Politics

By Eric Killelea, Chron, (Complicit Clergy) – Pope Leo XIV has named Bishop Daniel Garcia of Monterey, California, to be the next Roman Catholic bishop of Austin, promoting another vocal ally on immigration to a leadership position in Texas… While the Catholic church teaches that a nation has the right to control its borders, Garcia, a 64-year-old Texas native, delivered a message in both English and Spanish to say the church would also speak up for the “poor, the weak, and those who live on the margins,” including undocumented immigrants, per CNA.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Classical scholar and top-notch political analyst Victor Davis Hanson says it better than I can: President Donald Trump is providing first-rate leadership on many issues, and is off-the-charts superior to the GOP establishment that colluded with Democrats to destroy him. But he’s also all over the map, showing signs of caving to pressure from entrenched financial interests and disappointing his most devoted supporters on emotionally resonant issues.

By Brianna Lyman, The Federalist – There’s a good chance that this November, New York City will elect an openly declared socialist, Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani isn’t American in any meaningful sense — he’s from Uganda and preaches ideas that are fundamentally incompatible with our republican form of government. Still, he has a good shot at winning, partly because his ideology taps into the same grievance that animates leftists everywhere: the myth of settler colonialism.

By Madalaine Elhabbal, Catholic World Report – Bishop Alberto Rojas of the diocese of San Bernardino, California, has granted a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass for those within the diocese who fear deportation… The bishop said all of the faithful within the diocese who possess “genuine fear” of arrest while attending Mass are dispensed from the obligation until further notice, and are “encouraged to maintain their spiritual communion with Christ and His Church through acts of personal prayer.”

By Melissa O’Rourke, LifeNews – Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday in response to funding cuts included in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” which threaten to shutter hundreds of its clinics… President Donald Trump on Friday signed the GOP’s massive tax and spending bill, which includes language blocking Medicaid funding for abortion providers for one year. …

By James Mortensen, CNS News – On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) launched an operation on Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park to the dismay of Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who appeared at the park shortly after the operation began and told reporters that federal agents need to leave “because this is unacceptable!”Bass was also seen talking to a uniformed USBP agent, who handed his phone to Bass so that she could speak to an official later identified as U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino.

By Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal – The crime and dysfunction in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment to the country. President Donald Trump rightly called out the problem at a press conference on Tuesday and offered a solution… “We have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to. We could run D.C. I mean, we’re … looking at D.C.,” Trump said. “Susie Wiles is working very closely with [Mayor Muriel Bowser].”… “I think that we should govern District of Columbia,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One in late February, according to Reuters. “We should run it strong, run it with law and order, make it absolutely flawlessly beautiful. And I think we should take over Washington, D.C.—Make it safe.”

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – USCCB (has) launched a new offensive against Pres. D. Trump, asserting that his One Big Beautiful Bill, is morally objectionable, inconsistent with Catholic values, and harmful to the weakest in society… A day before Trump signed the bill, Abp. Timothy P. Broglio, president of the USCCB, blasted it for ramping up immigration enforcement and making steeper cuts to Medicaid and clean energy tax credits. It also threatens the “social justice” policies of the bishops, who are known to be mostly left-wing in their political orientation and who favor big government, unlimited immigration, welfare spending, and state intervention on climate change.

By Elise DeGeeter, Catholic Vote – House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced July 8 that President Donald Trump’s newly signed “Big Beautiful Bill” enshrines 28 of his executive actions into federal law… “Congress has cemented President Trump’s agenda by passing the Administration’s signature legislation — the One Big Beautiful Bill,” Johnson announced in a July 8 statement. “In this historic act, Republicans included 28 of President Trump’s top executive actions – now codifying some of the most significant America First priorities.”

By Gary Bauer, LifeNews – Freedom won big today! In a victory for religious liberty and free speech, the IRS has determined that pastors can endorse candidates for public office from the pulpit… The announcement was the result of the IRS agreeing to settle a lawsuit filed by two Texas churches challenging the Johnson Amendment, a regulation that muzzles nonprofit groups when it involves political speech. This settlement would not have happened if Kamala Harris controlled the IRS.

By Gary Bauer, Patriot Post – There have been several deliberate, coordinated assassination attempts against federal law enforcement officers of the United States over the past few days.
In recent days, violent left-wing extremists have attempted to murder federal immigration police officers. These are not peaceful protests that got out of hand. These are deliberate, coordinated assassination attempts against federal law enforcement officers of the United States. …

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Our country’s in deep, deep trouble. It’s only patriotic to admit that starkly and squarely. If your family member has cancer, you do him no favors by insisting he’s perfectly fine, that “those doctors just want to suck you dry.” Self-styled conservatives who keep offering you ideological crack pipes stuffed with balled-up old Ronald Reagan speeches aren’t “standing for principle.” They’re trying to squeeze the last few dollars out of a dying, discredited grift.

By Daniel Payne, Catholic News Agency – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) this week backed off a decades-old rule first established during the Eisenhower administration, declaring for the first time since the 1950s that churches and other nonprofits can openly endorse political candidates without risking their tax-exempt status… The order resolves a lawsuit launched in August 2024 by a coalition of religious broadcasters, one that challenged the 1954 Johnson Amendment, which says that 501(c)(3) nonprofits may not “participate in or intervene in” political campaigns.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, issued the temporary nationwide restraining order days after the Supreme Court issued a ruling putting limits on the nationwide injunctions that rouge liberal judges can issue… “The true design of the Defund Provision is simply to express disapproval of, attack, and punish Planned Parenthood, which plays a particularly prominent role in the public debate over abortion,” Planned Parenthood argued in its lawsuit against the defunding measure.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – Zoran Mamdani built his dream on radical chic—but now that he’s winning, he’s scrambling to bury the blueprint… After his first-place win in the New York City mayoral primaries, Zoran Mamdani is furiously denying everything that he once glibly thought was cutting-edge and cool… So, like a good postmodern relativist, Mamdani now claims he didn’t really mean that violence was merely a “construct.”… I suppose Mamdani asked Jewish New Yorkers—the target of 44 percent of all hate crimes in the city—and discovered that their concussions and blood were all too real.

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture – Was Independence Day softening us up for the War on Terror, the way other pop culture in the ‘90s softened us up for same-sex marriage? Was Top Gun: Maverick softening us up for Operation Midnight Hammer?… Again, I know it sounds crazy. But are pop culture psy-ops by our national security apparatus really that unfathomable? If the-powers-that-be did seed 1990s pop culture with the antecedents of the coming LGBT revolution, as The Public Discourse alleged in 2010, why would they not do it to us on other issues as well?

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – In a decision deemed judicial activism and a “power grab” by pro-life and judicial experts, the leftist-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday to nullify the Badger State’s longstanding law barring abortion… In a narrow 4 to 3 vote, the court determined that “the legislature impliedly repealed” an 1849 law that made abortion a felony… The 19th-century statute criminalized the act of abortion except in cases when it was required to save a mother’s life.

By Catholic Action Leage of Massachusetts, LifeNews – The Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts is claiming that President Trump’s new budget reconciliation act will cause the Bay State affiliate of the abortion giant to lose, annually, at least $14 million, in taxpayer monies… On July 4th, President Trump signed into law House Resolution 1-One Big Beautiful Bill Act… The new legislation prohibits federal dollars from being used for Medicaid reimbursements to any health care entity which performs abortions.

By The Stream – Western civilization came under threat in the eighth century when Islamic forces swept into Western Europe. They might have prevailed if not for the efforts of a Frankish warlord: Charles “The Hammer” Martel, who united a coalition of former enemies to fight off the invading forces. Watch this 10-minute episode of Forgotten History, in which former professor Colin Heaton details the fascinating story of the Battle of Tours.

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – The Senate, with the help of Vice President J.D. Vance’s tiebreaking vote, voted on Tuesday to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, effectively defunding abortion giant Planned Parenthood for one year… The House version of President Donald Trump’s legislative package promised that no Medicaid dollars “shall be used to make payments to a prohibited entity for items and services furnished during [a] 10-year period.” The Senate version, however, cut that provision down to prohibit only twelve months of taxpayer-funded abortion. …

By John Zmirak, The Stream – There’s one drum I won’t stop banging, because it’s a righteous call to war: The Left is not a secular, rationalistic, science-driven movement — though for the sake of social prestige and power it still pretends to be. But in fact, it never was… At every point since the invention of the Left/Right spectrum in the fevered, bloodthirsty frenzy of the French Revolution, the Left has been a post-Christian heresy. It’s a cargo cult that cherrypicks from the gospels shiny moral sentiments and glittering aspirations, like the work of some mindless magpie.

By Father David Nix,  Padre Peregrino Hermitage Blog – The USCCB continues to issue statements against Trump as they clamor for the billions back once received for illegal activity under the Biden Administration in facilitating open-borders in the United States… However, the Department for Homeland Security also takes the offensive. Homeland issued the following statement to Catholic Charities and the USCCB, among other NGOs: “The chairmen are examining whether these NGOs used taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal activity, as the previous administration incentivized millions of inadmissible aliens to cross our borders—many of whom were subsequently aided by NGOs after being released at the border under the Biden-Harris administration’s mass catch-and-release policies.”

By John Zmirak, The Stream – If you want to stop attracting what you don’t need, maybe turn off the magnet that attracts it. That’s the logic of President Donald Trump sticking to enforcing our labor and immigration laws with employers who operate sweatshop factories, restaurants, and farms. It applies even more urgently to healthcare… If you’ve had the bad luck to visit a hospital emergency room recently, you’ll have noticed it’s full of foreigners. Many are here illegally. But thanks to Medicaid programs aimed at offering free health care to whoever shows up here, invited or not, our hospitals are crammed with people who never paid into the system.

By Bishop Joseph Strickland, Substack – I speak today not from politics but from faith. I am a bishop of the Catholic Church, a shepherd of souls. And as a shepherd, I say clearly: No just cause can be built on the bones of the innocent… Let me be equally clear: • The starvation of a people is evil… The manipulation of aid for domination is evil… The forced removal of families from their ancestral homes is evil… To my brother bishops: Where are our voices? ….

By Ben Weingarten, The Federalist – Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census… President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys general and Republican legislators, the second Trump administration is determined “to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted” ….

By James Mortensen, CNS News – New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani, has stated he intends to “Shift the tax burden” to “more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods” if he’s elected in November. Mamdani’s proposal originates from a policy memo titled “Stop the Squeeze on NYC Homeowners,” in which he says his “administration will shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.”

By Tyler Arnold, CNA – A coalition of 20 American Catholic bishops and religious leaders from other faiths has signed on to a letter urging lawmakers to vote against a proposed budget bill because of provisions to increase funding for immigration enforcement… “From our various faith perspectives, the moral test of a nation is how it treats those most in need of support,” the letter read. “In our view, this legislation will harm the poor and vulnerable in our nation, to the detriment of the common good.”

By Mat Staver, LifeNews – President Donald Trump has given a deadline to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by this Friday. This week will be fast, furious, and dangerous. We could lose this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Senate and the House versions of the budget bill differ. They must be reconciled by Friday. This is the most critical moment in this fight to defund Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion.

By John M. Grondelski, American Thinker – The Supreme Court’s June 27 Trump v. CASA et al. decision about birthright citizenship turned on a legal technicality: Could one federal district judge in one court in one state block a presidential policy for the entire country?  To that question, the Court said “no.”  On the merits of whether Trump’s effort to dial back what “birthright citizenship” means more broadly, the Court left that question for another day… There are two ways most countries confer citizenship: jus soli and jus sanguinis, “the law of soil” and “the law of blood.”

By Margot Cleveland, The Federalist – “‘[E]veryone, from the President on down, is bound by law.’ That goes for judges too,” the Supreme Court declared last week in holding several lower court judges erred in entering nationwide injunctions in the lawsuits challenging Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. The Supreme Court’s Friday decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc. represents the high court’s most recent check on what it branded an “imperial judiciary.”

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling limiting the power of federal district judges to issue nationwide injunctions, a decision hailed as a significant curb on judicial overreach… The case stemmed from challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, though the Court did not rule on the constitutionality of that policy. Instead, it addressed the broader issue of nationwide injunctions, which allow a single judge to block federal policies across the entire country.

By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post – In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that states can determine how their Medicaid dollars are spent, even if they decide not to spend them on abortion providers like Planned Parenthood… Say what you will — and there’s plenty to be said — about the constitutional wobbliness of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, but this much must also be said: They’re real Catholics, not fake ones like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.

By Ken Craycraft, Catholic Herald – Lincoln’s presidency and Churchill’s first stint as prime minister were entirely occupied with war. The Civil War began a few weeks after Lincoln took office, but the threat of secession and war had been made by some southern states as early as the presidential campaign. Lincoln’s assassination came only six days after the rebel states formally surrendered, but before all hostilities had ceased… The Second World War was well under way when Churchill became prime minister; Germany invaded Belgium the day he took office, and France would fall a few weeks later. Lincoln died at the end of his war; Churchill was removed from office a few weeks after the end of his.

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has never been one to shy away from engaging in left-wing political activism while on the bench. And now, it appears some of her Supreme Court colleagues are growing tired of it…. In its Friday ruling nuking lower courts’ nationwide injunctions against President Trump’s birthright citizenship order, the high court’s majority took a verbal flamethrower to Jackson’s dissenting opinion. As if she were echoing the writing style of legacy media hacktivists, the wannabe Broadway star — who “struggl[es] to understand” a lot of issues that come before the Court — dramatically declared that the majority’s “decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law.”

By James H. McGee, The American Spectator – Not when partisan politics intrudes. … The annals of political imagery are replete with disasters, moments when the most carefully crafted public persona dissolves in a moment of ludicrous self-parody. Some of these have become clichés. Pick a Democrat candidate for national office, and the shotgun and camo photo-op becomes unavoidable, Tim Walz’s the latest in a very long and ever-ridiculous line. Sometimes, they come close to single-handedly derailing a presidential campaign.

By Jim Daly, The Stream – The Southern Poverty Law Center recently updated its “Hate Map” to include Focus on the Family on its list of hundreds of “hate” organizations alongside racist and white supremacist groups… In particular, the SPLC cites Focus’s online publication, the Daily Citizen, as one of its primary offenders. According to the organization, we “demonize LGBTQ+ people, claiming they are unnatural and un-Christian.” We also “promote anti-trans pseudoscience, such as conversion therapy.”

By Chip Rotolo, Pew Research Center – Renewed debates are happening across the United States about the place of religion – especially Christianity – in public schools. An evenly divided Supreme Court recently upheld a ban on what would have been the nation’s first religious public charter school, in Oklahoma. Texas lawmakers are considering requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, while a federal appeals court struck down a similar law in Louisiana earlier this month. And legal battles persist over prayer at school sporting events and making time for prayer during the school day. …

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Just because the judiciary chooses to violate the Constitution does not mean the other branches are required to follow suit… Since returning to office, President Trump has faced what can only be described as a judicial coup. Through the use of overreaching nationwide injunctions, predominantly Democrat-appointed judges have gleefully granted requests from left-wing activists to block enforcement of the agenda 77 million Americans voted for last year.

By Mary Frances Devlin, The American Spectator – If anything has dominated Gen Z’s political experience more than the ascendance of President Donald Trump, it’s been the prominence of LGBTQ issues in every aspect of culture over the past decade… In the first instance, public opinion came first. President Trump’s victory in 2016 was a popular referendum on Obama-era progressivism that promised hope and change but delivered government overreach and overregulation. That Trump won the Republican nomination in the first place was a repudiation of the party’s neoconservative leanings. And nearly a decade after his entrance onto the political scene, American voters once again sent Trump back to the White House with an electoral mandate.

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine – To briefly summarize, Dispensationalists, or “Dispies,” hold to various Fundamentalist views and adhere to strict biblical literalism, at least in some cases. And part of that view entails seeing the modern State of Israel as the Israel in the Bible. In essence, the modern State of Israel is the Israel that Cruz spoke of when he mentioned what is said in Genesis 12, and it amounts to something like a dual-covenant theology; there is one way to be saved for Jews and another for Gentiles. Consistent with this, we find in the Dispensationalist movement a desire to help ultra-Orthodox Jews rebuild the Temple so they can recommence the Old Testament sacrifices….

By John Zmirak, The Stream – The next Obama is here: His name is Zohran Mamdani, the likely next mayor of New York City. He’s a handsome, charismatic, gifted politician — Barack Obama with a beard, Bill Clinton with a tan… Mamdani appeals to the young, disgruntled, and poorly educated. He gets them excited and fills them with vague, spurious hope. He also helps white elites and self-hating Jews feel virtuous and noble. So he’s going places. …

By Brittany M. Hughes, MRC TV – In a report that should shock absolutely no one who’s been paying even a modicum of attention over the past four years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. exposed the gruesome reality of the former Biden administration’s “compassionate” open-border policies… Testifying before Congress this week, RFK detailed taking office in January and learning “horror stories” of how migrant children were being shipped off to random, unvetted adults during Joe Biden’s four years in office, many of them landing in unsafe and abuse homes ….

By Jason Jones, Crisis Magazine – Thank God President Donald Trump talked some sense into Israel Tuesday morning after it went rogue and signaled it planned to ignore Monday’s ceasefire deal. But when he smacked down Israel’s obvious intention to escalate, escalate, escalate—and potentially draw the United States into what Trump has warned could become a world war—the president also smacked down the backers of Israel’s plans here in this country. And they took it personally.

By Dr. Edward Feser, Catholic World Report – It is generally acknowledged that preemptive war can sometimes be morally justifiable. But preventive war is much more problematic and controversial… Last week I argued that the U.S. should stay out of Israel’s war with Iran. America has now entered the war by bombing three facilities associated with Iran’s nuclear program. Is this action morally justifiable in light of traditional just war doctrine?… War aims? ….

By Francis P. Sempa, The American Spectator – The quest for permanent global peace is an illusion… In 1795, Immanuel Kant wrote a book titled Perpetual Peace just prior to the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars. More than a century later, Norman Angell wrote The Great Illusion, which argued that great power wars were becoming obsolete, just prior to the outbreak of World War I. H. G. Wells and Woodrow Wilson described World War I as “the war to end all wars,” when in fact it was the prelude to what Raymond Aron accurately called The Century of Total War. ….

By Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal – A far-left socialist who has supported defunding the police and replacing them with social workers, abolishing prisons, abolishing private health insurance, banning guns, decriminalizing pretty much every drug, and creating government-run grocery stores won the Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City on Tuesday.
The race is about more than New York. It’s a harbinger of what’s to come for Democratic Party politics.

By Carol Tobias, LifeNews – Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and restoring the right of the American people to enact laws protecting unborn children. For the pro-life movement, Dobbs was not the conclusion of a decades-long battle on behalf of life—it was the beginning of a new era marked by compassion and renewed engagement at every level of society.

By Michael Swartz, Patriot Post – It should be a telltale sign when Democrats fight and defend illegal alien criminals, yet couldn’t care less about their constituents who are citizens of this country… The headline is provocative, but how else can you explain Democrats’ recent actions? While MAGA backers would love to see every criminal illegal alien deported by Donald Trump’s administration, Democrats want to bog down the system with the “due process” on the way out that was mostly skipped on the way in.

By Madalaine Elhabbal, Catholic News Agency – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan, as “the only bishops from a country to have suffered atomic bombings in war,” is urging the international community to abolish nuclear weapons once and for all in 2025… “As we mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II,” the bishops wrote in a June 20 statement, “[we] carry deeply engraved in our hearts the heavy history and pain that atomic bomb survivors and citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have suffered, and hereby declare our strong commitment to the abolition of nuclear weapons.”

By Elise DeGeeter, Catholic Vote – Israeli forces reportedly opened fire on hundreds of Palestinians waiting for food aid from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in central Gaza early June 24, killing at least 25 and wounding over 140, according to Palestinian witnesses and hospitals… AP (reports) that Israeli tanks and drones opened fire as civilians advanced toward trucks delivering food to a distribution site run by an American contractor and backed by Israel…

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Throughout his campaign, Mamdani has reportedly voiced support for taxpayer subsidization of so-called “trans” surgeries (including for minors) and health care for illegal aliens, government-owned grocery stores, “free” bus fare and child care, hiking the corporate tax rate, and limiting the NYPD’s “duties relating to mental-health crisis intervention, homelessness outreach and traffic ticketing,” according to the Post. He’s also espoused pro-Hamas sentiments and was previously arrested for participating in a “pro-Palestinian” demonstration outside of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s New York residence in 2023.

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – ‘This is a War that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn’t, and never will!’ Trump declared… “During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday night. “On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, ‘THE 12 DAY WAR.’

By Bénédicte Cedergren, National Catholic Register – Archbishop Eamon Martin renewed Ireland’s consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Sunday “to secure refuge from all dangers, visible and invisible” — 152 years after the Emerald Isle’s first consecration… The primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh presided over the solemn Mass at the Eucharistic and Marian pilgrimage site of Knock — in the northwest of the country, where a Marian apparition took place in August 1879 — on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. …

By Newsmax – Attorney General Pam Bondi said this week that her Department of Justice (DOJ) is on “high alert” on the heels of American airstrikes this weekend targeting Iranian nuclear development sites… “Over 1,000 have entered our country, and I can tell you we are on high alert, and everyone is looking at that very closely,” Bondi said.

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – The United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic Charities (CCU) — the domestic charity wing of the U.S. Catholic Church — are among 200 NGOs facing a federal investigation over the misuse of taxpayer funding to facilitate illegal immigration… The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security and the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability announced the probe in a June 11 statement, accusing the USCCB and CCU of colluding with the Biden administration in “helping to fuel the worst border crisis in our nation’s history.”

By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal – President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran on Monday… “Congratulations to everyone,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!), for 12 hours, at which point the war will be considered ended!”

By Frank DeVito, Crisis Magazine – In April 2025, Tucker Carlson invited Matt Walsh onto his podcast. The conversation covered everything from same-sex adoption and surrogacy to foreign policy isolationism. It is well worth listening to. But beyond the substance of the conversation, there was simply something powerful about a discussion between two men with such influence on the American Right—each man has an audience of several million subscribers on YouTube alone. In the age of digital media, each man far surpasses the reach of any legacy-news media personality.

By Nicole Silverio, Media Reporter, Daily Caller – Dr. Yasir Qadhi, a radical Imam, told his fellow Muslims to side with Iran over the U.S. and Israel during a lengthy sermon on Saturday at the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas… Qadhi accused Israel of being a “blood thirsty, colonialist settler enterprise” that has committed “genocide” and called on his fellow Muslims to stand up against the “kaffir,” a slur used to describe “non-believers” of Islam. He shamed anyone who “sides” with Israel, which would include the U.S. government, which bombed three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday.

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – A shooting at a Michigan church on Sunday makes the somber and compelling case for why every single house of worship in America should take steps to protect itself against the inevitable threats of violence against Christians… Brian Anthony Browning, later identified as the son of a CrossPointe Community Church parishoner, allegedly armed himself with a tactical vest and two guns before driving his vehicle into the Wayne, Michigan, house of worship and opening fire on the building’s exterior.

By Franklin Briceno, AP – “It is urgent to root in the whole church a culture of prevention that does not tolerate any form of abuse – neither of power or authority, nor abuse of conscience, spiritual or sexual abuse,” Leo said in the message. “This culture will only be authentic if it is born of active vigilance, of transparent processes and sincere listening to those who have been hurt. For this, we need journalists.”

By Hayden Cunningham, Human Events – A suicide bomber opened fire and detonated a suicide vest inside a Greek Orthodox church near Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 52 others… The attack occurred in the town of Dweila, just outside the capital, inside the Mar Elias Church, according to Syrian state media. Local reports indicated that children were among the dead and wounded.

By Garrett D. Johnson, Crisis Magazine – Many years ago, I decided to attend daily Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Each morning on my way to Mass, I would drive past a house that flew the flag representing pride in all the different sexual identities that fell under the LGBTQ (this was pre-IA+ times) banner. I didn’t take much notice of it at the time, as these flags were all over the city. But, one day, I noticed the flag was becoming tattered, and I surprisingly felt a sense of joy.

By James Mortensen, MRC TV – In an attempt to thwart scrutiny by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Chicago, City Clerk Anna Valencia (IL-D) removed the illegal alien “sanctuary” city’s online application portal for its CityKey ID program after receiving a subpoena from the agency… ICE had subpoenaed records of the now-suspended program, which provides identification cards to all residents within the city –  including illegal aliens. As noted by the Chicago Tribune, when the CityKey program was first introduced in 2017, it was intended to skirt public records laws by only processing applications in person. …

By Victoria Cardiel for CNA, (Catholic World Report ) – Reacting to what he called the “alarming news” of U.S. airstrikes on nuclear facilities in Iran, Pope Leo XIV on Sunday pleaded with the international community “to stop the tragedy of war before it becomes an irreparable abyss.”… “Today more than ever, humanity cries out and pleads for peace,” the pope said, in remarks following his Angelus reflection June 22, adding that the cry “must not be drowned out by the roar of weapons or by rhetoric that incites conflict.”

By Samantha Furnace, LifeNews – Texas lawmakers increased funding this year for pregnancy centers, adoption agencies, and maternity homes to help families choose Life. The state budget includes $200 million for Pro-Life nonprofits, and officials also passed new legislation that will limit the ways bureaucrats sabotage the program. Although this is a big win, Pro-Life leaders still have a lot of work to do to crack down on mail-order abortion pills.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Israel was perfectly capable of eliminating Iran’s nuclear program, and justified in doing so. It didn’t need U.S. help, and we didn’t need to invite the blowback that will come our way. What price will we pay in domestic terrorism? It’s impossible to say. Remember how fragile our freedoms proved during the COVID panic. What would happen if we got hit with a wave of terror attacks — to be handled by an FBI still worm-eaten with Obama loyalists whose specialty is prosecuting grandmas who took selfies on January 6, 2021?… Wise, well-meaning people are worried.

The Editors, National Catholic Register – In liturgical terms, Catholics bade a cheerful goodbye to the Easter season following the celebration of Pentecost Sunday on June 8 and entered into liturgical Ordinary Time… But in secular terms, there’s nothing ordinary about the events that have since taken place. Instead, over the course of one of the most depressing single weeks in recent memory, the world has experienced an extraordinary eruption of turmoil and violence both nationally and internationally… In the U.S., California remains dangerously mired in the protests and riots that began on June 6, targeted against the arrests of illegal immigrants by federal law enforcement officials.

By Michael Reagan, Patriot Post – You don’t hear Trump denying anything, right? He just keeps everyone guessing — especially the Iranians… Is his dogged public uncertainty one of his “art of the deal” tactics to get Iran to come to the negotiating table? Probably… In 1980 not saying anything and allowing the liberal media and the left to sell the Iranian mullahs the idea that their country might soon become a parking lot worked very well for my father.

By Neil Munro, Breitbart – Democrats from N.Y. to California have launched a media-magnified PR campaign to argue millions of illegal migrants hired by employers should be exempt from the nation’s deportation laws… immigration czar Stephen Miller is using Twitter to expose the Democrats’ claim that migrants somehow become legal when they accept wages far below the levels needed by ordinary Americans… Miller (said) ‘The LA Mayor says her economy is dependent on vast criminal lawbreaking and the federal government should ensure vast criminal lawbreaking continues forever.” …

By Hans von Spakovsky, The Daily Signal – A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the 9th Circuit released a unanimous opinion upholding President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard, and the media is portraying this as a win for the president over California Gov. Gavin Newsom… It was, but it’s also a win for the public safety of the residents of Los Angeles, for local and federal law enforcement, and for a civilized society—a win against lawlessness, mob violence, and the reckless politics of a governor intent on ignoring the mayhem caused by violent agitators and his own weak actions.

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal – Congressional Republicans are fighting to repeal the law used under the Biden administration to prosecute pro-lifers for praying outside abortion clinics… In the meantime, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon plans to use the law to prosecute attacks against pregnancy resource centers… “While the statute is in place, it provides protection for both people who are going to abortion clinics as well as crisis pregnancy centers,” Dhillon told The Daily Signal. “And we intend to prosecute numerous attacks that have happened on those over the years with people coming forward with the right evidence that we need.” 

By Brianna Lyman, The Federalist – Given the chance, Democrats will choose voter registration over deportation… On Wednesday, Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., suggested granting citizenship to every illegal alien in the country. According to Frost, if Republicans don’t want illegal aliens in America, the fix is simple — just make them legal. But his comments are revealing and expose the endgame of the modern Democrat Party: use the border crisis that they created to cement their permanent political power.

By Daniel J. Mahoney, The American Mind – The tumultuous and exhausting 12-year pontificate of the Argentinian Jorge Bergoglio, better known to the world as Pope Francis, came to an end in April. Francis was a paradoxical pope if there ever was one. He openly promoted disruption in the Catholic Church, which he did not hesitate to call causing “a mess,” as if unclarity about doctrine and the Church’s moral teaching could somehow serve constructive purposes. He spoke endlessly of mercy and the Church as an immense, nonjudgmental “field hospital” for the lost and broken. But Pope Francis rarely called for the repentance that is the crucial prerequisite for the healing of the soul.

By Lyndsey Fifield, The Federalist – I wasn’t prepared for the level of rage that washed over my body as I watched this video of a roofing business owner in Florida blubbering over the detention of his illegally employed workforce… I also wasn’t ready for the flashbacks to my childhood it gave me, and my reaction was not kind… I’m still astonished by the attention this little tweet has gotten, but I understand why it has: Many, many Americans can relate.

By Adam Johnston, The Federalist – If President Trump truly believes in ‘no more stupid wars,’ now is the time to prove it… Iran is not America’s war to fight. And Israel is not a country the United States is obligated to defend. Now is the time to heed the words of John Quincy Adams when he rightly stated that America “is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”

By Nathanael Blake, The Federalist – The Glamor of the Sexual Revolution Is Fading… Pride seems subdued this year. The month-long celebration of all things gay, queer, trans, and the rest of the endless acronym is still happening, of course. But, the festivities seem muted, and corporations, perhaps chastened by the debacles of Budweiser and Target, seem less inclined to wallow in Pride for a month. The radical rainbow revolution has stalled, and even its prior victories, such as same-sex marriage, may be losing support.

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – The same country that has repeatedly weaponized its anti-free speech laws to prosecute Christians for praying silently near abortion facilities went to great lengths this week to permit abortion through all nine months of pregnancy… The House of Commons overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to pass an amendment that would legalize abortion until birth across England and Wales. According to Right To Life UK, members of Parliament “hijacked” a Crime and Policing Bill “to rush through a seismic and unpopular change to abortion law after just two hours’ debate.”

By Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, National Catholic Register – The Supreme Court Wednesday morning kept in place a Tennessee law banning medical “gender transitions” on minors… The 6-3 decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti protects vulnerable children from the snares of gender ideology and safeguards our Constitution from being manipulated by this sinister ideology… In 2023, Tennessee restricted medical “transition” treatments for minors, enacting SB1 — the Prohibition on Medical Procedures Performed on Minors Related to Sexual Identity. …

By Mat Staver, LifeNews – There are 200 bloody abortion clinics that you can help close today. The U.S. Senate Finance Committee could release its version of the federal budget bill at any moment. The language for Defunding Big Abortion must pass through this committee… This is the committee where the abortion defunding fight will live or die… If we don’t act right now — Planned Parenthood and other abortion profiteers will continue siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars every year from you to fund their campaigns to murder innocent children. ….

By Nick Kangadis, MRC TV – At some point, you’d think someone would ask someone on the left doing everything they can to protect illegal aliens more than they call for protection of American citizens, ‘Who do you serve?’… On Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) announced that the State of New York will be using $50 million in taxpayer funds to provide legal assistance to illegal aliens.

By Elise DeGeeter, Catholic Vote – The US Embassy in Jerusalem early Wednesday announced that it would be closed until Friday in compliance with local ordinances amid retaliatory Iranian strikes on the state of Israel, while the Trump administration signaled it may be weighing further US involvement in the Middle Eastern war… After declaring “complete and total control of the skies over Iran” and oscillating between diplomacy and threats of military action in a series of June 17 media posts, President Donald Trump convened with national security officials in the White House Situation Room to discuss the escalating conflict.

By Gerard V. Bradley, National Catholic Register – The founders of the United States were pioneers of religious liberty. Unlike practically all societies before theirs, they eschewed top-down control of the people’s religion through princely imposition, or by the altar-throne deals common in Christendom, or by enforcing some eclectic civil religion. Or by all three, as in England ca. 1776, where the idea was political prosperity through religious unity.  …

By John Zmirak, The Stream – The Nazi Playbook in Play in Los Angeles Today… The Left in America isn’t following the Communist playbook, which succeeded once in Russia but failed in every developed country. The Left is following the Nazi playbook that succeeded in highly cultured Germany. The organization Antifa was founded by the Soviets in the 1920s to try to seize power in Germany, and has existed ever since. It learned the lessons of its failure and the technique of Nazi success …. Whether they know it or not (I think many do), Democrats like Gavin Newsom are implementing the Nazi playbook in our own states and cities. That’s what Donald Trump faces.

By Brianna Lyman, The Federalist – new poll released Tuesday reveals just 16 percent of Americans want to get involved in the Israel-Iran war… The poll, conducted earlier this week by The Economist and analytics group YouGov, found 16 percent of Americans think the “U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran;” 60 percent say it should not, and 24 percent are “not sure.” When split among party lines, 53 percent of Republicans, 65 percent of Democrats, and 61 percent of Independents oppose intervention in Iran, according to YouGov.

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – PBS and NPR are using taxpayer dollars to dishonestly push their own political agendas, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Tuesday, calling for the Senate to vote to approve Pres. Donald Trump’s request to rescind funding of public media… In a social media thread posted on X.com, Sen. Kennedy began by detailing the cost to American taxpayers of subsidizing public media: “In 2025 alone, Congress will send the Corporation for Public Broadcasting $535M. …

By Daniel Payne, CNA – The New Jersey government will be allowed to assemble a grand jury to investigate allegations of clergy sexual abuse there, the state Supreme Court said Monday… In a unanimous ruling, the New Jersey Supreme Court said a lower court had erred when it held the state could not empanel the jury, with the high court stating that the government “has the right to proceed with its investigation and present evidence before a special grand jury.”

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture – Two things can be true at the same time. Take, for instance, Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military infrastructure this week. It’s possible to believe that Iran brought this on themselves. Indeed, that they have had it coming for a long time, perhaps as far back as the hostage crisis during the Carter era. That Iran’s rulers were high stakes gamblers who just lost their gamble. That the mullahs made their final, fatal, miscalculation beginning on October 7th, 2023, when one of their proxies in their “Axis of Resistance” butchered Israelis …

By Isela Becerra, Wilson Beaver, The Daily Signal – Protesters in Los Angeles once again launch violent assaults this weekend against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and law enforcement officers. Agitators at the Federal Building in downtown LA threw rocks, bottles, and fireworks. Police deployed tear gas, flash bangs, and rubber bullets to try and maintain order. Protesters even went after police horses… Over 70 people were arrested… The protests started on June 6 after federal agents swept through the city’s garment district for illegal immigrants, arresting 118, including five gang members.

By Tyler O’Neil, The Daily Signal – “All Americans should be shocked, appalled, and terrified that the Biden Justice Department was taking advice from a hate-filled, morally bankrupt organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Ian Prior, senior counselor at America First Legal, told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “The SPLC’s agenda is anti-American to its core, and we must ensure that the SPLC never regains the power that it was so wrongly granted by the woke bureaucrats who ran this country until this past January.”

By Madalaine Elhabbal, Catholic World Report, (Catholic News Agency) – Islamist Fulani militants swooped into the town of Yelewata in Nigeria’s Benue state and killed up to 200 Nigerian Christians on Friday in what international aid organizations are calling the “worst killing spree” in the region yet… The attackers targeted Christians living as internally displaced people in the June 13 attack, setting fire to buildings where families were taking shelter and assaulting with machetes anyone who attempted to flee ….

By Steven Ertelt , LifeNews – Leading pro-life groups are praising the Senate’s version of the One Big Beautiful bill, which also contains language to defund Planned Parenthood… Top pro-life organizations praised the Senate Finance Committee’s draft legislative package that would prevent taxpayer dollars from supporting the abortion industry… “We praise Majority Leader John Thune and Finance Committee Chair Sen. Mike Crapo for their leadership,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “The One, Big Beautiful Bill brings us closer to disentangling federal tax dollars from subsidizing the abortion industry.”

By Jacqueline Annis-Levings, The Federalist – According to a CBS poll from earlier this month, 54 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s deportation policy. The Daily Caller reported that 53 percent of Hispanic voters back “increasing the pace” of Trump’s deportations. A March poll from Pew Research Center showed that 32 percent of Americans approve of deporting all illegal immigrants and 51 percent approve of deporting some. Of that 51 percent, 97 percent support deporting violent criminals.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The Planned Parenthood abortion business is in crisis and may close as many 200 of its abortion centers that kill babies in abortions… There’s potentially great news for pro-life Americans and little unborn children as America’s biggest abortion company is facing both a federal investigation as well as the potentiality of losing $700 million in annual federal taxpayer funding as the One Big Beautiful Bill has passed the House and is on track for a vote in the Senate. …

By Nick Kangadis, MRC TV – The riots currently going on in Los Angeles and, to a slightly lesser degree, around the country aren’t working as well for the left as they have in the past when they could more easily pull the wool over the eyes of the American people. But, with Americans experiencing these kinds of nefarious actions over and over again, especially in the name of criminals, they no longer have the same “tolerance” for the left’s “Victimhood Olympics. ….

By Victor Joecks, Patriot Post – The government spent decades trying to make fathers unnecessary. The failure of that experiment put society on the long-term path to collapse… Father’s Day is Sunday. It’s much less popular than Mother’s Day for a sad reason. Fewer fathers are involved in their children’s lives. That’s caused by two main factors, the first being children born to single moms. In 2022, almost 40% of births were to unmarried women, according to the CDC. The second reason is the prevalence of divorce.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – In case you believed the mainstream media when it said the anti-ICE protests aimed at frustrating the enforcement of just, democratically enacted, bipartisan U.S. immigration laws are spontaneous reactions from local communities to heavy-handed enforcement … well, just don’t… The protests are centrally coordinated by radical Leftist groups, and are now erupting simultaneously all across the country. That’s what “color revolutions” organized by the U.S. Deep State look like, as whistleblower Mike Benz explains. 

By Patriot Post – On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress directed “six companies of expert riflemen be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia.” Each company consisted of “a captain, three lieutenants, four sergeants, four corporals, a drummer or trumpeter and sixty-eight privates.” Finally, “Each company … shall march and join the army near Boston, to be there employed as light infantry, under the command of the chief Officer in that army.”… The next day, George Washington was appointed commander of the Continental Army, which later became the U.S. Army.

By Mary Stroka, Catholic Vote – The USCCB’s and Catholic Charities USA are among the more than 200 NGO’s that congressmen are investigating in a probe of organizations that served “inadmissible aliens” during the Biden administration, according to a June 11 news release… “To respond to unprecedented surges of illegal immigrants between January 20, 2021, and January 20, 2025, the federal government outsourced a much greater share of its migrant response to NGOs, increasing NGO revenues while placing the burden of the Biden Administration’s policies on American taxpayers,” the chairmen wrote.

By Archbishop John Wester, Los Alamos Reporter, (Complicit Clergy) – “The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a budget reconciliation bill that is contrary to Catholic social teaching. The bill is now waiting to be debated in the Senate. It should be strongly opposed… “Moreover, the church and the bishops of the United States should lead the way in speaking against this bill and calling on Catholics to work for its defeat. Because of its overall effects on those who are most in need, passing this budget would be a moral failure for American society as a whole. …

By Tyler O’Neil, The Daily Signal – It took the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals only a few hours to block a lower court’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard in the Los Angeles riots… The appeals court acted expeditiously because Trump was so clearly in the right, according to Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation… “Look, what the president did is something he is statutorily authorized to do, much less looking at his constitutional authority as commander-in-chief,” von Spakovsky told The Daily Signal …

By Newsmax – Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country’s nuclear program and killed at least two top military officers, raising the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq. Simmering tensions over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program boiled over and Iran quickly retaliated, sending a swarm of drones at Israel as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned of “severe punishment.”

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – Senator Josh Hawley is probing the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights over potential funding of the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots, but other organizations are under scrutiny as well… While Democrats and the Leftmedia seek to frame the anti-ICE protests and riots currently roiling Los Angeles as organic grassroots expressions of objections to the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce immigration law, the truth is that they are anything but spontaneous, organic, and uncoordinated. …

By Catholics for Catholics – A non-profit organization that is suspected of bankrolling the protestors (not the looting) of the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles has strong ties to that city’s Archdiocese and to a national Catholic organization… John Yep, Michael Hichborn, President of the Lepanto Institute, said that the Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights, better known as CHIRLA, has had a long, deep relationship with the Archdiocese (of Los Angeles), which is even mentioned in their website. ….

By Hayden Daniel, The Federalist – In the midst of the riots that have raged across Los Angeles in response to the Trump administration’s raid to apprehend criminals, Mexican flags have emerged as a prominent emblem of the rioters’ lawless defiance… While the NY Times gushed that the rioters’ usage of the flag represented “pride in their heritage,” most Americans saw it for what it was: a symbol of conquest. But many leftists are now making that very argument, that it represents a reclamation by Mexico of land supposedly “stolen” by the United States.

By Patrick Hampton, Patriot Post – My father then explained a fundamental conservative principle: personal responsibility. He believed that relying on government assistance could encourage dependence and discourage working hard. Instead, he emphasized the importance of taking responsibility for oneself and paying for one’s needs through effort and hard work. He explained that we should be self-reliant rather than expecting government programs to support us.

By Dan Hart, LifeNews – A new Gallup poll has revealed that the percentage of surveyed Americans who say they are pro-life has risen two points since last year to 43%, a number that is consistent with past survey results over the last two decades. Experts say the numbers suggest that the efforts by the Democratic Party, pro-abortion activists, and the mainstream media to sway the American electorate towards widespread acceptance of abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision have been largely unsuccessful.

By Elise DeGeeter, Catholic Vote – Over 1,500 anti-Trump protests are set to erupt nationwide June 14 — Flag Day and President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday — as progressive groups aim to counter a military parade in Washington, DC, marking the Army’s 250th anniversary… Branded the “No Kings Nationwide Day of Defiance,” the demonstrations are being led by Indivisible, a left-wing activist network, in partnership with other progressive coalitions. Organizers say the coordinated effort is a rejection of what they describe as Trump’s “authoritarian excesses.”

By James Mortensen, MRC TV – Through ICE’s 287(g) program agreement, ICE delegates to partner state and local law enforcement agencies and their officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency’s direction and oversight… In Texas, local law enforcement agencies have signed nearly one hundred (95) agreements with ICE, while those in California – a self-declared “sanctuary” state for illegal immigrants – have none… Anti-ICE protests broke out in Los Angeles, California on Friday and in Dallas, Texas on Monday. In Los Angeles, the protests turned violent and continued. In Dallas, they did not.

By Kevin Kijewski, Crisis Magazine – When some newcomers seek to subvert the existing legal system by substituting Sharia or by illegally voting in a presidential election, how is it not reprehensible? Adding insult to injury, Catholic Charities supports “crucial care” funding that includes free chartered flights into the country for so-called asylum seekers—people who may never have thought to enter the United States without such services. Bishop Emeritus Joseph Strickland pointed out that 80 percent of immigrants would not qualify for asylum or refugee status. ….

By Aliyah Cohen, MRC TV – Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki, leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), recently released a 34-minute video calling on Muslims in the U.S. to wage jihad and assassinate Americans and their leaders. Among those named? President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Elon Musk.In the video, al-Awlaki demands: “Do not consult anyone before killing infidel Americans… “Go after the scum of the earth and its greatest criminals.”

By Newsmax, The Associated Press – Pres. Donald Trump called protesters in Los Angeles “animals” and “a foreign enemy” in a speech at Fort Bragg on Tuesday as he defended deploying the military on demonstrators opposed to his immigration enforcement raids and as he vowed to “liberate” the West Coast city… Trump, in his most aggressive language yet regarding the protests, used a speech ostensibly aimed at recognizing the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army to denounce the protesters.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The House Judiciary Committee voted 13-10 on June 10, 2025, to advance a bill to repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. That’s the 1994 law Joe Biden’s administration used to put pro-life Americans in prison for peacefully protesting abortion… The FACE law was weaponized by the Biden administration to target and imprison peaceful pro-life activists, including elderly women. …

By Madison Fossa, American Spectator – New members will shortly be appointed by the Trump administration… On Monday, HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that detailed his plan to remove all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices from their positions. Through this action, Kennedy has enabled the Trump administration to select an entirely new panel that will meet at the end of this month… Kennedy’s decision is aimed at restoring the public’s trust in the American vaccine industry and health care systems.

By Kate Quiñones, Catholic News Agency, (Complicit Clergy) – A federal judge has overturned the long-standing “Texas Dream Act” in a move the state’s Catholic bishops say undermines “just” immigration reform efforts… After the U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Texas over the matter last week, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor blocked the law, which had enabled some noncitizens living illegally in Texas to qualify for in-state tuition at the state’s public universities and colleges. … Reed ruled that the law was “unconstitutional and invalid” because it applied to those who were “not lawfully present in the United States.”

By: John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – There’s a lot to say about the rioting and mayhem underway in Los Angeles right now, including the striking prevalence of Mexican flags among the rioters. Iconic images have been circulating online for days of masked men waving Mexico’s flag amid burning vehicles and wreckage, giving the riots a decidedly sinister flavor, as though all this is at least partly the work of foreign powers attempting to undermine the sovereignty of the United States… In fact, that’s partially true, and it deserves some unpacking. …

By Eddie Scarry, The Federalist – Let’s skip past the part where Democrat leaders in the most perfunctory way “disavow” the violent and lawless rioting in Los Angeles, and their news media counterparts diligently repeat those disavowals for them. What we’re seeing in L.A. is what Democrats instigate and excuse when their policies are obstructed. .. Dem. LA Mayor Karen Bass said as much on Monday on CNN, after two days of foreign nationals hurling boulders at cop cars, setting private property on fire, and tossing explosives at federal government facilities. “I just have to say that if you dial back time and go [back] to Friday,” she said, “if immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on last night.” …

By Dave Andrusko, LifeNews – Currently, as of May 2025, * 32% of women and 54% of men identify as pro-life. 61% of women and 41% of men consider themselves pro-choice. The difference—the gap—was 13-points in 2022  “and no more than 10-point differences in any reading before Dobbs,” according to Saad. “The gap has expanded since 2022 because pro-choice identity has dipped among men, from 48% to 41%, while it has held steady among women.”

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – Americans are clearly on the side of Pres. Donald Trump when it comes to immigration… “Trump is begging for a fight on this because he knows what he’s doing so far is working with the American electorate.”… “And, it’s not just on the broad issue of immigration, it’s on the specifics as well, in which the American public is with Donald Trump and the Republicans,” Enten said, noting that a majority of Americans now say they support, not just of Trump’s program to deport illegal immigrants, but also of efforts to search their hometowns in order to do so.

By P. Gardner Goldsmith, MRC TV – Systemic media bias can present us with many unanswerable questions, and the unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing a Wisconsin Catholic Charity right to go tax-free brings one of the big questions to mind… What one wonders is if MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS barely covered the June 5 unanimous court decision acknowledging religious liberty because the leftist media love tax thievery, or because the Trump Administration supported the plaintiffs’ rights, and the Trump team was proven correct.

By The Associated Press, (Newsmax) – Law enforcement officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in Los Angeles on Sunday as they gathered downtown in response to President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard over the objections of the governor and mayor… The clashes came on the third day of demonstrations against Trump’s immigration crackdown in the region, as the arrival of around 300 federal troops spurred anger and fear among some residents… By midday, hundreds had gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, where people were detained after earlier immigration raids. …

By Cristina Laila, Gateway Pundit – President Trump late Sunday night and into Monday morning called for troops to be brought in to help stop the violent riots in downtown Los Angeles… Masked rioters are setting cars on fire and launching commercial grade explosives at law enforcement officers… LAPD declared an unlawful assembly on Sunday evening.

By James Mortensen, MRC TV – On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed a Proclamation suspending entry of foreign nationals seeking to study or participate in exchange programs at Harvard University… This was done in an effort to safeguard national security after a federal judge blocked his May attempt to revoke Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students… The Proclamation suspends the entry into the United States of any new Harvard student as a non-immigrant under F, M, or J visas, and it recommends the Secretary of State to consider the existing visas of the same classification for current Harvard students ….

By Ingrid Duran, LifeNews – The legal status of abortion across the states is shaped not only by the Dobbs decision but also by a range of additional factors. These include recent state constitutional rulings interpreting abortion as a protected right; the passage of laws aimed at safeguarding unborn life; ongoing litigation challenging or defending those laws; and the implementation of so-called “shield laws.” These are laws designed to protect abortion providers who reside in abortion-friendly states who prescribe abortions pills in states where abortion is almost entirely proscribed.

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture – It’s happening sooner than I expected. Way sooner. I thought the 2028 Republican presidential primaries would be the time to work all this out. But this thing is going down right now… I’m talking about the very public falling out between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Oh, don’t get me wrong. I never expected that relationship to last four years. No one did. But I didn’t expect it to blow up this soon. ….

By Anne Morse, The Stream – The Second World War had raged in Europe for five years, with Nazi Germany invading and destroying one country after another, slaughtering tens of millions, soldiers and civilians alike. When news of the long-awaited invasion (Allied forces had landed on the beaches of Normandy, beginning the invasion of Nazi-occupied France) came over the radios of American parents, wives, siblings, and children, they immediately began to pray… “The reaction of many Americans, whenever they found out what was happening that day, was to attend religious services.” …

By Joy Pullmann, Ex. Dir., The Federalist – Returning noncitizen children and noncitizen parents to their countries could save taxpayers hundreds of billions, especially in state budgets… A few simple calculations indicate that as much as one-quarter of U.S. public school enrollment could be anchor babies, meaning children with at least one parent illegally present in the United States. This alone amounts to at least $145.6 billion in public resources diverted from U.S. citizens every year.

By Aliyah Cohen, MRC TV – Meet Skye Tooley, a self-proclaimed “anti-bias educator” who once again made headlines for pushing blatant bias in the classroom… In a recent video, the Los Angeles teacher proudly told followers she’s “indoctrinating” her 5th grade students this Pride Month with lessons on queer icons and Pride flags… Tooley may have been awarded with a Human Rights Award by the California Teachers Association in 2023, but a quick scroll through her feed (and her track record) tells a different story. …

By George Matwijec, American Thinker – If we think about artificial intelligence, it is basically a compilation of human information, written and composed by humans. Do these humans possess bias in their judgments and statements? Absolutely. It only follows that the same bias will most likely occur in artificial intelligence and its pronouncements. On the other hand, I don’t think we should disregard artificial intelligence as a source of information simply due to bias. In that case, we would have to disregard most human knowledge, which has an inborn implicit bias to one degree or another. …

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Usually when I write something, I try to make it unassailable, to nail down and pre-refute each objection I can imagine, so that if the reader isn’t convinced by the end of it, he is at least intimidated into a sullen, reverent silence. I don’t aim to start debates, but I do love to end them… However, this week I am on the road … So instead of my typical columns aimed at settling questions with all the certainty (if not the authority) of the Council of Nicaea, today I’d like to plant just a few intellectual landmines aimed at producing heat, light, and shrapnel. …

By Bob Unruh, LifeNews – There was a court case that challenged the approval by the Food and Drug Administration of the use of mifepristone, the abortion drug that is widely used as a replacement for surgical abortions… The Supreme Court ruled that the drug should be available, but the ruling was on very narrow grounds, and was based only on the court’s claim the pro-life physicians who brought to challenge didn’t show they had been harmed personally because it would be others who actually used the drug… Now there’s going to be a new review of the drug by the FDA itself.

By James Mortensen, MRC TV – Two alleged cartel members and one person wanted by Interpol for murder in Honduras were among at least 80 people arrested in a raid operated by U.S. ICE, the DHS, state and local law enforcement last weekend at the Alamo, an unlicensed nightclub in Summerville, South Carolina… (after receiving noise complaints etc. police).. would involve ICE upon reports of trafficking, narcotics, and weapons within the nightclub… Among the 80 individuals arrested, 72 were illegal immigrants, the others were arrested on other charges, such as assaulting an officer.

By Joachim Osther, The Stream – Over the last few days, we’ve seen an immense escalation in the Ukraine/Russia war. In fact, some people are describing it as “Russia’s Pearl Harbor.”… Ukraine deployed drone swarms hidden in containers on large transport trucks. Once inside Russian territory, the swarms disabled several Tu-95 Russian bombers — planes that are integral to Russia’s strategic nuclear deployment capabilities… While the Ukrainian Security Service claimed to have hit 34% of Russia’s 55 bombers capable of carrying nuclear-armed cruise missiles, the actual number may be lower; independent news sources indicate only 7% to 11% of Russia’s nuclear-capable fleet was damaged.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – Biden’s border legacy isn’t just policy—it’s a demographic earthquake that will rattle America’s foundation long after he’s gone… The spiteful open-borders legacy of Joe Biden will plague America for generations to come, long after the former president is a fading bad memory. Somewhere between 10-12 million foreign nationals are believed to have entered the U.S. illegally under his watch, to add to the existing 12-20 million illegal aliens… Almost all were unaudited… They stormed the border for four years without background checks of the sort that American citizens must undergo to purchase a firearm or take out a loan. …

By Nancy Flanders, Live Action – Live Action publicly released a memo Tuesday regarding in vitro fertilization (IVF), urging the Trump administration to focus on treating infertility as a chronic disease, finding true treatments for its underlying causes rather than using the band-aid approach of IVF… The memo has been in the hands of the Trump administration for months, encouraging them to halt plans for increasing access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and to instead turn toward actually healing infertility as the goal. …

By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews – The FBI’s anti-Catholic Richmond memo was distributed to more than 1,000 employees in FBI field offices across the country before it was ever leaked to the public by a whistleblower, according to documents obtained and revealed by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, this week… What is more, Grassley found that the FBI had “produced at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology and relied on information from the radical far-left Southern Poverty Law Center,” according to a June 3 press release from the senator’s office.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The Trump administration today has rescinded a rule from Joe Biden that attempted to force ERs to become abortion clinics… Biden tried to use the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) to force hospitals to kill babies in elective abortions. But on Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that Biden’s policy has been overturned… In 2022, the Biden administration announced its intention to force doctors to perform abortions under EMTALA.

By Kate Quiñones, CNA –  A top official at the FDA confirmed on Monday that the organization will conduct a review of the abortion drug mifepristone following several recent studies challenging the safety of the drug… FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said he is “committed” to conducting the review in a June 2 letter addressed to Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who has been an outspoken advocate for reviewing abortion pill safety regulations… “As with all drugs, FDA continues to closely monitor the post-marketing safety data on mifepristone for the medical termination of early pregnancy” ….

Catholic Vote, News Feed – The FBI’s anti-Catholic Richmond memo was distributed to more than 1,000 employees in FBI field offices across the country before it was ever leaked to the public by a whistleblower, according to documents obtained and revealed by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, this week… What is more, Grassley found that the FBI had “produced at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology and relied on information from the radical far-left Southern Poverty Law Center,” according to a June 3 press release from the senator’s office.

By Sumantra Maitra, The American Conservative – Two years on, the dynamic remains similar. A day before the peace delegations were supposed to meet in Istanbul, the Ukrainians did one of the most daring special-ops in the history of modern warfare. Truck-borne small drone swarms attacked the Russian strategic bomber fleet deep in Russia. The news is fluid, but what we know so far suggests that this operation was apparently planned for over a year. The Ukrainians did not involve the Americans in planning, nor did they inform Americans before the attack. …

By Aliyah Cohen, MRC TV – Walk into Target this June, and instead of LGBTQ baby clothes or “tuck-friendly” swimsuits for minors, you’re hit with a wave of red, white, and blue. Flags. Fireworks. Father’s Day. The 4th of July — a whole month early… The historic backlash on Target’s 2023 Pride Month merchandise collection was no joke. According to Fox Business, the company lost over $9 billion in market value and saw its first sales decline in six years. …

By Clifford Angell Bates, Jr., Chronicles – The rule of law has long stood as a pillar of liberal constitutional democracy—a commitment to neutral adjudication, impartial justice, and political fairness. Neutrality of this kind lends legitimacy to a regime of laws as opposed to one of mere men. Yet in recent years, particularly under the aggressive strategies of the progressive left, a dangerous transformation has occurred. The law is no longer a matter for maintaining order or resolving disputes. It has become a weapon—“lawfare”—wielded not for justice but for victory. Under the guise of legality, the left has harnessed the institutions of justice to pursue their political enemies ….

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – Europe’s political class has turned its back on the people it was supposed to protect. The people have taken notice… Over the weekend, a conservative Polish historian named Karol Nawrocki, backed by the Law and Justice opposition (and President Trump), narrowly won the Polish presidential election. For the European political establishment, Nawrocki’s victory was a catastrophe — a harbinger of right-wing fascism looming over the continent… Why? Because Nawrocki campaigned against the mass immigration policy of Brussels while promoting conservative Catholic values and Polish nationalism.

By P. Gardner Goldsmith, MRC TV – The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Medicine announced on May 30 that, in compliance with a January Executive Order issued by President Donald Trump, it will “remove access to puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries for individuals under the age of 19,” marking a significant change in policy and procedure and handing a pyrrhic victory to Americans who believe in conservative values and the original intent of the Founders who wrote the U.S. Constitution.

By Jacob Adams, The Daily Signal – Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine ended less than two hours after they began on Monday in the wake of a devastating attack by Ukraine against Russia… The talks, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey, are the latest in ongoing efforts by the two neighboring nations and the Trump administration to bring an end to a war that has cost tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars… President Donald Trump has been critical of both countries since he returned to office in January and has recently threatened to walk away from the negotiations. …

By Mark Swanson, Newsmax – The Department of Education announced Monday that the month of June will now be recognized as “Title IX Month,” commemorating the 53rd anniversary of the federal civil rights measure being signed into law while highlighting how the previous administration undermined efforts to protect girls and women under the law… Title IX Month replaces Pride Month celebrated by the Department of Education under former President Joe Biden, who in 2022 declared June LGBTQ Pride Month. From there, Biden’s DOE Pride Month celebrations focused on gender ideology, critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – The left cries “dictatorship” while wielding the courts, agencies, and media to undermine laws, crush dissent, and call it democracy… The left is in its usual sanctimonious but schizophrenic mood… The media claims daily that the Trump administration has usurped power. It is supposedly destroying democracy. It tramples on the rule of law and thus has created a virtual dictatorship… Yet at the same time, Democrats high-five the most recent district court judge who has put a stop to the current Trump executive orders—which the Trump administration abides by as it files appeals. …

By  Hank Berrien, DailyWire – “The requests were suspicious when the impersonator began asking questions about Trump that Wiles should have known the answers to.”… Someone is impersonating President Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, in texts and phone calls — and the FBI is investigating… Wiles, who is the first female chief of staff  in U.S. history, has revealed contacts were hacked from her personal, not her government, cellphone, The Wall Street Journal reported. Other top officials in the Trump administration were contacted via the fake identity.

By Grace Porto, LifeNews – The American Center for Law and Justice recently joined 150 pro-life groups that have called on Congress to stop funding abortions… “Since our earliest efforts defending the pro-life advocacy group Operation Rescue—which has helped save countless unborn lives—the ACLJ has remained steadfast in advocating for the rights of the unborn,” the ACLJ stated in a May 28 press release… The release continued that despite the ACLJ’s 35 years of defending the pro-life movement, the fight to protect babies and to defund the abortion industry is far from over.

By Anthony Blair, New York Post – Ukrainian forces stunned the Russian military Sunday after wiping out and damaging dozens of nuclear bombers and other aircraft with ambitious and complicated attacks that struck President Vladimir Putin’s air bases deep inside the country, Kyiv says… Even pro-Moscow military bloggers are calling the strike — which used drones hidden in trucks  — “the Russian Pearl Harbor.”… The attack came just a day before the leaders of Ukraine and Russia were potentially set to meet in Istanbul as part of US-backed cease-fire talks.

By Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal – America’s top schools need to stop catering to hostile foreign powers looking to infiltrate the United States and focus more on building a talent pool here at home… That’s my take from Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement Thursday that the U.S. will begin aggressively revoking visas for Chinese college students connected to the Chinese Communist Party or who are studying in “critical fields.”

By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald – Bioethicists have severely criticised a “truly sinister” government impact assessment of the assisted suicide Bill for focusing on the money that might be saved from doctors helping patients to kill themselves… The Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics Centre, which serves the Catholic Church in the UK and Ireland, also criticised the government for underestimating the numbers of people who would die from assisted suicide if Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill became law. …

By Brittany M. Hughes, MRC TV – In a 7-2 decision that’s currently making leftists’ heads explode, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to revoke the legal status of nearly half a million migrants that were paroled under a Biden administration program… Thanks to the court’s decision, roughly 500,000 paroled migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, who were granted temporary amnesty under the Biden administration’s “CHNV” program, will have their temporary legal status canceled and will be required either to file for another form of legal status, return to their home country, or stay in the United States illegally and risk forced deportation by Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement. …

By Matt Kittle, The Federalist – Tough-talking Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is buddying up with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on an economic sanctions bill aimed at bringing Russia to the negotiating table. Graham says there’s a “new sheriff in town. The old playbook won’t work this time.”… But the old playbook remains sadly in fashion in so many ways in Washington, D.C… Wouldn’t it be swell if Senate Republicans displayed the same level of passion and urgency when it comes to cutting taxes, shrinking government, and protecting our borders? While a lot of Americans agree with Trump that “crazy” Putin may be “playing with fire,” they would like to see their representatives in Washington, D.C., take some interest in pressing matters at home.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – I’ll never forget my first visit to Seattle, which will likely be my last. As you’re already aware if you’ve been reading The Brew the last few days, Antifa recently attacked a group of Christians gathered at a public worship event — and the mayor defended not the Christians, but Antifa… I was there in 2022 to take part in a forum with Eric Metaxas at the wonderful Westgate Chapel a few miles outside the city. We stayed downtown in the Arctic Club, a lovely relic of more civilized times built by retired polar explorers…

By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald – Hundreds of woman in America and the UK are planning legal action after a contraceptive jab left them at risk of developing potentially lethal brain tumours… A study in France revealed last year that injections of medroxyprogesterone, marked under the brand name Depo-Provera, made if five times more likely for a woman to suffer from meningioma, a type of non-cancerous growth… A lawsuit was launched last week in Florida by 400 American victims of the drug, with about 200 women in the UK ….

By Cailey Myers, LifeNews – Today, American Principles Project (APP) released a report highlighting Planned Parenthood’s alarming shift into the nation’s leading provider of sex-change procedures for young adults, all while collecting more than $700 million in tax dollars a year. The report reveals Planned Parenthood’s reckless approach to push transgender treatments, often without medical oversight or mental health evaluations, as they simultaneously push radical gender ideology on our children through its extensive sex education programs. …

By Zelda Caldwell, Sr. Writer, National Catholic Register – With a plan for expanding access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) expected from the Trump White House any day, some analysts are hopeful that the initiative will give a boost to a growing field of medicine that seeks to address the root causes of infertility… During the 2024 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump vowed to make IVF free to Americans amid backlash to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that recognized the personhood of human embryos. ….

By Brittany M. Hughes, MRC TV – Just one day after Trump posted to Truth Social that he is considering pulling federal funding from the Golden State over their refusal to comply with his executive order mandating athletes be allowed to compete on sports teams according to their biological gender, the California Interscholastic Federation, which oversees high school sports, announced a new “pilot entry process” that would allow any “biological female” athlete who lost her spot at a competition to a biological boy the “opportunity to participate” in the event anyway.

By Brooke Stanton, The Federalist – Advancing the Life at Conception Act isn’t about ending abortion today. It’s about ending science denial now. The act is a clarion call for Congress to affirm the empirical truth about when a human being begins to exist, aligning law with reason and biology. Until the U.S. explicitly rejects abortion’s distorted vision of humanity, the knowledge gap about humankind will widen, and public opinion will drift further from reality. Anything less than advancing this bill is a vote for confusion over clarity, politics over principle.

By Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal – Trust in corporate media has disintegrated in recent years and even the most powerful legacy institutions are facing a reckoning… The Washington Post, which is owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (said)… it was laying off a sizable chunk of its staff… “Today, we are announcing that The Washington Post is offering a Voluntary Separation Program (VSP) to news employees with 10 or more years’ service at The Post, as well as to all members of the video department and to all members of the copy desk and sports copy desk,” Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray wrote in a staff memo obtained by Fox News. …

By Gene Thomas Gomulka, American Thinker – The U.S. bishops, together with Pope Francis,​ prided themselves as being pro-life when they got President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of 37 prisoners on federal death row… When he was the Bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, Pope Leo XIV in 2023 declared, “A Catholic cannot truly claim to be ‘pro-life’ by maintaining a stance against abortion while simultaneously advocating in favor of the death penalty.”… Interestingly, neither Pope Francis nor the U.S. bishops were instrumental in getting the sentences commuted for pro-life activists who were arrested for praying and demonstrating at abortion clinics.

By Steve Rupp, LifeNews – Missouri Right to Life welcomes the Missouri Supreme Court Decision on Tuesday, ordering a Jackson County judge to vacate the preliminary injunctions that she had entered earlier this year in which she declared the Missouri abortion ban and all of Missouri’s health and safety regulations unconstitutional under Amendment 3… This decision will save lives of preborn babies and the health and safety of Missouri Women.

By George Parry, The American Spectator – The COVID pandemic was and remains one of the largest involuntary wealth transfers in history. Which is why, in trying to get to the bottom of what was done in the name of saving us from the ravages of the virus, it is best to “follow the money.” For in the law, as in life, the money trail will inevitably lead to the truth… Recall that as the COVID virus spread throughout our panicked nation, our government and its associated medical authorities instructed us to shelter in place… “15 days to flatten the curve” of infections turned into a total lockdown of society that lasted for seemingly endless months. …

By Gary Bauer, Patriot Post – Take a moment this weekend to teach your children and grandchildren to love the things we love and to honor the things we honor… Monday marks Memorial Day, a national observance first known as Decoration Day… Initially meant as a time to remember those who fell during the bloody battles of our brutal Civil War, the holiday’s significance has been extended to honor all those who paid the ultimate price for our nation. …

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International – Recently, Planned Parenthood released their annual report. Among the dismal statistics included in the report is that Planned Parenthood committed a record number of abortions between 2022-2023—over 400,000 of them… As unbelievable as it may seem, the abortion giant decided to release this report on Mother’s Day… Although Planned Parenthood likes to boast that it is a leading healthcare provider for mothers, the reality is that Planned Parenthood does more to prevent motherhood than any other organization in the United States.

By Morgan Sweeney, Dan McCaleb, The Daily Signal – President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and others on Monday thanked those U.S. service members who died serving their country during a Memorial Day event at Arlington National Cemetery… “We gather today to honor the incredible service members who rest in glory in this cemetery and burial grounds around the world, and in thousands of lonely places known only to God.” Trump said. “And every hour of peril and every moment of crisis, American warriors have left behind the blessings of home and family to answer their nation’s call. They’ve offered all that they had within them and given their last breaths to each and every one of us so that we might live safe and breathe free.”

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Planned Parenthood North Central States announced Friday it will close eight health centers across Iowa and Minnesota within the next year, citing a freeze in federal funding and pro-life state laws as key factors… The decision, which includes the shuttering of four abortion facilities in each state, marks a significant victory for pro-life advocates who have long pushed to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider.

By Charlie McCarthy, Newsmax – “I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!” Trump wrote Sunday night on Truth Social. “He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever. I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia! Likewise, President Zelenskyy is doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop.

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – Well, it’s amazing what time can do, and a common cause. Far from little, Rubio is proving to be one of Trump’s biggest assets. It is thanks in large part to Rubio that Trump has seen success in cleaning up and ridding the federal government of the plague of DEI. Rubio has reformed the State Department in ways that many may have thought impossible… Furthermore, Rubio has impressively advanced Trump’s foreign policy agenda, seeing successful developments in the Middle East, securing the Panama Canal away from China’s nefarious threatening influence, and fleshing out and firmly establishing Trump’s America First policy.

By Dov Fischer, The American Spectator – The thing about Donald Trump’s presidency that saddens me most is that he has less than four (or eight) years left in the White House. That’s it. There never will be another like him, certainly not in the near future. Possibly never… It took an Obama to give us a Trump, just as it took a doddering, lost Biden, in slow motion, to give him back to us, just as it took a completely failed Jimmy Carter to give us a Reagan. That’s how it works. America will not elect such an unabashed, authentic leader from the right side of the aisle unless it has reached a level of such despair from the left side that the public realizes it must balance the extreme leftward tilt, or the entire national enterprise is over.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The full House of Representatives has passed the reconciliation bill to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business… The bill passed 215-214. Two Republicans voted against the bill — Reps. Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson — and another, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, voted “present.” Rep. Andrew Garbarino and Rep. David Schweikert missed the vote… “We’re going to get it [to Trump’s desk] by Independence Day, July 4th,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday regarding the budget bill.

By Auguste Meyrat, Acton Institute – As school choice becomes the law of the land, particularly here in Texas, this has raised some fundamental questions on how much choice parents will be allowed to have. Not only are there many different pedagogies and teaching styles parents could conceivably prefer, but there is also a wide array of deeper guiding principles that inform instruction, many of which are explicitly religious… It’s relatively uncontroversial to argue that parents should have the option to send their kids to a rigorous private preparatory school with hardworking students and well-trained teachers instead of the neighborhood public school suffering from violence among students and poorly trained teachers.

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – The word “scandal” is used so frequently in Washington, DC, that when a genuine scandal does arise, it may seem to resemble the scenario of the boy who cried wolf… Yet what has transpired over the last few days regarding Jake Tapper’s “revelations” of Joe Biden’s long-declining mental state, followed by the latest news regarding the former president’s stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis — for which the prognosis may be grim — has everyone reacting, pointing fingers, and seeking cover…

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – One reason why the public turned on DEI was its insistence that roughly 70 percent of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color… In contrast, the other “diverse” 30 percent were de facto considered the victimized… In such absurd binaries, the left returned to the old “one-drop” rule of the antebellum South, suggesting that anyone with any nonwhite ancestry was a minority victim…

By Craig Bannister, CNS News – “Work requirements for able-bodied adults are good for three reasons,” Jordan said: They respect the taxpayers who have to fund the benefits… It’s good for our economy, which needs workers… It’s most important for the individual who goes to work… “Saint Paul Was a tentmaker,” Rep. Jordan noted: “He was doing two jobs: he was doing his missionary work and he was also doing manual, building tents. He was doing work. It is good for people.” ….

By Rachel Quackenbush, Catholic Vote – Two prominent US bishops commended Congress this week for advancing budget measures that would cut taxpayer funding to abortion providers and “gender transition” services… Bishop Daniel E. Thomas, chair of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop Robert E. Barron, chair of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, recently voiced strong support for provisions within the House budget reconciliation bill that would redirect funding away from organizations like Planned Parenthood.

By Elise DeGeeter, LifeNews – President Donald Trump urged House Republicans to unite behind his sweeping “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Tuesday morning, highlighting the legislation’s major tax cuts, pro-family provisions, and conservative reforms… “It’s important for the country,” Trump said Tuesday morning. “It’s the biggest tax reduction in history, incredible for Medicaid, Medicare.”… Responding to Democratic claims that the bill would cut core entitlements, Trump added: “The only thing we’re cutting is waste, fraud, and abuse… We’re not changing Medicaid, and we’re not changing Medicare, and we’re not changing Social Security.”

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – It was another record year for the abortion giant Planned Parenthood – killing more babies in abortions than ever before. Although Planned Parenthood bills itself as a woman’s health organization, in reality, it is little more than an abortion business… Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report, released today, shows the abortion business killed a record 402,230 babies in abortions in the past year, while generating over $2 billion in revenue.

By Eugenio Capozzi, The Daily Compass – The election of Leo XIV was also, by all appearances, a very decisive halt to the policy of appeasement towards the Chinese regime and a clear repositioning of the Catholic Church in the Western camp. It is not a ‘Trumpisation’ of Catholicism, but it is certainly another piece in the increasingly tense global confrontation between Washington and Beijing. One that definitely scores a point in Washington’s favour.

By Jason Bedrick, The Daily Signal – Louisiana families are on the cusp of a transformative opportunity for their children—but that opportunity is in jeopardy of being swamped… Last year, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise (“LA GATOR”) Scholarship Program, which has the potential to be a legacy-defining achievement…. The policy gives Pelican State families the freedom and flexibility to customize their child’s education. Families can use their GATOR scholarships to pay for private school tuition, textbooks, curricular materials, special-needs therapy, and more. …

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – President Donald Trump expressed confidence that Republicans will resolve internal disagreements to advance legislation defunding Planned Parenthood… “I don’t know yet. I have to see because you’re just telling me that for the first time, we’ll work something out,” Trump said in response to questions about opposition from some House Republicans to including Planned Parenthood defunding provisions in this year’s reconciliation bill…

By Eric Mack, NewsMax – President Donald Trump announced he will be signing an executive order Monday to ensure the Americans pay the “lowest price anywhere in the world” for prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals… “I will be instituting a most favored nation’s policy whereby the United States will pay the same price as the nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the world,” Trump announced.

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews – President Donald Trump on Thursday congratulated Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on being elected pope, the first ever to come from the United States… “Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope,” wrote Trump on Truth Social. “It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country.”… “I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!” he added.

By Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart – Seitz implored Catholics to donate more money through the Catholic Diocese of El Paso’s Border Refugee Assistance Fund, which is available for donations at GoFundMe and has raised nearly $160,000 to date… “We hope to provide a place where people in our country can turn to. We as Christians have a responsibility to help people who are being left with no place to turn to right now,” Bishop Seitz insisted.

By  Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Throughout the 2024 election cycle, Republicans pledged that, if elected, they would use their congressional majorities to reverse the disastrous policies enacted by President Biden and Democrats. Whether it was bringing down Bidenflation or curbing the border invasion, the campaign message from the GOP was clear: Elect us and we’ll fix it… But now that they’ve been given the reins of power, many congressional Republicans have shown little interest in actually governing in accordance with the pitch they made to voters just a few short months ago.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Rep. Mary Miller is spearheading a campaign to defund Planned Parenthood through the budget reconciliation process, urging her Republican colleagues to seize a rare opportunity to end taxpayer funding for the nation’s largest abortion business… In a letter to Rep. Brett Guthrie, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Miller called for “every legislative option available” to halt federal funds to Planned Parenthood, which she described as a “multi-billion-dollar abortion business.” The radical pro-abortion organization received nearly $700 million in taxpayer money in its 2022-2023 fiscal year …

By Paul Bois, Breitbart – A report from the pro-life activist group Live Action claims that abortion conglomerate Planned Parenthood has been offering hormone treatment to minors as young as 16 with little parental consent or medical supervision… The undercover investigation featured a woman posing as a 16-year-old minor and calling various Planned Parenthood clinics in several states asking for “gender-affirming care.” As many as seven clinics agreed to prescribe the hormones upon a first appointment.

By Tyler O’Neil, The Daily Signal – Julian Ellis, the school district’s attorney, told The Daily Signal that the district had asked Sweeney to hold an evidentiary hearing so she could review the books herself, yet the judge refused. The board had included segments from the books in its filings, aiming to demonstrate the vulgar and inappropriate material, but the judge dismissed those… Instead, the judge ruled that “the district’s decisive factor in voting to permanently banish the removed books was because the district disagreed with the views expressed in the books and to further their preferred political orthodoxy.”

By Elise DeGeeter – The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday it launched a civil rights investigation into a new Washington state law that would force Catholic priests to report child abuse, even when disclosed during the sacrament of confession… The law, SB 5375, signed May 2 by Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson, is set to take effect July 27. It adds clergy to the list of professionals legally required to report suspected abuse, explicitly eliminating legal protections for the confessional seal.

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – The most comprehensive U.S. study of the abortion pill excluded tens of thousands of insurance claims from its analysis of mifepristone-linked complications to ensure it did not exaggerate the harms the abortion drug could inflict on women… The exclusion of those data points further legitimizes findings that 10.9 percent of women suffered sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other serious complications within 45 days of a chemical abortion.

By Jason Jones, Crisis Magazine – Jesus Christ made a point of associating Himself most intimately with the “least of these brethren”—the vulnerable people who are most undervalued… It is jarring to read the recent letters Palestinian Christian leaders have sent directly to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) pleading with them to stand in solidarity with the suffering Church in Gaza and the West Bank… “Homes, churches, and hospitals have been destroyed,” they wrote in a letter just this month.

By Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal – It’s time to restore justice in America… That’s what President Donald Trump essentially said on social media on Sunday when he announced that he’d be reopening Alcatraz prison, which has been closed for over half a century… “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” Trump said on Truth Social Sunday. “Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”

By Maria Gallagher, LifeNews – This admonition came to my mind this week as I was reminded of the devastation caused by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s decision to pull the plug on a decades-old program funding pregnancy care centers in the Keystone State… Shapiro canceled the contract of Real Alternatives, an award-winning organization which admirably served pregnant women and their children throughout the Commonwealth… For one pregnancy center that I am aware of, that meant a loss of $100,000.

By Sen. Josh Hawley, The Federalist – It’s time for the Trump administration to put back in place the safety regulations on mifepristone without delay… U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary recently told a D.C. confab that he has “no plans to take action” on mifepristone, the chemical abortion drug responsible for more than 70 percent of abortions in the U.S…. That’s a decidedly different answer than the one he gave me under oath. During his confirmation hearing, Dr. Makary pledged “to review the totality of data” with respect to mifepristone.

By Craig Bannister, CNS News – Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is touting the success of his “first-of-its-kind” immigration enforcement effort called “Operation Tidal Wave.”…
“This is the largest operation of its kind in the nation, and we did it here in Florida because I insisted state and local law enforcement agencies provide cooperation and support for immigration enforcement efforts,” Gov. DeSantis wrote in a X.com social media post Friday… “In just one week, Florida’s state agencies helped federal authorities to arrest 1,100+ illegal aliens across the state.” ….

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – In a victory for the pro-life movement, Washington state lawmakers have slashed $8.5 million from the state’s Abortion Access Project, marking the largest cut to abortion funding in the state’s history… The decision, finalized on April 26, is being hailed by pro-life advocates as a critical step toward protecting unborn children. … The Democratic-controlled Senate and House approved a biennial budget that reduced funding for the Abortion Access Project by 55%…

By Christine Rousselle, Aleteia – Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane, Washington, said priests would rather go to jail than break the seal of confession, despite a new law… Washington State Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed Senate Bill 5375 into law on Friday, May 2. The bill, which is titled “Concerning the duty of clergy to report child abuse and neglect,” makes it so members of the clergy, of all denominations, are mandatory reporters… “I want to assure you that your shepherds, bishop and priests, are committed to keeping the seal of confession – even to the point of going to jail,” said Daly in a message addressed to his diocese.

By Grace Porto, LifeNews – President Donald Trump on May 1 established the Religious Liberty Commission through an executive order, in an effort to guarantee the religious rights of Americans. The announcement coincided with the annual National Day of Prayer… Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick will serve as the committee chair and Dr. Ben Carson will serve as vice chair. Besides Bishop Barron, other commission members include Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Pastor Franklin Graham, Pastor Paula White, Gibson Dunn partner Allyson Ho, and Rabbi Meier Soloveichik.

By Matt Lamb, LifeSiteNews – Citing his alleged Catholic faith, Washington’s leftist Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson signed a bill today that orders priests to divulge when they hear of purported abuse in the confessional – or face potential jail time… The governor also cited his uncle, a Jesuit priest, when signing the bill… Ferguson is a liberal, pro-abortion, pro-LGBT governor. While running for governor, but still serving as attorney general, he threatened prosecution against several other candidates with the same name. …

By: Eddie Scarry, The Federalist – If looking at the mass deportation effort by the Trump administration bothers you, remember who put us in this position… Remember when all national polls said Kamala was popular? Yeah, that’s why it’s so hard to take seriously a new CNN one showing that a majority of Americans now supposedly say the Trump administration has “gone too far … when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the United States illegally.”… I’m skeptical that even a quarter of Americans… even just one person is upset by it, they can take it up with Democrats. They’re the reason Trump has had to get creative in this whole process. …

By Antonino Cambria, LifeSiteNews – House Speaker Mike Johnson indicated earlier this week that Republicans are considering cutting funds for abortion giants and redirecting them toward pro-life centers as part of the House budget blueprint… Johnson indicated briefly on April 29 that the reconciliation process for the latest budget blueprint has included discussion on slashing federal funding for major abortion organizations and reallocating those funds toward pro-life organizations, per OSV News. Multiple congressional Republicans have signaled support for defunding Planned Parenthood and banning abortion funding since Trump won the 2024 election.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – A month ago, when the Signal-Gate fiasco broke out (which saw a leftist, Trump-hating smear merchant, Jeffrey Goldberg, included in a highly classified military planning call), I suggested the most likely culprits were National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong. Each of them is part of the interventionist, neocon wing of the GOP… Hard-core America Firsters are celebrating this decision as a move that will help prevent a repeat of the chaos and futility of Trump’s first term in office, subverted as he was by incessant leaks, backstabs, and fake Deep State investigations. But will Trump go far enough in replacing establishment GOP obstructionists with those who genuinely support the platform he ran on? …

By Craig Bannister, CNS News – While legacy media obsess over whether Pres. Trump’s photo of deported illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia has Photoshopped markings on it, the real question is whether or not Garcia has tattoos representing MS-13 gang membership – which would signal he is part of a terrorist group… In an interview with ABC’s Terry Moran on Tuesday, Pres. Trump insisted that a photo of the illegal alien shows Garcia has finger tattoos clearly spelling out “MS-13,” apparently mistaking characters added to interpret the Marijuana, Smile, Cross and Skull (MSCS) tattoos on Garcia’s knuckles.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – Enraged Democrats still offer no substantial alternatives to the Trump agenda… There are no shadow-government Democratic leaders with new policy initiatives. They flee from the Biden record on the border, the prior massive deficits and inflation, the disaster in Afghanistan, two theater-wide wars that broke out on Biden’s watch, and the shameless conspiracy to hide the prior president’s increasing dementia… Instead, the Left has descended into thinly veiled threats of organized disruption in the streets. It embraces potty-mouth public profanity ….

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – If you want to know what mass immigration without assimilation produces in a country, look no further than Scotland. Immigrants from Pakistan now constitute an ethno-religious voting bloc in that country with their very own politicians advocating for nakedly sectarian interests… Recently, a video clip from 2022 resurfaced on social media of Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar standing in front of the flag of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan claiming that “change is coming” and forthrightly calling for ethnic and Muslim sectarianism in Scottish politics

By Carmel Richardson, First Things – With a record number of votes expected to be determined by abortion preferences, 2024 was supposed to be the “abortion election.” Political strategists reasoned that women—especially women under thirty, four in ten of whom said during the fall that abortion was their top priority—would secure the presidency for Harris… The election results paint a different picture. In exit polls, only 13 percent of young voters named abortion as their top priority, down from 44 percent in 2022. …

By Elise DeGeeter, LifeNews – CatholicVote joined a coalition of over 30 pro-life organizations Tuesday in urging the Trump administration to evaluate the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, immediately following the release of a new study revealing serious health risks… In a letter to President Donald Trump, the coalition praised Trump’s pro-life leadership and called for swift action to protect unborn children and their mothers. The letter argues that mifepristone—used in over 60% of US abortions—was irresponsibly approved in 2000 and continues to harm women.

By Robert McGreevy, Reporter, The Daily Caller – A bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers introduced a bill Monday to eliminate a tax deduction pharmaceutical companies receive for direct to consumer (DTC) advertising… The No Handouts for Drug Advertisements Act would remove a tax benefit that currently allows the pharmaceutical industry to write off advertising expenses related to advertising on television, radio, social media and other platforms, according to Republican North Carolina Rep. Greg Murphy’s press release.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the first 100 days of his second term the most successful such stretch in American history, marking that the world has noticed a “revolution of common sense.”… “We’re here tonight in the heartland of our nation to celebrate the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country,” Trump said from Warren, Michigan… “And that’s according to many, many people. This is the best… “We’re just getting started. You haven’t even seen anything yet. It’s all just kicking in.”

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – President Donald Trump has moved swiftly to advance a pro-life agenda in the first 100 days of his second term, enacting a series of executive actions and policy changes that have energized pro-life advocates… Since his inauguration on January 20, Trump has signed more than 139 executive orders, with several directly targeting pro-life policies and reinforcing protections for the sanctity of human life… These actions fulfill key campaign promises and align with the priorities of pro-life groups ….

By Craig Bannister, CNS News – While liberal media like MSNBC and CNN are blurring out the mug shots of the 100 “arrested” illegal aliens posted by the White House directly behind the interview staging area, the fact is that 91 of them are actually convicted of one or more categories of crimes… To commemorate President Donald Trump’s first 100 days of securing the U.S. border from illegal immigrants – especially those who present a threat to American citizens – the White House planted signs featuring the photos of 100 unnamed illegal immigrants arrested under the Trump Administration. ….

By Steve Cortes, American Greatness – Prescription drug prices have soared 46.2% since 2020—now President Trump has the chance to finish the fight he started and finally deliver lower costs for every American… Last November, Americans sent a clear election message and delivered President Trump a clear mandate: Prices are way too high. While inflation has hit our grocery stores (up 23.6% since 2020) and housing costs (up 30.9% since 2020), there’s another cost outpacing the rest when it comes to price hikes. Prescription drugs have jumped 46.2% since 2020, forcing Americans to pay the highest price in the world for life-saving medications. No wonder citizens are angry.

By Amine Ayoub, The Stream – The Texas House of Representatives recently passed a resolution recognizing March 23 as “Pakistan Day,” highlighting the contributions Pakistani Americans have made to the state’s economy, culture, and society. Introduced by state Rep. Dr. Suleman Lalani, the resolution aimed to celebrate diversity and strengthen ties between communities… Yet while Texas honors Pakistan’s image abroad, the reality for Christians in Pakistan today remains grim and deeply troubling. …

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal – Forget what the media says. Forget what his opponent said. Forget Kilmar Abrego Garcia, forget Luigi Mangione, all of these distractions. The first 100 days have been revolutionary. We’ve never seen anything like it, not during the Reagan administration, not during FDR, in terms of the magnitude of the changes. And that is why people are furious… No one in their right mind thought anybody would try to stage a counterrevolution and be so successful in the first 100 days.

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – “Look no further than the behavior of the media over the last 25 years, the behavior of what people very mistakenly and erroneously call the ‘mainstream media,’” Sean Davis, CEO of The Federalist, said at Hillsdale College’s National Leadership Seminar this week: “If I leave you with one thing today, it’s to never use the term mainstream media again.”… “These legacy media outlets lurch from hoax to hoax, from manufactured hysteria to manufactured hysteria, with little evident concern for verifiable facts, let alone actual truth.”

By Wendell Vinson, The Stream – Just log on to The National Debt clock to see what we’re up against. But be careful. If you watch those numbers spiral too long, you might get vertigo.
Each day, the deficit spirals higher as new tranches of bureaucratic waste bring scrutiny. Here are some of the notorious examples of wasteful spending revealed in Sen. Rand Paul’s latest “Festivus” report.

By Joseph Backholm, Patriot Post – President Trump’s most recent presidential campaign promised to secure America’s borders. He promised not only strict enforcement of existing immigration laws, but to deport those who had entered the country illegally under a lax Biden administration. Early in his term he has delivered on those promises aggressively. Some would say too aggressively… Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) recently noted on his podcast there have been more nationwide injunctions against Trump in the first two months of his presidency than there were in the entire 20th century, with many of them involving immigration. ….

By Katherine Hamilton, Breitbart – A study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center released on Monday found that 10.93 percent of women who had mifepristone abortions — the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen — experienced severe complications including sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following the abortion. This percentage is significantly higher than the less than 0.5 percent in clinical trials reported on the FDA-approved drug label.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Before she became a judge who would help smuggle illegal aliens out of her courtroom to evade arrest by ICE, Dugan was formerly the executive director of Catholic Charities of southeastern Wisconsin. As The Stream has reported, that particular wealthy, taxpayer-funded nonprofit has been credibly accused of colluding with Mexican cartels to traffic immigrants into the country. Elon Musk’s DOGE investigations have largely cut off government funds to Catholic Charities, which served as the main conduit for some $3 billion sluiced into the U.S. Catholic bishops’ coffers over the past 15 years — reimbursing them, almost dollar for dollar, for sex-abuse settlements those bishops racked up.

By Randall O’Bannon, Ph.D., LifeNews – Planned Parenthood and its affiliates have a few less clinics than they did five years ago, but a look at the organization’s recent efforts and activities show it has taken steps to ensure its abortion business stays busy even after Dobbs.  *In 2020, Planned Parenthood listed 641 clinics on its website, 388 of which performed abortion. While the overall count has dropped to 585, the number of abortion-offering clinics has risen to 398.

By Kristinn Taylor, Gateway Pundit – FBI Director Kash Patel posted a photo Friday night of the arrest earlier in the day of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan by FBI agents for helping an illegal alien with a domestic violence case in her courtroom evade arrest by ICE agents last week. Patel captioned the photo, “No one is above the law.”… Mid-day Friday, Patel posted, deleted, then reposted an announcement of the arrest of Dugan: Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Joe Biden, a self-identified Catholic whose aggressive promotion of abortion rights has long clashed with Catholic Church teachings, is expected to attend the funeral of Pope Francis… The decision will likely draw sharp criticism from pro-life advocates, who point to Biden’s record of supporting unrestricted, taxpayer-funded abortion up to birth as a direct contradiction of Catholic doctrine on the sanctity of life.

By Paul Kengor, Crisis Magazine – Let’s not forget just how bad Francis abandoned and hurt his flock during the dark days of Covid… As happened with seemingly every Francis statement, a debate then erupted over whether Francis in these remarks—and others prior and yet to come—had said that Catholics were “morally obligated” to get vaccinated or had a “moral responsibility.” And was he speaking of a “moral obligation” to “healthcare” generally or the vax specifically?

By Rachel Quackenbush, Catholic Vote – (Gates) perspective shifted… after reading the writings of Fr. Richard Rohr… Fr. Rohr is a Franciscan friar and author widely known for promoting progressive theology and spirituality, including positions that diverge from the Magisterium… “I need to actually unlearn some of these things,” Gates said, “because I can’t square the circle.”… Gates said she ultimately concluded that she believes “in the dignity of life” but felt compelled to speak publicly in support of contraception, believing she had a responsibility to use her platform to advocate for what she called “a tool” for women.

By Raymond Ibrahim, The Stream – Is Donald Trump on the way to becoming the world’s chief Defender of Christendom? That’s what various media have been reporting; one Fox News headline is “Trump … Vowing to ‘Defend the Christian Faith’…”… These claims trace back to a White House statement released on April 13, in which Trump spoke of Jesus Christ and Easter Sunday in terms that would edify the most committed Christian. A few snippets from his statement follow: This Holy Week, Melania and I join in prayer with Christians celebrating the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ ….

By Jim Hᴏft, Gateway Pundit – The FBI has arrested former New Mexico Magistrate Judge Juan Cano and his wife Nancy Cano for allegedly harboring an illegal alien with suspected ties to Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang known for trafficking, extortion, and violence… The arrest comes just weeks after Cano resigned from his judicial post following a dramatic federal raid at his Doña Ana County residence, where agents apprehended Cristhian Ortega Lopez, an illegal immigrant now charged with unlawful firearm possession and gang affiliation.

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSite News – The Grand Lodge of Italy has hailed Pope Francis’ work as “deeply resonant with the principles of Freemasonry,” in the wake of his death on Monday… “The Grand Lodge of Italy of the ALAM joins in the universal mourning for the passing of Pope Francis, a pastor who, through his teachings and his life, embodied the values of brotherhood, humility, and the pursuit of a universal humanism,” wrote Luciano Romoli, Grand Master of the Great Lodge of Italy of the ALAM … The Grand Master pointed out that “freedom, equality, and fraternity” – elevated as societal ideals in Francis’ encyclical Fratelli tutti – are “the three core values of Freemasonry.”

By Clare Marie Merkowsky, LifeSiteNews – Colorado’s oldest and most notorious abortionist, Warren Hern, has shut down his abortion facility after killing thousands of unborn babies… This week, Hern announced that his Boulder Abortion Clinic in Colorado would be closing its doors after over 50 years of targeting vulnerable women and aborting their unborn babies… Hern wrote in the announcement that his killing center has “stopped scheduling” clients.

By Tyler Arnold, CNSNews – The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hosted the inaugural meeting this week of a new task force to counter anti-Christian bias in federal government policies, regulations, and practices… “Protecting Christians from bias is not favoritism,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said ahead of the meeting. “It’s upholding the rule of law and fulfilling the constitutional promise [in the First Amendment].” …

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Pro-life activist Mark Houck is pressing forward with his legal battle against the U.S. Department of Justice, appealing a federal judge’s decision to dismiss his lawsuit over a 2021 FBI raid on his Pennsylvania home… Houck, who says the raid was part of a “faulty investigation” and involved “excessive force,” is seeking accountability for what he describes as the Biden administration’s weaponization of federal law enforcement against pro-life advocates.

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – (pro-life advocate Sami Parker) wouldn’t necessarily label herself a true crime “fan.” She has consumed her fair share of “Crime Junkie” episodes and seen “all the serial killer documentaries” though. Absent from those, both of which take up a significant amount of space in the true crime genre, are the stories like “The Baby Farm,” “Not The Daughter I Wanted,” and “The Forgotten Patient.”… “Pre-born babies, exploited children, vulnerable women, embryos — they all deserve justice too,” Parker said. “And the crimes within these industries are all totally hidden behind power, behind money, and cultural taboos.” ….

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The Trump administration is exploring a $5,000 “baby bonus” for new mothers as part of a broader effort to reverse declining U.S. birth rates… The proposal, still in early stages, aims to provide financial relief to families and encourage higher birth and marriage rates, aligning with concerns raised by administration officials and allies about population decline. …

By Brian Freeman, NewsMax – There is little chance of an American cardinal being chosen Pope, John Yep told Newsmax on Tuesday… The CEO and president of Catholics for Catholics told “Wake Up America” that “it happens every conclave. We all get our hopes up that we are going to have a gringo American up there to ascend the seat of Peter, but almost for sure it is not going to happen.”… However, Cardinal Kevin Farrow, who is American, is basically running the show during this important period, as he is the interim head of the Vatican until a new Pope is selected.

By Margot Cleveland, The Federalist – The Supreme Court’s double standard suggests it is not prudence dictating the outcome. It is also not the Constitution… “Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.”… Those thirteen words, penned by Justice Samuel Alito on Holy Saturday, represent the first admission by the judiciary that courts too can wrongly flout the law… Justice Alito’s stark acknowledgement concluded his bullet-point evisceration of the Supreme Court’s “unprecedented” command that President Trump not remove a “putative class of detainees” under the Alien Enemies Act.

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews – The Grand Master of the lodge pointed out that ‘freedom, equality, and fraternity’ — elevated as societal ideals in Francis’ Fratelli tutti — are ‘the three core values of Freemasonry.’… “The Grand Lodge of Italy of the ALAM joins in the universal mourning for the passing of Pope Francis, a pastor who, through his teachings and his life, embodied the values of brotherhood, humility, and the pursuit of a universal humanism,” wrote Luciano Romoli, Grand Master of the Great Lodge of Italy of the A.L.A.M. in a statement published Tuesday.

By John Waters and Adam Ellwanger, The Daily Signal – Donald Trump once wrote that courage is not the absence of fear but “the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.”… In 2016, Trump showed moral courage when he spoke the truth to American voters: A parasitic “establishment” of political and corporate interests had been exploiting our workers, farmers, and soldiers. When Trump challenged 16 opponents in the Republican primary, he exposed untruths in a conservative orthodoxy passed down from Ronald Reagan through George W. Bush. …

By Jim Mishler, NewsMax – Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to the airwaves Sunday to continue his attempt to get more attention focused on the factors that cause autism… Kennedy appeared on a New York radio show to continue pushing for more scientific analysis on the cause of autism. Kennedy said, “This is an epidemic. It dwarfs the COVID epidemic and the impacts on our country because COVID killed old people. Autism affects children and affects them at the beginning of their lives, the beginning of their productivity,” according to The Hill.

By Gayle McQueary, The Stream – Yesterday’s news was filled with lows and highs, from the reflective farewell to Pope Francis, who passed away at the age of 88, to pivotal parental rights battles in Mississippi and Maryland… But let’s not forget the international stage: Mike Huckabee was sworn in as the U.S.’s ambassador to Israel, bringing his pro-Israel stance to a key role on the same day Klaus Schwab decided to step down as chairman of the World Economic Forum, marking the end of a 55-year era of his globalist influence.

By Jim Hᴏft, Gateway Pundit – In a blistering dissent, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, has called out the reckless and legally dubious move by the Court’s liberal majority to block President Donald Trump’s lawful efforts to deport dangerous foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act… SCOTUS issued a late-night, unsigned emergency order blocking President Donald Trump from deporting foreign nationals tied to the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, who are being held at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Texas under the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act.

By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – The Republican-controlled House is trying to check what members like Onder believe to be a constitutional crisis created by an overreaching judiciary. Earlier this month, the House on a party-line vote passed the No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025 (NORRA) aimed at limiting the use of national injunctions. The bill, now before the Senate Judiciary Committee, basically bars U.S. district courts from issuing injunctive relief orders unless they apply to specific parties bringing a complaint. ….

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – El Salvador President Nayib Bukele trolled Democrats Thursday night by posting a photo of Democrat Maryland Sen. Chis Van Hollen “sipping margaritas” with the U.S.-deported MS-13 gang member illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a “tropical paradise.”… “Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture’, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” Pres. Bukele wrote in a X.com post including three photos of Van Hollen and Garcia together.

By Senator Tommy Tuberville, LifeNews – Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is asking pro-life Americans to flood the phone lines and emails to members of Congress to tell them to vote to defund Planned Parenthood… Now that the House and Senate have passed the blueprint for a reconciliation bill that they will tackle after Easter, Tuberville hopes pro-life Americans will urge members of both Congressional chambers to include Planned Parenthood defunding in the final version of the bill and get it to President Donald Trump to sign.

By Wayne Allyn Root, American Thinker – So far, what he has accomplished in only 2 1/2 months is amazing, unimaginable, and breathtaking. In 2 1/2 months, he has already achieved more great things than my hero Ronald Reagan did in eight years!… But there is one thing Trump should be focused on above all else. One thing he should be aiming all the cannons at. One thing he should be aiming all the government security agencies at. One thing that changes EVERYTHING… President Trump must prove the 2020 election was stolen, bring the hard evidence to the American people, and charge the Democrat party with RICO.

By Emmy Griffin, Patriot Post – What a difference a year makes. Last year, Easter Sunday fell on March 31, so naturally, President Joe Biden, a “very devout” Catholic, made a big deal out of the Resurrection Transgender Day of Visibility, which happened to coincide with the most holy of Christian days… In stark contrast, President Donald Trump appropriately started this year’s Easter celebration on April 13, Palm Sunday. He didn’t have to contend with the “disputing holiday” — nor would he if presented with that choice because this president doesn’t kowtow to the gender ideologues.

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – The truth is, there is no amount of due process that will ever satisfy pro-illegal immigration Democrats and their allies in the corporate press. They think Garcia and millions like him should be allowed to remain indefinitely in this country, no matter their criminal history or immigration status. They will protest every deportation along the same hysterical lines they are now protesting Garcia’s, and if the Trump administration isn’t prepared to ignore them we will never see an end to mass illegal immigration.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – Harvard risks $2.2B in federal funds as it defies anti-discrimination mandates, drawing comparisons to Hillsdale’s stand-alone model of rejecting government strings… The task force wants to persuade Harvard to ensure Jewish students on its campus are no longer harassed, or else lose its federal funding… Harvard retorts that it won’t be bullied by Washington… Among its other requirements, the Trump administration also warned Harvard to cease using race as a criterion in its admissions, hiring, and promotion, contrary to law… And it also directed the campus to ban the use of masks that, in the post-COVID era of protests, have emboldened violent demonstrators with anonymity.

By Charles A. Kohlhaas, MRC TV – I surmise these criticisms are from people who have never negotiated anything. Trump’s reputation is that of a master negotiator. He is demonstrating how he is just that on the world stage. Trump is negotiating multiple issues on a worldwide scale. He is like a man playing a dozen chess games simultaneously… Trump is giving a Master Class on negotiating. He is demonstrating he has the necessary mental agility to respond quickly and effectively to responses and actions of other parties and changing circumstances. In addition, he has the nimble mentality to maintain several different negotiations concurrently – chaotic as that may be.

The Catholic Herald – It has been confirmed that US Vice-President JD Vance and his family will travel to Italy at the end of Holy Week and spend Easter there, according to a news release from the Office of the Vice President…The US vice-president, who is arguably the US’s best known and most influential/controversial Catholic convert, will meet with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during his time in Rome, according to the news release… There is no mention of whether Vance will meet with Pope Francis, who is still recovering …..

By Auguste Meyrat, The Stream – In defending President Donald Trump’s tariffs, much has been said about the American economy slowly imploding from importing and consuming far more than it exports and produces, resulting in a global trade deficit amounting to trillions of dollars every year. Common sense would suggest this is not sustainable, and that a course correction is necessary before the country is fully spent and incapable of financially supporting itself, let alone the rest of the world… But what about countries that depend on exporting most of their goods? Both sides tend to agree that they have been profiting greatly from the current arrangement.

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal – The mother of Rachel Morin, the Maryland mom of five brutally raped and murdered by an illegal alien in August of 2023, on Wednesday joined a White House briefing to urge the media to share her daughter’s story… “Tell the truth,” Patty Morin said. “Tell like how violent it really is.”… Morin shared the gruesome details of her daughter’s death on a walking trail near her Maryland home. On Tuesday, Victor Martinez-Hernandez was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree rape, third-degree sexual offense, and kidnapping in Morin’s case. The jury found Martinez-Hernandez guilty on all four counts.

By Jerry Cox, LifeNews – On Tuesday the Arkansas Legislature passed a good law to help teach public school students about unborn children… Similar legislation reportedly has passed in North Dakota, Tennessee, Idaho, and Kansas… S.B. 450 by Sen. Breanne Davis (R — Russellville) and Rep. Kendra Moore (R — Lincoln) lets public school students see a recording of a high-definition ultrasound video as part of human fetal growth and development education courses.

By Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, National Catholic Register – On Easter Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case brought by a group of parents from Montgomery County, Maryland, who object to the indoctrination of their pre-K-through-eighth-grade children. The courageous defense of their children’s formation in Mahmoud v. Taylor can advance both religious freedom and parental rights under the law in our public schools… In the fall of 2022, the Montgomery County Board of Education decided to weave a collection of LGBTQ+-inclusive storybooks throughout the literature curriculum for their youngest learners.

By Michael Swartz, Patriot Post – The new presence of Stryker combat vehicles, which will be deployed along the Roosevelt Reservation, is already having a striking effect. “Ever since the Stryker came into play, we see more turn-backs than anything,” stated Sgt. 1st Class Carlos Zamora. Added Post reporter Dan Lamothe, “Such hardware typically is reserved for missions overseas. Under Trump, it is being used to track the movement of people and narcotics bound for the United States, monitor cartel activity, and send an unambiguous message that the status quo has changed.”

By Joachim Osther, The Stream – For the most part, normality seems to mean a détente from years of Leftist antagonistic fervor… Fair enough. We deserve some relief as forced workplace DEI reeducation training is halted, the censorious thrust of the Big Brother-infused Social Media apparatus abates, and the spigot allowing tens of millions of our hard-earned dollars to be funneled through USAID to socialistic NGOs is shut off… But consider that relief is inherently a temporary concept — a short respite during a long race. …..

By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal – The most contentious Senate contest of 2026 is shaping up to be between two Republicans… Since Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared his run to unseat Sen. John Cornyn, who has represented the Lone Star State since 2002, the two candidates have hammered each other with attack ads that question each other’s character and MAGA bona fides… Paxton started out his campaign accusing Cornyn, 73, of not being a genuine supporter of President Donald Trump.

By Rachel Bovard, First Things – Congressional proxy voting is a terrible idea. It is patently unconstitutional. It is as slippery a slope toward corruption and abuse of power as can be imagined. And even if a proxy scheme worked as honestly as promised, it would still make Congress less representative and Washington’s special interests more entrenched. So House Republicans were absolutely right earlier this month to oppose Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) proposal to allow members with infant children to vote by proxy.

By Tessa Gervasini, CNA – U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, announced that he is introducing new legislation to make Easter a federal holiday so families are able to spend “the holiest day in Christianity” together… In a thread of posts on X, Schmitt explained why the day should be federally recognized, starting with the fact that “81% of Americans celebrate Easter.”… “But,” he continued, “our current holiday schedule makes it way too difficult for families to celebrate together.” …

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was recently interviewed by CBS News. It was his first TV interview since becoming HHS chief… The wide-ranging interview focused primarily on Kennedy’s touted Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. For Kennedy, a key feature of MAHA is addressing the quality of the foods Americans eat. As he contends, the “FDA needs to start regulating food again and saying, you know, not just when food is adulterated, when there’s bacteria in it, let’s look at the chemicals in it.”

By  Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – The Biden administration funneled $18 million in U.S. tax dollars — approximately $4 million of which Republican Sen. Joni Ernst’s staff found buried or absent from the federal government’s funding database — to causes in Communist China… The majority of the payments were funneled through the U.S. Departments of State and HHS to various Chinese entities and China-based projects for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility trainings (including some at the U.S. consulate), “art billboards,” a bicycle parking cover, pro-LGBT events, various climate change initiatives, and rat research and reported on USAspending.gov. …

By Jacob Adams, LifeNews – Idaho has won a major pro-life victory in state court… Judge Jason Scott of Idaho’s 4th Judicial District Court on Friday held that there was no expansive right to an abortion under the state’s constitution while acknowledging the state’s two exemptions to the general ban on the procedure… The ruling follows a separate win last month for the state, when President Donald Trump’s Justice Department dropped a Biden-era lawsuit that was attempting to interpret federal law to prevail over Idaho’s Defense of Life Act.

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – Communist regime targets foreigners, evangelical house churches, and dissident Catholics… China’s repression of Christians has surged to record levels as the regime intensifies its crackdown on evangelical house churches, dissident Catholics, and even foreigners in China, according to reports from local churches, international agencies, and the Chinese government… Those being severely punished are Protestants who refuse to join the state-controlled Three Self Church or Catholics who remain faithful to the underground Catholic Church instead of joining the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) church governed by the Vatican-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concordat.

By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal – Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is staking his political future on one daunting task—delivering a budget reconciliation bill that will satisfy both houses of Congress… In order to pass “one big, beautiful bill” to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign promises, Johnson, R-La., will have to make good on his own commitments to the most fiscally conservative members of the House of Representatives… Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Senate’s budget plan by the narrowest of margins, 216-214.

By Josh Hammer, The Daily Signal – On Wednesday, President Donald Trump abruptly announced a 90-day pause on most of his planned country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs—with the notable exception of China. In so strikingly singling out China as the focus of America’s economic and geopolitical ire, Trump was not merely clarifying that the United States views China and its regnant Communist Party as our leading 21st-century threat—he was also taking yet another notable step toward fulfilling his own lifelong goal of fundamentally resetting the terms of the U.S.-China bilateral relationship.

By Craig DeLuz, The Daily Signal – In the ongoing debate about the role of government in addressing societal issues, a crucial misconception often surfaces on one side: The desire to help others equates to a mandate for state intervention… Advocates for increased government action frequently ignore the vital distinction between voluntary assistance and coercive mandates. The belief that government can—or should—serve as the ultimate arbiter of compassion neglects the fundamental principle that true generosity arises from individual choice rather than compulsion. …

By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – Less than a week after a horrifying survey found more than half of self-identified leftists believe killing President Donald Trump would be justifiable, a Pennsylvania man has been charged with threatening to murder the president and other U.S. officials… Shawn Monper, 32, of Butler — the same Pennsylvania community where Trump came within a fraction of an inch of being assassinated last July — faces federal charges of making threats to assault and murder Trump, DOGE advisor and Tesla founder Elon Musk, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and others, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

By Eric Scheiner, MRC TV – Democrats are fighting against the move that would require proof of citizenship to register for federal elections. Some leftists claim that it would make it harder for women to vote… Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said.. “Bless my colleagues’ hearts on the other side of the isle, using married woman as a ‘gotcha’ for voting. I’ve never had to bring my birth certificate to prove that I was a registered voter. I have an ID that has a different name than my birth certificate. And also, since we’re using women as bait here, maybe in the next round of debates, they can explain to us exactly what a woman is.”

By Craig Bannister, CNS News – While the blatantly biased reporting by NPR and PBS is reason enough to cut off their taxpayer funding, there’s an even more important reason to do, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) says…. “My question is this: what in God’s name, what on God’s Green Earth are we doing with…$36 trillion of debt, which is just accumulated deficit, why are we giving certain TV stations and certain radio stations in America – but, not others – $500 million a year?… “Why? …

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget resolution Thursday that paves the way for defunding Planned Parenthood and other abortion companies through the budget reconciliation process… The move is celebrated by pro-life advocates as a significant step toward ending taxpayer support for the abortion industry… The resolution, which mirrors a similar measure passed by the Senate on April 5 …

By John Yep, Catholics for Catholics – This is an excerpt of an interview conducted by John Yep of Catholics for Catholics with Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute regarding the statement issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announcing they were withdrawing from receiving federal grants to process illegal aliens. ….

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – The real trade war wasn’t Trump’s—it was decades of lopsided deals, deficits, and double standards America tolerated while others profited… 1.Trump’s So-Called “Trade War.”… Many call the American effort to obtain either tariff parity or a reduction in the roughly $1 trillion trade deficit and fifty years of consecutive trade deficits “a trade war.” But then what do they call the policies of the past half-century by Europe, Asia, China, and others to ensure asymmetrical tariffs, pseudo-health and security trade restrictions, and large surpluses?

By Terence Jeffrey, The Daily Signal – “And all of America is paying attention to what you are saying,” Schumer claimed to Booker—according to the Congressional Record… “All of America needs to know there are so many problems because of the disastrous actions of this administration in terms of how they are helping only the billionaires and hurting average families.”… In just the first two months of this year, the United States ran a $52.9 billion trade deficit with China. That was the largest trade deficit the United States ran with any nation… Schumer and Booker are not helping American families by opposing Trump’s efforts to counter China.

By Frank Perley, The Stream – Elon Musk has made more than his share of headlines – and enemies – in helping President Donald Trump scale back the governmental behemoth that threatens to bankrupt the United States. Cutting costs as the leader of the president’s new Department of Government Efficiency, though, isn’t the top concern for the world’s foremost entrepreneur. What keeps him awake at night, he admits, is humanity’s birth dearth.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – Responding to the Trump administration’s drastic curb on refugee-resettlement programs, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced its decision “not to renew the cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children’s services and refugee support.”… Excuse me? Did I miss something? The federal government has withdrawn funding, and so the USCCB has decided not to run the programs that Uncle Sam had subsidized? In effect, then, the USCCB’s message to the White House is a variation on an old theme: “You can’t fire me; I quit.”

By Joshua Mercer, Catholic Vote – I just got off the phone with Brian… Today’s hearing was a moment of immense pride for American Catholics to see a faithful member of our Church, a devoted husband and father of nine, testify to the shared goals of our great nation and our Church: a deep and authentic human flourishing… During the hearing, Brian noted a few of the common interests the Holy See shares with the United States – resolving the many wars around the world, protecting human life, ending human trafficking, giving relief to persecuted Christians around the globe, and promoting religious freedom for all.

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal – Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I was looking at the news this week and I thought of an experiment. What if you really wanted to destroy the United States? What if you’d had ill intention for America? What would you do? What agenda would you pursue?…. And then I started thinking of civilizations. What was the stuff of civilizations that made them work? And it’s basic: their borders, their finances, their unity, their fuel, their food. So, if you really wanted to, in civilizational terms, destroy the United States, the first thing I would do if I were an enemy of the United States is I would destroy the borders.

By Jason Jones, Crisis Magazine – But after all these years, I’ve come to a sad conclusion: the bleeding-heart Christian social justice Left and the bold, assertive Christian Right are both willing to vigorously defend the vulnerable only when it doesn’t threaten their first-world privileges. Each side champions the vulnerable, but their fervor comes in waves, and it always stops short when the demands of justice come close to the feet of their most cherished idols.

By Chuck Donovan, LifeNews – The federal government, and up to 18 state governments, are inching their way toward Medicaid defunding of affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, for many decades the nation’s premier funder and supplier of abortion… The battle has shifted back and forth over that time thanks to changes in the party holding the White House and statehouses. But it has been drawn out for another key reason, and that is the early and wily decision by Planned Parenthood’s leadership and allied groups to promote passage of multiple public funding streams that aid their programs.

By NewsMax, (Thomson/Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a victory on Monday by letting him use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican president’s hardline approach to immigration… The court granted the administration’s request to lift Washington-based U.S. Judge James Boasberg’s March 15 order that had temporarily blocked the summary deportations under Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act while litigation in the case continues.

By Rachel Bovard, The Federalist – Even Big Tech’s toughest conservative critics must admit Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have had a good few months… In the wake of President Donald Trump’s reelection last November, the $1 trillion company finally scrapped its worst woke initiatives, from Facebook’s infamous “fact-checking” regime to its internal DEI programming. Its sites are apparently no longer throttling political content. And Zuckerberg has even rebranded himself — going “all-in on a MAGA-dominated Washington,” buying a $23 million home two miles from the White House ….

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture – On Wednesday, March 19th over 2,500 Connecticut pro-lifers gathered at the state Capitol in Hartford to call for an end to abortion in our state. My organization, Family Institute of Connecticut, was one of the co-hosts and I was one of the speakers. As far as mainstream media goes, this year’s Connecticut March for Life was covered by News Channel 8, the Hartford Courant, and pretty much no one else… On Saturday April 5th the “Hands Off” rallies—protesting President Trump and Elon Musk—were held at multiple locations across the country. Pretty much every local mainstream media outlet covered the ones here in Connecticut.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The legislation, SB25-183, cleared the House with a party-line vote and has sparked fierce debate over the use of public funds for killing children before birth… The bill, which previously passed the state Senate, mandates that Colorado’s Medicaid program, administered through the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, cover abortions with tax dollars for all eligible recipients. It also extends funding to out-of-state individuals seeking abortions in Colorado, a provision critics argue turns the state into an “abortion tourism” destination.

By MassResistance, The Stream – Public school enrollment across the country is going down. By the thousands, families are saying they’ve had enough. They are either paying to send their children to private schools or they are taking on the burdens of homeschooling… It’s not hard to see why. By virtually every measure, public education in America is worse than ever before. High percentages of children in every grade are reading below their expected grade-point level. They can’t solve complex (or even easy) math problems. Their knowledge of civics, American government, and history is abysmal. They can’t write coherent paragraphs.

By Eric Killelea, Chron, (Complicit Clergy) – Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso has warned that one in five Catholics in America are at risk of themselves or family members being deported under President Trump’s mass deportation plans… The 71-year-old bishop overseeing congregations along the border in West Texas has been among the most outspoken Catholic leaders to criticize the Trump administration’s deportation plans that allow for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest people in churches.

By Peter Smith, Associated Press, (Complicit Clergy) – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday that it is ending a half-century of partnerships with the federal government to serve refugees and migrant children, saying the “heartbreaking” decision follows the Trump administration’s abrupt halt to funding… The break will inevitably result in fewer services than what Catholic agencies were able to offer in the past to people in need, the bishops said.

By Tim Young, The Daily Signal – President Donald Trump’s win in November was so sweeping of a mandate that Republicans won control of both the House and Senate… Control of Congress is critical to moving Trump’s vast America First agenda forward—and because of the slim majority held by Republicans in the House of Representatives, one would hope they’re working together in lockstep on behalf of the American people. …

By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – The more troubling trend is the rising violent rhetoric isn’t just coming from the ‘fringe’ left, it’s being ‘normalized’ by the left… The unhinged left, fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome and seething hatred for Elon Musk, is trending more violent, according to a new study that finds political violence targeting President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser is “becoming increasingly normalized.”

By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense – According to a special investigation by journalist Sharyl Attkisson, the government has misled the public for decades about the science linking thimerosal to autism and other neurodevelopment disorders. It also continues to claim thimerosal has been removed from all childhood vaccines — even though some vaccines, including those given to children, still contain the ingredient… The U.S. government has long told the public that thimerosal, a mercury-based vaccine preservative ingredient, poses no harm to children, but that out of an abundance of caution, the ingredient hasn’t been used in childhood vaccines since at least 2001. …

By Elise DeGeeter, LifeNews – The Trump administration has restored millions in Title X funding to Oklahoma and Tennessee, two states previously cut off under the Biden administration for refusing to provide abortion referrals… In 2023, Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS) revoked funding after labeling the states’ pro-life services “out of compliance” with federal rules, as CatholicVote previously reported.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Our country, like many in Europe, is in the throes of a low-level running civil war between elites and the people. As I’ve explained here before, the “managerial” class James Burnham identified as the real winners of World War II is intent on seizing total control over politics, the economy, and culture from the old leaders of Western society — individual business owners, voting citizens, churches, and other civic groups. Managers don’t produce things or invent things the way Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and other old-fashioned businessmen have. Managers control things, and people, by using bureaucratic levers and legal boobytraps. If they can’t win elections, they cancel them (see Romania), arrest their opponents (see France), or steal them (see the U.S. in 2020).

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio on Friday, because the city illegally used taxpayer money to fund abortion travel, in violation of state law and the Texas Constitution… The lawsuit, filed in Travis County District Court, points out that San Antonio appropriated $100,000 in taxpayer funds to support abortion travel that results in killing babies, including airfare, gas reimbursements, hotel stays, and other costs. Paxton argues this allocation undermines Texas’ strict abortion laws, which ban nearly all abortions except in cases where a pregnant woman’s life or major bodily function is at risk.

By Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal – About 5 million ineligible names were removed from voter registration rolls across the United States since 2019, Judicial Watch announced—with almost 1 million of those coming from New York City… The conservative-leaning government watchdog group has taken legal action against state and local governments for voter list maintenance under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which includes a requirement that election officials clear voter lists of the names of dead people, as well as the names of people that moved to another jurisdiction.

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Another week has come and gone in the nation’s capital, which means congressional Republicans are either doing nothing productive, wasting taxpayer money, or losing major policy fights. In the case of this week (and many others), it’s all of the above… On Americans’ dime, the GOP-run House was all but forced to abruptly end work on its legislative agenda on Tuesday for the remainder of the week amid efforts led in part by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to allow representatives who are new parents to vote by proxy. In other words, Luna pushed to amend House rules to permit these members to vote on key legislation without having to physically show up to work.

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – A U.K. court earlier today convicted a pro-life clinical scientist of violating a “buffer zone” outside an abortion facility in a trial that has triggered threats of trade reprisals from the Trump administration over “freedom of expression” in Britain… Dr. Livia Tossici-Bolt, a devout Catholic, was found guilty on two counts of breaching a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) or “buffer zone” outside the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) abortion facility in Bournemouth in March 2023… The 64-year grandmother from Italy, who lives in Britain, was holding a sign that read: “Here to talk, if you want.”

By Fr. Donald Kloster, LifeSiteNews – There has been huge pushback after the few times I have addressed the important topic of immigration from the pulpit. I recall giving a sermon on illegal immigration in early 2019 at a parish in the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut. After one of the Masses, a Novus Ordo in Spanish, a woman screamed at me in the vestibule as I was seeing off parishioners. Her insults were flying in Spanish and I was providentially keeping my composure.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Many of us are torn on the subject of the wide-ranging tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed by executive order on nations around the world, which took effect Wednesday. One thing we shouldn’t be, however, is blindsided… Protecting American industry from often-predatory foreign competition has been on Trump’s mind for decades, and he has never been shy about saying so. You can go back to the late 1980s when Oprah Winfrey would welcome Trump on her show to hear him talking about it.

By Sean Davis, The Federalist – America has become addicted to cheap foreign baubles and easy money (i.e., fake fiat currency) at the expense of its long-term economic health. We allowed ourselves to be transformed from a cast iron economy that made things into a largely paper economy that depends on the good graces of foreign nations for its survival. This is a recipe for civilizational suicide… We don’t make our own weapons, food, machines, vehicles, plastics, medicines, or computers. The whole Covid insanity, with its shutdowns and shortages and supply-chain chaos, was a blaring alarm warning us that the economy we thought was so strong was shockingly fragile.

By Sara Carter, Complicit Clergy – In the months following President Donald Trump’s return to office in January, illegal border crossings and human trafficking incidents have significantly decreased. The renewed focus on border security has led to a sharp drop in unlawful crossings, with U.S. Border Patrol agents reporting just over 8,300 apprehensions in February—fewer than 300 per day… Alma Tucker, the founder of International Network of Hearts, a nonprofit organization in San Diego that aids victims of human trafficking—especially in Mexico’s Baja California region—has seen a noticeable decline in the number of children requiring shelter since Trump resumed office.

By Matt Kittle, The Federalist – Far-left Dane County Judge Susan Crawford defeated conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel by 10 percentage points (55% to 45%)… And for conservatives across the country, the price of losing the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history is immense. The left will control the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the foreseeable future. That means a long line of Wisconsin’s conservative reforms are now in peril, and the leftist court — as advertised — is very likely to preside over redrawn congressional maps to give Democrats a much better chance of taking back the House next year and hamstringing President Trump’s agenda.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The Planned Parenthood of Michigan abortion business announced Wednesday it will close four centers and cut 10% of its staff. That’s great news for women and unborn babies… The closures, affecting abortion clinics in Marquette, Petoskey, Jackson, and one of two Ann Arbor locations, mark a significant reduction in the pro-abortion organization’s footprint in the state even though Michigan approved abortions up to birth.

By Michael Katz, NewsMax – It was “Liberation Day” at the White House on Wednesday as President Donald Trump announced a sweeping round of tariffs in a speech in the Rose Garden… Trump’s speech aired live on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform… Here are some details revealed in a White House fact sheet: Using his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, Trump will impose a baseline 10% tariff on all countries beginning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday. ….

By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency – The United States Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments for a lawsuit that will determine whether South Carolina and other states can deny Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood for non-abortive medical services… All three justices appointed by Democrats appeared to empathize with Planned Parenthood in the case, but the six Republican-appointed justices were more nuanced with their questions for the lawyers representing both parties.

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal – There is only one way to reclaim Western civilization, Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday night: exhibiting the courage to speak the truth… “We’re not going to rebuild prosperity and opportunity,” Vance said. “We’re not going to rebuild the kind of society where we teach children the important virtues and skills to thrive, as opposed to trying to tear our kids down, which is what I think our education system does all too often. We’re not going to rebuild a foreign policy that’s rooted in our shared interest, rather than in liberal values that were invented 20 or 30 years ago ….

By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency – U.S. Vice President JD Vance intends to visit Rome during Easter weekend, although the planned trip has not yet been finalized, according to Bloomberg News… (Vance) plans to arrive in Rome on Good Friday, April 18, and depart from the city on Easter Sunday, April 20… According to the article, diplomats for the United States sought to coordinate a meeting between Vance and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, but no meeting had been scheduled by the time of publication.

By Brianna Lyman, The Federalist – A new report released on Tuesday shows the FBI imposed a “gag” order in relation to the Hunter Biden laptop to conceal the truth about its authenticity from voters ahead of the 2020 election… Internal FBI chat messages obtained by investigative journalists Catherine Herridge and Michael Shellenberger show that “senior bureau officials actively [shut] down discussion of the laptop’s credibility days before the 2020 presidential election.” According to the report, an FBI official told House investigators that an FBI employee “inadvertently” confirmed the laptop’s authenticity during a conference call on the same day ….

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – The United States is a historical anomaly: a nation that has always been (at least until recently) strongly Christian, but never Catholic. Unlike European nations it could not bank on the inherited authority of foundational Catholic beliefs. The American Founding was, in fact, based on a deep suspicion of authority: the authority of the Crown and of the established church… More specifically, and positively, the American republic was based on the belief that “all men are created equal.” The belief, stated in the Declaration of Independence and memorably confirmed in the Gettysburg address, has been upheld with as much vigor as any religious principle.

By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – While Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election is in the national spotlight, there’s an important election integrity issue on Tuesday’s ballot as well. In fact, election law watchdogs will tell you that the Supreme Court race and a referendum on enshrining the Badger State’s voter ID law into the Wisconsin constitution go hand-in-hand… “They really are bound together in this election,” Annette Olson,  chief executive officer of the Madison-based MacIver Institute, told The Federalist Monday in a phone interview.

By Tony Perkins, LifeNews – A House DOGE subcommittee put a magnifying glass to NPR and PBS, funded in part with federal tax dollars through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The most recent budget shows that the two left-leaning media outlets rake in just shy of $550 million a year from taxpayers… Yet, the starkest example of waste, fraud, and abuse may be found in the abortion industry — particularly at Planned Parenthood, which surpasses NPR and PBS in the scope of public funding and controversy.

By David G. Bonagura, Jr.. Catholic World Report – Vice President JD Vance is currently the rock star of the conservative Catholic world. His youth, style, upbringing, conversion, young family, and proximity to President Donald Trump have collided to make him the runaway favorite in a CPAC poll ranking the potential 2028 GOP presidential candidates… When Vance was announced as a special speaker at the March for Life on January 24, 2025, he instantly overshadowed the previously announced keynote, Governor Ron DeSantis, a fellow Catholic and one of the most successful pro-life politicians our nation has known.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – When Donald Trump entered office, he faced a number of choices that had confronted the last three Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. They all had the choice to either shrink government and reduce deficits or slow government growth while cutting taxes… They had the choice of using American power to restore deterrence by invading belligerents (e.g., Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan) or targeting enemies without deploying ground troops to change governments.

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop Emeritus, Substack – The Catholic Church upholds the sacred dignity of every human life, made in the image of God. The Catechism teaches us that “actions deliberately contrary to the law of nations and to its universal principles are crimes” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2313). This applies to all parties engaged in warfare, whether nations, militant groups, or coalitions. While a nation has the right to defend itself and protect its people, such actions must remain within the bounds of justice, proportionality, and moral law.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – A Colorado Democrat is facing massive criticism for promoting killing babies in abortions because “birth is too expensive.”… Colorado Democrats are pushing a controversial legislative agenda that would expand abortion, including taxpayer-funded abortions for low-income women and unrestricted abortions up to birth, arguing that killing babies would save the state money in the long run…

By Susan Ciancio, The Stream – As its use to kill preborn babies has skyrocketed, the dispensing of the abortion pill has become a hot-button topic over the last few years. Recent statistics state that it accounted for “63% of all abortions in the formal health care system” in 2023. But that does not include the states that don’t keep abortion statistics or the people who order it online from dubious sources ….

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Let’s storm Heaven with prayer for our president and his team. I really can’t fathom what it’s like to be on the front lines of the spiritual warfare currently raging in Washington, D.C. I had a tiny taste of it kneeling on hot New York City sidewalks outside abortion clinics when I was young: that alien presence, which I’ve only felt at such desolate places and on the occasions I’ve met really rabid antisemites.

By Sarah Neely, LifeNews – On March 25, President Trump was asked this bombshell question: “If Planned Parenthood is defunded, would you look into the harvesting of baby organs that they’ve done throughout the years, and maybe go after some criminal prosecution on that?”.. In 2015, the Center for Medical Progress, co-founded by Troy Newman and funded by Operation Rescue, released the first shocking undercover videos detailing Planned Parenthood’s participation ….

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – Disney’s latest film is a colossal disaster by nearly every measure, as the company has lost the ability to tell good stories… Back in 1937, Walt Disney, seeking to save his fledgling animation company, effectively went all in on a groundbreaking idea and cinematic masterpiece that launched Disney into worldwide fame. That film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs… Disney spent what was at the time a massive sum — $1.5 million. He employed more than 700 artists who produced over two million paintings for the film. …

By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post – After decades of disastrous Democrat governance, it appears that Californians are waking up… It’s been said more than once that where California goes, so goes the nation — not only culturally but politically and especially economically. After all, were California a country, it would rank fifth among the world’s economies, behind the rest of the U.S., China, Germany, and Japan. …

By Edward Ring, American Greatness – The climate crisis narrative ignores real issues like poor infrastructure and overpopulation, pushing costly policies that hurt economies while failing to improve resilience… According to the United Nations, “Climate change is a global emergency that goes beyond national borders.” From the World Economic Forum, “Urgent global action must be taken to reduce emissions and safeguard human health from the multi-pronged negative impacts of climate change globally.”

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal – President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that calls on federal government resources to help states ensure fair and honest elections… “Free, fair, and honest elections, unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion, are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic,” the order states. “The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election.”

By Tyler O’Neil, The Daily Signal – Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, filed a new bill Monday aiming to restrain the district court judges that have been issuing restraining orders blocking President Donald Trump’s agenda… “America’s government cannot function if the legitimate orders of our commander-in-chief can be overridden at the whim of a single district court judge,” Lee said in a statement on the bill’s introduction.

By Nicole Weatherholtz, NewsMax – The Trump administration is reportedly pausing millions in federal funding for Planned Parenthood, essentially defunding the abortion giant, while it reviews whether any of the money was spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives… Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were set to receive approximately $120 million this year, with the money earmarked for pregnancy testing, evaluation, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infertility counseling, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the move Tuesday.

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – ‘They know our voice is so powerful and influential that they can’t accomplish their goals unless they shut us down. They will not succeed.’… Americans’ constitutionally protected right to free speech “has been under worse attack in the last decade than at any other point in our nation’s history,” Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway told lawmakers during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. …

By Madalaine Elhabbal, Cadtholic News Agency, (Complicit Clergy) – During his remarks, Cardinal McElroy sharply criticized the administration’s foreign aid suspension as ‘unconscionable through any prism of Catholic thought.’… Washington, D.C.’s newly minted archbishop, Cardinal Robert McElroy, made his first public appearance since his installment at a conference on immigration policy Monday, offering a “spiritual and moral” reflection on the “American situation at this moment.”

By Daniel Perez, El Paso Matters, (Complicit Clergy) – The speakers, led by El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz, said this was the time to step up and speak out to elected leaders at the local, state and national levels against deportation in this moment of trial for the United States of America… In the church, Seitz told the standing room-only crowd that the Trump administration was leading a war on the poor, and that an attack on immigrants is an attack on the family of God. He added that this was not a time for neighbors to be cowed or intimidated.

By Scott McKay, The American Spectator – It’s been rumored for quite some time, and on Monday it popped all over X: Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce very soon that pharmaceutical advertising on television will be a thing of the past… There are many facets to this. You’ll hear from some quarters that it’s a First Amendment issue, that pharmaceutical companies should have the right to advertise just like any other legal business can. That’s one argument. Another argument is that only the U.S.A. and New Zealand allow drug ads on the tube, or at least prescription drug ads.

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – An unnamed woman is suing an Illinois abortionist for malpractice after she allegedly suffered from severe and potentially life-threatening complications from a late-term abortion at his hands in 2023… In a legal complaint filed on March 21, “Jane Doe” claims Keith Reisinger-Kindle of Equity Clinic in Champaign, Illinois performed a two-day dilation and evacuation abortion that, unbeknownst to the woman on the table, perforated her uterus, failed to remove all of the dead baby’s body parts from her body, and left her with “irreversible suffering and emotional damages.”

By Ken Blackwell, Patriot Post – App stores must secure parental approval and age verification before a minor under 16 years old can download an app of any kind… When I was growing up in Ohio in the 1960s, there was no such thing as a private teenage world. My friends and I all knew each other’s parents, and we were held accountable for our speech and our behavior by a network of moms and dads who knew one another. While local communities were knit more closely together back then, things are very different in America today. …

By Bradley Devlin, The Daily Signal – The Left couldn’t defeat President Donald Trump at the ballot box. Now, their only hope seems to be defeating him at the courthouse.
More than 130 cases have been filed against the Trump administration since Trump’s return to office just two months ago. With the help of activist federal judges, the Left’s large-scale lawfare operation has caused some setbacks for the administration, which helps explain why its ire has been focused on these lower court judges’ use of temporary restraining orders.

By Sofía Mejías-Pascoe, I News, (Complicit Clergy) – Under Cardinal McElroy, Catholic Charities of San Diego received about $70 million in federal grant funding over two fiscal years to provide services for migrants in San Diego County and another $5.8 million for migrants in Imperial County… The Trump administration is reviewing San Diego County and organizations awarded federal grants to shelter migrants, suggesting they may have violated human smuggling laws and requesting information on all migrants served through the grant.

By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post – Buried on page 45 of Jimmy Carter’s White House Diary is this ominous little entry: Met with the leaders of the NEA [National Education Association]. They are quite interested in having a separate education department formed. If we can work out some independent agency just for education where the teachers don’t dominate it, then I would favor the idea… Oh, we’ll just bet the NEA was interested in a separate education department. Until then, the vital task of indoctrinating our children had been relegated to merely coequal status within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

By Alan Nathan, The American Spectator – Every president has the unassailable (albeit sometimes perilous) constitutional option to use the functionality and mechanics of his branch’s “separated powers” to leverage his “check” against what he believes to be an unconstitutional encroachment upon those powers by any component of the judiciary… Furthermore, he can do so even as the dispute makes its way through the appellate process… This is especially relevant to time-sensitive issues ….

By Jason Jones & John Zmirak, The Stream – You don’t have to have a sneaking crush on thuggish Russian President Vladimir Putin or mistake him as a guardian of “Christian values” to realize that the war in Ukraine has many fathers beside him. Western elites and their handmaidens in the Deep State have been playing Chicken Kyiv with Russia since the early 1990s. Among their actions: Pointlessly expanding the obsolete suicide pact called NATO right up to Russia’s borders — a perfect parallel to the Soviets putting nuclear missiles in Castro’s Cuba in 1962, which almost led President John F. Kennedy to initiate World War III. …

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – As an example, Sen. Kennedy cited the radical left’s belief that a person’s gender is subjective, not determined by biology… “No honest person whose IQ is above his age” believes “biological sex doesn’t exist – but, they do, Sen Kennedy said. “That’s what I mean when I say they’re deeply weird,” the Republican explained… It’s at that point that Sen. Kennedy revealed his party’s “secret plan” to combat the Democrats’ agenda ….

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – At this point it’s not too much to say that the federal judiciary has plunged us into a constitutional crisis. The fusillade of injunctions and temporary restraining orders issued by district court judges in recent weeks against the Trump administration — on everything from foreign aid to immigration enforcement to Defense Department enlistment policy to climate change grants for Citibank — boggles the mind… More nationwide injunctions and restraining orders have been issued against Trump in the past month that were issued against the Biden administration in four years.

By Rachel Quackenbush, LifeNews – The FBI, now under the leadership of director Kash Patel, has provided Congress with critical documents related to allegations that federal law enforcement was weaponized for political purposes during the Biden administration… The records were delivered following a subpoena issued by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who has been investigating what he describes as “the weaponization of federal law enforcement against the American people,” according to a March 18 report from Just the News.

By John Mize, Jeffrey Barrows, First Things – What do you call a billion-dollar corporation that annually swallows millions in government funding but fails to deliver comprehensive medical care to women? Planned Parenthood… Planned Parenthood collects $699.3 million taxpayer dollars per year—approximately $2 million taxpayer dollars per day—and claims to provide comprehensive healthcare and pregnancy services. Yet 97.1 percent of those “services” provided are elective abortions; only 1.6 percent are prenatal support.

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing – We have “experience” now, I read in the media… Perhaps the main thing we have “learned” is that lockdowns, business closures, mask mandates, travel restrictions, quarantines, social distancing, contact tracing, &c, were either useless against the Batflu, or made it worse – the medical versions of “the process is the punishment.”… I wrote “learned” sarcastically. In fact, the worthlessness of each of these proposed remedies was fully known and demonstrated in all previous “pandemics.” The public health “experts” were in a position to warn us against each of these old wives’ tales, but falsely promoted them in the name of “science.”

By Breccan F. Thies, The Federalist – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start dismantling the Department of Education… The signing, held in a packed East Room full of students, teachers, parents, education advocates, and governors from across the country, was a celebratory event for many who have wanted to see an end to federal bureaucrats’ dictating of education regulations and spending, without regard for the individual needs of states and localities. McMahon was also in attendance.

By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post – The American people are disenchanted with the status quo. They don’t like Big Government. And the Democrats are, as always, The Party of Big Government. Consider the self-destructive meltdown that Schumer had on “The View”: “You know what their attitude is?” he railed, “‘I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me. I don’t wanna pay taxes.’ Or, ‘I built my company with my bare hands. How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, my, um, the land and water that I own, uh, or my employees.’”

By Jeffrey Bruno, National Catholic Register –
It seemed especially fitting that the announcement came today, on the feast of St. Joseph… When the news broke this morning, as reported in the Gothamist, that Planned Parenthood of Greater New York would close its flagship Manhattan facility at 26 Bleecker Street, citing financial pressures and mounting maintenance costs, I almost fell out of my chair… This was no ordinary closure to me or to the countless others who’ve stood on those sidewalks in prayer. This was a moment of Divine intervention — a testament to the power of grace.

By Jacob Adams, The Daily Signal – Craig Iffland, an expert on the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, says the files released Tuesday evening show the CIA went to extraordinary lengths to hide embarrassing details about its operations in the 1960s… It is Iffland’s expert opinion that “[m]ost of the major documents long sought by researchers can be found in this release, including the identities of a CIA-directed infiltration team of anti-Castro Cuban exiles tasked with the assassination of Fidel Castro; a list of CIA assets operating in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 who may have interacted with [Lee Harvey] Oswald during his stay there; …..

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal – While some religious people have outspokenly opposed Trump’s deportations of illegal immigrants, William Wolfe, Ex. Dir. of the Center for Baptist Leaders said mass deportations are a Christian issue…. We actually believe it is directly related to the preservation of America as we know it”

By Michael Giere, The Stream – After the 2016 elections, many of us asserted that the election was only marginally about the candidates — it was more akin to a peasant revolt that caught the ruling class, elites, and professional politicians flat-footed. It was driven by the accumulating evidence that the federal government was working more actively against its citizens than for them, and cared very little about what average Americans want, need, or believe… Americans voted with their gut instincts that the two Washington political parties had merged into one — united by graft. They were corrupt, intellectually and financially, to their core. Worse, they no longer cared that the voters knew it. A brazen callousness and arrogance had hardened like cement.

By: Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has found himself in the hot seat of America’s political discourse — and for good reason… Not content with simply allowing rogue lower court judges’ judicial jihad against the executive branch to continue unabated, the chief justice has now taken it upon himself to criticize President Donald Trump for calling for District Court Judge James Boasberg to be impeached. An Obama appointee, Boasberg unilaterally attempted to halt the administration’s deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador this past weekend.

By Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star Telegram – The award comes on top of the $1 billion in immigration funding already received from taxpayers… The federal government has until March 18 to pay Catholic Charities Fort Worth millions in grant funds that have been withheld since January… A federal judge on March 14 ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to release $47 million that became entangled in the Trump administration’s restructuring of federal programs.

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – Corporate media aren’t sorry that they played a key role in covering up Covid corruption. They are sorry that they were caught in a web of lies that further threaten Americans’ trust in media… There is no doubt that the chaos and tyranny that went down in 2020 “changed our lives.” People were denied the ability to grieve their dead, told not to celebrate holidays with family and friends, masked to give birth without the support of a spouse, ripped out of classrooms to stare at a screen, and segregated from society based on their jab status.

By Catholic World News – The USCCB has issued an action alert asking the faithful to urge their members of Congress to “protect and support Dreamers, especially DACA beneficiaries and those who are part of mixed-status families.”… “Dreamers,” named after the DREAM Act, are immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children. DACA refers to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, President Barack Obama’s 2012 executive action deferring deportation of “Dreamers” and permitting them to work in the nation legally without providing a path to citizenship. …

By Wade Miller, Center for Renewing America – From 2013 to 2022, CRS was the No. 1 NGO recipient of federal funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), receiving $4.6 billion over the course of those years.21 In FY 2024, CRS received nearly $700 million from the U.S. government, including grants from USAID, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of State, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Health and Human Services. 22 According to the latest publicly available tax filings, CRS receives over 50 percent of its budget from government sources. …

By Vicki Yamasaki, Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace – The U.S. Catholic Church stands at a crossroads, marked by an aging flock, a growing immigrant presence, and a devastating erosion of faith and morals. The Pew Religious Landscape Study (RLS) for Catholics from 2007, 2014, and 2023-24 offers a sobering glimpse into this crisis for traditional Catholics rooted in the Magisterium’s truths: for every 100 Catholics entering, 800 Catholics leave, prayer is declining, belief in God is plummeting, and a super majority supports issues deemed morally evil by the Church—demographically propped up by immigrants yet spiritually adrift. …

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – On matters of trade, immigration, and foreign policy, we are witnessing a counter-revolutionary effort to erase the madness of the Biden revolutionary years. Then unnamed and largely unknown radicals, under the veneer of a waxen effigy president, hijacked the country and imposed upon it the most radical and nihilist agenda in the past century… The current correctives are not easy or pretty. But the alternative to the prior status quo was not the status quo at all, but a Jacobin nihilism that had led only to insolvency, civil strife, the destruction of the southern border, at least two theater-wide wars abroad, and the end of the U.S. as we once knew it.

By Nate Jackson, Patriot Post – Joe Biden created the border crisis. Donald Trump is fixing it. But a Barack Obama-appointed judge just threw a wrench in the gears… This dysfunction is exemplified in the border crisis. In some respects, we didn’t need new laws to enforce the ones on the books. We just needed a new president. In other respects, it would simplify the legal process for dealing with the crisis if Congress would create particular legislation aimed at fixing it. Absent that, we have a president looking for laws to justify necessary actions and judges slapping that down for whatever reason can be contrived.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Now what does a Ukraine flag waved by an American or a European signify?… The same thing a “Black Lives Matter” banner did in 2020, when a posh suburbanite in a safely gated neighborhood hoisted it over his topiary. It’s now a fashionable accessary, a virtue signal and status symbol, and in fact a post-Christian religious fetish… Ukraine’s history is one of missed opportunities and tragic consequences — a rich land trapped between hungry neighbors, with no natural defenses: just wide-open lands that foreign armies could roll over and conquer. Is Ukraine a venerable nation that never got a fair chance at independence?… Vladimir Putin doesn’t think so ….

By Beth Brelje, The Federalist – Miraculously, another case aiming to choke off President Donald Trump’s executive authority has landed in the lap of U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg… The activist judge in the Washington, D.C., federal court worked overtime this weekend overreaching his power in a failed attempt to stop Trump from deporting alleged members of Tren de Aragua, which is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization… Over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security deported 238 alleged members of De Aragua.

By Logan Washburn, The Federalist – The Department of Justice was persecuting Donald Trump with sham trials just last year. But today, now-President Trump spoke at the DOJ, calling out the “communist” federal persecution of conservatives… “They tried to turn America into a corrupt communist and Third World country, but in the end, the thugs failed and the truth won. Freedom won, justice won, democracy won, and above all, the American people won,” Trump said. “There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked.”

By Ben Johnson,  The Daily Signal – As U.S. public school scores plunge yet again, a new study shows homeschool students are more likely to report positive mental health outcomes, to be married and have children, to volunteer in their communities, and to believe in God… The report’s findings come as President Donald Trump contemplates returning most of the federal government’s role in education back to the states and eventually abolishing the U.S. Department of Education… Compared to the other groups, long-term homeschoolers—those who spent at least eight years being educated at home—reported the lowest levels of depression and anxiety, were the least likely to say they “feel helpless dealing with life’s problems” …..

By Margot Cleveland, X, (Complicit Clergy) – Here ‘s an overall summary from Grok regarding the major developments involving this lawsuit (win comments in red added by us): Below is a summary of the major developments by date in the federal case United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. United States Department of State et al., case number 1:25-cv-00465, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (D.D.C.). This summary is based on available docket information from sources like CourtListener, Justia, and posts on X, reflecting events up to the current date of March 14, 2025.

By Uriel J. García, Texas Tribune, (Complicit Clergy) – The Trump administration has asked local governments and nonprofit organizations that received federal grants to identify immigrants they have housed, suggesting in a letter that they may have violated human smuggling laws… The Department of Homeland Security has “significant concerns” that organizations and governments receiving Federal Emergency Management Agency grants “may be guilty of encouraging or inducing an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States” violating immigration laws. …

By Mark Hemingway, The Federalist – Regardless, it’s pretty clear that after decades of failing liberal institutions and identity politics that actively discriminated against whole classes of people, kids are not wrong to intuit they are, uh, surrounded by a cultural and political order that they don’t like and can’t be justified. Maybe they can’t always articulate their perceived problems as well as they should — and to the extent they’re not as articulate as they should be, you can chalk up the state of public education as another massive L for progressives who overwhelmingly control our schools

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Now Trump is dusting off his six-shooter, defying (Judge) Boasberg’s illegal order. Again via Gateway Pundit: Despite Boasberg’s radical ruling, the Trump administration refused to comply with the unconstitutional order… Sec. of State Marco Rubio confirmed that hundreds of TDA gang members were successfully deported last night before the judge could interfere… “We have sent 2 dangerous top MS-13 leaders plus 21 of its most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador,” said Rubio.

By Michael Reagan, Patriot Post – We’ve all seen the outrageous stats for the Department of Education… Until Donald Trump’s White House hit man Elon Musk sicced his DOGE on it, the Education Dept. had an annual budget of between $238 and $268 billion and employed about 4,100 bureaucrats… This week, the department my father tried to kill in its infancy 45 years ago laid off about 2,000 Education Department employees. What will happen to all the billions the doomed department spends each year still must be figured out by DOGE.

By Bronson Winslow, The American Spectator – While neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party is specifically Christian, the Democratic Party alone is demonic. The Republican Party is far more responsive to Christian concerns, if for no other reason than Evangelical Christians and theologically conservative Catholics make up a much larger part of that party’s base than they do the Democratic Party… The Democratic Party is not just non-Christian but demonic because its two greatest idols are the grave evils of LGBTQ immorality (especially the multi-threat of transgenderism) and abortion.

By John Zmirak, The Stream – John Zmirak – So as an advocate for at risk children who might be subject to exploitation, do you think it would be in the best interests of those children for the U.S. Catholic bishops, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its associated NGOs, such as Catholic Charities, to be subject to a RICO investigation by Trump’s Justice Department?…. Elizabeth Yore – I do think so. After 60 years of witnessing massive clergy abuse of children, vulnerable adults, boys, girls, seminarians, and the massive cover up by the bishops, they have no, credibility whatsoever. Nothing really has changed over the last 60 years, in my opinion.

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – A major survey on the religious landscape of America was just released by Pew Research Center, and what it reveals about the decline of Christianity should alarm every American, whether or not one is Christian… Why should the de-Christianization of America worry us? Because, as I’ve argued before, if America loses the Christian faith from which our system of government is derived, we will lose everything that makes America what it is. All of the rights and freedoms we enjoy, the rule of law, the checks and balances on government power, all of that will disappear.

By John Lavenburg, The Catholic Herald – Following a proclamation from Oregon Governor Tina Kotek that March 10 would henceforth be “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day”, Archbishop Alexander Sample of Oregon lamented the move as a moment “when you realise just how far culture can drift from reality”… “The idea that those who make a living (by) ending innocent, unborn life should be publicly honoured, thanked, applauded – this isn’t just moral confusion, it’s something deeper,” said Archbishop Sample in a March 13 pastoral teaching on the sanctity of life… “A kind of spiritual blindness so thick that what should be self-evident – the sheer wonder and worth of a human life – is obscured entirely”

By McKenna Snow, LifeNews – In response to the satanic worship ritual scheduled to take place outside the Kansas State Capitol March 28, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City is praying for the organizers’ conversion, stating, “Satan is powerless against Jesus Christ.”… Archbishop Naumann has spoken out against the planned sacrilege, emphasizing that it harms the human soul.

By Independent Catholic News, (Complicit Clergy) – On the Memorial of St Oscar Romero, Monday, 24 March at 6pm, in San Jacinto Plaza in downtown El Paso, Texas, the Hope Border Institute, Bishop Mark J Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso and local community leaders and organizations will hold a March & Vigil in Solidarity with Migrants.
The March and Vigil will take place against the background of the closure of the US-Mexico border to asylum seekers, harsh rhetoric against those who have immigrated to the United States, and threats of mass deportation.

By Justine Brooke Murray, MRC TV – Selling the body parts of murdered babies for scientific experiments sounds like something out of a horror movie… or a joint run by Dr. Joseph Mengele… But in 2025, it’s a taxpayer funded practice!… Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) has just re-introduced a bill to finally end it for good. If passed, the Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act (S.987) will ban the federal government from “conducting, funding, approving, or otherwise supporting any research involving human fetal tissue that is obtained pursuant to an induced abortion, and to prohibit the solicitation or knowing acquisition, receipt, or acceptance of a donation of such tissue.”

By Stephen Dinan, Washington Times, (Complicit Clergy) – In February 2022, I, Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX), wrote a letter to Catholic Charities USA, one of the leading NGOs involved in settling illegal aliens, raising concern that the Biden administration was “deputizing NGOs to harbor, transport, and encourage unauthorized aliens to resettle throughout the United States.”… All of these activities are illegal. The letter requested a full accounting of Catholic Charities’s activities in this matter and disclosure of how much money the NGO had received from federal, state, and local governments to carry out its role in resettling illegal aliens. Needless to say, no meaningful response to these questions was ever received.

By Dave Andrusko, LifeNews – The Democratic Party’s brand is in rough shape in the congressional battlegrounds… Nearly two months into the second Donald Trump administration, a majority of voters in battleground House districts still believe Democrats in Congress are “more focused on helping other people than people like me,” according to an internal poll conducted by the Democratic group Navigator Research. Among independents, just 27 percent believe Democrats are focused on helping them, compared with 55 percent who said they’re focused on others.

By Kate Quiñones, CNA – President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said in his confirmation hearing last week that he was “absolutely committed” to finding alternatives to vaccines developed using aborted fetal cell lines… When asked whether he would prohibit the use of aborted fetal tissue in NIH-funded research, Stanford University medical school professor and health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said he would follow the lead of President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the issue. …

By Robert Moffit, The Daily Signal – In its final, comprehensive report, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concluded that with regard to the COVID-19 vaccines, the federal government’s reporting on adverse events has been neither transparent nor sufficient to protect the American people… As reports of adverse events mounted, federal officials were slow to respond. In fact, the safety problem worsened in 2021 when President Joe Biden attempted to impose his vaccine mandate: a policy that disregarded the reality of the natural immunity of previously infected people ….

By Kevin Posobiec, Warroom, (Complicit Clergy), March 12, 2025 – WATCH: Dr. Janet Smith and Rachel Mastorgiacomo React To McElroy’s Installation

By Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops – Regardless of your immigration status, you have certain rights. Know your rights when you are encountering any law enforcement official or government official. 1) You have the right to remain silent. It is your right to refuse to speak to any law enforcement official: federal, state or local. 2) If you are not a U.S. citizen and an immigration agent requests your immigration papers, you must show them if you have them with you. Carry all immigration documentation with you at all times. 3) You have the right to ask for and review a warrant before law enforcement enters your home. An immigration-related warrant of removal does not give law enforcement the right to enter your home. …

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal – Last time I talked about our North American problems with Canada. Now I want to turn the emphasis to Mexico… President Donald Trump has threatened all sorts of trade sanctions on Mexico, a 25% tariff. But why is he doing this? And I think the answer is there’s four things that Mexico knows it has been doing to us with impunity, especially under Joe Biden, that are not sustainable. …

By Elle Purnell, Elections Editor, The Federalist – When Donald Trump first sailed into the Oval Office, his detractors shrieked that his blunt rhetoric was dividing the country. His supporters pointed out that Trump wasn’t so much creating division as he was revealing divisions that had been growing in America for a long time… The reaction to the novel Wuhan coronavirus did the country a similar service, by revealing a new fault line: two sets of rules, which were applied differently to Americans depending on their membership in certain political cliques.

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – Last week President Trump said farmers in South Africa who are facing confiscation of their lands without compensation under a new land expropriation law could be offered an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship… What was important about Trump’s response, though, is that by offering Afrikaner farmers an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship, the president acknowledged that America isn’t just an idea but a nation… Prioritizing certain foreigners over others is a repudiation of the popular but fatuous notion that any person from any culture or part of the world can become an American simply by going through a neutral administrative process. In other words, it matters where you come from, what you believe, and how you live.

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – In recent days, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reported a wide-ranging list of dubious federal government expenditures of taxpayers’ hard-earned money that have now been cancelled. Here are just a few of the most egregious contracts cancelled… Americans no longer have to pay for lucrative contracts outsourcing plant-watering and something called an “enterprise mail management program”: “The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year. The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge.”

CatholicVote – A Catholic man left Sunday Mass for the first time in his life after a priest in Georgetown, a wealthy neighborhood in Washington, DC, used his homily to make a political comparison between President Donald Trump and Satan… The controversy unfolded as the priest reflected on the Gospel reading for the first Sunday of Lent, which recounts Christ’s 40-day fast and temptation by the devil (Luke 4:1-13). According to Declan Ganley, an entrepreneur and Catholic commentator, the priest connected the biblical passage to a recent exchange between Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House.

By Anthony Stine, Return To Tradition – The Bishops New Unbelievable Excuse For Demanding Your Tax Dollars

By Jason Scott Jones, The Stream – I’ll never forget one moment in your first campaign. It was during the fifth candidates’ debate for the GOP nomination, on December 15, 2015. You stepped up in front of the Emperor and all the little courtiers fawning over his new clothes, and said simply, “He’s naked!”… To be more specific, you punctured the huge Hindenburg pumped up with lies that the Republican Party used to call its “foreign policy.” For 13 years, since the run-up to the Iraq War, Americans had been gaslit with faked intelligence and wild conspiracy theories to urge us into regime-change wars and “color” revolutions to overturn foreign governments.

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – “CANCELLED: $600,000 grant to study ‘menstrual cycles in transgender men,’” U.S. Agriculture (USDA) Sec. Brooke Rollins announced Friday… “The insanity is ending and the restoration of America is underway,” Sec. Rollins declared in her post, asking Americans to keep sending tips pointing out wasteful government spending… The now-cancelled $600,000 USDA grant had been given to the Southern University Agricultural and Mechanical College to conduct the menstrual research on male-identifying biological females through April of 2027.

By Margot Cleveland, The Federalist – Since President Donald Trump reclaimed the executive branch in January, more than 50 lawsuits have been filed to halt his America-first efforts. These lawsuits present a variety of legal issues, from the constitutionality of Trump’s executive orders addressing birthright citizenship and transgender prisoners, to agencies’ ability to cancel federal grants, to the president’s power to fire executive branch officials… The vast number of cases, coupled with the diversity of legal issues and the near-daily developments, make it challenging for Americans to track—much less understand—the current lawfare.

By LifeSite News, by Staff, (Complicit Clergy) – Dear Vice President Vance, We are impressed and grateful that you called upon the U.S. bishops to be transparent about how they have spent government funds to settle refugees and immigrants. Your remarks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast were what we all needed to hear and give us great hope. We couldn’t be prouder that you are the vice president and so strong in your faith and that you understand loving the Church means working to ensure that it is all that Jesus wants it to be… There are few things worse than pedophilia. Unfortunately, as you very well know, it is widespread in our culture, in Hollywood, among government officials, and worst of all in the Church.

Catholic Vote – In a joint statement, the three patriarchs of the largest Christian communities in Syria strongly condemned the violence that has ravaged the country’s coastal region, demanding restraint, particularly from government militias… intense clashes erupted on March 6 between the General Security Forces of the new government – comprised of factions affiliated with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Sunni Muslims – and remnants of Bashar al-Assad’s former regime. …

By Margaret Flavin, Gateway Pundit – In a Ramadan message to Muslims, authored by Prefect George Jacob Cardinal Koovakad and Secretary Msgr. Indunil Kodithuwakku Janakaratne Kankanamalage, the Vatican highlighted that the two religious seasons coinciding  is “a unique opportunity to walk, side by side.”… “This year, we wish to reflect with you not only on what we can do together to live better lives, but above all on what we want to become together, as Christians and Muslims, in a world in search of hope. Do we want to be simple co-workers for a better world, or genuine brothers and sisters, bearing common witness to God’s friendship with all humanity?”

By David Catron, The American Spectator – The fundraising platform (ActBlue) is suspected of identity theft, credit card fraud, and various other financial crimes… ActBlue will not survive the light that the House committee and nineteen state attorneys general are determined to shine on it.

A federal court this week upheld New York’s vaccine mandate, requiring Amish children to be vaccinated despite religious objections… The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled March 3 in Miller v. McDonald that the repeal of religious exemptions for vaccines does not violate the First Amendment, The People’s Voice reported… New York eliminated religious exemptions for vaccines in 2019 following a measles outbreak. Under the law, children must be vaccinated to attend a school — whether public, private, or religious — unless they qualify for a medical exemption.

By Brian Mark Weber, The Patriot  Post – During his first term, President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which reduced tax rates across the board — not just for the wealthy — and allowed Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money… In his address to a joint session of Congress this week, the president asked Congress to extend the TCJA, which is about to expire at the end of this year. “The next phase of our plan to deliver the greatest economy in history,” he said, “is for this Congress to pass tax cuts for everybody.”

By Josh Hammer, The American Spectator – Democratic elected officials are also deeply split. California Gov. Gavin Newsom made headlines this week by repudiating certain facets of wokeism during an interview with Charlie Kirk, but congressional Democrats attending Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday evening took the opposite approach, beyond refusing to applaud: Rep. Al Green (D-Tex.) obnoxiously heckled the president and was kicked out of the House chamber within the speech’s first few minutes — deservedly so. In general, their conduct was positively buffoonish.

By Justine Brooke Murray, MRC TV – Even Oxford University admits that sexually mutilating people who already suffer enough psychological issues worsens their mental health. Their Academic Journal of Sexual Medicine recently published a study hoping to propagate the narrative that gender deluded individuals “face heightened psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation” because their delusions are not “affirmed”…. Not because they’re deluded to begin with.

By Deroy Murdock, The Federalist – FDR’s signature program includes Americans born under George Washington… Social Security is as big as government programs get. Naturally, even a glance at it with DOGE’s magnifying glass found plenty that seemed — charitably — not quite right… “According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE,” Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk stated via X on February 16. “Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.”

By Sarah Cervera, ABC News – Since President Donald Trump took office in January, Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley Executive Director Sister Norma Pimentel said the non-profit’s respite center has seen a drop in migrants… “Since the new administration took office… people are just not being allowed into the United States,” Pimentel said… According to Pimentel, the number of migrants being dropped off at the respite center after they’ve been processed by Border Patrol is nearly zero.

By Tim Busch, National Catholic Register – Donald Trump’s administration is the most faith-filled I’ve ever seen… Please, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not denigrating the faith of any of his predecessors, many of whom were famous for their Christianity. I think, for instance, of Jimmy Carter calling himself a “born-again Christian” and George W. Bush pursuing “compassionate conservatism” out of his Christian convictions. Nor am I saying that Donald Trump is a model of Christian charity. While the assassination attempt against his life last year seemed to make him more aware of God, I have no way of gauging the nature or depth of his faith.

By Matt Lamb, LifeSiteNews – The National Institutes of Health will not use abortion fetal tissue in research, according to President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the agency… Dr. Jay Bhattacharya made the comments on Wednesday during his hearing in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in response to a question from Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri… “In public health, we need to make sure the products of science are ethically acceptable to everybody,” Bhattacharya said during the hearing.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – President Donald Trump’s nominee for the FDA confirmed today in a Senate hearing that the abortion drug has been used to coerce women into having abortions… During questioning from pro-life Senator Josh Hawley, Dr. Marty Makary commented on Joe Biden’s reckless move to remove in-person requirements to dispense and receive the dangerous abortion drug mifepristone, which has killed millions of babies, dozens of women and injured countless thousands.