseparable for months… To be sure, a wealthy individual orbiting a president is nothing new in American politics. But Musk’s unprecedented wealth — he recently became the first person in history to amass a fortune of more than $400 billion — and his penchant for altering the course of history raises the stakes of the partnership.

By Daniel B. Gallagher, Catholic World Report – Following a brief meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on February 18th, 2009, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issued a statement expressing her joy for the opportunity to have met the pope and to have praised “the Church’s leadership in fighting poverty, hunger, and global warming.” Conspicuously absent from her list was the Church’s leadership in fighting abortion on demand, but that is hardly surprising given that Pelosi would later characterize the overturning of Roe v. Wade as “heart-wrenching,” “outrageous,” and even “cruel.”

By Anthony Murdoch, LifeSiteNews – According to CTV News, a source said that Trudeau is looking at his ‘options’ following the shock resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chyrstia Freeland this morning… Reports are circulating that suggest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is considering stepping down as leader after a disastrous day which saw his most high-profile minister resign citing him as the main reason. 

By Justine Brooke Murray, MRC TV – The “religion of peace” is threatening to kill (I mean, “convert”) us all again… One of the brother-husband types is going viral on social media for promising that “Islam will enter every household, whether you like it or not.”… “Donald Trump, Inshallah [God willing],” he begins with… “Soon. We will see. We have a plan in place to go visit him and call him toward Islam,” he vows. The neckbearded man did not clarify who “we” is, but followed with a list of other high profile targets he plans to “enrich.”

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – (Biden’s) goal is to sabotage Trump’s ability to see his policy agenda implemented… In the dying days of Joe Biden’s presidency, his administration has made it its mission to do everything possible to frustrate Donald Trump’s ability to implement his policy agenda when he arrives in the Oval Office next month… So, will they simply go quietly into the night, accepting the fact that Trump’s in charge now? No, these are the Democrats we’re talking about.

By Wade Searle, LifeSiteNews – The Biden administration has been caught moving away unused materials for a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to be auctioned off online, according to shocking footage taken by a US Customs agent, with bidding starting at just $5.00… Eric Schmitt, the Senator from Missouri, sent a letter on Friday to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin demanding that he “immediately cease the auctioning off of border wall materials.”… the Biden-Harris administration is recouping just 0.02% of the taxpayer money ….

By Erik Root, Chronicles – Giving thanks in 2024 means acknowledging that we dodged a tyrannical bullet. Yet, the ruling class is still set on attempting to stymie the consent of the governed. Nowhere is this more symbolically present than in the Biden administration’s gaudy presentation of Christmas, which, Jill Biden, declares is this year dedicated to “peace and light.”… Her entire holiday theme is, in fact, devoid of any celebration of the Birth of our Lord and Savior. Additionally, it lacks any celebration of our nation.

By Patriot Post – December 15, 1791, marks the ratification of our Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to our Constitution, and the Rule of Law it enshrines… The Bill of Rights was inspired by three remarkable documents: John Locke’s 1689 thesis, “Two Treatises of Government,” regarding the protection of “property” (in the Latin context, proprius, or one’s own “life, liberty and estate”); in part from the Virginia Declaration of Rights authored by George Mason in 1776 as part of that state’s Constitution; and, of course, in part from our Declaration of Independence authored by Thomas Jefferson.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Rep. Nancy Pelosi has indicated that the Vatican is reviewing a current restriction, declared by her Archbishop, that prohibits her from receiving the Eucharist until she  repents of her support for abortion… The National Catholic Reporter reported Dec. 12 that in an interview, Pelosi said of the ban, “My understanding, as long as Rome has the case, it hasn’t been resolved.”

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit today against a New York doctor who illegally sent abortion pills to a pregnant woman in Texas… New York physician Margaret Daley Carpenter trafficked the drugs across state lines without possessing a Texas medical license or authorization to practice telemedicine in the state… Dr. Carpenter prescribed and supplied two drugs to cause an abortion. The 20-year-old mother was then hospitalized for severe bleeding, and her nine-week-old preborn baby passed away. …

By Ryan Girdusky, The American Conservative – Stories of historic comebacks are usually reserved for works of fiction; rarely in life, especially in politics, do we see a near-mythical resurrection… Donald Trump is set to enter the White House for the second time with the highest favorability numbers he’s ever had. The Emerson College poll found that 54 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the 45th and 47th president. The YouGov poll has his favorables at 50 percent, the first time he’s been above unfavorables in his political career.

By Dave Andrusko, LifeNews – The 2022 Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade and with it the right to abortion under our Constitution. We’ve written a great deal about the decision’s impact—primarily by Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon, Director of Education & Research—but not as much as we should about the independent abortion clinics… These are clinics that are not affiliated with the abortion behemoth Planned Parenthood. Yet they provide “approximately 58 percent of all abortions nationwide,” according to the latest report from the Abortion Care Network.

By Antonino, LifeSiteNews – Mark Rutte, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), told members that now is the “time to shift to a wartime mindset” and prioritize defense spending and production in an ominous message on Thursday… Rutte said that Europe is not prepared for what’s coming over the next four to five years and must prepare for a war similar to or greater than the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The NATO chief’s message follows the recent escalation of war in Europe and the Middle East… “It is time to shift to a wartime mindset, and turbocharge our defense production and defense spending” …

By Al Perrotta, The Stream – We’re not superstitious, but you might want to wrap your Christmas list in tin foil. It seems another “crazy conspiracy theory” has bitten the dust… DOJ IG: 26 FBI Informants Were at Capitol on J6… For four years, people have been calling us “conspiracy theorists” for saying the feds had their mitts all over the “riot” that took place on January 6, 2021. Now, a day after FBI Director Christopher Wray announced his resignation, the DOJ Inspector General has admitted that no fewer than 26 FBI “confidential human sources” (what we would call spies) were on hand at the Capitol that day.

The Editors, National Catholic Register – The days are drawing nigh on the end of the political careers of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, once the two most powerful Catholic politicians in the world… Given the scandal they’ve caused over the years by repeatedly distorting and openly defying some of the fundamental principles of their common faith, one might say the days can’t draw nigh soon enough… If cafeteria Catholicism were a real denomination, Biden and Pelosi would already be on a path to canonization.

By Elise McCue, The Daily Signal – President Joe Biden released a list of 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations of sentences Thursday, setting the record for presidential clemencies in a single day… The White House described the majority of those pardoned as having committed “nonviolent drug offenses.” The list did not go into detail on specific crimes.

By Matt McDonald, CNA – A Satanic display erected near a Christmas Nativity scene on city property near the New Hampshire State House has been removed after sustaining damage in multiple attacks… It wasn’t clear mid-week whether organizers will erect a similar display again… “I think they probably should because I think the vandalism and the hatefulness shouldn’t go without a response. But it’s up to them,” said state Rep. Ellen Read, a Democrat from Newmarket.

By Cristina Laila, Gateway Pundit – New York City Mayor Eric Adams stunned a room full of liberal reporters on Thursday after meeting with Trump’s incoming Border Czar Tom Homan… Adams met with Tom Homan on Thursday to discuss the Trump Administration’s plan to deport criminal aliens… “We’re not going to be a safe haven for those who commit repeated violent crimes against innocent migrants, immigrants and long-standing New Yorkers” …

By Bradley Devlin, Politics editor, The Daily Signal – President-elect Donald Trump will inherit a far more unstable world than the one he left President Joe Biden just four years ago. The war between Russia and Ukraine continues to grind on, escalating at the behest of the Biden administration. The situation in the Middle East, with the fall of the Assad government in Syria, only becomes more precarious by the day… While the experts in Washington will never say we’re already in the midst of World War III, these conflicts span two continents and are deeply intertwined. …

By Nathanael Blake, The Federalist – Americans in general want a return to law and order, but the left wants the blood of its enemies… It feels like an inflection point: The acquittal of Daniel Penny happened on the same day as the arrest of the accused murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson… Penny being found not guilty is a repudiation of the anarcho-tyranny the left has been imposing since the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.

By Brian Simboli, LifeNews – Now is an opportune time for pro-lifers to advocate defunding research using tissue from abortion… A confluence of factors explains why. The incoming administration is now considering defunding Planned Parenthood, which has a history of purveying body parts used in this type of research. Later-term abortions received much attention in the recent election cycle. The previous Trump administration took an interest in this issue.

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – At best, the iconic keffiyeh is a provocative symbol of Palestianian resistance and solidarity with Palestinian nationalism. At worst, the checkered black-and-white scarf made most famous by the late Yasser Arafat is synonymous with the headgear worn by Islamic terrorists and antisemitic mobs baying for Jewish blood… But last Saturday, the keffiyeh became the swaddling clothes for the baby Jesus to lie on in His cradle as a wheelchair-bound Pope Francis prayed before a politicized “Palestinian” nativity scene in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.

By Grace Porto, LifeNews – For the first time in United States history, a Nativity will be on display at the U.S. Capitol. The display will be on the southeastern steps in front of the House of Representatives Dec. 10… According to a newsletter from the Christian Defense Coalition, the display comes after Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, won a federal court case in May that ruled that the steps of the U.S. Capitol building are a public forum. Thus, peaceful demonstrations can take place on the steps of the building.

By Jason Jones, Crisis Magazine – Syrian Christians and other minorities throughout the region have well-established reasons to worry about the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The toppling of the Syrian government was sudden, performed by militants with ties to Al Qaeda and ISIS, and looked exactly like another of the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s proxy regime-change wars—which in the past have again and again led to the rape, slaughter, and ethnic cleansing of minorities in nations like Iraq and Libya.

By John C. Eastman, The Federalist – President Donald Trump is determined to tame the bloated bureaucracy beast. To that end, he has appointed, in spectacular fashion, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head up a new “Department of Government Efficiency” (“DOGE”)… With the nation now $36 trillion in debt — or about $100,000 for every man, woman, and child in America — that mission is long overdue. But judging from the hyperbolic reaction even the mention of budget cuts has generated in the deep state and among its sycophants in the corporate media, Musk and Ramaswamy will face enormous headwinds. ….

By John Zmirak and Eric Metaxas, The Stream – As Donald Trump tries to drain the D.C. Swamp, the swamp creatures are crawling out of their hidey-holes to try to frustrate the will of the voters. The Stream’s John Zmirak joined Eric Metaxas on his radio show to talk about the stakes, Trump’s good picks and weak ones, and where we must focus our prayer and activism.

By Tim Kilcullen, MRC TV – The leader of the Media Research Center issued a warning to Congress about a “Trojan horse for the left’s agenda.”… In a statement posted today on X, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell cautioned Congress not to pass the new version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) introduced by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). Bozell instead advised Congress to either enact the House of Representatives’ version of KOSA, which protects First Amendment liberties, or to wait to reform Big Tech until the new year.

By Helen Andrews, First Things – When Daniel Penny turned himself over to police on May 12, 2023, after the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced its decision to charge him with manslaughter, photographs of his perp walk showed Penny looming like a giant over the two New York Police Department detectives who escorted him down the steps of the 5th Precinct to his arraignment. Even in handcuffs, Penny was a foot taller than either of the cops and stood erect while they seemed to scurry. He looked like a Roman statue.

By Grace Porto, LifeNews – In a recent National Catholic Reporter (NCR) interview, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) flaunted her disobedience of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone by saying she continued to receive Communion, despite his pastoral letter stating that she could no longer receive in his diocese… Pelosi told NCR, “I received Communion anyway. That’s his problem, not mine. My Catholic faith is, Christ is my savior. It has nothing to do with the bishops.”

By Jennifer Roback Morse, National Catholic Register – Over the years, I have had many encounters with the pregnancy-care-center movement. I’ve encountered them when I’ve been a speaker at pro-family and pro-life conventions. I’ve provided training for administrators and counselors of these centers. I’ve interviewed some of them for my podcast… The totality of this experience convinces me that the pregnancy-care-center movement is an authentic “women’s movement.” I think they have more right to describe themselves as a “women’s movement” than some of the self-described “feminists.”

By Jason Jones & John Zmirak, The Stream – If you follow the mainstream media, you’ve probably read stories about the plucky freedom fighters dubbed the “Syrian rebels” and heard that they just vanquished the forces of a wicked, dangerous tyrant, Bashar al-Assad. If you ever took John McCain seriously, you might have believed him when he vouched for these groups as “moderates.” If you watched the Republican presidential debates in 2016, you’d have heard all but three of those seasoned GOP leaders (Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump) agree that it was so important to America that these rebels prevail that the U.S. ought to shoot down Russian planes, risking a nuclear war.

By Louis Knuffke, CatholicVote – Syrian Catholic Archbishop Jacques Mourad, of the Diocese of Homs, Syria, has decried the immense suffering of refugees fleeing the ongoing violence in Aleppo and the impending destruction of Christianity in the region… the news outlet for the Pontifical Missions Society, Archbishop Mourad described the dire situation… “We are really tired,” he said. “We are really exhausted, and we are also finished, in every sense.”… Now, as refugees from Aleppo pour into Homs, Archbishop Mourad and his diocese are overwhelmed. The Archbishop told Agenzia Fides that many of the refugees have endured grueling 25-hour journeys, arriving thirsty, hungry, cold, and destitute… “We cannot bear all the suffering of the people who arrive here exhausted,” he said.

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – Audio clips of SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito dissecting and disproving arguments against a Tennessee law banning transgender medical treatments on minors went viral after the SCOTUS justices heard oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti (SB1)… At Wednesday’s hearing, Biden Administration Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio presented arguments on behalf of the plaintiffs… Their lawsuit asks (SCOTUS) to either strike down Tennessee’s law banning transgender medical procedures, such as hormones and puberty blockers, on minors or at least send it back down to a lower court for further scrutiny.

By Ncolas Hulscher, MPH, LifeSiteNews – The CDC is escalating its childhood vaccination agenda and now says children should be exposed to 36 doses by age two and 70 by age 18 – a massive increase since the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which gives vaccine makers full liability protection… The 2025 Immunization Schedule was approved by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and adopted by CDC Director Mandy Cohen on October 24, 2024 ….

By Michael Schwarz, The Western Journal – Nominations have officially closed for 2024’s Most Demonic Social Media Post award. We have a clear winner… If that sounds flippant under the circumstances, then perhaps the reader will pardon a bit of facetiousness, for some outrages strike us as so shocking that we cannot muster the appropriate condemnatory words. Thus, we turn to humor and prayer. And that fact alone proves that God brings light even from extreme darkness.

By David Harsanyi, The Daily Signal – If Hunter Biden had a different last name, he would never have been able to launch a career in corrupt influence peddling or launder millions through his “art” or write a self-serving memoir about crack-fueled whoremongering or dump a gun next to a high school without any real consequences… If Hunter’s last name weren’t “Biden,” special counsel David Weiss would never have let him get away with failing to register as a foreign agent or avoid paying millions in taxes that flowed from his foreign arrangements. If your name isn’t Biden, don’t try writing off your hookers and crack as tax deductions.

By Louis Knuffke, CatholicVote – Pope Francis has approved a pilgrimage specifically for LGBT individuals as part of the 2025 Jubilee celebrations, according to Italian journalist Franca Giansoldati in Il Messaggero. Scheduled for Sept. 6 (2025), this event has been added to the official Jubilee calendar… The pilgrimage will take place at the Church of the Gesù, a historic Baroque Jesuit church in Rome known for its ornate design and as the resting place of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, and St. Francis Xavier, Il Messaggero reported. Participants will begin with a prayer vigil Sept. 5 at the Church of the Gesù, followed by a procession through the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica the next day.

By Jonah McKeown, CNA – Seitz said the USCCB recognizes that some immigrants have not entered the country legally but stressed that the U.S. government should distinguish between those who have committed additional crimes from those who, “for the benefit of our country, should be able to remain.”… There are an estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. as a whole, according to July 2023 statistics from the Center for Migration Studies. Trump has promised to deport all migrants illegally in the country and said that the plan, which has been criticized as financially unfeasible, “will have no price tag.” The proposal has proven highly controversial within Catholic circles.

By McKenna Snow, LifeNews – Decrying the day of the vote as “a sad and shameful day,” U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson recently slammed the United Kingdom Parliament’s move to advance the legalization of assisted suicide… “It’s an ancient truth that medicine should always heal and never harm,” Johnson said. He criticized the UK for following in the footsteps of Canada, which legalized euthanasia in 2016. Canada’s deadly program is called “Medical Aid in Dying,” or MAiD… The UK’s move, like Canada, “[twists] that definition of medicine,” Johnson said.

By George J. Marlin, The Catholic Thing – My book, The American Catholic Voter: 200 Years of Political Impact, was published twenty years ago. That work tells the story of European Catholics who arrived on America’s shores in the 1800s and early 1900s with only the clothes on their backs, worked through their parishes and neighbor

By Judy Roberts, National Catholic Register – Amid the presidential campaign, the political football of illegal immigration figured prominently, but the children at the center of it were rarely mentioned… For all the talk about illegal immigration during the recent presidential campaign, one aspect that got little attention was the plight of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children said to have disappeared since crossing the border… Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, did raise the issue during October’s vice-presidential debate when he claimed the Department of Homeland Security had effectively lost 320,000 migrant children.

By Brian Mark Weber, Patriot Post – When it comes to debating climate change, pandemics, and transgender youth, those who live in the world of common sense are often told to “trust the science.” But it’s hard to trust the science these days when it’s so often tainted by ideology rather than objective, dispassionate analysis and the scientific method itself… Using science to advance a political or social agenda might be harmless in some situations, but in others, it’s downright deadly.

By John Lavenburg, Catholic Herald – The Catholic Church in New York has said it will not contest any forthcoming policy on the deportation of illegal immigrants who commit crimes… Recent comments from New York City Mayor Eric Adams (pictured) that he supports such proposals will not receive pushback from Catholic Charities of New York executive director Mgr Kevin Sullivan… Mgr. Sullivan does, however, urge Adams to be very careful in how he implements any such policy.

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – World Health Organization pushed COVID-19 propaganda at the behest of Chinese Communist Party… Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci became the American face of those pushing ineffective and unscientific COVID vaccine and mask mandates in 2020… “Trust is earned,” Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) wrote in a letter to Congress. “Accountability, transparency, honesty, and integrity will regain this trust. A future pandemic requires a whole of America response managed by those without personal benefit or bias.”

By Nate Jackson, Patriot Post – I can also tell you that true gender affirmation means affirming someone’s birth sex. Like George Orwell’s newspeak in 1984, the Left has turned this on its head. When a leftist says “gender affirmation,” he means a futile attempt to reverse God’s created order — to change, not affirm, gender, often through scientific and medical experimentation… Don’t ever call what the Left wants “gender-affirming care.” That is a lie.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed in a new interview that he wants to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business… Still, Johnson said he would like to defund the abortion giant and is working to build the votes to do it. Likely, the only way that can be accomplished is via a reconciliation bill — which both the House and Senate can pass on a majority vote margin.

By John Horvat, The Imaginative Conservative – … (a) recent event in NY City in which the renowned Sotheby’s auction house sold a 2019 art piece dubbed “Comedian” by Maurizio Cattelan. The work consisted of a fresh banana duct-taped to the wall… within five minutes, the item sold for $5.2 million plus auction house fees, which came to a total of $6.2 million… When absurdities are enshrined in a culture, anything can happen. Truth is denied, morals are eroded, and a cult of ugliness reigns. The cruelest manifestations of intolerance and cancellation are possible since the absurd demands absolute acceptance.

By: Kevin D. Roberts, The Federalist – Deportation is necessary not only to bring back law and order and protect the working class, but also to restore the full political rights of every American… Millions of Americans — including unprecedented numbers of Latinos — voted for Trump because the Biden-Harris border crisis brought drugs, violence, and disorder to their communities. Returning illegal aliens to their home countries is the only morally acceptable response.

By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D., Breitbart – Kentucky Bishop John Stowe has expressed his “dismay” over the overwhelming Catholic voter support for Donald Trump, insisting the U.S. Bishops should have warned Americans about the “danger” of the election… “I find it disappointing that our Church did not speak out more forcefully about the danger of this election,” the bishop stated, suggesting that the bishops’ conference should update its voting guide, which currently places too much emphasis on the issue of abortion.

By Hélène de Lauzun, European Conservative – People want to flee, “but the jihadists won’t let them.”… Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, has been captured by a jihadist group as part of its offensive against the government of Bashar al-Assad. The regime lost control of the territory—for the first time since the start of the civil war in 2011—on Sunday, December 1st. This prompted fears of a new refugee crisis, while Syria’s Christians are once again likely to be the main target of the Islamist troops.

By Susan Berry, Ph.D., LifeNews – Data on the vote by Members of Parliament (MPs) in the UK on the pro-assisted suicide “Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill” reveals that, compared to the Labour and Conservative Parties, the Liberal Democrats had the largest ratio of MPs who supported the measure… The vote on the bill, which would allow eligible terminally ill adults in England and Wales to seek assistance to end their lives, was held November 29, with 330 MPs in favor and 275 opposed.

By Grace Porto, CatholicVote – Bishops from Central America have called for the faithful to observe Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, as a day of prayer for Nicaragua, which is facing rampant religious persecution from the Nicaraguan government under President Daniel Ortega… In November, Ortega banned priests from administering Last Rites in hospitals. The regime exiled Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez of Jinotega, president of the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference, the same month, sending him to Guatemala. Bishop Rolando José Alvarez of Matagalpa was exiled to Rome in January after spending 500 days in a prison that Rep. Chris Smith (R.-NJ) has described as “Ortega’s gulag.” …

By Star Parker, Patriot Post – It is increasingly clear to a new generation of Black Americans that what they need to get ahead is freedom… Dean of the nation’s political analysts, Michael Barone, sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss the 2024 election… The headline that emerged from that discussion was “Donald Trump’s Rainbow Coalition,” noting that the monopoly of the Democratic Party over the nation’s Black vote seems to be over.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture – Unexpectedly, Donald Trump was the most effective pro-life US President since the 1973 abortion-on-demand Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade. During his 2016 campaign, candidate Trump promised to appoint originalists to the Supreme Court. Former Senator Rick Santorum—Catholic, pro-life, and nudged out of the Republican presidential primary—withheld his endorsement of candidate Trump in 2016 until he, Trump, specifically listed potential originalist jurists for nomination to the Supreme Court. Trump complied and received Santorum’s endorsement.

By William Kilpatrick, The Stream – A few weeks ago, Bishop Joseph Strickland sent an open letter to the USCCB as the group met in Baltimore for its fall plenary assembly… Granted, I may have missed an objection here or there, but Strickland’s charges are so grave and so sweeping that one would expect not just a few objections, but a whole boatload of them… he refers to the bishops as “silent shepherds, unwilling to risk speaking up in the face of evil and destructive forces that threaten the Church.” He suggests, in addition, that their actions are reminiscent of Judas’s betrayal of Christ. …

By Brianna Lyman, The Federalist – A three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal government has the authority to deport illegal immigrants even if local leaders try to impede the process… Tom Homan, dubbed the incoming “border czar,” has already warned sanctuary city officials not to resist or impede the federal government’s deportation activities… “It is a felony to knowingly harbor or conceal an illegal immigrant from immigration authorities. Don’t test us,” Homan said.

CV News Feed – Multiple sources reported this week that the outgoing Biden administration plans to again send an aid package of hundreds of millions of dollars and “billions” in arms to Ukraine… The AP reported on Monday that the federal government “is preparing to send Ukraine an additional $725 million in military assistance.”.. (includes) “counter-drone systems and munitions for its High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, which could indicate more of the longer-range missiles are headed to the battlefield.”

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – Cardinal Roger Mahony, who was barred from public ministry for protecting predator priests is urging his fellow prelates to engage in civil disobedience against President-Elect Donald Trump’s plans for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants… Mahony, former archbishop of Los Angeles, who paid nearly $10 million to settle clergy sex abuse cases, said “the Church will not reveal any records” of illegal parishioners’ private information including “residence and other personal information.”

By Katherine Hamilton, Breitbart – A federal judge has paused an attempt by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to imprison Christian pro-life activists for up to ten years… Judge Matthew Leitman, an Obama appointee, paused the DOJ’s FACE Act and felony conspiracy case against seven pro-life activists who are awaiting sentencing over a peaceful protest at a Michigan abortion clinic, citing the results of the 2024 election and the potential for the next presidential administration to handle such cases differently. …

By Solène Tadié, National Catholic Register – Escalating economic and geopolitical crises around the world are dealing a severe blow to the cause of persecuted Christians, according to the head of international advocacy for Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Marcela Szymanski… “This year will be marked by radical changes around the world, and as political, economic and social upheavals unfold, the fundamental rights of citizens will be relegated even further down the ladder of priorities,” Szymanski said during an international conference in Budapest, Hungary.

By Scott Ventureyra, Crisis Magazine – On November 13, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) was nominated as the Secretary of  Health and Human Services (HHS), a position of tremendous importance that oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and various other agencies. But long before that, for 19 years, RFK Jr., who was raised Catholic and was, until recently, a lifelong Democrat, prayed for 30 minutes every morning to be in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic and restore the health of children in America. ….

By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post – The bureau long ago strayed from its mission, and the reformed-minded transparency-oriented Patel is just the corrective that’s needed… The NY Times calls Kash Patel “a hard-line critic of the bureau who has called for shutting down the agency’s Washington headquarters, firing its leadership and bringing the nation’s law enforcement agencies ‘to heel.’”… Patel is Donald Trump’s nominee to replace the FBI’s current director, Chris Wray, and the news is being met with equal parts fear and loathing on the Left and Flounderesque enthusiasm on the Right.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Political commentators have been arguing the last two days about Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter — whom Joe appointed as the bagman for the Biden family business of politically driven shakedowns and bribes… In case you forgot the long list of influence peddling around the world, which culminated in the U.S. currently risking a nuclear war with Russia, here’s a helpful timeline ….

By Sarah Holliday, LifeNews – New information has recently surfaced providing more evidence of Planned Parenthood’s involvement in the selling of fetal tissue from aborted babies. In 2018, a “Research Plan” was sent to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Institutional Review Board. In it was some shocking information. The plan, conducted by scientists, stated: “We will collect tissues from fetuses ranging from 4 to 23 weeks gestational age from subjects undergoing elective surgical pregnancy termination at Planned Parenthood in San Diego.”

By Margot Cleveland, The Federalist – Americans would be much more understanding of the pardon had Joe just played the fatherly love card, instead of treating us as a bunch of dullards ready to accept his latest lie… On Sunday, President Joe Biden granted his son Hunter a “full and unconditional pardon.” For someone who’s covered the Biden family corruption scandal since the censorship-industrial complex falsely portrayed Hunter’s laptop from hell as Russian disinformation, my reactions are several and sundry.

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine – The “insurrection” narrative has enjoyed unchallenged dominance for so long, the reckoning will take time. Let us finally begin to hear the truth about that fateful day… Can we finally talk about January 6 without fearing that Feds might bang down our doors at dawn? After all the lives that have smashed on the scaffolding of craftily-edited footage, fantastical narratives, and media malfeasance, can we at last talk about the national disgrace of January 6?

By John-Henry Westen, LifeSiteNews – COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates revealed some of what (the globalist) can do… But under cover of global war, it will be much easier for the globalists to achieve their goals… The moment to RESIST them and DEFEAT them is NOW… A major step towards total globalist control will be compulsory digital IDs… God said, “the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” This is because He loves and cares for us… But the globalists want to number us so that they can control us. … The WEF is promoting digital IDs for ….

By Benjamin Ogilvie, The Federalist – Here’s why the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court keeps flaking out… Despite over a half-century of trying, Republicans still have not figured out how to get conservative judges to consistently do conservative things… Admittedly, Republicans have improved at this over time, helped by the rise of the Federalist Society and the collapse of the filibuster for judicial nominees. However, the courtroom disappointments keep coming, most famously Bostock v. Clayton County, where Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch read “gender identity” into the definition of “sex” in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

By Roger Helle, Patriot Post – I believe God has given us a window of time to pray and work to see this nation experience a move of God that will shake it to its knees. Now is not the time to take a victory lap and sit out the next four years. We need to pray daily for those in authority, including Donald Trump, that they will be led by God to see our nation’s peace, prosperity, and security restored.

By Betsy McCaughey, Daily Signal – To prepare for the next pandemic, the Trump administration must clean house and bring in bold scientists who challenge groupthink and demand evidence, which was totally lacking last time to support masking, 6-foot distancing, school closure and other recommendations… When evidence is lacking, the rest of us become mere pawns, adhering to misguided medical recommendations that can cost us our lives.

By Chelsey Youman, LifeNews – Pro-life candidates just successfully withstood the most extreme pro-abortion presidential ticket in history… Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) invested unprecedented amounts of money in abortion as the issue that would win them the White House — but exit polling shows that voters preferred Harris’s position on abortion by just four percentage points. What’s more, that slim margin was still shy of a majority.

By  Daniel Chaitin, DailyWire – President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he signed a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, despite repeated denials that he would ever do so… The pardon was issued before Hunter Biden, 54, was expected to be sentenced for gun and tax evasion crimes later in December. He was facing the potential for prison time… “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong,” President Biden said.

By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald – (On November 29th) a majority of MPs at Westminster voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which is to say that the UK Parliament has now approved the principle of assisted suicide – death at the hands of the state. There is a small window of hope that it will be defeated the next time around, but in reality a momentum has built up that will be very hard to resist.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – A Michigan federal judge has paused the sentencing of seven pro-life activists unjustly convicted under the FACE Act and conspiracy charges related to protests at abortion clinics… The stay, issued by Judge Matthew Leitman, delays proceedings until after President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The pro-life activists, including Eva Edl and Heather Idoni, face over 10 years in prison and significant fines related to the lawfare prosecution the Biden administration brought.

The World Meteorological Organization, (Complicit Clergy) – Pope Francis has met with World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Celeste Saulo for an audience in which they discussed urgency of concerted efforts to address climate change and to take climate action… “It’s very moving to be in front of such a great spiritual leader,” said Celeste Saulo after the audience at the Vatican. “It is clear that Pope Francis shares our concerns about climate change and its impacts at the intersection of climate change and inequalities”.

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSiteNews – Walmart, America’s largest employer, says it will remove sexualized and transgender products targeted at children, review all funding of LGBT ‘pride’ initiatives, end ‘racial equity training,’ and stop participating in the pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, among other victories for conservatives… The campaign to “de-woke” corporate America has claimed its biggest win yet, with the news that retail giant Walmart is abandoning a broad range of “diversity” initiatives it had previously invested heavily in.

By Emily Mangiaracina , LifeSiteNews – A newly authorized optional Texas curriculum includes Biblical passages, such as about the Golden Rule and Parable of the Good Samaritan, sparking controversy among liberals… The Texas State Board of Education narrowly voted on Friday for a state-authored public school curriculum that uses Biblical passages… Eight of the 15 board members voted to give Texas school districts the option to include Bluebonnet Learning (BL), while offering districts that adopt BL an incentive of $60 per student. ….

By Brittany M. Hughes, MRC TV – Walmart has officially joined the long – and lengthening – list of companies ditching their ridiculous, cumbersome, and pricey “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” programs in what is hopefully sounding more and more like the death rattle of corporate “woke” culture… While other companies like Ford and John Deere have initiated similar rollbacks of their own DEI programs, Walmart, which currently employs about 1.6 million people, is by far the largest company to make such an announcement. 

By Erika Ahern, LifeNews – In keeping with his campaign promise to shake up the swamp, President-elect Donald Trump has handed the reins of America’s public health institutions to Robert F. Kennedy Jr… As the secretary of Health and Human Services, the maverick RFK Jr. becomes the effective CEO for over a dozen operating agencies, as well as the marquee divisions of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)… Some pro-life advocates have raised concerns over RFK Jr.’s past comments in support of abortion (which he later “reversed”).

By Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal – Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, met over the weekend with President-elect Donald Trump and his choices to slash billions if not trillions of dollars in federal spending—entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy… The Musk- and Ramaswamy-led Department of Government Efficiency is expected to work closely with the new Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget to implement recommendations on fiscal policy… Ernst, who visited Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, leads the Senate’s new DOGE Caucus. The Iowa Republican has been a fiscal watchdog since her election in 2014.

By Auguste Meyrat, The Federalist – Not only would this incentivize schools to compete with one another for enrollment, but it would also incentivize decentralization in American school systems, giving more say to teachers and parents. Instead of massive one-size-fits-all districts, campuses, and classrooms, K-12 schools would be smaller, more specialized, and tailored to specific educational needs. Instead of the bureaucratic bloat, incompetence, and corporate anonymity that characterizes most faculties, there would be far more efficient, talented, and close-knit communities of educators with a shared mission.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – President Donald Trump has nominated pro-life Dr. Dave Weldon to be CDC director. Trump could not have made a more solid pro-life selection for someone to head the CDC as far as the pro-life perspective is concerned… Not only will Dr. Weldon strongly advocate for the conscience rights of pro-life medical professionals to not participate in abortions, he will make it abundantly clear as CDC Director that abortion bans do not prohibit legitimate medical care for women. …

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews – Sexual blackmail is nothing new. Investigative journalist Whitney Webb has written about how it was used by organized crime before U.S. intelligence agencies were created… Tucker Carlson shared during an interview released Wednesday that a “longtime intel official” told him that intelligence agencies control the “big pornography sites” for blackmail purposes… Carlson added that he thinks dating websites are controlled as well, presumably referring at least to casual “hook-up” sites like Tinder, where conversations are often explicitly sexual.

By by Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative – The opening salvos in Trump’s war on the fourth branch of government have been fired… The war has begun. It’s Trump, Elon, Vivek Ramaswamy, and their new Department of Government Efficiency versus the federal bureaucracy in a no-holds-barred cage deathmatch. The first punches have been thrown; who will win? At stake: your tax dollars.

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Planned Parenthood has been providing “viable nonanomalous” babies killed in “elective abortions” to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for experimentation, according to a new report… Published by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP), the emails detail a “Research Plan” that documents the harvesting of babies for experimentation on their bodies. The plan was submitted to and approved by UCSD’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) in 2018. The heavily redacted communications were obtained by the group via open records request. …

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – Again, consider the left-wing logic: it is deemed moral to dismantle the border, disrupt the social fabric of the country, and destroy federal immigration laws. But it is immoral to restore U.S. sovereignty, secure the border, stop the flux of lethal cartel-supplied fentanyl and child sex trafficking, and follow the law?… In this regard, the party that prides itself as progressive is regressively adopting the states’ rights arguments of 19th-century southern states that boasted they would resist all federal enforcement of tariffs.

By Erika Ahern, Contributor, Daily Caller News – In keeping with his campaign promise to shake up the swamp, President-elect Donald Trump has handed the reins of America’s public health institutions to Robert F. Kennedy Jr… As the secretary of HHS, the maverick RFK Jr. becomes the effective CEO for over a dozen operating agencies, as well as the marquee divisions of the CDC, the FDA and then NIH… Some pro-life advocates have raised concerns over RFK Jr.’s past comments in support of abortion (which he later reversed). Others point to his promise to combat the industrialization of humanity as an opportunity for major reforms when it comes to the way America sees reproductive healthcare.

By Jason Jones, Crisis Magazine – The Deep State is trying to start a world war—and they might get what they want. But if they fail, the public mandate for peace under President Trump will become even greater… Here’s the bad news: thanks to the cynical maneuverings of the military-industrial complex since Election Day, I’m not totally confident—and there’s no reason to be—that most of us will still be alive by President-elect Donald Trump’s planned inauguration date of January 20, 2025. A global thermonuclear war is entirely possible, if not imminent. And if it comes, it’s likely only a very few of the very rich and the very well-prepared will live through it.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – With a curious appointment this week, Pope Francis has shown how much he trusts an American prelate who is now one of the most powerful men at the Vatican. What was that appointment—which to date has escaped public notice? And why has the Pontiff placed so much confidence, and so much power, in Cardinal Kevin Farrell?… Vatican secrets, Vatican investments, Vatican finances: whenever the discussion turns to these matters—with their obvious potential for corruption—one now finds Cardinal Farrell at the head of the table.

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register – Coming to Lai’s defense have been more than 100 politicians from 24 countries… Political leaders, a United Nations body, and human rights groups have publicly spoken out in defense of Jimmy Lai, the Catholic Hong Kong media mogul who faces possible life imprisonment for his involvement in pro-democracy protests, while the Vatican and senior Church leaders continue a policy of declining to make public statements on the case.

By Michael Finan , LifeNews – In a bicameral letter led by House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL), and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), 112 Members of Congress today asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate and report on the amount of federal funding that has been awarded to abortion providers—including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the International Planned Parenthood Federation—over the past three years.

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration for attorney general on Thursday. It was an early setback for President-elect Donald Trump that confirms the greatest threat to his agenda isn’t Democrats, but establishment Republicans… Apparently there were at least four GOP senators staunchly opposed to confirming Gaetz as attorney general: Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Curtis of Utah. Assuming all Democrat senators voted against him, that would have put Gaetz one vote shy of confirmation.

By Katie Daviscourt, Human Events – Human smugglers have been encouraging migrants to “hurry up and sneak in” before President-elect Donald Trump’s Inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025… A 1,500-person migrant caravan formed in southern Mexico on Wednesday en route to the US-Mexico border. A large-scale effort is underway to illegally enter the United States under Biden’s open-border policies before the Trump administration takes office in January, and cracks down on illegal migration.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – The Trump counterrevolution challenges entrenched elites, bureaucracies, and progressive ideologies in favor of restoring traditional values, government accountability, and national identity.
We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016… The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential. …

By Post Editorial Board, NY Post – President Biden and Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas seem to think their border policies haven’t done enough damage to the country, so they’re racing to ensure even more harm after they leave… With just two months to go before Team Trump takes over, the Biden crew is getting set to roll out an ICE app — starting in New York in December — that’ll let illegal migrants skip periodic, in-person check-ins that are required while they wait for court dates that could be years off.

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Biden is ratcheting up the Russia-Ukraine war on his way out the door and sabotaging Trump’s efforts to secure a peace deal… With less than two months until they wander off into the sunset, Joe Biden and his merry band of Marxist misfits are doing everything in their power to undermine President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to peacefully resolve the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.

By Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange – If you were enjoying a quiet Sunday without technology, you may have missed the most dangerous news headline of our generation: “Biden Authorizes the Ukraine to Use U.S. Long-Range Missiles in Russian Territory.” Quietly, on the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, when we as a Church contemplated Christ’s return, tribulation, and hardship, our sitting president put us on the brink of war with Russia. Our senile—much in need of prayers—president made the most dangerous military decision we have seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis. …

By Matt Lamb, LifeSiteNews – President Donald Trump picked celebrity doctor and former U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services… However, “Dr. Oz,” as he as widely known, has a history of promoting transgenderism and abortion, raising concerns about his role in crafting health care policy, though he has professed to have changed those views in the last few years… He has also opposed COVID mandates, but he has come under scrutiny for promoting products of questionable medical value.

By Complicit Clergy by Staff – The story of the murder of Georgia college student Laken Riley by an illegal alien suspect named Jose Ibarra has dominated national news headlines this past week… Ibarra allegedly entered the US via El Paso, Texas in 2022 and was released from a detention center due to overcrowding… Now we learn that Ibarra was apparently a resident of Covenant House, a New York based charity. Ibarra listed Covenant House’s address as his official release address on his U.S. Customs and Border Patrol documents. Congressman Lance Gooden of Texas has demanded that Convenant House immediately release all records related to Jose Ibarra.

By Mason Letteau Stallings, The American Conservative – The International Criminal Court announced Thursday that it had issued arrest warrants against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, a former Israeli defense minister. The warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant were originally requested in late May by Karim Khan, the ICC’s chief prosecutor… The warrant was issued by a three-judge panel, which agreed with Khan’s assertion that Israel had deprived civilians of basic necessities as a means of waging war.

By Doug Bandow, The American Conservative – The administration’s decision to allow strikes on Russian territory brings the U.S. to the brink… President Joe Biden approved another escalation in his administration’s long march to turn an already extravagant proxy fight into a hot war. He reversed more than two years of policy, easing range limits on Ukraine’s use of American-supplied missiles against Russia… The mentally diminished president justified his decision as retaliation for North Korea’s dispatch of troops to aid Russia’s war effort. He reportedly hopes to dissuade the North from sending more men, apparently by stoking Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s fear of additional casualties. …

By John Zmirak, The Stream – I have a proposal for President-Elect Donald Trump’s new attorney general and Department of Justice: Launch a RICO investigation of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Conduct the national investigation which my church’s bishops have so far dodged into 1) the systemic cover-up of clerical sex abuse and 2) the human trafficking conducted by church-controlled nonprofits of illegal immigrants… The DOJ should also investigate the role which the Vatican itself has played in encouraging the sex abuse coverup ….

By Sean Fitzpatrick, Crisis Magazine – The law of God commands us to perform corporal works of mercy but also to obey the just laws of our land. And there is nothing unjust in having laws that govern the process of immigration—and Catholics should stand by those laws with confidence… Many Catholics viewed Donald Trump’s campaign promise to deport millions of illegal immigrants with the same seriousness they have for Republicans stumping about abortion: big talk, little delivery. But something serious is in the air.

By Chris York, News Editor, The Kyiv Independent – Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) against Dnipro, east Ukraine on the morning of Nov. 21, Kyiv’s Air Force reported… If confirmed, it would be the first time the Kremlin has used such a weapon in an attack on Ukraine… In the early hours of Nov. 21, a country-wide air raid alert sounded due to the threat of ballistic missiles, and later, the launch of several Russian Tu-95MS bomber aircraft… According to Ukraine’s Air Force, the attack targeted the city of Dnipro using a number of different missile types. …

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – In a secret ceremony, Joe Biden awarded the former CEO of America’s biggest abortion business… Biden presented the nation’s highest civilian award to Cecile Richards, who ran the Planned Parenthood abortion giant for years and was responsible for it killing millions of babies… “The ceremony was not listed on Mr. Biden’s public schedule, nor was his decision to award the medal to Ms. Richards publicly announced until after the presentation,” …

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – That wealthy, leftist, hate-promoting outfit known as the Southern Poverty Law Center has once again shown itself to be guilty of the very bigoted hatred it supposedly exists to expose and oppose… The SPLC has published an article about The Babylon Bee, the satirical website that has a straight-news sibling site called Not the Bee. In that piece, the SPLC revealed the identities and locations of six of the writers for the Bee who write under pseudonyms.

CV News Feed – In a Wednesday op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal, businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy called out Planned Parenthood by name while outlining their plan for the soon-to-be established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – of which President-elect Donald Trump appointed them co-commissioners… Musk and Ramaswamy outlined that, as one part of its plan to make the government run more efficiently, DOGE will “take aim” at the millions of taxpayer dollars currently being sent annually to abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report – “Fascism” in the U.S. is just about as real, imbedded, and powerful as is “synodality” in the Catholic Church… The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations… over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage of opinions and analysis (or venting) in the secular press, I have not seen much about the interesting—again, a polite word—takes offered by some left-leaning Catholics. Since my preferred form of evil social media is Twi—er, X, that’s where I’ve mined for the nuggets that follow.

By Jason Jones & John Zmirak, The Stream – The Mirror in Great Britain reports: WW3 fears as Sweden tells citizens to prepare for nuclear war and stockpile food and water … Sweden has issued five million pamphlets warning its citizens to stockpile food and water — just hours after Volodymyr Zelensky’s chilling video address to Vladimir Putin warned US missile strikes “will speak for themselves.”

By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency – President-elect Donald Trump has chosen several Catholics to serve in his Cabinet and other parts of his administration, including environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., three-term Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Elise Stefanik, and, in an announcement Monday evening, former Rep. Sean Duffy… The 45th and soon-to-be 47th president made more than a dozen announcements within 10 days of his electoral victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Many of his Cabinet nominees and other administration official picks have yet to be announced.

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – This shouldn’t be hard or need any clarification. Rep. McBride is a man, and Johnson should have said so plainly… House Speaker Mike Johnson failed to answer a very easy question lobbed at him Tuesday morning. He was asked whether Rep. Sarah McBride, an incoming freshman lawmaker from Delaware who identifies as transgender, is a man or a woman. McBride is a man who presents as a woman, so Johnson’s answer should have been easy: McBride is a man.

By CatholicVote – The Russian government this week warned that it would respond to Ukraine’s use of American-made missiles, okayed late last week by the Biden-Harris administration, in the ongoing deadly war between the two Eastern European nations… “Russia has said that Ukraine’s use of long-range ATACMS missiles against its territory marked a ‘new phase of the Western war’ against Moscow, and has said it will react ‘accordingly,’”… “Ukraine used the US-made missiles to target a military facility in Russia’s Bryansk border region overnight, Moscow said… just days after Washington gave the green light for Kyiv to use the long-range weapons against Russian targets.”

By Francis X. Maier, First Things – I spent the evening after November 5 on YouTube. The site was full of time-compressed videos that tracked news media icons and Hollywood celebrities as election night wore on. The clips were mesmerizing. It was like watching a Carnival Cruise ship gradually sink. Passengers went from champagne to life jackets in just six hours. Jimmy Kimmel, Rachel Maddow, the always unpleasant Joy Reid, and so many others found themselves trapped in a Greek tragedy, with the bill for their jumbo helping of hubris suddenly due.

By Virginia Allen, Daily Signal – Sitting before members of Congress on Capitol Hill Tuesday, retired Border Patrol agent J.J. Carrell told the lawmakers that the “United States federal government is the world’s largest child sex trafficking organization in modern history.”… “I state with complete certainty that [President Joe] Biden, [Vice President Kamala] Harris, and [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas intentionally, strategically and purposely weaponized illegal immigration and use it as a tool to fundamentally transform America” …

By CatholicVote, CV News Feed – President-elect Donald Trump’s newly announced “border czar” Tom Homan outlined how the incoming administration plans to end the humanitarian crisis at the nation’s southern border… (said) Trump’s second-term border policy has “three rails.”.. The first rail is a “deportation operation”… The second rail, he indicated, is to secure the border… “The third rail,” Homan went on, “is we got over 300,000 missing children.”

By Nicole Silverio, Daily Signal – Jose Ibarra, the alleged murderer of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley, traveled from New York City to Georgia after requesting a humanitarian flight, his roommate testified Monday… “In Manhattan, we requested a humanitarian flight to come here to Atlanta,” Flores-Bello said when asked how they arrived in Georgia.

By LifeSiteNews – After the election, Bishop Strickland wrote, ‘We must pray for our leaders – as we pray for ourselves, our families, and our Church – to more and more turn to the truth that God has revealed through His Son, Jesus Christ, Truth Incarnate.’… Soon after the election, the bishop stated that the American people’s decision in favor of President Trump was “a step in the right direction” and an “opportunity.”… “My attitude for this election is that it has given us an opportunity, but an opportunity that we can’t take for granted,” Bishop Strickland said.

By Susan Berry, Ph.D., CatholicVote – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Republican David McCormick for U.S. senator from the Keystone State… The state high court ruled on the recount of votes for the U.S. senator’s race between McCormick and incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Casey that mail-in ballots with either missing or incorrect dates are not to be counted… The court’s ruling was a repeat of its earlier decision. ….

By Carrie Gress, American Spectator – There are easy steps we can take to start righting the women’s vote now so future elections don’t hinge on the unhinged…. Kamala Harris campaigned like she was running for the presidency of Planned Parenthood, not the United States, with abortion central to her campaign. She promoted a draconian future should Donald Trump be reelected. And it worked. At least for a large demographic of white, educated, single women. …

By Shawn Carney, LifeNews – Donald Trump is the most pro-life president in U.S. history. No other leader of the free world has matched his commitment to defending life, from defunding abortion providers to decisively reshaping the Supreme Court… As we look to a second Trump term, two pro-life policies are likely to take center stage and immediately should be adopted… A third—a national abortion ban—is not likely to get traction at this time.

By Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchange – On November 11, 1918, the disaster for Western Civilization known as World War I ended.  An armistice was signed at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month.  After the war, the United States, following the lead of France and England, laid to rest the remains of an American soldier—his name “known but to God”—on a hillside in Virginia overlooking Washington DC… November 11th is now Veteran’s Day, a day we honor all military veterans, dead and alive.  And that hillside overlooking DC is called Arlington National Cemetery.  It features the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, symbolizing honor and reverence for soldiers who gave their lives for their country.

By LifeSiteNews staff, LifeSiteNews – LifeSiteNews readers are warmly invited to register and take part in a nine-day novena dedicated to the well-being of President Donald Trump and his conversion to the Catholic faith… The novena will begin on the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, November 21, and end on the Vigil of Saint Andrew, November 29. Saint Andrew is, of course, the patron saint of Scotland, the country in which the president-elect’s Gaelic-speaking mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, was born and raised.

By Elle Purnell, The Federalist – In the 2024 election, Donald Trump and his voters faced media interference, suspicious ballot dumps, politicized censorship of information, low-security election laws, polling place issues, and legally dubious Democrat get-out-the-vote operations. On top of those, he faced two assassination attempts and a political lawfare campaign designed to bankrupt and jail him. The fact that Trump succeeded in making this election “too big to rig” doesn’t make those problems any less threatening to self-governance.

By Jared Harris, The Western Journal – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s call may not have been as “cordial” as she claimed… A Nov. 11 report from the AP detailed the conversation’s critical turning point… During the call, Sheinbaum said Trump first brought up the border and highlighted the ongoing issues there… Trump’s position on border security, and his plan to address the uncounted millions of people illegally in the United States of America, was made abundantly clear in the appointment of Tom Homan as his future “border czar.” …

By Peter Martin, LifeSiteNews – This weekend, dioceses across the country will be taking up the United States Conference for Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) annual collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the USCCB’s scandal-ridden charity arm… For years, the CCHD has given millions of dollars to groups that openly reject Catholic teaching and promote abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, contraception, and other grave evils in contradiction to the CCHD’s own stated policy.

By Rachel Quackenbush – A federal judge has issued an injunction, blocking the implementation of a Louisiana law that would have required public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments… The November 12 injunction is the latest development with the state’s House Bill 71. As CatholicVote previously reported, Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed the bill in June, requiring every public classroom in the state to display the Ten Commandments… HB71 references the Supreme Court case Van Orden v. Perry, in which the court ruled that displaying the Ten Commandments on government property is permissible.

By Nicholas McEntyre, New York Post – A devout Catholic was awarded nearly $13 million in a discrimination lawsuit claiming she was fired in 2022 for refusing to follow her company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate as it was against her religion… Lisa Domski, an IT specialist for the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), had worked for the company for a combined total of nearly 40 years before the non-profit canned her for not getting the jab… BCBSM implemented a mandatory vaccination policy for its employees in Oct. 2021, requiring all staff to be fully vaccinated from COVID-19 unless they apply for religious or medical accommodations. ….

By Peter Laffin, National Catholic Register – The selection of Rubio, who is seen as a tested and effective leader with deep foreign-policy experience, has been widely hailed… A Time magazine cover in February 2013 featured a black-and-white picture of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., staring into the distance with the caption, “The Republican Savior: How Marco Rubio became the new voice of the GOP.”… It was the kind of cover most politicians would kill for. But it made Rubio bristle. …

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – But how exactly is Gaetz unqualified to lead the Justice Department? Put another way, what does Trump’s incoming attorney general need to be qualified to do?… Mostly, clean house at the DOJ. Going back at least to 2016, the Justice Department has been a viper’s nest of politically motivated prosecutions, sham investigations, coup-plotting, domestic spying and censorship, entrapment schemes, and the terrorization of law-abiding Americans. From illegally spying on Trump to the political persecution of Jan. 6 defendants, the DOJ has become a cancer on our body politic, and we need someone to go in and cut it out.

Senator John Thune, LifeNews – On Jan 25, 2023, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) delivered an eloquent pro-life speech, which appears below. Yesterday, Senator Thune was elected Senate Majority Leader… Mr. President, on Friday, as they have done for decades, Americans from around the country— many of them young people—took to the streets of Washington, DC, to march for life. This year, of course, was a little different because for the first time since the march began nearly 50 years ago, pro-lifers marched in a post-Roe America.

By The Catholic Herald – The American Church will fight the mass deportation of migrants promised by newly-elected President Donald Trump, a bishop has said… Bsp. Mark Seitz of El Paso, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration said the bishops will “raise voice loudly” if threats are followed through… (Seitz says) “The Biden administration’s actions primarily affected those who were in the sending countries or en route, but the new administration will also focus on people who are already here. …

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSiteNews – Trump says he has given RFK Jr. a mission to ‘restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency.’… Returning President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he will be nominating former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) in his new administration, confounding pre-election indications that the iconoclastic medical activist would only serve in an advisory capacity.

Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine – The numbers from the 2020 election, especially compared to other recent elections, just don’t add up; or rather, they add up to too much… We were supposed to believe that old Joe Biden received millions more votes in 2020 than the historic election of the first black president, Barack Obama, in 2008 and his reelection in 2012… Obama got 69 million votes in 2008 and 65 million in 2012. Sleepy Joe got 81 million four years ago …

By Jason Hopkins, Daily Signal – Democratic governors and other liberal elected officials have lined up to declare that they will fight back against President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line agenda against illegal immigration… Trump, who won the Nov. 5 election, has promised to conduct mass deportations across the country and withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, along with a slate of other hawkish enforcement proposals.,, Dem. governors in Massachusetts, California, and Illinois—all seen as potential 2028 presidential contenders—and other elected leaders have said they will use their authority to push back against the upcoming second Trump administration’s agenda. …

By Charles C. Camosy, The Federalist – In theorizing about what it takes to actually break up with someone after a long-term relationship, Jerry Seinfeld came up with an analogy. “Breaking up is like knocking over a coke machine; you can’t do it in one push. You have to rock it back and forth a few times and then it goes over.”… Since at least the early 1980s, the Republican Party was in a long-term relationship with economic libertarianism, but with Trump’s hostile takeover of the party in 2015-2016 we saw the first attempt at a breakup.

By Michael Bedar, American Thinker – In politics, there’s more to health than insurance. You can “get care” but be wrongly sick in the first place… What precisely do Children’s Health Defense’s Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and others see in the incoming GOP administration that finally can refocus on addressing the overreaches that the federal government commits to make Americans so ill?… These United States are suffering unwellness physically, mentally, and socially. …

By Al Perrotta, The Stream – The key theme? Donald Trump is not playing around this time…. If you were hoping someone would take a sledgehammer to the corrupted DOJ and FBI, you’re in luck. President-Elect Donald Trump, in another “Wow, my gosh” selection, has picked Florida’s firebrand Congressman Matt Gaetz to be U.S. Attorney General… Said Trump: “Matt will end weaponized government, protect our borders, dismantle criminal organizations, and restore Americans’ badly shattered faith and confidence in the Justice Department.”

By Bradley Devlin, Daily Signal – Republicans have earned an electoral mandate unlike anything the party has seen since the 1980s… Rachel Bovard, vice president of programs at the Conservative Partnership Institute and veteran of over a decade of working on Capitol Hill, told me on the latest episode of “The Signal Sitdown” that conservatives “cannot waste it.”… For the first time in 20 years, the Republican presidential nominee carried the popular vote. President-elect Donald Trump captured more than 300 Electoral College votes on the way to an election victory that reshaped the Republican Party’s coalition.

By Sarah Holliday, LifeNews – Many assumed Vice President Kamala Harris, as a woman, would have secured the vote among young women in the 2024 presidential election. However, according to an exit poll from The Associated Press, that was not the case… It turns out at least 40% of Gen Z women who are under the age of 30 chose to vote for Donald Trump in what experts have described as a “historic comeback” for the former president.

CatholicVote – “Today I met with President-elect Trump in the Oval Office,” Biden’s government X (formerly Twitter) account posted Wednesday afternoon. “I look forward to leading a smooth transition and peaceful transfer of power.”… “As I told the President-elect, my team is committed to doing everything we can to ensure the incoming administration has what they need,” the post added… According to The New York Post, Trump and Biden attended the meeting along with “their respective chiefs of staff, Susie Wiles and Jeff Zients, as they discussed topics including the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.”

By Cassandra MacDonald, Gateway Pundit – Mrs. Trump revealed that Jill Biden called her after the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump in October but wonders if her “concern was genuine,” given the inflammatory way she had been speaking of him on the campaign trail… “I do question, however, whether Jill’s concern was genuine, as a few days prior she referred to my husband as ‘evil’ and a ‘liar,’” she told French outlet Paris Match.

By Catholic Vote – In a series of remarks, President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to shepherd sweeping changes to the country’s education policy during his second term – at the primary, secondary, collegiate, and university levels alike… In a recent video address, Trump unveiled an education policy plan that included supporting school choice for all parents, allowing school prayer, and abolishing the controversial U.S. Department of Education… “Here are 10 key ideas that will power our movement for great schools,” he said at the beginning of the brief video. ….

By Anthony Stine, Return to Tradition, November 13, 2024 – U.S. Bishops Will Speak Out “loudly” If Trump’s Mass Deportation Rhetoric Becomes Reality

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International – Last Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump won his bid to become the 47th President of the United States, and the GOP is set to control the two Houses of Congress… This election cycle brought both some victories and tragic losses for life and family. Thankfully, people in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota rejected ballot initiatives that would have legalized the on-demand murder of innocent children through all nine months of pregnancy. Devastatingly, initiatives to protect innocent life failed in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and New York, which further enshrined the “right to kill.” ….

By Hannah Hiester, LifeNews – CNN exit polls revealed that Kamala Harris was extremely popular with abortion extremists in the election but failed to win over those who said abortion should be legal in “most cases.”… She also surprisingly failed to raise more support among women than either Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton had in 2020 and 2016, which CNN called “a troubling sign for the vice president given that she tried to mobilize female voters on the issue of abortion.”

By Rachel Bovard, The Federalist – Senate Republicans cannot be led by someone who is openly hostile to the agenda of their party’s president and the base who elected him… Last Tuesday, America sent a resounding message to Washington when they elected Donald Trump and gave Republicans majorities in the Senate and likely the House. D.C. Republicans now have one job: Don’t screw it up… For Senate Republicans, this means closing the book on the Mitch McConnell era of governance ….

By Father David Nix, Blog – Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex-offender who was the nexus point for many elite celebrities before his death and Former-Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick, a convicted sex-offender who was also the nexus point for many elite bishops before he was laicized. There are many commonalities between the two criminals besides child-abuse… The crossover we are going to discuss today is something I label “Diversionary Scapegoating.” Diversionary Scapegoating is when a delinquent group conveniently blames all of its crimes on one person (a criminal already busted) so as to divert the public’s eyes from the criminal activity of that very same group.

By Al Perrotta, The Stream – The Battle for Senate Majority Leader.. You’d think with the massive mandate won by Donald Trump, and the stepping down of Trump-hating Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the most logical thing in the world would be for GOP Senators to pick as their incoming Majority Leader someone who is actually on board with the president-elect. That would ensure the smooth enacting of Trump’s agenda… But logic is scarce in The Swamp. The job was set to be a battle between two McConnell-lites: Sen. John Thune and Sen. John Cornyn, both with a history of trashing Trump …

By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Catholic World Report – What is most interesting to me, however, is the “4B reaction” of this death cult. For those noninitiates who never heard of this movement… it is apparently a five-something-year-old South Korean “feminist” ideological import. The four “Bs” are words in Korean: 1) no dating men, 2) no marrying men, 3) no having babies, 4) no sex with men…. What is happening, I maintain, comes from a deeper and darker place: a sacralization, an idolization of politics into a false religion, so that a political loss becomes an act of faith and the casus belli for a war of religion against one’s opponents.

By David Clossen, LifeNews – On November 5, 2024, Donald J. Trump completed the greatest comeback in American political history by winning the 2024 presidential election and defeating Kamala Harris. Trump becomes only the second president to be elected for non-consecutive terms, the first being Grover Cleveland in 1892. For beleaguered pro-lifers, Trump’s victory offers hope and opportunity… Although “unprecedented” is an overused word in modern politics, the 2024 election featured a series of events truly without equal in American history. …

By Margot Cleveland, The Federalist – Since Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris last Tuesday, the legacy press has been hosting a public inquest into her demise. Three competing theories soon dominated the discussions — only one of which accepted the reality that Americans rejected the far-left policies and candidate on the merits… a second and more vocal segment of the press and Harris voting bloc instead declared that Trump’s election proves a majority of Americans are racist, sexist autocrats.

Patriot Post – We set aside Veterans Day to honor the high price of sacrifice paid by generations of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen making up the ranks of more than 41 million Veterans who have served our nation since the American Revolution. They have valiantly carried forward the banner of Liberty since the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. Millions of American Patriots have, for generations, honored their sacred oaths “to support and defend” the American Liberty “endowed by their Creator” as the unalienable Rights of Man — the rights of all people, as affirmed in our Declaration of Independence and enshrined in our Republic’s Constitution… But Veterans Day, as distinguished from Memorial Day, is primarily to honor and celebrate the millions of American Veterans in our midst — those we can thank in person for their service and sacrifice ….

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture – That is how far we have fallen. The defeat of the radicalism represented by Kamala Harris is a huge win. We should all rightly breathe a sigh of relief. But it was, at best, a stay-of-execution for Christian morality in the United States. Even as the 2024 election is a rebuke to the left for its excesses, we must acknowledge that the whole country has shifted left. And we must steel ourselves to battle against it. Even, at times, against those whose victories we are rightly celebrating this week.

By Frontlines Staff, Human Events – Arizona voters have approved a measure that empowers local law enforcement to arrest migrants suspected of entering the country illegally. This comes when the southern border has seen a historically unprecedented increase in border crossings over the past few years… The measure, Proposition 314, establishes that crossing the border outside an official port of entry into Arizona from Mexico is a state crime, permitting state and local authorities to make arrests and allowing state judges to order deportations. Additionally, those enforcing the law are shielded from civil lawsuits.

By Janet E. Smith, Crisis Magazine – I am happy, deliriously so, and grateful. I am floating in a sea of gratitude and amazement over the Trump victory… Everyone expected massive demonstrations after the election, no matter who won. It didn’t happen. I suspect no one is disappointed. But I am disappointed that there was no dancing in the streets. Is that considered uncivil for elections? All elections, or just this one?… Oh, I am happy, deliriously so, and grateful. I am floating in a sea of gratitude and amazement. Six months ago, no one would have predicted ….

By Thaddeus G. McCotter, American Greatness – Trump’s re-election signals a call for a return to sanity and prosperity. A demonstration of magnanimity could bolster his position and advance his policy goals while avoiding partisan retaliation… Donald Trump’s re-election as President of the United States, including an immense electoral college and popular vote victories, was the American people’s call for sanity and prosperity. For the incoming Trump administration, there is no time to waste in honoring the public’s mandate for change from the Obama and Biden administrations’ radical, dangerous, extreme, and disastrous policies. The first step is to lower the country’s political temperature. It won’t be easy.

By Grace Porto, Catholic Vote – An analyst at the Free Press recently explained that Republicans picked the winning women’s rights issue in the 2024 election… keeping biological males out of female sports while the Democrats’ strategy of promoting unrestricted abortion failed… the Free Press (on) Nov. 7 (said) that the Democrats’ “big bet” on abortion rights did not pay off… “Not only was abortion a flop with the electorate, it was Republicans — not Democrats — who pushed the winning women’s-rights issue: fighting the encroachment of biological men into women’s spaces and sports,” she said.

By Paul Kengor, Catholic Exchange – For the year 2024, however… evangelicals seemed down on Donald Trump, or at least less enthusiastic. Their decreased support concerned conservative Catholics worried about what they perceived as a deep, real and unprecedented threat to pro-life gains and religious freedom… judging from exit polls, those Catholics would respond by voting eagerly and overwhelming for the Republican presidential ticket. They came out so decisively for the ticket of Donald Trump and JD Vance (a Catholic) that they offset any waning numbers from evangelicals… Put bluntly, those Catholics got Donald Trump elected.

By Robert G. Marshall, Catholic Culture – Voters in the 2024 elections told NBC News’ Exit Poll that among five issues, 34% “said democracy mattered most” over other concerns, while 31% picked the economy, 14% abortion, 11% immigration, and just 4% foreign policy. But if voters nationwide picked Democrat candidates to remedy the supposed ills of democracy as identified by VP Kamala Harris and members of the Congressional Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol civil disturbance, they chose exactly the wrong group of candidates to remedy the situation.

By Logan Washburn, The Federalist – “I hope we can lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electorate system. It is honest, it is fair and it is transparent. And it can be trusted, win or lose,” Biden said on Nov. 7 according to The Hill… But that is false. Integrity advocates took immediate action to address issues when they rose on election night, keeping them from developing into a bigger problem. Trump’s massive turnout truly did make this election “too big to rig,” but that does not mean it was free from bad actors trying to rig it.

The Catholic Herald – The Vatican’s top diplomat has said that a controversial deal with China on the appointment of bishops will continue “regardless of reactions that may come from America” during the new Trump administration… Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, spoke to reporters on the sidelines of an event at Rome’s Jesuit-run Gregorian University on artificial intelligence and international humanitarian law.

By Suzanne Bowdey, LifeNews – While it isn’t what every American wanted, the election did deliver something every American needed: clarity. The results that handed Donald Trump his second term supplied exactly what this weary and fractured country had to have to move forward — an unambiguous winner. A straightforward path. A fresh chance to be the nation its people, and the world, deserve. But none of that will matter, some are pointing out, if we don’t seize the reprieve God has granted.

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – We can’t just say ‘Oh well we’re all Americans in the end’ and pretend that everything is okay. Everything is not okay… Back in July after the first Trump assassination attempt, I wrote that there can be no national unity, no burying the hatchet or cooling the rhetoric with people who have been encouraging political violence and pushing assassination prep for years. You can’t smack someone in the face with a hammer and then insist everyone calm down. …

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – The importance of retaining their First Amendment right to free speech weighed heavily on the minds of voters in this year’s elections – just as Americans had warned candidates it would… (one) survey revealed that nearly two-thirds (63%) of Americans rated free speech a “very important” issue influencing their vote for president, while nine in ten of both Republicans and Democrats said it would be at least a “somewhat important” factor. …

By Catholic World News – CWN Editor’s Note: Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, offered his thoughts on the presidential election of Donald Trump in an exchange with reporters on November 7… “Of course we wish him well,” Cardinal Parolin said. “We wish him much wisdom, because that is the principal virtue of leaders according to the Bible.”… Parolin said that he hoped Trump could fulfill his promise to end the warfare in Ukraine and Gaza, but added “I don’t think he has a magic wand.” …

By Jonathan Liedl, National Catholic Register –
The USCCB has already addressed Trump’s victory, with conference president Archbishop Timothy Broglio congratulating the Republican in a Nov. 6 statement that also emphasizes the Church’s nonpartisan commitment to advancing the common good and the need for unity and prayer… Additionally, some of the anticipated agenda items for the 2024 assembly will likely take on a different shape with the conservative populist Trump, and not the progressive globalist Harris, in the Oval Office.

By Jason Scott Jones, The Stream – In the last stretch of the 2024 presidential election season, Donald Trump made it clearer than ever that he was pitting the fate of his entire movement against the military-industrial complex and the violence of war. There has rightly been plenty of talk about the political “realignments” Trumpism has brought about. These historic shifts have resulted in a new populist right that champions the worker …. But the most significant realignment has been a realignment toward peace ….

By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews – Multiple exit polls show that President-elect Donald Trump won the Catholic vote by a wide margin in Tuesday’s election – posting the strongest performance among Catholics for a Republican nominee since Ronald Reagan… In the past several election cycles, Catholics as a whole have emerged as an important swing voting bloc – and the candidate who wins their vote has almost always gone on to win the presidency.

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews – Catholics supported Donald Trump in the 2024 U.S. presidential election by a “massive margin” of 15 points — the largest in decades — according to exit polls… A Washington Post exit poll found that Trump outperformed Kamala Harris among American Catholics by 56 percent to 41 percent. An NBC exit poll similarly showed that Catholics voted for the president by a 15-point margin in 10 key swing states, with Trump receiving 56 percent of their vote compared with Harris’ 41 percent. …

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Donald Trump is now projected to win the states of Arizona and Nevada, which were still counting votes from Tuesday’s presidential race… Trump has already surpassed the necessary 270 electoral college votes to win the presidency and now he’s achieved the 312 vote total… With the Arizona win, Trump’s electoral votes tally will hit 312 compared to Kamala Harris’s 226 – a clear and convincing victory over the radical abortion activist.

By Emmy Griffin, Patriot Post – How did voters respond in 10 states? Bad for the most part, but peppered with some good… Over the last few weeks, Kamala Harris’s campaign has leaned heavily into pandering to all the vices. Her favorite vice to promote is abortion, and there were 10 states with this issue on the ballot: New York, Maryland, Florida, Missouri, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, Montana, and Nevada.

By The Catholic Herald – The US election has turned out to be not quite as close-run as the pundits and the pollsters predicted. The results are in, and they are decisive. In January Donald Trump will return to the White House as the next president; JD Vance, a Catholic convert, will be his vice president… This is a momentous result, not least for Catholics and indeed for all who hold dear the protection of life in the womb. Kamala Harris’s only clear policy… was that she was pro-abortion in all circumstances ….

By Megan Basham, First Things – In the final days of the 2024 election, the Democrats have at last hit on a pitch they believe will make inroads with young men: Vote for us, the party of porn.
When ads tying Dems to smut first rolled out on October 7, they still seemed like a niche play by the party’s fringe. A coalition of porn actors… pooled a measly $100,000 for a campaign billed as “Hands Off My Porn,” to run on porn sites in swing states.

By CatholicVote – Multiple exit polls show that President-elect Donald Trump won the Catholic vote by a wide margin in Tuesday’s election – posting the strongest performance among Catholics for a Republican nominee since Ronald Reagan…. In the past several election cycles, Catholics as a whole have emerged as an important swing voting bloc – and the candidate who wins their vote has almost always gone on to win the presidency. In 2020, Joe Biden bested Trump among Catholics by five points, per Gallup. …

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – When our children were young, we had a regular light-hearted morning routine. After breakfast I would head to my office, asking, “Do you know what I’m going to do today?” And the children—having been coached—would chorus: “Save the world from democracy.”… Our government is not a democracy—at least, not just a democracy. When he was asked what sort of government the Constitutional Convention had designed for us, Benjamin Franklin famously answered: “A republic—if you can keep it.”

By The Stream – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: Donald J. Trump’s victory in the electoral competition for the Presidency of the United States of America constitutes a historic moment in the dramatic events of the present and marks a formidable setback for the criminal plan of the New World Order. I express my warmest congratulations to President Trump, while I thank Our Lord for having prevented the United States and the Western world from definitively falling into the tentacles of the deep state and globalist tyranny. …

By Eric Sammonsm, Crisis Magazine – But here’s a sobering thought: all those attacks (on Trump) will look like child’s play compared to what’s coming. Don’t for a minute think that Trump’s overwhelming victory—which proved that the American people decisively rejected the lies about him—will slow down his enemies. In fact, it will likely embolden them… I predict that defeat will lead Trump’s opponents completely over the edge (if they haven’t already fallen over it). Every single day of a second Trump term will be filled with demented politicians and talking heads accusing Trump of the most vile evils. Every single governmental act by Trump will be compared to a Nazi pogrom. This is going to be ugly.

By Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency – Voters in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota on Tuesday night voted down major pro-abortion proposals in their states, while seven other states saw voters approve measures to expand abortion, in several cases codifying abortion access into the state constitution… After back-to-back pro-life losses in half a dozen states since 2022, the rejection of the pro-abortion measures in three states on Tuesday represent the first victories at the ballot box for pro-life advocates since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

By Dan Hart, LifeNews – In the ongoing aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the 2024 election saw an unprecedented 11 ballot initiatives in 10 states that mostly attempted to codify a “right” to obtain an abortion into state constitutions. Perhaps the most highly contested initiative took place in Florida, where the pro-abortion Amendment 4 failed to pass.

By S.A. McCarthy, Daily Signal – With unaddressed allegations of fraud dominating the months following the 2020 presidential election, Republicans made election integrity a major focus on Tuesday night… The Republican National Committee and its team of lawyers were quick to respond to potential hijinks Tuesday night, while voters followed up with a resounding push for ballot integrity in nine states.

By Isabel Vincent, New York Post – A charity run shelter in El Paso, Texas stands accused of “planning and facilitating” illegal migrants to cross over the border from Mexico into the US, according to court documents… The accusation of brazen illegality is part of a suit filed by the state Attorney General Ken Paxton against Annunciation House, a Catholic group who run a handful of shelters providing temporary housing to migrants who have illegally crossed into the US.

By Calvin Freiburger, Peter Martin, LifeSiteNews – Republican former President Donald Trump has won this year’s election to become the 47th president of the United States, defeating Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris… Fox News called the 2024 presidential race for Trump around 1:50 a.m. EST on Wednesday after declaring him the winner of swing states Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The Associated Press has since called the election for Trump… Republicans are also projected to win control of the Senate with at least 51 seats, though control of the House is not known yet.

By Dakota Meyer, The Stream – … only a small part of America’s legacy is based on who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s prominently dictated by the actions and decisions of hundreds of millions of people who build their own legacies one day at a time, regardless of their circumstances or who the president is… The Greatest Generation taught us this 80 years ago, when it defeated Germany and Japan… They could have given up any time, and I doubt we would have blamed them. Instead, they cemented their legacies one person at a time.

By Daniel Payne, CNA – By 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, with roughly 90% of the vote counted, returns showed Amendment 4 with about 57% of voters in favor, failing to clear the 60% threshold… A proposed pro-abortion amendment in Florida failed to pass on Tuesday, bringing an end to an effort to enshrine broad abortion access in the state constitution and serving abortion advocates with a major defeat in the 2024 election.

By Breccan F. Thies, The Federalist – “Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason,” Trump said, referring to the summer attempt on his life that left him bloodied and left one supporter dead and two others injured… “This will truly be the golden age of America. That’s what we have, this is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again,” Trump said in his speech. “We’re gonna make you very proud of your vote.”

The Babylon Bee, Patriot Post – U.S. — On the eve of a hotly contested presidential election, top Democrats warned the American people that if Trump is elected, it would likely be the end of bureaucracy as we know it… The sobering news came as voters prepared to head to the polls today, with many prominent members of the Democratic Party issuing public pleas for people to turn out and defend the federal government’s bureaucratic establishment from certain death.

By Al Perrotta, The Stream – We’ve traveled a long road in Campaign 2024. You can say it began when counting stopped in swing states and hundreds of thousands of ballots magically appeared for Joe Biden after America went to bed on election night in 2020, and the American people were deplatformed, told to shut up, and even jailed for saying that something funny was going on… (Today), the American people have the chance to vote in numbers too loud to ignore, to say firmly and as one, “We are not garbage. We are not fodder for your foreign invaders. ….

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture – Jesus teaches: “The first [commandment] is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Love God. Love neighbor. It’s personal.

By Anne Reed, LifeNews – Newman added, “Christians must show up in massive numbers tomorrow and vote for Trump to keep this Marxist out of the Oval Office. We must understand that Christians are not welcome under a Harris regime. We will suffer grave consequences if we don’t take our responsibility seriously right now and leave Kamala in the pages behind us.”

By John Leake, LifeSiteNews – We now live in a country in which tens of millions of people are so blinded by violent hatred for Donald Trump that they are no longer able to perform a rational evaluation of anything pertaining to politics. I believe that this hate is infinitely more destructive and dangerous that the so-called “hate” that Elliot Kirschner attributed to Tony Hinchcliffe’s bad jokes at the Trump rally.

By Dr. Leisa Marie Carzon, Catholic Exchange – While many Catholics have already cast early votes, others are indicating they will sit it out this election. Abstaining, examination of social justice issues, and voting for a third party are considerations for Catholic voters. Our bishops remind us that, because we are people of both faith and reason, we are called to witness to the dignity of human life, defend marriage, and promote the well-being of all. We currently have before us an incredible opportunity to advance the common good, limit evil, and permeate culture with beauty, truth, and goodness.

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International – As we cast ballots for the 47th president of the United States and elect people to fill various federal, state, and local positions, it is time once more to remind ourselves just how high the stakes of this election are and what our duties are as Catholic citizens… The results of Tuesday’s elections will impact every level of our society – from legislation, to judges, to the educational system, foreign policy, health care, and so much more. And though our vote is only one among millions, it nevertheless remains true that the accumulated weight of those millions of votes determines, in crucial ways, the future our country will take.

By Anthony Iafrate, CatholicVote – For pro-life Americans, the stakes in the 2024 election cycle could not be higher… While the lion’s share of media coverage surrounding Election Day has been focused on the all-important presidential race, in many parts of the country, extreme pro-abortion measures lurk down-ballot… On Tuesday, voters in 10 states will decide whether or not ballot initiatives creating a so-called “right to abortion” in their state constitutions will pass…

By Ryan Bilodeau, Catholic Exchange – As Catholics, we are entrusted with the responsibility of bringing our faith into the public square. Yet, as this election season unfolds, political discourse seems to have lost its moral compass, focusing more on defeating enemies than building a just society. Drawing on the wisdom of St. John Paul II, we must ask: how can we restore the Catholic principles of solidarity, subsidiarity, and the common good in a political climate that thrives on division?

By Mario Enzler, Kevin Mooney, The Daily Signal – Kamala Harris and company are all in with radical, anti-life policies that could unsettle swing voters who might describe themselves as “moderately pro-choice” but hardly pro-abortion… The amorphous terminology built around the concept of personal autonomy has different meanings to different ears. In conversations with family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbors who are saturated with media reports designed to obscure the brutality of the abortion industry, practicing Catholics are at a perpetual disadvantage.

By Allen West, Patriot Post – Many times, people ask me about a reading list, and one of the books I recommend is Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” Alinsky’s rantings are truthfully the playbook of leftists… You can see this playing out currently as another so-called son of Chicago, Barack Hussein Obama, hits the road in the election cycle. It is all about the politics of personal destruction, targeting, coercion, intimidation, threats, and ultimately violence. It follows right with the schemes of Karl Marx and all of his acolytes that the world has had to endure. And now, it has firmly taken root here in our Constitutional Republic.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Donald Trump emphasized the importance of faith and prayer in his life during a recent event in South Carolina. He stated that his spiritual beliefs guide him and play a crucial role in his leadership… Trump discussed how he plans to bring these values back to the White House if re-elected in 2024, promising to promote religious freedoms and support faith-based initiatives. He also criticized the current administration for its stance on faith-related issues, positioning himself as a candidate who prioritizes religious values in governance. …

By Mary Eberstadt, First Things – Red and blue Americans are locked in a hostile custody battle right now. But if they agree on anything, it’s that “the gender gap has never been wider,” as one piece in the New York Times just summarized. For both the Harris and Trump campaigns, that gap shapes the playbook. Electoral binaries like hawks vs. doves, flyover land vs. coasts, are out. The battle between the sexes, and which side leverages it best, will decide what happens next week.

By Elizabeth Kidney, CatholicVote – Conservative scholar and author Christopher Rufo on Thursday reported that Boeing was taking steps to eliminate its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) department… “WINNING,” Rufo wrote. “Boeing has abolished its DEI department.”… “Earlier this year, we published a story showing how DEI was undermining competence at the company,” continued Rufo. “Insiders tell us it helped put pressure on the new CEO, who made the decision to shutter the department.”

By Joy Pullmann, The Federalist – One of the best ways to know what Democrats are up to is to simply check how they’re smearing their opponents. Who is really “destroying democracy” if not those who support mass censorship, surveillance, and the jailing of reporters and others over speech crimes? Who really colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election? Who ended the United States’ lifelong tradition of peaceful transition of power by spying on and sabotaging the governance of the opposition-party president elected after Barack Obama?

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – Who actually are the “garbage” people?… Are they one and the same with Joe Biden’s “semi-fascists,” “chumps,” and “dregs of society?”… Or Barack Obama’s “clingers?”… Do they include Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables?”… Over the last decade-and-a-half, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Harris-Walz, and a host of other self-described elites have variously invented a wide range of smears and slurs—but about whom exactly?

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSiteNews – Mail ballots submitted without a date will not be counted in Pennsylvania after all, the state’s highest court ruled Friday after a lower court declared they should be accepted… the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted the GOP and Pennsylvania GOP Party’s emergency request for a stay of a appellate court ruling two days earlier that the “free and equal elections clause” of the Pennsylvania Constitution required the Philadelphia Board of Elections to count a set of undated envelopes in a September special election for a state House seat.

By Stephen Kokx, LifeSiteNews – Cardinal Burke told EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo that if there is ‘some good reason to think we can advance the cause of life, and the family, and religious freedom, that’s the kind of candidate we need to support.’… Both major political party candidates have “gravely morally objectionable content” in their platforms, Cardinal Burke acknowledged, but “to not vote at all in a democracy like our own” is a “failure of our own duty to try to support a candidate, even if he or she is highly flawed but at least gives us some hope to advance the cause of life, and the family, and religious freedom.”

By Betsy McCaughey, The Stream – The biggest lie roiling the election is Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim that former President Donald Trump will ban abortion nationwide… Abortion rights do not hinge on who is elected president, nor on which party controls Congress. The issue is out of their hands. Wherever you live, the people you elect as state legislators will determine your abortion rights. That is what the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2022 when it overturned Roe v. Wade.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The biggest contest next Tuesday, November 5, is without doubt the race for the White House. With various suggestions that this will be the last quadrennial election in our democracy, put me on the side of those who think it likelier that the race for the White House in 2028 will be in the news before the doomsday talk takes hold. On one subject matter at least, however, next Tuesday’s election will be fateful: the installation of abortion on request in state constitutions.

By Al Perrotta, The Stream – We are five days away from the election. And whatever the outcome, Donald J. Trump will go down as one of the greatest trollers of all time… When Joe Biden calls Trump’s supporters “garbage,” how does Trump respond? By rolling around Green Bay, Wisconsin in a specially painted garbage truck… He would later wear the waste disposal gear at his rally in Green Bay. His message: “Two hundred and fifty million Americans are not garbage.”

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, First Things – As the presidential campaign winds down, the Trump-Vance ticket is ramping up warnings of Christian persecution if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election. “The radical left is not going to leave Christians alone. It’s going to get worse and worse, and you’re going to suffer greatly,” President Donald Trump told the 11th Hour Faith Leaders Meeting in Concord, N.C., on October 21. “Ms. Harris has been an integral part of the most anti-Catholic administration in living memory—ironic given President Joe Biden’s Catholic faith,” Sen. JD Vance wrote …

By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine – I am angry at what I have come to know through the work of Casey Means and Calley Means. Brother and sister, she is a Stanford-educated surgeon, though practicing that no longer. He was a Harvard MBA working at the top of major food companies. After what he saw, he walked away, too… Did you know that we ingest a credit-card-sized amount of plastic every single week? Did you know that fifty percent of American children have some chronic health issue and that 50 years ago this was a mere one percent? …

By Grace Porto, CatholicVote – Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, is holding a Eucharistic procession around the Nebraska State Capitol two days before the presidential election… According to a post on Bishop Conley’s X account, the Eucharistic adorers will “plead for the life of the preborn” through their prayers and witness. This year, Nebraska has two competing ballot measures regarding abortion restrictions, as CatholicVote previously reported.

By Shea Bradley-Farrell, Human Events – Border security and immigration are critical issues for the November 5th election, and Americans must make an informed decision when voting. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ administration has claimed for four years that its “immigration policies” are “safe, orderly, and humane” for the millions flooding to U.S. borders. In reality, Harris presides over the largest human and sex trafficking scheme in history—and women and girls bear the brunt of it.

Catholic Vote – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday drove up to a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, wearing a workman’s orange safety vest and driving a garbage truck… The gesture comes after President Joe Biden said earlier in the week that Trump supporters are “garbage” for backing a candidate who engages in “unconscionable” rhetoric… “How do you like my garbage truck?“ Trump said to reporters after he pulled up to the rally in Green Bay. “This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.”

By Joshua Mercer, CatholicVote – Joe Biden on Tuesday said that supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are “garbage” for backing such an “unconscionable” candidate… The president’s remarks came after insult comic Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke about Puerto Rico being an island of “floating garbage“ during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. While numerous conservative Puerto Ricans came forward to say they were not offended by the joke, Democratic operatives claimed it was malicious and tied it to Trump.

By Jason Scott Jones, The Stream – What is anarcho-tyranny? Put simply, it means “Anarchy for me, tyranny for thee.” It describes a two-tiered justice system which operates to intimidate, punish, and finally suppress political opposition. You could find examples of it all through our fallen history.. the most infamous example of anarcho-tyranny as a means of consolidating power can be found in Weimar Germany. The Nazis employed anarcho-tyranny to extend their control of the German street, such that the conservative government felt there was no choice but to invite Hitler to join them… The left in today’s America is following not the Communist playbook (which often fails) but the Nazi one.

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews – The Randall Terry presidential campaign produced a Halloween-themed commercial displaying dozens of incendiary images of aborted children aimed at dissuading voters from casting their ballots for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a strident supporter of abortion up until birth… “She’s a baby killer,” Terry said in a recent interview. “This is an evil woman, a disgusting human being.”

By Thomas Jipping, Sarah Parshall Perry, Daily Signal – In an essay published by The New York Times and titled “Abortion Pills Are Safe. Post-Roe America Isn’t,” Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky, a physician who practices maternal-fetal medicine, demonstrates that the campaign for unlimited abortion is as fraudulent and deceptive as ever… From the beginning, the “right” to abortion was built on fraud. Abortion advocates pushed states to repeal their pro-life laws with baseless claims about illegal abortions.

By Nick Kangadis, MRC TV – According to the Daily Caller: The Supreme Court allowed Virginia on Wednesday to remove individuals identified as noncitizens from the voter rolls… The justices paused a lower court order preventing officials from removing around 1,600 individuals who the state said “self-identified” as noncitizens… Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan would not have granted Virginia’s request, according to the order.

By Michael Swartz, Patriot Post – Three small Rust Belt towns embody the willful open-border catastrophe of the Biden-Harris regime… Back in the summer, we heard about the woes of Springfield, Ohio, a town of 60,000 that has been inundated by 20,000 Haitian refugees, courtesy of the Biden-Harris administration. A similar story can be told about Charleroi, Pennsylvania, another small town where Haitians have become the majority of employees at a local food-processing plant.

By Brett Samuels, The Hill – “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been,” Biden said, according to the transcript provided by the White House.

By Peter Laffin, National Catholic Register – Both former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have made a concerted outreach to Catholic voters during the campaign, especially in the Catholic-heavy swing states in the Mountain West and Midwest… But in recent weeks, the Trump campaign has sharpened its focus and deployed its best Catholic surrogates to make a direct appeal, while the Harris campaign has eschewed Catholic outreach in favor of messaging on Trump’s character and the threat they believe he poses to democracy.

By Virginia Allen, Daily Signal – It’s a race to 270. With just six days until the 2024 presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are seeking to motivate voters in key swing states across the nation in hopes of picking up enough support to earn 270 electoral votes and claim victory… Trump will speak to voters Wednesday afternoon in North Carolina’s 1st District, a region that is anticipated to determine which candidates win the state’s 16 electoral votes. …

By Josué Luis Hernández, OnePeterFive – As the days once more begin to shorten and the greater light withdraws into its autumnal languor, we find ourselves living through a moment of profound civilizational darkness that, evidently, very few are able to properly appreciate. Many, it is quite true, increasingly have a sense that something has gone terribly wrong, but it is beyond the grasp of most to understand the depth to which society has been plunged, for we are no longer aware of the heights from which it has fallen.

By Tom McClusky, LifeNews – At a global warming event earlier this year, Vice President Kamala Harris stated, “When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water.” The White House quickly moved to let the press know she misspoke and meant to say, “reduce pollution.” Her record on children, however, shows that her verbal miscue was less a misstatement and more a Freudian slip.

By Tom McClusky, Washington Stand – At a global warming event earlier this year, Vice President Kamala Harris stated, “When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water.”… Even as she worked her way up the ladder in California politics, she built a reputation of abusing her power to attack individuals who try to protect unborn children and also targeting those who run maternity homes and offer alternatives to abortion in the Golden State.

By Stephen Kokx , LifeSiteNews – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an op-ed written by GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance that lays out the many instances when Kamala Harris’ “anti-Catholic bias” has been on display… JD Vance slammed Kamala Harris for her ‘consistent pattern’ of attacking Catholics, including by suggesting that a judicial nominee should be disqualified because of his Catholic faith and by backing legislation that would force Catholic hospitals to commit abortions and transgender surgeries.

By Debra Heine, American Greatness – In an open letter to American Catholics, former Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò endorsed former President Donald Trump and strongly denounced his opponent Kamala Harris as “an infernal monster who obeys Satan.”… In his letter, Vigano wrote that the choice in the November election is “between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation: you are called to choose between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and slavery.”… “For a Catholic, there can be no question: voting for Kamala Harris is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin. Nor is it morally possible to abstain, because in this war declaring oneself neutral means allying oneself with the enemy”

By Msgr. Richard C. Antall, Crisis Magazine – “Mendacity,” cried Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Our culture seems to be built on it, and our politics especially. The Japanese writer Yukio Mishima had a character say, “The essence of politics is this. Listen. There is no truth in politics. Politics knows that there is no truth in it. So politics is required to make a counterfeit of truth.” The counterfeiting of “facts” is perhaps the most striking of the campaign we have been exposed to, and this has been aided and abetted by an elite that is in control of so much of the access we have to news and opinion.

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture – In 2020, Ross Douthat wrote “The Decadent Society.” It is a book in which, as Vox described it, “Douthat’s definition of a ‘decadent society’ is that we’re trapped in a stale system that keeps spinning in place, reproducing the same arguments and frustrations over and over again.”… Could there be any better description of how we think about Catholics and voting in the United States? It has been the same thing forever. Or at least since the 1980s… That was the decade in which New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, in 1984, made his infamous “personally opposed, but…” speech about abortion at Notre Dame University.

By Roger Helle, Patriot Post – The story of Daniel is an incredible one. At the tender age of 15, he was snatched away from his comfortable life as a member of the royal family in Judah. He’s dragged hundreds of miles away from home, castrated in the court of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, and sent to a brainwashing school to make him forget everything about his past life, especially his religion

By Auguste Meyrat, The Federalist – The problem of appealing to men has less to do with messaging and more to do with the actual women who constitute the Democrat Party… Due to the unfortunate fact that Democrats and leftists have largely ditched Christianity.. it falls to Republicans and conservatives to learn this crucial lesson: If you want men to join your movement, welcome and cultivate good women in your ranks. And as a corollary, if you want to welcome and cultivate good women, offer a worldview that is humanizing and signifying… thus (transcending) the current sexual polarization that’s warping Western political culture.

By Laura Hollis, Patriot Post – Harris’ disregard for the religious freedoms of medical care professionals will not be limited to abortion… Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris has been struggling to articulate issues that resonate with voters in the final days of the campaign. Other than bland assurances about “an opportunity economy” and growing up “a middle-class kid,” the only issue Harris seems both emphatic and explicit about is abortion.

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSiteNews – 82% of Chicago Public Schools students are not proficient in math, 74% are not proficient in reading, and around 40% are chronically absent, in a district with a budget deficit of half a billion dollars. But the district received almost a million dollars from the federal government for its ‘LGBTQ+’ and climate agendas.

By Barbara Toth, PhD, Souls and Liberty – The cardinal makes clear that, “Only if no candidate provides any ray of hope of serving, at least in some part, the common good … are we justified in not voting at all.”… Cardinal Burke’s counsel is especially relevant, given that millions of Christians intend not to vote in November – a fact reflected in numerous polls. Such inaction could determine the results of the election, and decide the fate of the nation… “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” – attributed to Thomas Jefferson.. Burke’s advice provides essential instruction for anyone desiring to vote with moral integrity. It is especially useful for those confused by media spin or struggling with their own moral compunctions. It is divided into five parts, each a guide to a moral vote.

By Fr. Olek Stirrat, Catholic World Report – What we need now is to be aware of the theological faultlines which have a Marxist scent and underpin certain strands of liberation theology. One must appropriately align the pastoral dimension of the faith with doctrine; be attentive to the voice of the Holy not Hegelian spirit—the Holy Spirit who is always the Spirit of the Father and the Son; and finally appreciate the sacramentality of the Church and the world, as well as the indispensability of the incarnate Jesus Christ for our salvation.

By Janet E. Smith, Ph.D., Crisis Magazine – We are on the brink of the 2024 presidential election—which, perhaps more than ever, has us on the brink of preserving this wonderful nation or losing it… Is it true that some Catholics still don’t know for whom they are going to vote, or if they are going to vote? What more do they need to know than they know already? Maybe a lot… A good case can be made for not voting or voting for a third-party candidate in “non-swing” states, but I believe it imperative for Catholics to vote for Trump in swing states. Indeed, somewhat indirectly, Cardinal Burke makes a strong case for this perspective… The only hope we have for changing the laws on abortion (and saving this country!) is to elect those who will work to defend free speech and freedom of religion, who will deport illegal immigrants, who will ensure that elections are fair.

By Richard Truesdell, Keith Lehmann, American Greatness – It’s plain to see that the real existential threat to American democracy is not Trump. It’s lunatics on the left motivated by more than nine years of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It’s real and Democrats like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), and so many more are what they accuse Trump of being—a threat to American democracy. These two especially, but many other Democrats in public life wouldn’t know democracy if it bit them squarely in the —.

By CatholicVote – CatholicVote on Thursday released a new ad in support of Republican nominee Donald Trump, featuring former 2024 independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Catholic… Kennedy addresses Catholic voters. “My Catholicism provided the foundation for a lifetime of striving to perfect my personal relationship with God… Two features of Catholicism are the notions of original sin and the concept of a forgiving God,” he continues. “Our job is to strive to perfect ourselves through conscious contact with our Creator, knowing that in human form, we are never going to achieve perfection.”

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – (Vance) blasted Harris for bias against pro-life Christians… In 2019, Ms. Harris also introduced the equally misnamed “Do No Harm Act,” which would force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions and even transgender surgeries. If this bill were to become law, Catholic doctors and medical professionals who refuse to perform late-term abortions or subject minors to dangerous, life-altering surgeries could lose their license and face federal discrimination lawsuits.

By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal – Under the Biden-Harris administration, the United States has become a “garbage can for the world,” former President Donald Trump said at a campaign rally Thursday in Tempe, Arizona… “When [Vice President Kamala Harris] came in, she deliberately dismantled our border and threw open the gates … to an invasion of criminal migrants from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions, from all over the world,” Trump said.

By Stephen Kokx, LifeSiteNews – Tucker Carlson issued a searing indictment of the “freaks and misfits” who run the “Democratic machine” and America’s establishment class while touting his belief that Donald Trump is going to win this year’s election… “This is the end of a redemption arc,” Carlson declared to a raucous audience at a rally in Georgia on Wednesday. “I’ve really never seen anybody treated like Donald Trump is treated ever … and he’s going to win.”

The Editors, National Catholic Register – If the Synod on Synodality definitively reshapes the missionary ability of the Catholic Church, either for better or for worse, that will be the more important outcome. That’s because the Church’s divine mission, granted to it nearly 2,000 years ago by Jesus himself, is the salvation of souls. And nothing, including who wins control of the White House for the next four years, can ever be as crucial as our eternal destiny.

By Virginia Allen, Kellen McGovern Jones, David Agren, The Daily Signal – Lying among the 16 or 17 dead bodies, Tom Homan spotted the corpse of a little boy, only 5 years old. The child died inside a sweltering truck trailer in Victoria, Texas, while being smuggled into the U.S. in May 2003… These are the memories that today’s images from the border evoke in Homan, a father himself. Children are victims here, not only of America’s broken immigration system and wide-open border, but also of the ruthless cartels that see children—particularly unaccompanied children—as a resource to exploit.

By Stephen Kokx, LifeSiteNews – Catholic actor and human rights activist Eduardo Verastegui gifted Donald Trump a massive image of Our Lady of Guadalupe at a Latinos for Trump event on Tuesday in Miami… Verastegui is the producer of the hit movie Sound of Freedom, which is based on real-life events involving child trafficking. He unfurled the banner of Mary while speaking to Trump… “Today, I gave President Trump the most powerful thing that united and keeps Mexico united despite everything,” the Mexican American activist said in an X post. “Our Mother and Lady, the Virgin of Guadalupe.”

By Rachel Quackenbush, CatholicVote – Young American men, ages 18-34, are the only demographic in a study of 20 developed countries that has shifted more conservatively in recent years, according to multiple surveys provided in a report from The American Prospect… The Harvard Youth Poll released in late September showed .. VP Kamala Harris holding strong support among young women, with a 47-point lead over Donald Trump on issues like climate change and abortion. Among young men, however, her lead was a more modest 17 points. ….

By Jonathan Alexandre, The Stream – Recently, an Afghan national living in Oklahoma City, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, was arrested for conspiring to commit a terrorist attack on American soil on Election Day… Thankfully, his plans were thwarted by federal law enforcement — but if this ISIS-inspired terrorist plot doesn’t raise red flags about all the immigrants welcomed into our country under the Biden-Harris administration who pose threats to our national security, I don’t know what will.

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews – “Nearly 20 innocent Americans are in federal prison for peacefully protesting abortion,” Terry says at the start of the ad, while showing the names and images of the jailed pro-life heroes whose stories have been reported extensively by LifeSiteNews… “Abortion to the day of birth is on the ballot in these 10 states”… Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, and South Dakota.

By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency – ice President Kamala Harris confirmed that she would oppose religious exemptions in abortion laws if elected president and emphasized that she would not make concessions to Republicans on the issue… “I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body,” Harris responded.

By Tyler Arnold, Catholic World Report/CNA – Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, at an Oct. 20 faith rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, accused the Biden-Harris administration of persecuting Christians and Catholics in particular… Vance also spoke about religious liberty and the impact of inflation, illegal immigration, and drug addiction… “There are a lot of Catholics … [who] I think rightfully feel abandoned by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ leadership, and they’re just looking for somebody to protect their rights and make this country an affordable and decent place to raise a family.”

By Charles A. Kohlhaas, MRC TV – The left is using the inherent instability and weakness of democracies to cause them to destroy themselves, although it proclaims intent to “save democracy.” This is one of the most perverted uses of the language since the 1930s; Goebbels would be proud… Western Civilization needs to be saved. Defeating the attempt by Fascists/Marxists to use the vulnerability of democracy to destroy it is the first and most critical step.

By Jason Negri, LifeSiteNews – Incessant gaslighting by the Left has led many former Trump opponents to now support the former President for re-election… Left-leaning Americans, do you want to know why erstwhile good people are flocking to support Donald Trump? Do you really want to understand it and actually grapple with the reasons why people who you once saw as decent fellow Americans are supporting the man you believe to be a lecherous, grifting, egomaniacal political opportunist and convicted felon for president? …

By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – While Pres. Joe Biden may not have much juice left in the cognition battery, he’s got enough spark remaining to deliver the real marching orders of the Democrat Party and the deep state: Lock up Donald Trump… A Trump victory, coupled with Republicans controlling Congress, should mean not only investigations into myriad cases of misconduct, corruption, and abuse of power over the past four years, but actual accountability for wrongdoing. That scenario is what should most frighten Biden, Harris, and their corrupt government minions who have routinely violated the Constitution …

By Patty Knap, National Catholic Register – The new documentary The 1916 Project — which is streaming free Oct. 22-Nov. 14 on X, with additional screenings at churches — goes a long way in answering that question. It explores the chronology of the secular moral revolution and the architects and intentions of our current culture of death…While many factors have played a role in the cultural downfall, the documentary explains that, for more than 100 years, one well-funded organization has been part of the equation: Planned Parenthood.

By Virginia Allen, Kellen McGovern Jones, David Agren, The Daily Signal – On the outskirts of this west Texas desert town, the “no go zone” of the U.S. border with Mexico is pitch black and tense at 10 p.m. Darkness suits everyone’s interests here; it appears neither border crossers nor U.S. Border Patrol agents want to be seen before they make their move… Anapra Road and the connecting wall route are where illegal immigrants and their cartel handlers now choose to cross in this region –– and they will use force if they feel it necessary. Nearly a dozen Border Patrol vehicles and at least as many agents sit, with their lights off, behind a partition of scrub brush.

By Catholic Vote – Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris roiled Christian leaders Tuesday when she took a no-exceptions pro-abortion stance during an interview with NBC in which she announced her opposition to religious exemptions and called abortion a “fundamental freedom.”… “Kamala Harris admits she would deny religious exemptions for abortions—forcing Christians to kill unborn children and seemingly doubling down on weaponizing the government to jail pro-lifers who pray outside abortion facilities,” CatholicVote wrote. “Why would any Christian vote for her?”

By LifeNews,  National Right to Life – Many people are asking: Did Minnesota lawmakers and Gov. Tim Walz repeal the right to lifesaving care for born-alive infants? Is it really true that babies can be left to die?… Some journalists, advocates, and politicians have gotten this question wrong—often badly wrong. Let’s walk through the facts, one by one, with documentation and screenshots, and respond to frequently asked questions and confusions. …

A coalition of doctors and medical organizations are calling for transparency surrounding women’s health to combat misinformation about the abortion pill and pro-life laws… ProPublica published two articles claiming Georgia women died after taking abortion pills because the state’s abortion ban after six weeks of pregnancy prevented them from getting necessary treatment… the women did not die because of abortion bans, but rather because the abortion pill is dangerous…

By Tristan Justice, The Federalist – Trump is so effective that the Democrats and the media can’t handle it… The press was hysterical after former President Donald Trump manned the drive-through window at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s Sunday and genuinely looked like he was having a blast… “I think I might come back and do it again,” Trump said after handing off another bag of fast food. When the next car pulled up, Trump went on to chuckle about being shot in the face this summer when a passenger said, “Thank you for taking a bullet for us.”

By Joseph Pronechen, National Catholic Register – No doubt, these are trying times. Our country is straining at the seams. Sides are split. Rancor is running high. Parties are poles apart. Foreign wars seem intent on dragging the United States closer to them. Marriage is attacked. Gender assaulted. Families besieged. Religious freedom is in danger. Churches and statues vandalized, desecrated. But this is no time for handwringing or being at a loss ahead of a contentious election on Nov. 5.

By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, LifeSite News – On October 17, a slightly more detailed account of Bishop Joseph Yang Yongqiang’s (of the Chinese Diocese of Hangzhou) testimony was given by Vatican News. “The Church in China is the same as the Catholic Church in other countries of the world: we belong to the same faith, share the same baptism, and we are all faithful to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church,” Yang was reported as saying… Yang said that “we effectively adapt to society, serve it, adhere to the direction of the sinicization of Catholicism, and preach the Good News.” Sinicization refers to the process of Chinese state-assimilation and control of the Church in the country for its own ends.

By Casey Harper, Just the News – The Federal Emergency Management Agency is taking fire for its increased focus on migrants, and diversity, equity and inclusion polices while its response to recent hurricanes is under scrutiny… Many Americans assume FEMA is only focused on helping respond to disasters, but a closer look at FEMA’s recent internal documents, spending, and public actions shows that FEMA has broadened its focus to handling the flow of migrants into the U.S. and attempting to double down on DEI initiatives on gender, sexuality and race.

By Tyler O’Neil, Managing Editor, The Daily Signal – New research finds that approximately 41 million evangelical Christians won’t vote in the Nov. 5 presidential election, but that pastors can persuade approximately 5 million to vote just by urging them to fulfill their civic duty… George Barna, director of research at Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center, conducted two in-depth surveys in August and September. Online and by phone, Barna surveyed 2,000 adults who self-identified as Christians and said they attended church services at least once a month. He also did an online survey of 1,000 adults in the overall U.S. population.

By Raymond Arroyo, EWTN News – Mr. President, I’m delighted, first of all, that you made the Downton Abbey auditions. I think we’re going to fit in nicely. We’re at the Al Smith Dinner, of course. Tell me, why did you decide it was important to be here? And what message is Kamala Harris sending by not being here to Catholic voters?… Well, I think you’re honoring the Catholic Church. And, you know, I’ve been a longtime supporter, and I’m surprised she’s not here. I think she’s the first one in many, many decades, actually, to miss it as a candidate.

By Bob Unruh, LifeNews – Harris was promoting America’s industry of killing unborn children at the time, saying, “We remember Donald Trump hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade and they did as he intended.’… Actually, the Supreme Court ruled that the Roe decision was faulty from its outset and not based on the Constitution, so it was overturned, and the result returned regulation of the abortion industry to states.

By Mark Alexander, Patriot Post – Two years earlier Demos kicked off their “summer of rage” riots ahead of the 2020 election, insisting that our justice system was infested with “systemic racism.” That was a lie. They supported their Black Lives Matter and antifa fascist thug violence while vilifying law enforcement officers. Across the nation, the mayors of Demo-controlled urban centers enacted measures to release criminals while simultaneously defunding the police

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Evil Can Create Nothing… Like the rest of the leftists in power, Kamala Harris is a parasite. Every element in her proposals and in the rhetoric of the left is a hijacking, theft, or perversion of some wholesome natural value or even Christian sentiment. You can’t just lead with “We’re the party of porn, dead babies, castrated children, shoplifting flash mobs, hordes of grabby foreigners, and global surrender to our enemies.” It just doesn’t sound good… That’s what the left (and the squish right) are actually promoting, of course — as the principalities and powers which by now wholly control them know very well.

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – On Wednesday, The Times acknowledged that the left’s beloved Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) movement is having the exact opposite effect of its claimed goal… In its piece, “The University of Michigan Doubled Down on D.E.I. What Went Wrong?” The Times examines “the largest D.E.I. bureaucracy of any big public university,” exposing the utter failures of the school’s DEI programs.

By Chenyuan Snider, The Stream – Over 30 years ago, when I first arrived in the U.S., I met an elderly lady in our church who had escaped from communist Cuba. Now, a few decades later, my memories of her have faded away, except those concerning her enthusiasm about voting… (she) understood the gravity of voting. It is not just a civic duty, but one of the privileges and responsibilities God has laid on American Christians’ shoulders. This spiritual weight can no longer be ignored… We must vote, lest judgment fall upon us!

By The Stream – Tensions are high, and all eyes are on the November elections. What will the results mean for our nation? It is a critical time in history for both America and our world… While leaders determine a nation’s course, God is sovereign and can be trusted. Let’s humbly seek His Presence and His intervention on behalf of America. In a posture of unity, let’s agree that He is the only one who can turn the tide in our nation… Our battle is not against flesh and blood but principalities, powers, and spiritual wickedness in high places, and the battle belongs to the Lord.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – Blame the Russians. Blame the Americans. Blame the Muslims… In a lengthy essay featured by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano Father (soon to be Cardinal) Timothy Radcliffe strives mightily to understand why so many African bishops resist accepting homosexuality. He has a few theories: African bishops are under intense pressure from Evangelicals, with American money; from Russian Orthodox, with Russian money; and from Muslims, with money from the rich Gulf countries.

By Natalie Dodson, First Things – Republicans, especially those who claim to be pro-life, should not be baited into engaging with the Democrats on these types of bills… IVF, as practiced in the United States, involves the routine destruction of embryos prior to implantation, in addition to selective abortions after implantation. The leading cause of the destruction of human life at the embryonic stage is no longer abortion; it’s IVF.

By Susan Ciancio, Catholic World Report – Because the Dobbs decision sent the law-making ability regarding abortion to each individual state, those in the pro-abortion business must now change their strategy, and change it they have… Online predators have a new name and practice, and unlike the nefarious online predators of the past, whose actions result in indeterminate consequences, the actions of these predators will result in death. No, this is not hyperbole. We are talking about the abortion pill and the fact that access to this deadly drug takes only a computer and a few minutes.

By Rob Bluey, President, Ex. Editor, The Daily Signal – Recent polling suggests that some traditionally Democrat-leaning voters, particularly black and Hispanic men, appear to be reconsidering their political allegiances… Their concerns about the high cost of living and rising crime have them trending toward former President Donald Trump, which could make them the deciding factor in the 2024 presidential election.

By Kylee Griswold, The Federalist – Kamala Harris has done her best to make abortion the central issue for female voters this election. Of course, Democrats can’t even define “woman” (They aren’t biologists!), but they have no problem defining women’s issues as “reproductive freedom,” which is just lefty-speak for abortion at any time for any reason. Luckily for the Republican Party and the rest of the country, not all women are abortion-loving childless cat ladies — which was abundantly clear in both of Trump’s town halls on Wednesday.

By Elle Purnell, The Federalist –
The Biden laptop story blackout followed four entire years in which the media, in tandem with the Clinton campaign and the intelligence apparatus, spread lies about Trump based on the Russia collusion hoax and every other dubiously-sourced rumor they could find… The good news is, after seeing how cravenly the corporate press carried water for the Clinton campaign’s false narrative about Trump and Russia, America is recognizing and dismissing media hoaxes more quickly these days. …

By John Zmirak, The Stream – But when we finally leave this vale of tears, how will the great Judge regard us? How much sympathy does He have for reckless choices made out of wounded pride? Not much, from my reading of Scripture… There’s a better way forward than that. Disappointed in our choices as we may currently be, we can remember that God never uses perfect people because they don’t exist. And when He chooses someone, He can change their heart — and their policies — in an instant.

By Rich Doerflinger, LifeNews – As VP, Kamala Harris was called the “border czar” — a task that some say was beyond her abilities. But as “the White House’s voice of unflinching support for reproductive health rights,” she has advanced a pro-abortion agenda far more passionately… Here I do not use the word “pro-choice,” for good reason. Over a decade ago, abortion-industry groups such as Planned Parenthood publicly abandoned that slogan. They said it no longer resonated with a younger generation – which would be a surprise to the rank-and-file supporters whose favorite sign at rallies remains “My Body My Choice.” …

By  Tristan Justice, The Federalist – A prime example of Trump’s authenticity powerfully showcased in an online discussion was when comedian Theo Von spoke with the ex-president about addiction… “I had a great brother who taught me a lesson: Don’t drink. Don’t drink,” Trump said. “And he said ‘don’t smoke.’ He smoke and he drank.”… Von spoke about his own recovery for “most of the last 10 years” from “drugs and alcohol” while asking Trump about the last moments spent with his brother.

By Anne Hendershott, Catholic World Report – In a June 18th press conference at San Francisco’s Planned Parenthood, Mayor London Breed announced yet another pro-abortion measure designed to expand the City’s abortion services. Proposition O would also restrict and regulate any threat to the lucrative abortion industry from the City’s two pro-life crisis pregnancy centers… Claiming that the counselors at the pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in San Francisco are telling women that “they will go to hell if they get an abortion” …

By Edmund Haislmaier, Joel White, The Daily Signal – Changes made to Medicare’s prescription drug coverage by the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats—with not a single Republican vote—as part of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act are sending premiums sky-high, eliminating plans for at least 3 million seniors, and making it harder to access medications… The data shows that under four years of Biden-Harris administration policies … the national average monthly premium paid by Medicare beneficiaries for stand-alone Part D prescription drug plans has increased by 57%.

By Dave Andrusko, LifeNews – Yikes, we are now well under a month to go until we learn whether former President Donald Trump or pro-abortion Vice President Kamala Harris will be our 47th President. I’m going to take a slightly different tact today—I will look at seven data points—as I talk about what both sides see as one of the most consequential elections in our history… First, one thing I haven’t emphasized enough is Harris’s inferior position relative to where fellow Democrats [Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden] were polling at this point in time the last two elections.

By George J. Marlin,  The Catholic Thing – After Kamala Harris declined the invitation to be on the dais of the famous Al Smith Dinner hosted by the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, columnist Joe Concha opined that Harris “clearly doesn’t care about snubbing [Catholic voters].”… Harris is the first Democratic presidential nominee to skip the event since Walter Mondale in 1984. That decision sends a strong message that a charity event honoring New York Democratic governor Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) …

By Kate Quiñones, Catholic News Agency – Michigan’s Catholic bishops on Friday condemned a video sketch of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and a journalist for what some have called a “mocking” of the Eucharist… The video has garnered criticism because Plank’s kneeling posture and the placement of the Dorito on the tongue appeared to mock reception of holy Communion to many viewers. …

By Elizabeth Weibel, Breitbart – Former President Donald Trump announced “Operation Aurora,” aimed at expediting the removal of “every criminal network operating” in the United States, such as the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang… During a rally in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, Trump explained that if elected president, he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in order to “target and dismantle” all criminal networks operating in the country. Trump added during his speech that the border would be sealed, and the illegal immigration “invasion” would be stopped.

By Owen Klinsky, LifeNews – Obamacare caused millions of Americans to lose their insurance plans while premiums skyrocketed, according to a new study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity… “Obamacare has failed in every particular – it failed to make health care more affordable; it failed to improve the health of Americans; it piled on an enormous amount of additional debt on taxpayers; it has principally enriched massive insurance company conglomerates, and it now serves as a major impediment to real heath care reforms that would empower patients and doctors”

By Laura Hollis, Patriot Post – It’s quite simple, really: The more control the federal government has, the more it matters who controls the government. So, for those who’d like to keep relationships untainted by political disagreements, containing federal power has benefits above and beyond constitutional consistency… Recent events provide additional evidence that we do better when we rely less upon the federal government.

The Editors, National Catholic Register – Despite the Democratic ticket’s attempts to skirt the issue, the facts show that Harris and Walz favor abortion at any time during a woman’s pregnancy… In order to push forward “abortion rights” as the centerpiece of their campaign to win the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, are seeking to obscure an ugly and deadly reality: that late-term abortions continue to take place in the United States.

By John Cassara, Crisis Magazine – But when the vitriol and divisiveness is most intense, we should all remember that none of this had to happen. At the end of the Trump administration, our borders were relatively secure. The record shows that Biden-Harris allowed—and, by their policies, encouraged—illegals to pour into our country. It was a purposeful choice made by those in power to maintain power… The Democratic Party, big business, the immigrants themselves, many foreign governments, the Catholic Church, and the NGO immigrant assistance network all benefit from illegal immigration. Follow the money. They are all complicit.

By Brittany M. Hughes, MRCTV – In the video, (Gov.) Whitmer, who’s wearing a Harris/Walz campaign hat, feeds a Dorito to a kneeling Liz Plank, a Canadian leftwing podcaster, as though she’s giving her the Eucharist, a sacred symbolic ceremony in both Catholicism and greater Christianity. (Whitmer had apparently just gone on Plank’s show to discuss the left’s love for abortion.) Adding to the inexplicable weirdness of the whole thing, the clip is set to “Dilemma,” an early 2000s-era song by Kelly Rowland and Nelly ….

By John Lavenburg, Crux, (Cathlic Herald) – Abp. Salvatore Cordileone has criticised a measure that will be on the San Francisco ballot come national elections in November that could result in new abortion-related signage having to go outside pregnancy centres… The ballot measure called “ Proposition O” would require the signs to be placed outside of pregnancy resource centres that do not offer abortions, or do not refer for abortions… “Why would anyone want to stigmatise a primary health care facility and a pregnancy resource centre that gives pregnant women support for having their babies?”

By Jennifer Roback Morse, The Stream – I was heartbroken recently to see you repeating the talking points of the Abortion Lobby. I could hardly believe it. You personally lived through the tyranny of Communism, and the Ruling Party in America relies on the very same tyrannical tactics as the Communists. And the Abortion Lobby is very much a part of the Ruling Party in America… Like the Communist Party, the Ruling Party in the U.S. maintains its power by controlling law enforcement, the courts, and the flow of information. The Abortion Industry contributes to and benefits from The Ruling Party.

By Laura Echevarria, LifeNews – Democratic Party apparatchiks have cast Vice President Harris and Governor Walz as successful “moderate” candidates with extensive experience. But their most successful issue is the very opposite of moderate: abortion… Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are all about abortion. Harris’s and Walz’s full-throated support of unlimited abortion—available anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances—has garnered them the accolades of pro-abortion groups who have lavished praise (and huge amounts of political contributions) on their political darlings.

By Joy Pullmann, Ex. Editor, The Federalist – Contrary to propaganda messaging, our society is neither ‘overfeminized’ nor ‘pro-woman.’ It is deeply anti-woman… Since the 1960s, cultural leaders in media, Hollywood, academia, and politics have fiercely criticized men for expressing male characteristics, and have fiercely criticized women for expressing female characteristics. This has led some commentators on the right more recently to lambast what they call the “overfeminization” of society.

By The Federalist Staff – Here’s all the information you need to understand the election process in swing states throughout the country this cycle… With Election Day less than a month away, election processes and early voting are kicking into gear in several swing states around the country… With different election laws and court rulings governing election administration in each state, it can be tough to keep up with the myriad guidelines and rules governing the electoral process. That’s why The Federalist’s 2024 Battleground State Elections Guide is here to help. …

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – Musk made the observation while responding to a post on his social media platform X.com by a person distressed about how many Americans are living in a bubble, a world of misinformation created by leftist media propaganda: “At work I’m drowning in a deep [blue] sea. Everyone I talked to today about Trump & saving America had zero clue about what I was saying. We’re living in two different worlds. I’m in the 𝕏 world of truth, they’re in the misinformation land of The View, even the intellectuals believe the lies.”

By Peter Pinedo, National Catholic Register – The USCCB is one of 10 “national resettlement agencies” that partner with USRAP to take in and assist these refugees… The bishops said that dioceses and local Catholic Charities agencies “play an essential role in helping refugees to integrate successfully into their new communities.”.. Bishop Mark Seitz, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Migration Committee, applauded Catholic organizations’ contributions to the refugee resettlement program, saying that “from lifesaving protection for refugee families to the economic renewal they offer receiving communities, this is part of what it means to ‘love thy neighbor.’”

By Peter Pinedo, CNA – According to the Pew Research Center, there will be 36.2 million eligible Hispanic voters this year, up almost 4 million from 2020… As a record number of Hispanic Americans will be eligible to vote this November, many are asking what impact Latinos — and Latino Catholics in particular — will have on the 2024 election… “We are big on family, family values … We want to be welcoming and be very attentive to the needs of others,” said Lia Garcia, one of the panelists and the director of Hispanic ministry at the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

By Bradley Devlin, The Daily Signal – On this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown,” I speak to Sen. Rick Scott of Florida about his bid to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as leader of Senate Republicans and how the Nov. 5 election will shape the next Congress… Scott suggests McConnell has become tyrannical as Senate minority leader, as has Chuck Schumer of New York as Senate majority leader… “What we have here is we have dictatorships,” Scott tells me. “We have the McConnell dictatorship and the Schumer dictatorship. … Schumer tells Democrats how to vote, McConnell comes in and tells Republicans how to vote.”

By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine – I think the current apocalyptic events are a wake-up call to prayer… Of course there are many ways to pray and many good devotions. One, however, in my mind stands above them all: the Rosary. Many Marian apparitions in the past century and a half have urged us to pray the Rosary daily, and I would argue that the Rosary is the devotion that heaven itself wants us to prioritize in our day and age… My friend Joshua Charles, host of the Eternal Christendom podcast, apparently agrees. He just began The Great Rosary Campaign, which is “a yearlong Rosary campaign for the conversion of cultural leaders ….

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSiteNews – 32 million self-identified Christians who regularly attend a church might sit out the 2024 presidential election, an Arizona Christian University survey found… With just one month to go until a presidential election with major ramifications for life, gender issues, and religious freedom, a new survey projects that a decisive share of religious Americans will not turn out to vote, which, if true, could be disastrous for former President and current Republican nominee Donald Trump’s hopes of returning to the White House.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – … the billion-dollar abortion chain receives more than $500 million tax dollars annually… Pres. Donald Trump and his administration have been working to block that funding, beginning his first week in office. Some efforts have been successful, while others have been thwarted by the abortion industry and activist judges. But no one can accuse the Trump administrating of doing nothing to stop Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars from supporting the largest abortion chain in America.

By Kate Scanlon, OSV News – The Georgia Supreme Court temporarily reinstated Oct. 7 the state’s six-week abortion ban while it reviews an appeal of a previous lower court ruling that had struck down the law… Georgia’s so-called “heartbeat law” on abortion, which prohibits most abortions after six weeks, went into effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. It has been the subject of litigation after opponents filed suit shortly after its passage. …

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews – A number of cardinals and other members of the Synod attended a pro-LGBT event hosted by Fr James Martin S.J. and his Outreach group in Rome today, during which a same-sex “married” man called for “love to be expressed.”… “Get to know the real people behind the ‘mask’ who are trying to live a Catholic life,” said Christopher Vella today. “Let’s allow love to be expressed”… cardinals and other members of the Synod gather together to hear the testimony of “LGBTQ Catholics.” It began with a welcome from Father Antoine Kerhuel, S.J., who serves as the secretary of the Jesuits.

By Christopher Bell, Crisis Magazine – The Democrats wholeheartedly are committed to using your tax dollars to fund abortion on demand without limits. This party is actively attacking—on national, state, and cities-wide levels—people and organizations like me who help women choose life for their children. This party is putting peaceful protesters, like my wife, Joan, in jail for trying to stop late-term abortionists. 

By Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSiteNews – Kamala Harris is the abortion candidate, and America’s celebrities and influencers know it. They need abortion, and so they need her—and she knows that. She’ll get a pass until election day… There is something very appropriate about Vice President Kamala Harris going onto a sex podcast to make her pitch to voters for the presidency. …

By Frank DeVito, Crisis Magazine – As weak leftist regimes continue to fall in the West, Islam remains the civilizational, geopolitical threat of our time… weak regimes do not last and wokeism is weak. History makes clear that weak cultures lack the strong foundations to survive. Nazi Germany marched through a weak and exhausted post-Christian Europe. Japan, infused with Western technology, dominated a weak and primitive China in the century before World War II. And for centuries, the Islamic world has conquered weak and faltering neighbors by the sword.

By Sean Fitzpatrick, Catholic World Report – The shoots, however, aren’t as Catholic as the roots. There is an interesting connection between the crisis of faith that plagues this venerable part of Catholic America and why Donald Trump will likely carry the battleground state of Pennsylvania in November. Kamala Harris has a serious Pennsylvania problem, as Politico recently examined, and that problem is captured in Pennsylvanians’ longstanding but shifting relationship to the Democratic Party and the Catholic Faith.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – In a huge victory for unborn children in Texas, the Supreme Court allowed a lower court ruling to stand, which lets the Texas abortion ban stay in place as is to continue protecting babies… In the lower court ruling, the court rejected a challenge from pro-abortion groups that wanted to expand narrow exceptions in the law that allow abortions in cases needed to save the life of the mother. They wanted to make it a full health exception loophole that would allow abortion on demand.

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense – A military whistleblower released a series of documents revealing 601 deaths of military service members and a high rate of serious adverse events in clinical trials involving remdesivir, an antiviral commonly administered to COVID-19 patients during the pandemic… According to “The Remdesivir Papers,” some clinical trials were improperly run. In the case of at least one study, results were never made public. The whistleblower also alleged a widespread lack of informed consent for trial participants.

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – For years, Harris has consistently held anti-American views and pushed policies that undercut her claim to ‘love America.’… does Harris really love America?… Her record suggests she does not, and that in fact she hates America… Consider what Harris said about America when the New York Times launched its 1619 Project back in 2019. She called it “a masterpiece” and endorsed its central thesis, saying, “We must speak this truth: the very foundation of our country was built on the backs of enslaved people.”

By Roger Helle, Patriot Post – Nothing is guaranteed tomorrow, next week, or next year. But there is one certainty: God still sits on the throne in Heaven… When Bill Clinton was elected, the angels didn’t run into the throne room and pass into God’s bedroom shouting, “You will not believe who was elected president in America!” We survived… Yes, the stakes are much higher than they were in 1992. Clinton was a novice to the abuse of power compared to what we’ve seen since Barack Obama entered the Oval Office… Our part is to pray and then vote our values — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Freedom of religion needs to be at the top of the list!

By Cynical Publius, The Federalist – As a veteran of military logistics, I can tell you exactly why the Democrat administration’s response to Helene has been abysmal… The devastation wrought across the American Southeast by Category 4 Hurricane Helene last week has naturally drawn comparisons to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina response. As a veteran of military logistics, I can confirm that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ response to this round of mass suffering has been orders of magnitude worse than federal actions taken after Katrina. …

By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews – Recent polls show that former President Donald Trump is poised to post the best performance among Hispanic- and Arab-American voters of any Republican presidential nominee in the past two decades… Hispanic and Latino voters comprise over 20% of the electorate in two hotly-contested battleground states: Arizona and Nevada. Meanwhile, the crucial state of Michigan has a significant Arab-American community… About half of Hispanic Americans and over a third of Arab Americans are estimated to be Catholic.

By Thomas Edwards, Catholic Herald – If you didn’t manage to watch Kamala Harris being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey – you did not miss much. The interview was filled to the brim with soft questions and one-liner reruns from the presidential debate with Donald Trump. To borrow a cricket metaphor, Oprah bowled very easy balls at Harris. …

By Tim Hains, RealClear Politics – By Tim Hains, RealClear Politics – … Hillary Clinton voiced her support for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 … “We should be repealing something called Section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs — that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted”… “These platforms… if they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.”…

By Aubrey Gulick, The Federalist – Melania Trump’s unequivocal support for abortion puts pro-lifers, the Republican Party, and her husband in a rather difficult position… It shouldn’t have been a surprise. Melania Trump had a successful career as a model. She’s married to one of the most prominent businessmen and politicians in the world. She fits the feminist demographic. Of course she supports abortion… But for pro-lifers who’ve been arguing that Donald Trump is the pro-life option since 2016, it still hurts a little. ..

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – A damning investigation conducted by the Lepanto Institute has revealed that an overwhelming majority of Catholic charity workers are contributing money to pro-abortion and pro-LGBT Democrat candidates or causes… The investigative report… examined 47,000 public records for employees from seven Catholic agencies which showed that 83% of the workers’ donations were directed to Democratic political action committees — most prominently ActBlue, AB PAC, DNC Services, Biden for President, the Biden Action Fund, and the Biden Victory Fund …

By Eireann Van Natta, Daily Caller – The national organization Catholic Charities recently came under fire on social media after reports showed the Galveston, Texas, chapter substantially increased its revenue under the Biden Administration… A web of NGOs is collaborating with government agencies to facilitate the resettlement of refugees – and Biden-Harris policies have only exacerbated the migrant crisis, sources told the Caller.

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – “The Dem machine’s voter importation scam is the true threat to democracy, not Trump!” Musk said… “The Dems are doing deliberate voter importation to swing states & fast-tracking them to citizenship,” Musk wrote, issuing the warning in a post on his X.com (formerly, Twitter) social media platform: “The only question is when (not if) enough migrants can vote to flip all swing states, shifting the whole country to permanent one-party rule, just like what happened to California after the 1986 amnesty.”

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense – New York City officials are planning a tabletop simulation later this month to prepare for a hypothetical bird flu outbreak, a city health official revealed at the International Bird Flu Summit, taking place this week in Fairfax, Virginia… NY City officials are planning a tabletop simulation later this month to prepare for a hypothetical bird flu outbreak, a city health official revealed at the International Bird Flu Summit, taking place this week in Fairfax, Virginia.

By Allie Griffin, NY Post – A Las Vegas father and his 18-year-old daughter learned through an Ancestry DNA test that they aren’t related — and the pair are now suing the IVF doctors they say are responsible for the embryo mix-up… The teen took a DNA test last year and made the shocking, life-altering discovery, according to the lawsuit filed Monday and obtained by Good Morning America.

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSiteNews – As previously covered by LifeSiteNews, the Catherine and Josephine Herring Act puts mifepristone and misoprostol, two drugs commonly used in combination to cause chemical abortions, on Louisiana’s list of Schedule IV drugs under its Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances law, classifying them as drugs considered to have the potential for abuse or dependence. It makes possession without a prescription a criminal offense subject to significant fines and up to 10 years in prison.

By Brittany M. Hughes, MRC TV – $750 bucks. If your home was washed away by Hurricane Helene, your belongings gone, your access to food, shelter, clean water, and basic necessities totally cut off, and your neighborhood left in total shambles, that’s what you’ll get from the federal government… You read that right – $750 bucks… That’s the amount VP Kamala Harris announced Wednesday during her first stop in storm-ravaged Georgia.

By Nick Kangadis, MRC TV – I’ve been especially disgusted with government lately — and pretty much always — because of their indifference towards the people that gave them everything…the American taxpayer. And now, with this story, it just reinforces my hatred and general repulsion towards these parasites feeding off the rest of us to satiate their own motives.

By Carmel Richardson, First Things – Previously, the twenty-week ban had been the bare minimum offer from the GOP, one moderate enough to have been a party plank through several election cycles. Trump endorsed it, and its concurrent statement on constitutional rights for unborn children, in 2016 and 2020… The broader movement’s shift raises an important question: Do Trump and Vance now sincerely favor more liberal abortion policies, or are they playing election politics, with the knowledge that no change can come without first securing the ballot box?

By Eireann Van Natta, Daily Caller – “It’s a self-feeding circle,” he concluded… One group listed on HHS’s site is Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio, a non-profit that partners with the State Department for Refugee Resettlement. According to a 2023 audit of the group’s finances, one of its main sources of revenue is grants and fees from the government, to the tune of several million dollars… A facility in Springfield opened up earlier this year to assist with immigration services, and it’s directed by Catholic Charities Southwest Ohio, the Springfield News-Sun reported.

By Sydney Hudson, Wilson Beaver, Daily Signal – Kamala Harris traveled to Arizona to visit the southern border on a campaign trip on Friday—a trip House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green described as “little more than the arsonist returning to the scene of the fire.”… “This issue [immigration] cannot be reduced to a political issue,” Vice President Harris declared in 2021 after her last visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. “We’re talking about children; we’re talking about families; we are talking about suffering.”

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Vance was calm, collected, and collegial. A little too much for my taste, since the Democrats are no longer the party of ill-considered idealism and airy-fairy daydreams, which you could have fairly said about the likes of George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, and Walter Mondale. Now they’re the party of principalities and powers, who want abortion up through birth, castration for mixed-up schoolkids, bloody open borders, defunded police and felons empowered to vote, pointless foreign wars, and medical fascism.

By Al Perrotta, The Stream – Longshoreman Strike Already Causing (Premature) Runs on Stores… While wandering around Costco Tuesday, I noticed something was missing. “Where is the mountain of toilet paper as high as the Matterhorn?” I also noticed the bottled water supply was down to only a few pallets. Uh-oh… People, relax. There’s no need to stock up on toilet paper! According to Global Trade Magazine, only 7.5% of the toilet paper Americans use is imported.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – If J.D. Vance is the future of American conservatism— as some enthusiasts are saying, in the wake of his effective debate performance— then I’m afraid American conservatism has become incoherent on the abortion issue… Last night Vance, who is a convert to Catholicism, and in the past has strongly endorsed a ban on abortion, offered no resistance to the liberal claim that women have a “right” to abort their babies. He clung adamantly to the line taken by Donald Trump, saying that the issue must be left to the states, signaling that he was willing to accept state laws that allowed for abortion in virtually all circumstances.

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – The Middle East is on the verge of a much larger war than the one between Israel and Iran’s terrorist proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah. Yesterday’s largely unsuccessful missile barrage by Iran against Israel heightened tensions, and it followed a ground incursion by the Israel Defense Forces into southern Lebanon earlier in the day… With Israel seeing increasing tactical successes against Hezbollah — the latest being the taking out of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, with a targeted airstrike — Tehran appears to be once again lashing out wildly, as it did in April with a massive aerial attack.

By James Corbett, The Corbett Report – Have you ever heard an establishment mouthpiece, a political puppet or a globalist gopher say something like: “Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective – a New World Order – can emerge. A new era, freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace”?

CV News Feed – The issue ‘on everybody’s mind’… As the debate turned to the topic of abortion, Walz claimed: “This issue is on everyone’s mind.”… When asked if a controversial Minnesota bill he signed as governor legalizes abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, Walz responded: “In Minnesota what we did was restore Roe v. Wade.”

By Michael Brown, The Stream – There is a Talmudic dictum that states, “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first” (b. Sanhedrin 72a)… (with) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited it with reference to the targeted killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah over the weekend… Was this a right and fair application of this Talmudic principle? And did Israel rightfully follow this same principle in the pager attacks on thousands of Hezbollah operatives? Or is Israel engaging in acts of terror?

By Chuck Donovan, LifeNews – Without doubt, the last year and more has been a rough patch for the pro-life cause, even outside the realm of ballot questions and electoral politics. The surest sign of difficulty is the sharp division among pro-life forces about what course of action to take to advance the right to life… On July 9, the movement, already hampered by having few advocates outside the Republican Party, found itself with a national GOP platform in which pro-life policy positions had been sharply curtailed. …

By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times – The DHS knows of at least 660,000 illegal immigrants in the U.S. with criminal records, including 13,000 convicted killers, nearly 16,000 sex assault convicts and 56,000 involved with dangerous drugs… Thousands of other migrants have been charged but not yet convicted of those and other crimes… They are part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “non-detained docket,” a list of more than 7 million illegal immigrants that ICE is supposed to be monitoring as they are awaiting final deportation decisions or, in some cases, are fugitives who are refusing to go.

By Emily Finley, Crisis Magazine – What is interesting about the recent statement in the San Diego diocese banning homeschoolers from using parish facilities is that it opens with, “parents are the first teachers of their children,” yet it concludes with, “homeschooling is not inherently a ministry of the parish.” If parents are the first teachers of their children, shouldn’t that all-important and sacred duty be a ministry of the parish?

By Raymond Ibrahim, The Stream – “This march of the crusaders,” historian Patrick Balfour correctly observes, “was a military feat seldom paralleled in history.”… It is now known as “the Long Campaign,” as the Christian army was in nonstop action for more than six months — most of which was in winter and hundreds of miles deep into enemy territory — at a time when campaigns usually lasted no more than two months and rarely went past fall. It consisted of seven major battles, all Christian victories. …

By S.A. McCarthy, LifeNews – For the first time in recorded history, more Americans are identifying with the Republican Party in the third quarter of a presidential election year than the Democratic Party — and are aligning with the GOP on key issues heading into November. Gallup released an in-depth analysis this week revealing that 48% of adults in the U.S. either identify as Republican or lean towards the Republican Party, compared to only 45% who identify as Democrat or lean towards the Democratic Party.

By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal – Americans have a responsibility to be civically engaged in their communities and when it comes to solving social challenges, faith-based communities have the best track record, according to Stacy Blakeley, the CEO of The Policy Circle.

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Americans throughout several southeastern states are enduring catastrophic devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. So naturally, America’s lamebrain Democrat president and vice president are missing in action… those of us who’ve closely watched this dumpster fire of an administration for the past three and half years know better than to believe that Biden and Harris are actively managing the federal government’s Helene response. If anything, many Americans have accepted the unfortunate reality of major policy decisions being made by an unelected Democrat oligarchy.

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – Democrat President Joe Biden’s use of the U.S. Air Force to fly Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to a media opportunity in the battleground state of Pennsylvania has prompted concerns of foreign election interference and misuse of taxpayer money… Over the weekend, President Biden had Zelensky flown into the swing state on a U.S. C-17 aircraft so Ukraine’s president could visit an ammunitions plant in Biden’s birthplace of Scranton.

By Jonathan Evans and Kelsey Jo Starr, Pew Research – A new survey by Pew Research Center asked Catholics in six Latin American countries and the United States how they think the church should handle a variety of matters related to contraception, the priesthood and sexuality. Among the main findings: Bar chart showing majorities of Catholics say the church should allow use of birth control, ordain women priests… Most Catholics in all seven countries want the church to allow Catholics to use birth control. The shares saying this range from 86% in Argentina to 63% in Brazil.

By Bo French, Catholic Charities from X – Now to that bombshell we mentioned earlier. CCFW’s CEO said that they partner with other nonprofits. You should know that one of these nonprofits with which they partner is a Muslim organization that advocates for ending the Israeli “apartheid state” and “brutal military occupation,” has ties to Muslim terrorist organizations, hosts Hamas protests at the Texas and US Capitols, and echoes calls of the Palestinian president to fight “the Zionists.”…

By Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews – John Sharpe, editor and publisher of IHS Press, gave LifeSiteNews an interview about his 2005 two volume series called Neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq and Neo-Conned! Again: Hypocrisy, Lawlessness, and the Rape of Iraq (with an Introduction by Scott Ritter). These two volumes were released in opposition to the 2003 Iraq War and its aftermath …

By Hans von Spakovsky, Patriot Post – Many states are sending out mail-in ballots now for the Nov. 5 presidential election… Yet at the same time that so many more voters are depending on the mail to cast their ballots, the two leading national organizations of election officials wrote the U.S. Postal Service to demand immediate action to avoid confusion and chaos with mail-in ballots… “We implore you to take immediate and tangible corrective action to address the ongoing performance issues with USPS election mail service”.. (Nat’l. Assoc. of State Election Directors and the Nat’l. Assoc. of Secretaries of State. …

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews – An FBI whistleblower who had his security clearance revoked and pay suspended for questioning the official Jan. 6 narrative is now urging Americans to pray the rosary and practice the First Friday devotion, as well as to vote and arm themselves… Marcus Allen, an FBI staff operations specialist whose security clearance has been restored as part of a settlement with the bureau earlier this year, told the Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government on Wednesday how he was severely retaliated against for sharing information with his superiors and others that, as he previously noted, “questioned the official narrative of Jan. 6.”

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – …, the biggest factor in homelessness — and a big one in the very related rising cost of housing — is the Biden/Harris administration’s de facto open border policy. With some 10-20 million illegal aliens having entered the country since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office, it comes as little surprise that many of these homeless people are migrants… Take Massachusetts, for example, where roughly half of the more than 7,000 families in homeless shelters are migrants. Seven out of 10 homeless in Chicago are illegal aliens.

By Peter Pinedo, CNA – At a hearing held by U.S. Senate Democrats this week doctors, experts, and Republicans disputed claims that former president Donald Trump and state pro-life laws enacted after the overturn of Roe v. Wade are causing the deaths of women across the country… Dr. Christina Francis, an OB-GYN, along with several doctors from the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, testified that pro-abortion misinformation, not pro-life laws, is responsible for “dangerous” delays in women receiving emergency care.

By Grace Porto, CatholicVote – In a video clip posted to the X account “End Tribalism,” Kennedy said Redfield’s recent statement was “breathtaking” since Kennedy has publicly criticized Redfield for years, including in the book “The Real Anthony Fauci.”… “This afternoon he came over and had lunch with me,” Kennedy said. “It was the first time I’ve ever met him, and the first thing he said to me is, ‘You got everything right.’”

By Hans von Spakovsky, Daily Signal – Did New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, accept foreign bribes and foreign campaign contributions?… That’s the key issue in the federal indictment of New York’s mayor just handed down by a federal grand jury led by Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York… The indictment charges Adams with five felonies under federal law that could result in his spending a long time in prison, including wire fraud, solicitation and receipt of campaign contributions from a foreign national, and outright bribery.

By Jaryn Crouson, LifeNews – CatholicVote warned in a Wednesday letter to church leadership and voters that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ blatantly “anti-Catholic” agenda presents “clear and present danger.”… Pope Francis said on Sept. 13 that both Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are “against life” due to Harris’ support of abortion and Trump “failing to care for migrants,” and said voters must decide which candidate is the “lesser evil” in the upcoming presidential election. CatholicVote warned that Harris’ pro-abortion stance and rhetoric constitute “real harm” to Americans …

By Jim Valois, Catholic Exchange – God made each of us the pinnacle of His creation. We can understand the special love that our Lord has for us by the very fact that He made us in His own image and likeness, the imago Dei (Gen 1:27). This great love includes unborn children since our immortal souls are created by God upon conception. It is upon our first moment of existence that personhood is established (CCC 366). This is why the Church uses the strongest and clearest language when telling us that we should not snuff out the lives of the unborn (Exodus 20:13, CCC 2270-72).

By Gates Garcia, First Things – On November 5, the people of Florida will vote on whether to amend the state constitution to remove abortion from political contestation. Abortion advocates are pushing Amendment 4 in response to the Heartbeat Protection Act, which was passed by the state legislature in April of 2023 and prohibits abortion after six weeks, with exceptions (such as rape, incest, or risk to the mother’s life). ….

By Jonathan Liedl, National Catholic Register – As we form our consciences, we are not allowed to ignore Church teaching on any of these issues. In fact, the bishops warn against dismissing some areas of teaching as “optional concerns.” The Church’s moral principles are never negotiable… At the same time, the Church also teaches that some issues carry more weight than others — especially those that directly destroy human life. For instance, the bishops continue to describe the threat of abortion as “our preeminent priority because it directly attacks our most vulnerable and voiceless brothers and sisters and destroys more than a million lives per year in our country alone.”

By Tristan Justice, The Federalist – President Joe Biden told the panelists on “The View” Wednesday the 81-year-old commander-in-chief routinely delegated his responsibilities to Vice President Kamala Harris… “As vice president, there wasn’t a single thing that I did that she couldn’t do,” Biden said. “So I was able to delegate her responsibility on everything from foreign policy to domestic policy.”

By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews – Former President Donald Trump called out his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris’ contentious history with American Catholics after she became the first major-party presidential nominee since 1984 to skip a beloved Catholic event… The Archdiocese of New York’s Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner (“Al Smith Dinner”) raises money for various Catholic charitable organizations that benefit children.

By Tristan Justice, The Federalist – After the GOP failed to successfully replace Democrats’ signature 2010 health care reform during the Trump administration, a renaissance in nutrition has catalyzed a new political movement finding a home on the right. A Senate roundtable on Monday led by Sen. Ron Johnson was the latest evidence of that transformation within a party that has been damaged by its seeming lack of a presentable alternative to the Affordable Care Act.

By Jack Cashill, American Thinker – On January 6, 2021, nearly five hours passed between the breach of the Capitol perimeter and the arrival of a National Guard contingent ready and waiting to deploy just ten minutes away. Had the National Guard arrived within that first hour, “January 6” would have no more historical resonance than any other day on the calendar… Any number of people bear the blame for this calamitous security failure, but that list does not include the two most frequently cited scapegoats, the D.C. National Guard or President Donald Trump.

By Miriam Judith, Gateway Pundit – As political tensions rise in the U.S., Congress is preparing for the possibility of a major “mass casualty event” that could dramatically change its makeup… With recent assassination attempts and increasingly heated public discourse, lawmakers are considering drastic steps, including a possible Constitutional Amendment that would allow for the direct appointment of House representatives in the event of mass vacancies. ….

By Stephen Moore, Patriot Post – We all know that math scores have been scandalously trending downward for many years, but the folks in the government should at least be able to count… We’re finding more and more evidence that the statistics the government is releasing to the public are increasingly suspect and unreliable. It seems like the errors are not random but perhaps manipulated for political advantage. Judge for yourself. …

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – But take a closer look. If she were to appear at table alongside the cardinal-archbishop of New York, swapping jokes, no reporter could fail to comment on the incongruity of the situation. When political pundits look at Cardinal Dolan—or at the Catholic Church in general—they immediately think of opposition to abortion. Vice President Harris is, of course, a zealous proponent of unrestricted abortion on demand. Yet any mention of their differences on that topic would ruin the congenial atmosphere of the dinner.

By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Guardian – Behind the request in question are the Dominican Sisters of Peace and a law firm that boasts about having represented Catholic institutions in Louisiana courts for more than a century. Another of the law firm’s clients in question, the archdiocese of New Orleans, is offering clergy molestation victims less than 10% of what they are requesting in a bankruptcy settlement, in part by arguing the so-called “look-back window” law doesn’t apply to more than 600 abuse claims.

By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – The Magic of Polls… Most Americans should be well-acquainted with Harris’ embarrassing body of work by now. From her utter lack of substance — what the hell is an “opportunity economy?” — to her bumbling and grotesquely ineffectual tenure as Biden’s bogus border czar to her routine inability to construct a coherent sentence, Kamala Harris is a walking disaster who, thanks to the Democrat Party’s quiet coup, is now running for president.

By Sarah Holliday, Patriot Post – “What faith says a baby in the womb is not a life?”… Vice President Kamala Harris, who is also the official 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, posted on X last week, “One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree: The government, and certainly Donald Trump, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.” In other words, Harris believes you can have faith and abortions — no big deal, right? Except, this is a big deal.

By David Krayden, American News – Biden-Harris administration said Monday that it is sending more troops to the Middle East as war in region intensifies with strikes and counter-strikes between Israel and the terrorist organization Hezbollah… The US already has about 40,000 troops in the region and has deployed a devastating selection of military hardware …

By Susan Berry, Ph.D., CatholicVote – Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her supporters in the media want Americans to believe pro-life legislation and Donald Trump are to blame for the deaths of two Georgia women who died from complications after taking abortion-inducing drugs… But Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life OB/GYNs (AAPLOG), asserts that Harris and her surrogates are spreading “dangerous lies” and using the deaths of these two women to promote abortion rights – a central plank of the Democratic Party platform. …

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine – Kamala Harris, for all the word salads she throws together on issues like the border, crime, and inflation, is perfectly clear on the issue of abortion… Years ago, on a flight to Chicago to visit an old friend, I found myself seated next to a young woman wearing a t-shirt identifying herself as a proud member of the pro-choice generation. “How lucky for you,” I wanted to tell her, “your mother wasn’t a member.” …

By Brittany M. Hughes, MRC TV – When you refuse to enforce the law and let criminal hoodlums get away with everything, this is what happens. Absolutely, utter chaos… Which is exactly what went down in Philadelphia over the weekend, where literally hundreds of people – many of them teens and young adults – took over city streets, assaulted cops, vandalized property, busted police vehicles, and set off illegal fireworks, while law enforcement largely stood by, helpless.

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – A former high-ranking U.S. Border Patrol officer appeared before the House Homeland Security Committee last week and effectively spilled the beans on the Biden/Harris administration’s systematic cover-up of its intentional border malfeasance. We all knew Joe Biden and Border Czar Kamala Harris were letting millions of illegals pour across the open border, but this testimony adds a scandalous component.

By Nick Kangadis, MRC TV – According to new government documents, it appears that former President Donald Trump’s claim that he requested National Guard ahead of the events of January 6, 2021, and the subsequent denials and hesitation against his request, looks to be verified… According to a document published by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight on Monday, September 16, Trump did request National Guard days ahead of time in order to “make sure it’s a safe event.”

By F. Andrew Wolf, Jr., The Remnant – Unique? They are. They are silent, unobtrusive; one scarcely realizes the life that’s in them. But it’s there. To a court in Alabama, not only are they alive, they are “extrauterine children.”.. And the controversy surrounding them isn’t going away anytime soon… Controversy arose after the court issued a decision declaring cryogenically frozen embryos to be “extrauterine children,” human beings with ‘personhood’ – a right to live – to life.

By Steven W. Mosher, Operation Rescue – At this moment in American history, when life is on the line, when we are just under 60 days from Election Day, it is political insanity to attack Donald Trump on the pro-life issue… Everyone needs to remember that this is the pro-life president who spoke at the March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., had many pro-lifers in top positions, and pursued a host of pro-life policies at home and abroad. This is the pro-life president whose Supreme Court appointments overturned Roe v. Wade. ….

By Michael Brown, The Stream – There is no question that the upcoming elections are extremely important and that the stakes are very high. I don’t dispute that for a moment. That’s why it’s important that we pray for God’s will to be done, that we understand the key issues and where the candidates stand on them, and that we exercise our right to vote. This is absolutely not a time for complacency.

By Sarah Parshall Perry, LifeNews – The pro-abortion lobby and legacy media are lying to you again. This week, shocking headlines portrayed the deaths of two women incorrectly, blaming a new Georgia law that had nothing to do with their tragic deaths… Here’s what really happened:.. Amber Nicole Thurman died after she took the abortion pill, deregulated by the FDA (with multiple safety restrictions eliminated), which caused complications and left parts of her twin unborn babies inside her. …

By Andrea Gagliarducci, National Catholic Register – The Holy Father’s recent nod to the late Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe, the controversial Father General of his religious order during that tumultuous time, suggests the formative influence of long-ago events… During his foreign travels, meetings between Pope Francis and local members of his Jesuit order have provided telling clues about the orientation of his papacy — including during his recent visit to Singapore.

By Brittany M. Hughes, MRC TV – Kicking off question No. 1, the First Lady sat at the head of the table and reportedly did most of the talking during the meeting on Friday, which included nearly all of Biden’s presidential cabinet members and a remarkably silent Biden, who sat midway down the table. Vice President Kamala Harris was notably missing, given that she’s now running a campaign to replace Biden.

By Russell Shaw, Catholic World Report – “A man that’d expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic, but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer and remains at large.”… That bit of wisdom concerning the limitations of the electoral process was coined by Mr. Dooley. A purely fictitious creation of author Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley held forth on many subjects—politics included—from his perch in a Chicago pub. The Dooley sketches first appeared in newspapers and were collected by Dunne in several popular books.