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Biden Gave Planned Parenthood $700 Million, Elon Musk and DOGE Should Defund It, by Bob Unruh

By Bob Unruh, LifeNews – A watchdog organization is demanding that the U.S. government, under the administration of President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency, defund a giant in the nation’s abortion industry… A report at Fox News explains the former administration, under Joe Biden, handed over $700 million in money collected from taxpayers to Planned Parenthood, during one reporting period. ….

Mythologies About Musk, by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE… “Musk has no right to cut USAID.”… Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs… They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)… Its mandate is to identify waste, abuse, fraud, and irrelevance in the federal budget at a time when the U.S. is $37 trillion in debt… The agency will expire on July 4, 2026.

11 Judges Who Have Obstructed 8 of Trump’s Actions, by Craig Bannister

By Craig Bannister, CNS News – While Donald Trump has been rapidly issuing executive orders since his return to the White House last month, some federal judges have been zealously ruling to block or restrict his administration from implementing them… Whether it’s his effort to eliminate wasteful government spending, reduce the size of government, stop illegal immigration, or affirm the biological realities of gender, judges have taken it upon themselves to combat his actions.

America’s Cross-Border Abortion War, by Jonathon Van Maren

By Jonathon Van Maren, First Things – The United States has been deeply divided on abortion for decades, but since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, those divides have deepened as differing legal regimes emerge across the nation. In some states, such as California and New York, destroying an unborn person in the womb is a fiercely defended “human right.” In others, such as Alabama and Mississippi, abortion is illegal with limited exceptions on the explicit grounds of unborn human rights.

Pope Francis’ Letter To U.S. Bishops Sows Confusion Over Immigration, by John Daniel Davidson

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – In some places (Francis) seems to contradict or misrepresent Catholic teaching, and in other places he uses vague language that could be interpreted multiple ways… Taken out of context from his previous statements on immigration, it would be easy to dismiss the letter as nothing more than sentimental but unobjectionable platitudes about human dignity and the need for Christians to care for the poor. But considered in context, it’s clear that Francis wants to signal that he’s against Trump and Vance on immigration.

9 Things to Know About Sean Duffy, New Transportation Secretary and Catholic Dad, by Matthew McDonald

By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has been one of the higher-profile members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet in the early weeks of the new administration… Duffy, 53, was one of Trump’s least controversial picks. He got confirmed by the U.S. Senate with a unanimous vote by a Senate committee and a 77-22 vote from the full Senate.

The Pope’s Disastrous Letter on Immigration, by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – In a letter ostensibly written to support the bishops of the US, Pope Francis has actually made life considerably more difficult for them. In his letter on the Trump administration’s immigration policies the Pontiff makes an argument that is poorly informed, easily rebutted, and likely to divide the American Catholic faithful. This is an argument that the American hierarchy cannot win. And, not coincidentally, the argument presented by the Pope differs notably from the most recent statements by more prudent American prelates.

The Left’s Crisis Might Be Getting Started. Ours Is Actually Ending, by Scott McKay

By Scott McKay, Contributing Editor, The American Spectator – You’ve almost certainly noticed that a new narrative has begun emanating from the usual sources in the past few days. We’re now in a “crisis,” or a “constitutional crisis.”… You’re hearing this everywhere in the legacy corporate propaganda press, and it’s being reported as emanating from the “unelected” Elon Musk and his DOGE prodigies applying a Big Data screen to federal spending and illuminating the amazing levels of waste and fraud built into the governmental fisc.

Ousted From Power By Voters, Dems Turn To Activist Judges To Defy Trump, by John Daniel Davidson

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – Lower federal court judges have no constitutional authority to govern by injunction and undermine the executive branch… What’s happening right now is that Democrats, having been thrown out of power by American voters in a landslide victory for Trump, have decided they’re going to deploy a widely-used tactic from Trump’s first term to thwart the president’s agenda: use the federal judiciary. Under the false pretext that the lower federal courts are part of a “coequal branch of government” with the executive, they’re aiming to shut down Trump’s reform efforts with a fusillade of preliminary injunctions.

Yes, Let’s Keep Talking About USAID, by Douglas Andrews  

By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post – Democrat strategist Ruy Teixeira gets it, and he’s trying to sound the alarm. “Trump occupies the high ground in this fight,” he writes at The Free Press, “which is probably why he and Musk picked it. … USAID is a 10,000-employee bureaucracy — housed in a palatial building on prime downtown real estate — that spends $40 billion a year on other countries.”… As Teixeira adds: “Democrats are unconditionally defending an obscure government institution at a time when even well-known and previously trusted institutions are regarded with intense suspicion.”

Pope Francis’s Apocalyptic Dream, by R. R. Reno 

By R. R. Reno, First Things – Pope Francis published his suicide note. It took the form of a letter to the American Catholic bishops. In so many words, the Holy Father urged his brother bishops to intervene in American politics and oppose the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce our country’s immigration laws. Along the way, Pope Francis also took a jab at Vice President JD Vance, correcting him (along with St. Thomas Aquinas). No, we are not to love our parents, spouses, and children more than others.

Complicit Clergy: The Catholic Church and Unaccompanied Migrant Children: It’s Worse Than We Thought, by Complicit Clergy 

By Complicit Clergy, Staff – How many of these missing children were assisted by our Catholic bishops and their network of Catholic NGOs? Were any of these children victims of trafficking for child labor or sexual exploitation? U.S. taxpayers deserve to know answers to these questions and we hope that the Trump administration and the U.S. Congress will hold our bishops accountable for getting answers to these questions.

JD Vance Is Obviously, and Unremarkably, Correct About the Order of Love, by Kenneth Craycraft

By Kenneth Craycraft, Our Sunday Vistitor – In a recent appearance on a TV news show, JD Vance articulated the “Christian concept that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then, after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.” The comment caused immediate, harsh reaction from many in the Catholic commentariat, condemning Vance’s observation. Some have cast doubt on his personal faith. One prominent British journalist even questioned the faith of the priest who received Vance into the Church.

Fr. Peter Totleben: Vice President Vance, the Good Samaritan, and the “Order of Love”

By Fr. Peter Totleben, O.P., Catholic World Report – It’s not often that Catholic theology breaks into the news cycle, but this is just what happened when Vice President J. D. Vance gave an interview to FOX News defending the Trump administration’s actions regarding immigration and its “America First” stance on foreign policy. Vance appealed to the traditional theological concept of the “order of love” (ordo amoris)—the idea that our love of neighbor has a certain set of priorities—to justify prioritizing the needs of citizens over immigrants and domestic concerns over foreign ones.

Trump’s Antics and the Highest Human Value, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture – Based on this comparison, for example, I have little sympathy for Cardinal McElroy’s characterization of Trump’s immigration policies as a “war of fear and terror”, or even for Pope Francis’ direct denunciation of Trump’s efforts. I don’t withhold my sympathy for these critics because I am in favor of mass deportation of poor immigrants desperately seeking a better life. Rather, I withhold it because I insist on knowing where these critics were when it was a question of President Biden’s far more evil abortion, sex and gender policies.

Trump’s Early Decisions Expose Damage Caused by Vatican Complicity With Democrat-Run Globalism, Says Italian Scholar, by Edward Pentin

By Edward Pentin – Just a fortnight into the Trump presidency and the damage wrought by the Pope and the Vatican allying too closely with Democrat-run globalism on a variety of moral issues is becoming clear, the head of an Italian Church think tank has said… In a Jan. 29 commentary entitled “Trump and the Vatican: War in Progress,” Professor Stefano Fontana wrote that early policy decisions of the Trump administration have exposed the extent to which the Vatican’s close alignment with a progressive globalist agenda has caused “great damage” by weakening her voice on a number of serious moral issues.

Liberal Bishop Who Blasted Trump Claims Jesus Would Support Abortion, by Ashlynn Lemos 

By Ashlynn Lemos, LifeNews – “The message of Christianity is being distorted,” claimed Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, known for her sermon at the Trump Inauguration. In a culture where people seek to reshape the Gospel, we must return to the heart of Jesus — a heart that values, cherishes, and defends life from his or her very beginning… Her perspective has been gaining traction, suggesting that a Christian can uphold the “spectrum of Life” while supporting a woman’s “right to choose” abortion. As Reverend Budde put it, “I think you can be adherent to the spectrum of Life and still respect a woman’s right to choose her reproductive health, including when to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy.”

Archbishop Joseph Naumann: The United States Needs a Legal Immigration Process That Works

By Archbishop Joseph Naumann – It is inconceivable that our previous administration either did not know or care about the location or the circumstances of approximately 300,000 children and youth who entered the United States during the past four years. We do not know how many of them have become victims of human trafficking, gangs and drug dealers. This is a national disgrace. I salute President Trump and his administration for making it a priority to find these lost children and youth.

‘Tearing the School Apart’: How DEI Changed Kentucky Country Day School, by James Lalino

By James Lalino, Daily Signal – “When you say that name [Rodney Glasgow], it’s like the emotions of wanting to just cry. I get chills. That name and what he did to our community was just unimaginable,” said a parent of a current Kentucky Country Day School student, granted anonymity due to the risk of their children being expelled from the elite independent school that costs a maximum of $30,200 per year… Glasgow runs The Glasgow Group.. is a Maryland-based for-profit educational consultant company that specializes in diversity, equity, and inclusion training for teachers and school administrators.

Catholic World News: Catholic Charities Had $4.9M Operating Deficit in 2023-24

By Catholic World News – Catholic Charities USA has released its 2024 annual report, which offers an overview of the organization’s work but offers no summary of its finances. …. Catholic Charities USA’s audited financial statements clearly do not take into account the revenues and expenses of the Catholic Charities offices of the nation’s 176 dioceses. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, for example, had $101,010,202 in revenue in its 2024 fiscal year—$82,194,646 of it from government grants.

The Stunning Cost of Fentanyl, by Douglas Andrews

By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post – Those crafty Communist Chinese haven’t fought a land war in nearly half a century, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t actively engaged in warfare… It’s just that the conventional kind is so unappealing to the ChiComs. As the great and ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu stressed, the real Art of War is to defeat one’s enemy without even fighting him. This is why, as author Peter Schweizer writes in Blood Money, every Chinese officer, soldier, and sailor has since 2006 been required to study Sun Tzu’s classic tract.

Washington’s Whirlwind: Whistleblowers, Migrant Rights, Military Reforms, and FEMA Funds, by Gayle McQueary

By Gayle McQueary, The Stream – In a move reminiscent of a political thriller, Senate Democrats have launched an online portal designed to collect complaints from federal employees about the Trump administration’s activities. The platform, unveiled with much fanfare, aims to encourage “transparency” and “accountability” within government agencies, especially in light of recent policy changes that some Democrats argue are an overreach or “misuse” of executive power.

Catholic Organization That Funds Pro-Abortion Groups Lays Off 50% of Its Staff After Losing USAID Funds, by Steven Ertelt, Grace Porto, Joshua Mercer

By Steven Ertelt, Grace Porto, Joshua Mercer, LifeNews – A Catholic organization that funds pro-abortion groups has laid off 50% of its staff after losing USAID funds… Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was the top recipient of funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Forbes reported Feb. 3… According to Forbes, CRS, a nonprofit, received $4.6 billion from 2013 to 2022… At the same time, CRS has been the subject of controversy in the past for supporting pro-abortion aid programs.

Altar Rails and Borders, by R. R. Reno

By R. R. Reno, First Things – Catholicism in the United States and Europe is heading toward trouble. The presenting issue is immigration. Vice President JD Vance criticized the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for their hostility to “commonsense immigration enforcement.” Cardinal Timothy Dolan issued a testy response, calling Vance’s remarks “scurrilous.”… The American bishops are trying to cleave to the Vatican line on this issue. Pope Francis is always critical of those who propose to tighten border enforcement and limit immigration.

Elon Musk: DOGE Team Discovers FEMA Spent $59 Million Last Week on Luxury Hotels for Illegals in NYC Violating the Current Law – Musk Vows to Recoup the Funds, by  Jim Hoft

By Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit – Elon Musk reported early Monday morning that FEMA sent $59 million just last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants… According to Musk, sending this money to these high-end hotels violated the law.  This directly interferes with President Trump’s executive order… And why is FEMA paying for illegal alien housing when they ignore Americans suffering and living in tents in places like North Carolina?… FEMA funds are meant for American disaster relief and not to fund Joe Biden’s invasion… Musk says a clawback demand will be made today to recoup the funds.

How DOGE Is Doing It, by Thomas Gallatin 

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – Donald Trump unleashed a revolution in Washington that it had never seen before… For decades, Republican politicians have campaigned to go to Washington and tackle its wasteful spending. Yet, term after term, nothing seemed to change. Government spending only grew, and the federal deficit ballooned with it… The sentiment was that Washington’s permanent bureaucratic state was simply too big and too entrenched to actually shrink. …

SHOCKING! USAID and the Catholic Church (Raymond Arroyo, Michael Hichborn), by Complicit Clergy

By Michael Hichborn, Raymond Arroyo, The World Over – Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute appeared on both The World Over with Raymond Arroyo and A Catholic Take with Joe McCane with week to discuss the scandal surrounding USAID and the Catholic Church.

Catholic NGOs Partnering With Radical Leftist ‘Open Borders’ Group, by Complicit Clergy

By Complicit Clergy by Staff – A review of Immigrant Legal Resource Center’s (ILRC) 2023 federal tax return reveals that Catholic organizations provided nearly 20% of all grants for this radical leftist organization… The ILRC isn’t exclusively concerned with naturalizing and mobilizing non-citizens. The organization also works to prevent the deportation of illegal aliens. It received $500,000 in 2021 from the Open Society Foundations to fund its efforts to “dismantle the infrastructure of criminalization, detention, and deportation of immigrants.”

American Bishops Applaud Trump’s Ban On Transgender Athletes in Women’s Sports, by The Catholic Herald

By The Catholic Herald – The American bishops have applauded an executive order that seeks to prohibit biological men from competing in women’s sports… “We welcome the President’s EO that protects opportunities for women and girls to compete in sports safely and fairly,” Bsps. Robert Barron and David M. O’Connell… Bishops Barron and O’Connell are the chairmen of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committees on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth; and Catholic Education, respectively.

President Trump Keeps Flooding the Zone with Sane Policies That Expose Sick, Squalid Secrets, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream – …we can and should demand that the men who wield the secular sword aren’t sticking it in our backs or using it to abort babies and sexually mutilate children…. What DOGE has been busy exposing isn’t just wasteful taxpayer-funded programs in foreign countries. That’s the tippy-tippy top of the iceberg, which is vast and goes down deep into dark and poisonous waters. In fact, what we’re learning from the drip-drip-drip of Musk’s crack team’s revelations is this: USAID is a global slush fund for evil, full stop.

USAID Sent $4.6 Billion to Catholic Relief Services, Which Has Supported Pro-Abortion Groups, by Grace Porto

By Grace Porto, LifeNews – Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was the top recipient of funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Forbes reported Feb. 3… According to Forbes, CRS, a nonprofit, received $4.6 billion from 2013 to 2022… Secretary of State Marco Rubio became the acting director of USAID Feb. 3, as CatholicVote previously reported. The decision came after the agency attempted to block the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing its financial records.

Trump’s Youth Revolution, by Matthew Continetti

By Matthew Continetti, Patriot Post – How America’s oldest president became a Gen Z icon… Outrage over Musk’s whiz kids reveals another progressive double standard: Young activists are praised when they are on the Left and denounced when they join the Right… The Washington Post, moreover, is blind to the real story. Trump may be the oldest man elected president, but he leads a youth movement that will shape politics for decades to come.

Woke Bishop Who Lectured Trump Got Tens of Millions of Taxpayers Dollars to ‘Resettle’ Migrants, by Nick Kangadis 

By Nick Kangadis, MRC TV – Remember that _______ Episcopal “Bishop” who passive aggressively chastised President Donald Trump during his inaugural prayer service? Well…apparently American taxpayer money has been wasted on her “church’s federal contracting arm,” all so they could help “migrants” “resettle” into the U.S… And the sum of money is no chump change, either. A reported $53 million was given to the Episcopal Migration Ministry (EMM) in 2023 so they could “resettle 3,600 individuals.”

The Truth About USAID and Catholic Relief Services, by Stephen Kokx

By Stephen Kokx, LifeSite News – From 2013 through the 2022 fiscal year, USAID awarded CRS a whopping $4.6 billion in total funding, more than any other organization on the planet… President Donald Trump’s attacks on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has Catholic Relief Services (CRS) worried it may have to let half of its staff go, according to an internal email written by its CEO… “We anticipate that we will be a much smaller overall organization by the end of this fiscal year,” Sean Callahan reportedly said this week.

Archbishop Naumann Weighs in On Need to Solve Current Immigration, Refugee Challenges, by Tessa Gervasini , Ken Oliver-Méndez

By Tessa Gervasini , Ken Oliver-Méndez, CNA – “Allowing violent gangs, individuals with serious criminal histories, dealers of lethal illegal drugs, human traffickers, and those who pose threats to our national security to enter our country and harm U.S. citizens is a serious dereliction of duty by our elected leaders,” Naumann said. “I commend President [Donald] Trump and those in his administration for addressing this serious, national threat.”… Naumann went on to fault the Biden administration for its handling of the unprecedented wave of unaccompanied minors it allowed to enter the country.

WHO Should Pay to Help Migrants? by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – Any accurate measure of wealth includes debts as well as assets. By that ordinary standard the US government is poor: spending money it does not have, running a budget it cannot afford. And since the current debate over immigration is primarily a debate about the policies of the federal government, the argument that the US government is the “richest nation on earth” cannot stand.

RFK and the Silencing of Debate, by Samantha Stephenson

By Samantha Stephenson, Crisis Magazine – As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. undergoes the rigors of his Senate confirmation hearing, the parallels are undeniable. Headlines abound to discredit RFK, an outsider lacking the medical expertise to weigh in on topics like vaccine safety. Despite having repeatedly iterated that he is not anti-vax, RFK’s opponents insist on characterizing him as such… Conspiracy theorists will say that this is propaganda designed to keep the powerful in power and suppress the truth about vaccines that are making our children sick. Pragmatists like Calley Means will insist that we follow the money; RFK’s call for further testing of the CDC vaccine schedule will almost certainly take its toll on Big Pharma’s bottom line.

GOP Lawmakers React to Trump Suing Their State Over Laws That ‘Obstruct’ ICE Arrests, by Virginia Allen 

By Virginia Allen, Daily Signal – The Trump administration is fighting sanctuary policies with a lawsuit against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats. Illinois Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives are praising the action… “Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson have failed to enforce the laws of our country allowing illegal immigrants to flood our communities,” Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., told The Daily Signal.

NCAA Bans Men From Women’s Sports Following Trump’s Executive Order, by Tyler Arnold

By Tyler Arnold, CNA – The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) banned biological men from competing in women’s sports on Thursday, Feb. 6, to comply with an executive order signed by President Donald Trump the previous day… A new NCAA policy that went into effect on Thursday afternoon states that biological men are no longer eligible to compete on women’s college athletic teams under any circumstance. The NCAA is the largest college athletic association and governs the athletic policies for the highest levels of college sports.

Hijacking the Good Samaritan as the Patron Saint of Illegal Immigration, by Jules Gomes

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – Now, as the Trump administration has begun deporting foreign criminals alongside “collaterals” (illegal aliens present during Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids), Catholic and Protestant progressives are canonizing the Good Samaritan as the patron saint of illegal immigration… Jesuit pro-LGBT crusader Fr. James Martin is firing a barrage of Samaritan shells on X, claiming that “our ultimate salvation depends, as it did for that man, upon those whom we often consider to be the ‘stranger.’”

Let The Man Cook , by Scott McKay

By Scott McKay, American Spectator – Trump’s Gaza proposal may not be viable, but at least we’ve moved away from the constant reiteration of the unworkable “two-state” solution… This is a column about Gaza and Donald Trump’s out-of-the-box, shocking little spitball that maybe the U.S. would take the place over and rebuild it into something completely different than the hellhole it is presently… You’ve seen all kinds of reactions to that by now. One of the best of them, by James McGee, showed up here at the site yesterday. James is exactly right that it took an amazing amount of courage for Trump to offer up that proposal.

Trump signs executive order banning gender-confused men from women’s and girls’ sports, by Doug Mainwaring

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews – President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning men, including those who “identify” as female, from participating in women’s sports in order to “protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports.”  … “The war on women’s sports is over,” declared the president to the delight of the crowd… The scene in the White House East Room on Wednesday, where the president was flanked by dozens of women and girl athletes who had been waiting for this moment ….

Profile in Courage: Trump’s Gaza Proposal, by James H. McGee

By James H. McGee, The American Spectator – Palestinian children surely deserve better than being raised in Hamas’ incubator of hatred… When President Donald Trump first floated the idea of moving the Palestinians away from Gaza, the entire notion was largely dismissed as “Trump being Trump.” In particular, the foreign policy “experts” brushed it aside as a silly idea, something they placed in the same category as “buying Greenland” or “taking back the Panama Canal.” But no more, not after yesterday afternoon’s formal public announcement, made as part of a joint public meeting with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Who Made It Into the ‘Hall of Evil’? by Paul Kengor

By Paul Kengor, Editor, The American Spectator – Prager University has teamed up with The American Spectator’s editor, Paul Kengor, for a special six-part video series on history’s worst dictators. The “Hall of Evil” series launched on Feb. 3 with the first installment on Bolshevik dictator Vladimir Lenin (click here). A new installment will be released each Monday morning through mid-March, with Lenin followed by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot… Kengor talked about how the series came about and how impressed he was with the PragerU operation. “In 2018, I had done a video for PragerU on Karl Marx,” recalls Kengor. “I was blown away by the response. The video has 5 million views on the PragerU site and another 3.35 million on YouTube. Prager University has an enormous impact.”

AG Pam Bondi Launches Investigation of Lawfare Against Pro-Life Conservatives, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – New Attorney General Pam Bondi announced today after she was sworn in that she will launch a new investigation of lawfare against pro-life and conservative Americans… Bondi initiated significant changes today within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to address concerns over the politicization of justice. One of her first actions was to establish a “Weaponization Working Group” tasked with reviewing instances where legal proceedings may have been influenced by political biases.

USAID Spent $607 Million Promoting Abortion Worldwide, Thankfully Trump is Defunding It, by Cheryl Sullenger 

By Cheryl Sullenger, LifeNews – (Pres. Trump ended) taxpayer funded disbursements through the corrupt USAID, a large promoter of abortion and depopulation programs in the U.S. and abroad… On January 24, 2025, President Trump reinstated the “Mexico City Policy,” which ended use of taxpayer money for organizations that promote, fund, or conduct abortions. Days later, Pres. Trump issued a temporary freeze on funds dispersed through USAID… Under Biden’s administration, USAID budgeted $607.5 million during the 2022 Fiscal Year alone for its bilateral family planning and reproductive health program. That money went to expanding and funding abortion programs and organizations. Third world countries in Africa were especially targeted for abortion expansion.

USAID: The Life Blood of The Deep State, by Joachim Osther

By Joachim Osther, The Stream – One of the many questions about collusion and corruption in the political machinery of Washington D.C. is about “the money.” How is that members of Congress become immensely wealthy to the tune of tens of millions of dollars on a salary of less than $200,000?… Give the massive corruption and scandal involved in the billions of dollars given to NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration, what are the instruments by which we are funding NGOs? Do members of Congress involved in this money funneling? What else are taxpayers funding under the guise of “humanitarian aid?”… Enter the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID.

The Story Behind the Pro-Life Pardons, by Monica Miller

By Monica Miller, Crisis Magazine – The twenty-three pardoned pro-lifers have now all returned to their family and friends filled with joy, gratitude; confident that at least while Trump is in office, pro-lifers who defend the unborn will not be hauled off to federal prison. But they all feel the injustice of abortion very keenly, oddly, perhaps now even more so. As they are all free, they know that the unborn, as a victim class, are not.  Will Goodman, after being imprisoned for five-hundred days, stated, … It is a travesty that our pre-born sisters and brothers continue to face the death penalty every day. …

Conservative Women’s Groups Urge Senate to Act as Trump Signs Order Protecting Women’s Sports, by Moira Gleason

By Moira Gleason, Daily Signal – Two conservative women’s groups urged the Senate to enact into law protections for women’s sports as President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring men from women’s sports Wednesday… “The war on women’s sports is over. Should have been done long ago,” Trump told a room packed with female athletes, government officials, and supporters… The order, titled “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports,” directs federal agencies to ensure entities that receive federal funding interpret federal Title IX law according to biological sex, not the sex someone chooses to “identify” as.

Eight USAID Grants Spent More Than a Half-Billion Taxpayer Dollars on ESG/DEI, by Craig Bannister 

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – A growing number of examples are surfacing of how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), well out of the scope of its purpose, has been spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to advance ESG/DEI ideology… The examples are being brought to light as Democrats are fiercely fighting to protect USAID from the Trump Administration’s efforts to stop the federal government enormous waste of taxpayers’ money.

Fr. James Martin and the Tired Leftism of the Jesuits, by Mark Judge

By Mark Judge, Chronicles – Fr. James Martin, the Jesuit priest who has spent his entire life advocating for left-wing causes, is all over social media preaching that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were refugees and therefore, good Christians should oppose President Trump’s efforts to stop illegal immigration into the United States… What Fr. Martin does not wrestle with is the concept of evil. Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela, murdered a young woman named Laken Riley during a 20-minute struggle… I don’t expect Fr. Martin ever to acknowledge that Ibarra is evil, not to mention the drug dealers and girl traffickers who poured over our border in the Biden years, because Fr. Martin can’t even acknowledge that pedophilia is evil.

Trump Eyes Shuttering Education Department, by Thomas Gallatin

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – He plans to act via executive orders and pressure Congress to eliminate the needless department… The Department of Education never should have been created in the first place. The main reason it exists is because Jimmy Carter and the Democrats running Congress wanted to placate the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, by creating the department back in 1979. ….

Trump’s Freeze of USAID Is a Blow to Global Leftist Empire, by Jarrett Stepman

By Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal – The Trump administration is putting a stick of dynamite under the deep state, and Democrats are apoplectic… On Tuesday, President Donald Trump put nearly all District of Columbia-based employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave. According to Politico, this amounts to about 1,400 people in addition to 600 employees who were put on leave starting Sunday.

WATCH! The Stream: Catholic Cartel: How Our Bishops are Making Millions Trafficking in Human Misery

By The Stream – J.D. Vance outraged the insider networks of the D.C. Catholic subculture and got attacked by multiple bishops when he called out the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for profiting massively from federal contracts via non-profits like Catholic Charities in the name of resettling immigrants. More than 200,000 immigrant children went missing in 2024, a scandal about which the bishops are silent. As The Stream has documented, the U.S. bishops collected some $3 billion from U.S. taxpayers for immigration programs in just 15 years.

Pro-Lifers and the Trump Administration: Wins, Concerns, and the MAHA Opportunity, by Charles C. Camosy

By Charles C. Camosy, First Things – Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knows that the pro-life movements have received some very important victories courtesy of the Trump administration. The horror show that was “reproductiverights.gov” is no more. The Mexico City policy was reenacted, meaning U.S. tax dollars may not be legally used to support the violence of abortion in other countries. Trump also signed an executive order that supports the Hyde Amendment’s ban on federal funding of abortion in the U.S. He pardoned pro-life activists who were unjustly jailed for peacefully protesting abortion in various contexts. The thrust of the born-alive protections for babies who survive abortions were made official administrative policy.

Liberals, Globalists Flip Out After Trump Orders USAID Freeze, by Stephen Kokx

By Stephen Kokx, LifeSiteNews – The foreign aid agency USAID has morphed into a slush fund for the Deep State to spread wokeism and to spark revolutions in countries that resist its tyrannical decrees. President Trump has had enough of this, and his administration is moving to dismantle the program… Under Joe Biden, USAID was run by World Economic Forum functionary Samantha Powers, who weaponized the agency to funnel boatloads of cash to Ukraine, among other futile projects.

The ‘Ordo Amoris’ and Half-Truths, by Daniel B. Gallagher

By Daniel B. Gallagher, The Catholic Thing – Only against the background of this ordering of love can we understand what J.D. Vance meant in a recent interview when he invoked the ordo amoris: “There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world.”… If the Vice President had meant this to be a list of unrelated spheres of concern, he would be clearly wrong. But it’s clear he did not mean this.

A Plea to Good Bishops, by Anthony Esolen

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine – It is not my place to instruct any bishop about the religious life. But I can recommend things nearby. Get to know the faithful outside of both the chancery and various parish committees. Especially get to know the men, an untapped source of dynamism and of opinions based in practical experience; they have been too long neglected. Visit the schools. Forge bonds with homeschooling families. Go to churches in danger of closing, and bring no officials with you. Attend the Latin Mass. That should go without saying.

Trump’s Early Decisions Expose Damage Caused by Vatican Complicity With Democrat-Run Globalism, Says Italian Scholar, by Edward Pentin 

By Edward Pentin – Just a fortnight into the Trump presidency and the damage wrought by the Pope and the Vatican allying too closely with Democrat-run globalism on a variety of moral issues is becoming clear, the head of an Italian Church think tank has said… In a Jan. 29 commentary entitled “Trump and the Vatican: War in Progress,” Professor Stefano Fontana wrote that early policy decisions of the Trump administration have exposed the extent to which the Vatican’s close alignment with a progressive globalist agenda has caused “great damage” by weakening her voice on a number of serious moral issues.

Billions in Blood Money, by John Cassara

By John Cassara, Crisis Magazine – The USCCB’s and the charities and organizations it supports promote facilitating illegal immigration as “acts of mercy.”… It is well-documented that illegal immigration is responsible for various forms of human suffering and degradation. Murder, gang violence, human trafficking, sex trafficking, narcotics trafficking, theft, terrorism, organized crime, torture, rape, assault, kidnapping, corruption, money laundering, various forms of fraud, and environmental crime all result from illegal immigration.

Catechist-in-Chief? Vance Introduces Lesser-Known Catholic Moral Principle Into National Discourse, by Jonathan Liedl

By Jonathan Liedl, National Catholic Register – The vice president’s appeal to the ‘ordo amoris,’ a theological principle developed by Augustine and Aquinas, has sparked a theological debate — and suggested that Catholic principles are about to play an unprecedented role in policy disputes… Is JD Vance adding Catechism-in-Chief to his myriad of other official duties? Lately, he’s been giving the new administration a “Theology on Tap” vibe, even if not everyone is drinking it up…

America’s 21st-Century Sputnik Moment Has Arrived, by Stephen Moore

By Stephen Moore, Patriot Post – President Donald Trump should call for a national education emergency… Just how much longer will American parents, their kids, business leaders and the political class tolerate the dreadful performance of our public schools? It’s arguably the greatest threat to our nation’s economic health and our national security… The latest Nation’s Report Card test scores are dismal and heartbreaking. The crash that started with inexcusable COVID-19-era school closures has continued over a cliff in almost every state.

German Catholic Church in Turmoil Over Migration Row, by Rob Hyde

By Rob Hyde, The Catholic Herald – The Catholic Church in Germany is at a crossroads when it comes to migration… For years, it has rightly championed the dignity of migrants and refugees, calling for compassion and solidarity. But as Germany faces an escalating migration crisis, it risks losing credibility due to a recent spat over a hardline migration bill… “Many cities and communities can no longer adequately accommodate and care for these people. Successful integration is very difficult, sometimes hardly possible. The situation is tense and very difficult. Acceptance of the admission of further refugees is falling drastically. We have to significantly reduce the number of refugees.” (said Friedrich Merz, leader of the CDU)

The Slow Death of ESG and DEI, by John Norberg

By John Norberg, First Things – Americans have woken up to the fact that they are being told to act, think, and invest in a certain way. The undercurrent of American rebellion and independence just won’t stomach that, even less so now that the status quo has changed. Not to mention, ESG investing was a terrible idea to begin with. If you intentionally limit your options for investing based on a shaky philosophy of woke totemism, you will likely find it handcuffs you and your firm to an ever-changing chimera of values and taboos that may or may not align with financial success for your clients. It appears some of the world’s largest financial institutions found this out the hard way and decided to make a hasty exit—after all, one cannot deny the age-old truth that money talks.

Elon Musk Confirms Trump Admin Shutting Down Pro-Abortion USAID, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Elon Musk has confirmed that the Trump administration is shutting down USAID, the international agency that provides financial aid for nations worldwide. It has come under criticism over the years for promoting abortion in other countries… Musk, leading the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, announced plans to shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In an audio conversation on X Spaces, Musk stated, “We’re shutting it down. With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with [the president] in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down.”

Prayer From Fr. Chad Ripperger for Our Nation: The Time is Now to Unite in Prayer!

By Fr Richard Heilman, US Grace Force – The Time is Now to Unite in Prayer! We MUST NOT relax our prayer efforts! Exorcist Fr Chad Ripperger is reminding and asking all of us to step up our prayer, adoration, and more for the protection and guidance of President Trump and the rest of our government. Fr. Ripperger has written a specific prayer to help shield those in the government and consecrate our country to Our Lady. It is imperative that we unite in prayer and stand strong!

WATCH: Archbishop Viganò Drops a Bomb (5:30 minutes)

By Steve Bannon, Warroom, (Complicit Clergy) – Liz Yore was interviewed this morning by Steve Bannon regarding a new letter from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to American Catholics.

JD Vance Knows That Catholic Charities Has Lost Its Soul, by Anne Hendershott

By Anne Hendershott, American Spectator – The truth is that the border crisis itself has threatened the very fabric of our society. The Catholic Charities and US Bishops should acknowledge this… And although we are called as Catholics to “welcome the stranger,” our resources have become overwhelmed, and our cities can no longer provide the necessary shelter and assistance that these immigrants need.  It is time for a new solution and most people understand that. It is time that the bishops of the Catholic Church acknowledged this also.

Vatican Cracks Down On Illegal Entry Into Its Territory, by lmudena Martínez-Bordiú

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú, ACI Prensa and EWTN – The Vatican City State has toughened sanctions for those who try to illegally enter its territory in areas where free access is not allowed… In a decree issued last month by the Holy See, the monetary sanctions and prison sentences for those who violate the strict security regulations of Vatican City have been considerably increased… The document… provides for monetary fines ranging from 10,000 to 25,000 euros (about $10,200 to $25,700) and prison sentences ranging from one to four years. …

Complicit Clergy: The Complicity of Catholic Bishops in the Illegal Invasion of America

By Complicit Clergy by Staff – Notice Archbishop Thomas Wenski’s slight-of-hand: he claims that the millions of migrants who illegally crossed our borders were not, in fact, “illegal aliens” but, instead, were “refugees”, simply because the Biden administration handed these people a piece of paper at the border. Wenski, along with most of the U.S. bishops, were willing accomplices in this ruse because they received billions of taxpayer dollars in exchange for trafficking these illegal aliens throughout our nation.

Trump Ends Government Promotion of Gender Ideology and Child Mutilation, by Theresa Farnan, Eric Kniffin, Mary Rice Hasson

By Theresa Farnan, Eric Kniffin, Mary Rice Hasson, First Things – Trump’s ban on gender transitioning has turned the tide on an indefensible cult,” writes Telegraph columnist Suzanne Moore. “The pretense that sex can be changed is over.” In just ten days, President Trump has worked a stunning reversal of ten years of federal policy. From the Obama years to the Biden era, progressives sought to “eradicate the biological reality of sex” and replace it with “an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity.” They largely succeeded.

Analysis: What Trump’s Approval Rating Says About Voters, by Anthony Iafrate

By Anthony Iafrate, CatholicVote – Two weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump’s newfound popularity has stunned many observers in the media… “This is a very different Donald Trump. He’s leading a very different administration,” CNN Senior Writer and Political Analyst Harry Enten said during a Jan. 26th broadcast. “And the American public is very much more in line with him than they were at any point during his entire first term.”

Planned Parenthood Opens Its Largest Abortion Facility Ever to Kill Even More Babies, by Steven Ertelt 

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – The Planned Parenthood abortion business is opening its largest abortion business ever. The massive facility will be located in Oakland, California and could kill babies in abortions up to birth… Planned Parenthood officials expect it will be able to kill thousands of babies. The opening of the Oakland center is seen as a strategic move to attract more abortion customers coming to the Bay Area on flights from pro-life states for abortions.

Putting the Stargate AI Hype into Perspective, by William M Briggs

By William M Briggs, The Stream – You’ll do yourself and the world a tremendous service if every time you see or hear the term “AI” you substitute the phrase “computer model.”… This is because so-called artificial intelligence (AI) is a computer model — or more specifically, a collection of many such models. When you hear “computer model” instead of “AI,” you’re much less apt to become excited or nervous, and when you speak the substitution it becomes much less easy to boast or to have the boast taken overly seriously… With that in mind, let’s look at the buzz around the government’s new Stargate Project.

Archbishop Viganò: Trump’s Victory Marks Beginning of Counter-Revolution Against Deep State, Deep Church

By Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, LifeSiteNews – Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò has written a stunning letter celebrating the re-election of Donald J. Trump as the President of the United States, seeing it as a triumph against the globalist agenda… In this letter, released on Sunday, February 2, 2025, Abp. Viganò warns of the Deep State and Deep Church, which he believes collude to undermine sovereignty and Catholic teachings through woke ideology, mass immigration, and engineered crises. He condemns the UN, WHO, and WEF for promoting population control and accuses Catholic bishops of financial and moral corruption. He urges Catholics to reject false obedience, defend truth, and resist evil forces aiming to dismantle natural and divine law.

Trump Pulls the Rip Cords on the Administrative State, by Thaddeus G. McCotter

By Thaddeus G. McCotter, Chronicles Magazine – Consider the president’s recent executive order offering 2 million federal employees buyouts covering approximately eight months of salary and benefits. Per the New York Post: The ‘golden age’ of America now comes with a golden parachute… White House aides expect between 5% and 10% of federal workers to take the deal—which is projected to save taxpayers $100 billion a year, according to Axios, which first reported on the plan. …

De-Wokeifying Government Is Easier Said Than Done, by Matthew Continetti

By Matthew Continetti, Patriot Post – I haven’t seen Chuck Schumer so happy in months. There he was Wednesday, practically ready to burst into song while celebrating the Trump administration’s withdrawal of a memo ordering a federal spending freeze… “Americans made their voices heard,” Schumer crowed. “Donald Trump rescinded the OMB order.”… The snafu over the OMB memo was a reminder that de-wokeifying the government isn’t a matter of snapping one’s fingers. The federal workforce backs Democrats both politically and financially. …

The Violent Dems Turning Up The Heat In Escalating War On Trump, by M.D. Kittle

By M.D. Kittle, The Federalist – House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries on resistance movement against MAGA: ‘We’re going to fight it in the streets.’ We’ve seen this movie… At a Brooklyn press conference Friday morning, House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries was back to inciting his followers to “fight” President Donald Trump and the MAGA “agenda” in “the streets.”… “We are going to fight it legislatively, we are going to fight it in the courts, and we’re going to fight it in the streets,” the New York Democrat said. ….

Gov. Youngkin and Grassroots Score Massive Victory for Homeschooling, by Moira Gleason 

By Moira Gleason, Daily Signal – Homeschool families in Virginia celebrated a victory Thursday after the Virginia state Senate backed away from a bill that threatened religious exemptions for homeschoolers… SB 1031 sought to get rid of an exemption that permits families in the state to homeschool their children because of their religious convictions. After initially voting to pass the bill, the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee acted on a motion to reconsider and voted 13-2 to pass by indefinitely on the bill, meaning the bill will not go to the Senate floor unless the committee takes the bill up again.

BRAVO! Bishop Burbidge Says Catholic Teaching Does Not Support ‘Open Border Policy’

By Jaryn Crouson, Daily Caller, (Complicit Clergy) – Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington signaled Friday that Catholic teachings support President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement… Pope Francis and several bishops have previously taken stances against the president, calling Trump’s mass deportation plans a “disgrace” and stating that Catholic teaching requires countries to be open to migrants. Burbidge stated that although Catholics should affirm the dignity of migrants, nations also have a duty to uphold the rule of law and common good for its citizens.

WATCH: $orry $ister, But People Are No Longer Listening, by Jorge Vela

By Jorge Vela, NBC News, (Complicit Clergy) – Others, like McAllen Resident Timothy Wilkins, feel a freeze in federal funding is necessary… “I think Catholic Charities had a noble purpose on its inception, but again, you know, they, they streamlined the illegal immigration process and incentivized it to the degree we had millions of people stream across our borders,” Wilkins said.

“It’s Beyond Outrageous,” Fort Worth Catholic Organization Accused of Funneling Hundreds of Millions of Tax Dollars to Incentivize Illegal Immigration, by Katy Christian Magazine 

By Katy Christian Magazine, by Staff – “We all suspected that the Biden-Harris administration was allowing this invasion on purpose,” French said. “But now we know they are doing much more to enable illegals to get on the taxpayer-funded cash train. It’s beyond outrageous.”… Catholic Charities of Fort Worth (CCFW), a local chapter affiliated with the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, is facing allegations of facilitating illegal immigration by partnering with Fort Worth Independent School District (FWISD) and distributing federal funds to assist illegal immigrants… CCFW has reportedly received nearly $1 billion in federal funding from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) since 2022.

Five Quick Things: Scenes From A Commonsense Revolution, by Scott McKay

By Scott McKay, American Spectator – Donald Trump and his team are overwhelming (Jamie Raskin, Democrat congressman from Maryland) and the rest of the discredited Democrat political class with what Trump called a revolution of common sense… Those executive orders and directives are the meat of it, of course, but it’s more than that. The entire culture of the American government is being ripped out at the root and rebooted, and it’s so fresh and overdue that it’s even having an effect on the culture at large… I could give you a million examples, but unlike in Raskin’s case, I’d rather not drop some overwhelming sensory overload on our readers. So, as is customary for these entries, I’ll just limit these examples to five.

FBI Director Nominee Kash Patel Will End All Targeting of Pro-Life Americans, by Steven Ertelt 

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – During a Senate hearing today, FBI Director nominee Kash Patel has confirmed that he will put an end to all targeting of pro-life Americans, marking a significant shift in federal law enforcement priorities… Under the Biden regime, pro-life activists and organizations have faced increased scrutiny, with some rightly alleging that the FBI unfairly targeted them for their beliefs. Patel’s commitment to ending such practices signals a move toward ensuring that law enforcement remains neutral and does not discriminate based on political or ideological perspectives.

Father Who Lost Custody of Child Over Gender Castration Says Trump Order ‘Saved’ His Son, by Justine Brooke Murray 

By Justine Brooke Murray, MRC TV – How scary to think that up until now, civilized society allowed pseudo-doctors to chemically castrate and sexually mutilate children in the name of a cult-like ideology… It’s a barbaric practice widely condemned by the West when it’s carried out by the backward societies of the Middle East that remain stuck in the 7th century. But when our own children become the victims of that same barbarism, our virtue-signaling pop culture has not only normalized but encouraged the act in the name of “gender affirming care.”

Trump Sets Saturday Deadline for 25% Tariffs on Mexico and Canada to Force Action on Illegal Migration and Fentanyl Crisis

By Jim Hᴏft, Gateway Pundit – President Donald Trump has set a Saturday deadline to impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico and Canada… The administration asserts that these tariffs will remain until both neighboring countries take substantial measures to curb the flow of unauthorized migrants and illicit drugs into the United States… This announcement follows a recent agreement with Colombia, where the threat of similar tariffs led the Marxist president to fold like a cheap suit and begin accepting deported migrants…

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: 5 Possible Ways the Pro-Life Agenda Might Take Shape in Trump’s Second Term

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Catholic Register – ice President Vance’s speech at the March for Life was noteworthy for indicating a shift from the legal front toward a cultural and economic pro-life agenda… Pro-life Americans welcomed some early initiatives from the new Trump administration, including a restoration of the Mexico City Policy prohibiting American funding of abortion overseas, the granting of pardons to pro-life protestors convicted under the FACE Act, and canceling a Biden-Harris administration policy of considering abortion as “health care,” which permitted taxpayer funding of abortion.

‘Latin American Trump’ Rips Woke Davos Elites for LGBT, Abortion, Gender Ideology, by Jules Gomes

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – Javier Milei challenges the WEF to take a “mea culpa” for its misdeeds and “make the West great again”… Argentinian President Javier Milei has sparked protests from LGBTQ+ activists after a fierce attack on the “wokeness” of the World Economic Forum, in which he condemned gender ideology as child abuse and its promoters as pedophiles… Milei’s invective last Thursday unequivocally demanding the “defense of life, liberty, and private property”…

Dems Worry Kash Patel Could Weaponize FBI Against Political Enemies Like They Did, by Beth Brelje

By Beth Brelje, The Federalist – In a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, feckless Democrat senators grilled Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, trying to paint him as a Trump henchman hellbent on seeking revenge for all the crap the FBI put Trump and American citizens through… It’s no wonder they are worried; the nation has seen how the FBI has been turned into a political weapon, and Democrats don’t want it pointed at them.

RFK Jr. Vows to Reinstate Trump’s Ban On Research With Babies Killed in Elective Abortion, by Emily Mangiaracina

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews – Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, pledged to reinstate the first Trump administration’s ban on federal research with tissue from babies killed in elective abortions… Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri asked Kennedy during his Senate confirmation hearing, “Will you reinstate President Trump’s policy that ensures that no federal research and no federal tax dollars is conducted on fetal tissue taken from elective abortions?”… “Yes,” he responded. 

Cardinal McElroy and Immigration, by James Hankins

By James Hankins, First Things – Cardinal McElroy is hailed in the New York Times as a Good Catholic because he has been known to speak out “on the inclusion of migrants, women and L.G.B.T.Q. people in the Catholic church.” The Bad Catholics include JD Vance, who has “advanced a hard-line anti-immigrant agenda,” and Brian Burch, whom President Trump nominated as ambassador to the Holy See, rewarding him for his help in harvesting the conservative Catholic vote.

LISTEN: Dolan Too Tone Deaf To Realize His Reproof of J.D. Vance Would Backfire, by Sandy Fitzgerald

By Sandy Fitzgerald, Newsmax – Vice President J.D. Vance’s accusations that Catholic bishops have criticized President Donald Trump’s stance on immigration because they’re concerned about losing money were disappointing and harmful, according to Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York… “I was really disappointed with what he said on ‘Face the Nation’ the other day, and I don’t mind telling you, somewhat hurt,” Dolan said on his SiriusXM program, “Conversation with Cardinal Dolan,” on Tuesday. “This was not only harmful, this was inaccurate.”

Laken Riley’s Mother After Trump Signs Act into Law: ‘He is a Man of His Word’, by Nick Kangadis

By Nick Kangadis, MRC TV – Talk about a heartbreaking and heartwarming moment all rolled into one… On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law in front of Republican politicians that championed the bill and in front of Laken Riley’s family… In a press conference where Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillips, made remarks, she thanked multiple senators, as well as Trump. Phillips even went so far as to praise the president for quickly fulfilling the promises he made to them.

It’s Time To Start Treating Mexico Like A Hostile Foreign Power, by John Daniel Davidson

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – We’re never going to have peace and security on our southern border until we deal with the corrupt and criminal elements that run Mexico… Earlier this week, suspected Mexican drug cartel gunmen fired on U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas, who fired back. This took place on a strip of land in the middle of the Rio Grande called Fronton Island, also known as “Cartel Island” because it was previously used as a staging area for cartel smuggling operations. Texas authorities took over the island as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star and declared it Texas territory in November 2023.

WATCH: Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa Helping Illegal Aliens Avoid Deportation

By Catholic Charities by Staff – Outraged erupted earlier this week when an internet video from a Catholic Charities immigration attorney from the diocese of Milwaukee went viral, exposing how Catholic Charities is trying to obstruct President Trump’s deportation of illegal aliens… Catholic Charities of Milwaukee is not the only office providing this type of advice to illegal aliens. Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa has begun issuing “Red Cards” to illegal aliens to help them know “their rights” under the U.S. Constitution. We did not realize that illegal aliens have U.S. Constitutional rights!

Trump’s J6 Pardons Signal The End Of The War On Wrongthink, by Ben Weingarten

By: Ben Weingarten, The Federalist – The Capitol riot fueled the war on wrongthink. Clemency for Capitol rioters should represent the start of the end of that war… In the four years since the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, Democrats have crushed and disenfranchised their political opponents in a bid to achieve total power by waging a whole-of-society war on wrongthink. This war encompassed, among other elements, the lawfare apparatus, the broader weaponized administrative state, and the Censorship-Industrial Complex.

Faithful (Anglican) Bishop Censures Woke Bishopess Who Abused Pulpit to Attack Trump, by Jules Gomes

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – Jules Gomes: The cardinal rule of preaching is to revere the pulpit and never to use it for a political agenda — or even worse, use it to attack a member of the congregation. The Reverend Lorenzo Sewell, who prayed at President Trump’s inauguration, called it “theological malpractice.” As a bishop who oversees preachers, do you think Bishop Budde violated this rule? …. Bishop Orji: Yes, Bishop Budde misused the pulpit for her personal and social justice agenda rather than using it for preaching the Gospel and teaching the Word of God. The Church is the pillar of Truth in the sense that we are called to live and proclaim Christ and His Truth to the world. ….

Fr. Kevin Drew: Animal Worship and Human Sacrifice

By Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchange – “Pregnant Cow That Broke Free on New Jersey Highway Inspires New Legislation.”… was the headline on January 22, 2019, from a CBS news affiliate in New Jersey. A cow had jumped off a truck which was ten minutes from the slaughter house… this “daring escape” by the cow inspired a new bill that would make transporting pregnant livestock for killing a crime under New Jersey’s animal cruelty laws… The giant abortion company Planned Parenthood, which received $700 million of our tax dollars last year and has made billions since the Supreme Court greenlighted abortion in 1973, was caught selling baby parts in 2015. …

The Pro-Life Federalism of Trump and Vance, by Daniel McCarthy

By Daniel McCarthy, Patriot Post – The Trump-Vance approach has given pro-lifers victories that would have been impossible if abortion had remained a national issue… Nebraska wouldn’t have been able to pass an amendment to the state constitution prohibiting abortion after the first trimester, and Florida voters wouldn’t have been able to uphold their state’s ban on the procedure after six weeks — to name just two recent successes… The most hardline supporters of abortion, meanwhile, have been thwarted: Not only did they lose the showdown over Roe, they risk losing all their political momentum as Americans become more used to settling this most contentious of issues at the state level.

Top Takeaways From the Trump White House’s First Official Press Conference

CatholicVote – “President Trump is back and the golden age of America has most definitely begun,” Leavitt declared at the opening of the press conference, echoing a remark Trump made in his inauguration speech last week… “Since taking the oath of office, President Trump has taken more than 300 executive actions,” Leavitt said, “secured nearly one trillion dollars in U.S. investments, deported illegal alien rapists, gang members, and suspected terrorists from our homeland, and restored common sense to the federal government.” ….

WATCH! President Trump Has Reportedly Cut-Off Federal Funding to Catholic Charities, by Karoline Leavitt

By Karoline Leavitt, via Complicit Clergy – WATCH: Karoline Leavitt holds her very first White House press briefing, answering a question about Catholic Charities and their aid to immigration.

US Bishops Are Lying When They Claim Abortion Is Their ‘Preeminent Priority’,  by Michael Hichborn

By Michael Hichborn,  LifeSite News, (Complicit Clergy) – The average budget for the US bishops’ pro-life office is just around $2 million, compared to $134 million in 2023 for ‘migration and refugee services.’ Even worse, the USCCB is giving parishioners’ money to pro-abortion groups through its Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Catholic Relief Services… 63 million. It’s a number so large the human mind can scarcely comprehend what it means.

Commentary: Heritage President: 12,000 More ICE Agents Needed to Deport 20 Million Illegal Aliens, by Tom Gantert

By Tom Gantert, Daily Signal – Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America, said it will require 12,000 more agents, 4,000 more attorneys, 1,000 more judges, and 1,000 more support staff to deport the 20 million illegal aliens that voters elected President Donald Trump to evict… Roberts wrote in a Monday op-ed published in Fox News that Trump’s immigration agenda will require funding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on a “historic scale” and require at least 100,000 detention beds.

Trump Lights Up the World, by Sheryl Collmer

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine – This world is not the same as it was two weeks ago. Technicolor has arrived in Oz. The sense of dread I’ve had for several years now is slowly receding. I can hardly wait to get out of bed in the morning (metaphorically, anyway)… Accustomed as we are to the glacial pace of anything institutional, we’re panting to keep up with Trump’s actions over the past week. I’m chronicling all these accomplishments, but I can’t keep up. I go to bed thinking the day is over and wake up to ten new things. Big things.

The Brew: Remembering the Liberation of Auschwitz, by Al Perrotta

By Al Perrotta, The Stream – Holocaust Remembrance Day: 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp… Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Between 1940 and 1945, an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered there — predominantly Jews, but also Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and others.

Trump Erases Biden’s Attempt To Force Unpopular Taxpayer-Funded Abortion On Americans, by Jordan Boyd

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist – Americans who overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer-funded abortions will no longer be forced to pay for overseas baby-killing after President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating prohibitions on the unpopular practice… In a January 24 memorandum, Trump ordered the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the secretary of health and human services, and the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development to immediately cease by reinstating the Mexico City policy first implemented by President Ronald Reagan.

It’s About Time DEI Died, by Thomas Gallatin 

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – A just future is a color-blind future. The evil of racism is that it pits ethnic groups against each other. A society with diverse racial groups cannot cohesively exist in unity if these ethnic differences are elevated as primary identity delimiters that are to be held above all else. A truly unified and just society would view racial differences as insignificantly as it views differences in eye color. It recognizes that people look different, but they are still people like everyone else.

80 Years After Auschwitz, Remembering The Evil Strengthens Our Resolve To Be Good, by Tim Goeglein

By Tim Goeglein, The Federalist – In his classic The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote: The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains … an unuprooted small corner of evil.

FULFILLING REAGAN’S VISION: Trump’s New US ‘Iron Dome’ Project Will ‘Prevent Deaths Rather Than Avenge Them,’ Expert Says, by Tyler O’Neil

By Tyler O’Neil, Daily Signal – President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Monday to build an American version of the Israeli “Iron Dome” missile defense system. An expert in national security—and in the Iron Dome, in particular—praised Trump’s action as the fulfillment of President Ronald Reagan’s strategic defense plan… According to a news release provided early to The Daily Signal, Trump’s executive order “directs the implementation of a next generation missile defense shield for the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles, and other next generation aerial attacks.” …

Beware of the Deepfake Magisterium, by M. V. Dougherty

By M. V. Dougherty, Catholic World Report – Prelates of the Roman Catholic Church have not been silent on the general dangers posed by the misuse of AI. On several occasions last year, Pope Francis offered remarks about the potential misapplication of various AI technologies. More recently, the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, revealed that his department of the Roman Curia is working with the Dicastery for Education and Culture to produce a document on the ethical use of AI.

Vance: Catholic Bishops Have ‘Not Been a Good Partner’ in Immigration Enforcement, by Pam Key

By Pam Key, Breitbart – Vice President JD Vance said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has “not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement.”… the US Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line? We’re going to enforce immigration law. We’re going to protect the American people.

Full Speech: Catholic Vice President JD Vance Speaks at the March for Life 2025

By National Catholic Register Staff – Now the task of our movement is to protect innocent life. It’s to defend the unborn and it’s also to be pro-family and pro-life in the fullest sense of that word possible. Now, across my own lifetime, I can’t tell you the number of friends and other acquaintances I’ve had who, facing a pregnancy or the prospect of one, react not with joy but with concern. They wonder how can they afford it; what will it mean for their education, their career, their relationship or their family? …

WATCH! The Left’s Sin Is of Omission and Lost Opportunity, by Victor Davis Hanson (6 minutes)

By Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Signal – And so there was a sin of omission: what we didn’t do because we were spending on DEI and commission. We were discriminating against people and robbing ourselves of talent. Bottom line is the corrective… The remedy for this malady is going to be expensive, and that’s what the Left is glomming onto, but they’re forgetting that the malady itself that they cause was far more expensive than the cure.

The Erosion of Birth, John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 

By  John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Catholic World Report – At one time, “birth” was supposedly a bright line that separated and differentiated a “clump of tissue” from a “person.” But that line has been eroding, as evidenced by the failure of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors’ Protection Act to pass this last week… On January 22nd, the United States Senate could not find 60 senators to vote to overcome a filibuster and pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors’ Protection Act. Although S.6 garnered a majority–52-47–it needed 60 votes to pass. Every Republican voted for it (except Tennessee Sen. Bill Haggerty, who was absent); every Democrat voted against it.

Trump Inauguration and March for Life, by Peter Wolfgang

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture – Trump was reelected to stand up to the establishment folks sitting right there during his inauguration and I was glad that he called them out to their faces, even more than last time. My impression is that Trump is very ticked off. He didn’t shy from references to what was done to him, including the bullet to the head. I initially did not understand why the Left went the “fear and trembling” route in response to Trump’s 2024 victory instead of the “rage and resistance” route they chose in 2016. I understand it now. They are right to be afraid. The whole “drain the swamp” thing is real this time in a way that it was not last time.

Complicit Clergy: There Are 2.9 Billion ($$) Reasons Why the US Bishops Loved Biden But Hate Trump

By Complicit Clergy, (LifeSiteNews) – An analysis of government spending found the Biden administration granted Catholic NGOs nearly $2.9 billion in immigration-related funding over the past four years, more than triple the level of funding under Trump’s first administration… For the past four years, many Catholics have been perplexed as to why most Catholic bishops have refused to condemn Joe Biden’s heinous anti-Catholic policies. … For those who continue to be astonished by our shepherds’ silence, we may have discovered the answer. Complicit Clergy just completed updating its previous analysis on migration-related federal funding awarded to Catholic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to include all four years of the Biden administration.

Here’s 9 Pro-Life Actions President Trump Took During His First Week, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – In his first week of the new term, President Donald Trump took several significant actions to advance pro-life policies… Trump started his incredible pro-life week with removing Joe Biden’s web site that promoted abortion. He followed that up with an executive order that confirmed human beings begin their lives at conception. …

Psychologists Counsel House Democrats on How to Cope with Trump, by Craig Bannister 

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – Democrats attended a retreat last week where psychologists counseled them on how to cope with the new administration of Donald Trump… House Judiciary ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) brought in what he called “social psychologists” to advise the Democrats about how to deal with “authoritarian styles of speech during the Trump era,” Punchbowl News reports… The psychologists reportedly specialize in issues like “emotion regulation” …

Colorado’s Bishops on Immigration: ‘An Open Border is Not a Just System’, by Kate Quiñones

By Kate Quiñones, CNA, (Catholic World Report) – Following President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration, Colorado’s Catholic bishops on Friday encouraged the U.S. to balance justice and mercy in its regulation of immigration to the country… The bishops noted that the country’s immigration system has “grown more unlawful” since 2020… “The Catholic Church teaches that while individuals and their families have the right to migrate, no country has the duty to receive so many immigrants that its social and economic life is jeopardized,” the bishops indicated.

Birthright Citizenship Is A Pernicious Lie That’s Destroying America, by John Daniel Davidson

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – On his first day in office, President Trump did the country a great service by issuing an executive order rejecting birthright citizenship as a requirement of the 14th Amendment… Whether Trump’s order will withstand the legal challenges remains to be seen (a federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the order on Thursday). But the challenges themselves will force a reckoning on this issue, perhaps even at the Supreme Court… Such a reckoning is overdue. For far too long we have accepted without question the outlandish idea that every single person born on U.S. soil automatically becomes an American citizen, and that the 14th Amendment somehow mandates this suicidal policy.

Register Staff: Full Text: President Trump Addresses the March for Life 2025

By National Catholic Register Staff – As you know, this annual march started 52 years ago, on the first anniversary of the disastrous ruling known as Roe v. Wade. That unconstitutional decision took power away from the states and the voters, kicking off 50 years of division and anger. But thanks to your tireless work and devotion across five decades, that historic wrong was set right three years ago. I was so proud to be a participant. Six courageous justices of the Supreme Court of the United States returned the issue to the state legislatures and to the people, where it belongs. It became a vote of the people.

Trump Defunds International Planned Parenthood, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Today, Trump revoked Biden’s executive order canceling the Mexico City Policy: I hereby revoke the Presidential Memorandum of January 28, 2021, for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Protecting Women’s Health at Home and Abroad), and reinstate the Presidential Memorandum of January 23, 2017, for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (The Mexico City Policy).

President Donald Trump Signs Pardons for 23 Pro-Life Americans, by Steven Ertelt 

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pardoning the 23 pro-life Americans Joe Biden imprisoned for protesting abortion… “This is a great honor to sign this,” Trump said, condemning Biden’s lawfare, especially targeted at “elderly people.”… Trump granted pardons for 23 pro-life advocates who faced weaponized prosecutions brought against them by the Biden Department of Justice under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Davos: DJT Tells It Like It Is, by Douglas Andrews

By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post – After what had undoubtedly been the busiest and most earth-shaking first few days in American presidential history, Donald Trump wisely phoned it in at the World Economic Forum… In a 45-minute Trumpian address followed by a wide-ranging Q-and-A, the American president made clear to Klaus Schwab and his fellow Great Resetters what they already knew: There’s a new sheriff in town… Trump began his remarks as only Trump can: by noting that it’s been “a truly historic week in the United States” and that we’ve begun “the Golden Age of America.” Oh, and by reminding those in attendance that he won all seven swing states.

Arkansas Gov. Sanders Lowers State Flags on Roe v. Wade Anniversary to Mourn Babies Killed in Abortion

By Clare Marie Merkowsky, LifeSiteNews – Arkansas has lowered its state flags to mourn the 65 million babies killed in abortion before the overturning of Roe v. Wade… On January 13, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders announced that the state would officially recognize January 22 as the “Day of Tears” to remember the tens of thousands of babies killed in Arkansas under Roe v. Wade… “Arkansas and its government acknowledge that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

Why Trump Threatens Davos! Elite Europeans Losing Influence Resent Trump, by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal – So, the people at Davos know that their socialist, globalist model doesn’t work. And they know that people don’t want to listen to them anymore because when people adopt these views, their economy slows, they get poorer, their borders are overrun. Illegal immigrants come and cannot be assimilated or integrated. And the people feel they have less security, prosperity, and freedom… Rather than addressing those concerns—and so having at Davos—why is Donald Trump being elected? Why was [Argentine President Javier] Milei? Maybe we can learn from these people because they represent elections and freedom.

4 Things to Know About JD Vance’s Pro-Life Journey, by Matthew McDonald

By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register – Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to address the March for Life rally in Washington D.C. on Friday… Vance identifies as pro-life, though some pro-lifers have expressed disappointment by his compromises on the issue after President Donald Trump identified him as a potential running mate last year… But Vance maintains he is pro-life, and he has repeatedly suggested that pro-lifers need to become more politically savvy if they are to save the lives of unborn babies, given that most voters in the country support allowing abortion in the majority of cases.

The Other Birthright Citizenship Problem, by John M. Grondelski

By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing – As the Pro-Life March takes place in Washington D.C. today, it’s good to remember that January 22, 2025 was the 52ndanniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision imposing abortion-on-demand through birth on all the states.  Roe was the 20th century’s equivalent of the Dred Scott decision.  In 1857, the Supreme Court said Dred Scott – a black man taken by his owner to Illinois – could not be free because he was not a “person” and was thus subject to whatever choice his master made.  In 1973, the Supreme Court said unborn children were not “persons” and thus subject to whatever choice their mothers made.

‘Everything Will be Revealed’: Trump Signs EO Declassifying JFK, RFK & MLK Jr. Assassination Files, by Nick Kangadis

By Nick Kangadis, MRC TV – t’s finally happened. The day so many people have been waiting for. Generations of Americans have just wanted to know the truth about the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr… On Thursday, President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign promise by signing an Executive Order (EO) to declassify all remaining documents pertinent to the aforementioned assassinations. … “Lot of people waiting for this for years, for decades,” Trump said while signing the EO. “And everything will be revealed.”

Trump’s Executive Order Against Gender Ideology Recognizes Personhood at Conception, by Emily Mangiaracina

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews – President Donald Trump’s new executive order affirming the immutable biological reality of sex includes language recognizing personhood from “conception.”… “‘Female’ means person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell,” the EO “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” (emphasis added) states… Ethics and Public Theology professor Andrew T. Walker on X called the language a “brilliantly stealth” move.

Deportations: Unmasking the U.S. Bishops’ Conflict of Interest

By Vicki Yamasaki, Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace – I always ask myself, “Why is this group advocating so fervently for its cause?” One should look to see if the group would profit from the advocacy.  If there is no profit motive, then perhaps they are taking a truly altruistic position.  In this case, the USCCB and its cohorts Catholic Charities and Catholic Social Services collectively stand to lose nearly $2.4 billion over the next four years, a sum that pew collections are unlikely to replace… Ultimately, the strident U.S. bishops who criticize President Trump and his team for deportations should rethink their actions. In business, their advocacy for the migrants is known as a conflict of interest—it occurs when someone’s advocacy for a cause (in this case, continued care of migrants) is influenced by their financial gain. …

The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left, by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – After a decade of this unhinged furor, it proved worthless in winning public support—and for two simple reasons… One, after years of Russian collusion hoaxes, the laptop disinformation farce, and the warped lies about the “suckers” and “fine people on both sides”—the shrill left became predictable… So, the bored public began tuning them out, switching channels, hitting the mute button, and pulling the plug… Like the deleterious effects of inflation that eventually render a currency worthless, nonstop hectoring, hysterics, pontification, and distortion finally made all such criticisms of Trump mostly as valueless as 1930s German marks.

State Department Issues a ‘One Flag Policy,’ Banning Pride and BLM Flags, by Elise DeGeeter

By Elise DeGeeter, CatholicVote – The Trump State Department issued a “One Flag Policy” Monday, mandating that only the United States flag is authorized to be flown at all State Department buildings both at home and abroad… The new policy, implemented by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, effectively bans Pride and Black Lives Matter (BLM) flags from federal buildings… The order… states: “Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and abroad, and featured in U.S. government content.”

Not Personal, Not Political, But Social, by Jim Tonkowich

By Jim Tonkowich, The Stream – Just in time for the annual March for Life, several homes in my neighborhood have yard signs reading: “Pregnancy Is Personal, Not Political.”… That’s half right: Pregnancy is not political. Politics involves who we elect as president, governor, or mayor. It has to do with strategic energy reserves and borders, diplomacy, and national defense. Politics along with public policy and law are abstract and impersonal. Pregnancy is none of those things, and the countries that are attempting to make pregnancy a political issue are failing.

CatholicVote: Speaker Johnson: House to Probe Controversial Biden Pardons

By CatholicVote – House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, told reporters Wednesday that the Republican-controlled chamber will investigate a series of controversial pre-emptive pardons former President Joe Biden made just hours before President Donald Trump took office… “There’s a lot of attention that’s going to be paid to this and I think that is appropriate and we will be looking at it as well,” Johnson stated… He called Biden’s pardons “shocking” and “breathtaking.” He specifically singled out the former president’s decision to pardon his three siblings and two of their spouses.

Louisiana Bishops Promise to Advocate for Immigrants ‘Within the Framework of the Law’, by Hannah Hiester

By Hannah Hiester, CatholicVote – Bishops from dioceses in Louisiana stated in a pastoral letter Jan. 17 that they will advocate for immigrants’ “just treatment and dignity within the framework of the law,” and they called for Louisiana politicians to do the same… headed by Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans, added that they are motivated to advocate for immigrants and stand in solidarity with them because of the “inherent dignity” that each person possesses.

Louisiana to Defend Its Ten Commandments Law in Appeals Court, by Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer

By Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, National Catholic Register – As representatives for the Bayou State prepare for oral argument, they know the Constitution is on their side… As we enter into the first days of a new Trump administration, the founders offer good counsel for the nation and its leaders. For example, George Washington said in his Farewell Address that “Of all of the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.” Lawmakers in Louisiana agree.

Senate Democrats Block Bill to Stop Infanticide, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, Life News – The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act requires that, when a baby is born alive following an abortion, health care practitioners must exercise the same degree of professional skill and care that would be offered to any other child born alive at the same gestational age. It also requires that, following appropriate care, health care workers must transport the living child immediately to a hospital… With 47 Democrats voting against ending debate on the common senate bil, a filibuster remains and the pro-life measure can’t go forward for a final vote.

Patriot Post: Honoring the Sanctity of Life

By Patriot Post – “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” —Thomas Jefferson (1809)… January 22 marks the anniversary of the two most tragic Supreme Court decisions in American history, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. However, in light of the Supreme Court’s June 24, 2022, decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe and 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Sanctity of Life Day has a whole new and far more joyous meaning.

‘We Have Been Living Under a Lawless Regime’: Catholics Celebrate Trump Overhauls, by Ken Oliver-Méndez

By Ken Oliver-Méndez, CNA – News that the country’s new president would kick off his administration by signing a tsunami of executive orders, including one that mandates adherence to the biological reality of two sexes, was particularly welcomed by Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson… Responding to Trump’s inaugural address declaration that “as of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,’” the author of the book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment posted “Thank you @realdonaldtrump” ….

The Trump-Vance Women Are Dressed For A Resurgent ‘Golden Age,’ And The Media Hate It, by Elle Purnell

By Elle Purnell, The Federalist – Trump promised to return America to normalcy and greatness. That the women in his orbit are doing so through their clothes makes the media furious… It was just four years ago that we suffered through the sartorial weirdness of the Biden inauguration. With no inaugural balls to attend because of Covid mania, the biggest fashion statements were made by Lady Gaga, whose ensemble looked like a Hunger Games version of those beehive-shaped Barbie cakes ….

Heritage Foundation Experts Analyze Trump’s Executive Orders

By Heritage Foundation, Staff – President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders his first day in office… President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order, “Clarifying the Military’s Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States,” to ensure that the U.S. armed forces prioritize the protection of U.S. sovereignty and territorial integrity along our national borders… The president ordered the U.S. Northern Command to deliver its plan to seal the borders and maintain U.S. sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security by repelling forms of invasion and mass migration, as well as narcotics and human smuggling and trafficking.

Episcopal Bishop Chides Trump on Politics. He Pushes Back. by Jacob Adams

By Jacob Adams, Daily Signal – Mariann Edgar Budde, who holds one of the nation’s most prestigious clerical posts as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, curried controversy and drew pushback on Tuesday when she used a sermon to criticize President Donald Trump for some of his politics and policy prescriptions… The remarks came at a church service hosted by the bishop at her diocesan seat, the Washington National Cathedral. They were a stark contrast to the bipartisanship usually on display at the cathedral, where leaders from both parties are honored.

The Limits of Our Anti-Woke Allies, by Casey Chalk

By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine – British evolutionary biologist and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins has regrets about describing himself as a “cultural Christian” last year in an interview. “I imprudently said I was a ‘cultural Christian,’ and I haven’t heard the end of it,” wrote Dawkins in a recent piece for The Spectator… Though standing by his earlier comments—in which he expressed appreciation for certain cultural elements of the Christian tradition—he quickly added: “but none of that undermines my conviction that what they believe about the nature of reality is nonsense.” …

More than 70% of Americans Reject Transgender Agenda on Multiple Fronts, by Craig Bannister 

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – As President Donald Trump begins has second term in the White House, Americans are voicing their opposition to the transgender policies and initiatives advanced by the Biden Administration, results of a New York Times/Ipsos poll released over the weekend reveal… More than three-fourths (77%) of U.S. adults say that society has at least far enough to accommodate transgender people, including half (49%) who think it’s gone “too far.” Notably, even 62% of Democrat Americans believe the nation has gone either far enough (39%) or too far (23%).

Searching for Meaning in the LA Fires, by Charles A. Coulombe

By Charles A. Coulombe, OnePeterFive – In one night, Tuesday, January 7, 2025, another light transformed the mellow afterglow of Christmas to a horrible inferno which killed at least 27, and possibly 31 more. Thousands of homes were destroyed, as well as a number of irreplaceable historic buildings – and two weeks ago, as I write, none of this had happened… Almost immediately the finger-pointing began: the Mayor had been informed of the fire danger due to unprecedented weather conditions a week before, but chose to go to Ghana anyway; Democrat policies in Sacramento had hindered water storage; the Palisades reservoir was mysteriously empty; and on and on. …

With Trump, America Inaugurated a Return Not to Faith, But to Reason, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Let’s talk about what’s “good enough,” especially by the standards of what we’ve been subjected to over the last four years: the squalor, lies, perversion, and tyranny that have been forcibly injected into our every national orifice since the Democrats and the Deep State seized power in 2020 and effected the closest thing to a fascist dictatorship our country has ever seen… What’s good enough for now is the “common sense” that Trump triumphantly pointed to in his rousing inaugural address. Because that “sense” has another, more resonant name: We call it “Reason,” and know thanks to St. John the Evangelist that Jesus, the second Person of the Trinity, was the Logos by which the entire cosmos was created.

CatholicVote: Trump Calls On Woman Bishop to Apologize to Public for Far-Left Sermon at National Prayer Service

CatholicVote – The Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., delivered a stridently political sermon about “transgender children” and illegal immigrants in the presence of President Donald Trump during a traditional national prayer service held at the Washington National Cathedral Tuesday. Trump later characterized the sermon as “ungracious” and called on the bishop to apologize to the public… On the first full day of Trump’s second term, Episcopal Bishop of Washington Mariann Edgar Budde presided over the Service of Prayer for the Nation. Trump attended the service with his wife Melania, other family members, Vice President Vance, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-LA.

7 Highlights From Trump’s Inauguration Address: ‘The Golden Age Of America Begins Right Now’, by Tristan Justice

By Tristan Justice, The Federalist – “The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump said. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.”… The president vowed to transform the nation into the “envy of every nation” beginning with a series of executive orders and efforts intended to unleash the economy, dismantle the leviathan of the administrative state, restore American patriotism, and embark on a new era of exploration in space… “A tide of change is sweeping the country, sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before,” Trump said. “But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face.”

Thoughts On a Repudiation and Liberation Day: Donald Trump’s Inauguration, by Scott McKay

By Scott McKay, The American Spectator – Trump’s inaugural speech, followed by the most aggressive one-day turnaround in American policy with the signing of 200 executive orders, is emblematic of the American people’s repudiation of the elites’ machinations… During a very high-octane inaugural speech, President Donald Trump yesterday said that January 20, 2025, will forever be looked upon as Liberation Day… If you thought this was a normal transfer of power to come, and a whole lot of the elite opinionmakers did what they could to present Trump’s return to the White House as that, you were wrong.

Trump: ‘Only Two Genders’ Is Now the ‘Official Policy of the U.S. Government’, by Craig Bannister 

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – In his inaugural address on Monday, President Donald Trump announced that, under his administration, the U.S. government will abandon social engineering and recognize the existence of only two genders: those dictated by biology… After promising to put an end to the previous administration’s weaponization of government and political persecutions, the newly-inaugurated president said the federal government will now stop imposing gender ideology on Americans: “This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life.” …

Trump Vows to Stop ‘Transgender Lunacy,’ End War in Ukraine and ‘Prevent World War III’, by Matt Lamb

By Matt Lamb, LifeSiteNews – Trump reiterated successful talking points from his stump speech during his victory rally last night… He criticized “men playing in women’s sports” and “transgender for everyone.” He also promised to “get critical race theory and transgender insanity … out of our schools.”… Trump also promised to get rid of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in the government as well as “radical, Left, woke ideologies.” …

Trump’s Return To The White House Will Impact These Five Major Court Cases, by Margot Cleveland

By Margot Cleveland, The Federalist – The TikTok case is only one of several that will be impacted by the incoming Trump Administration… With all eyes on the Capitol since Friday when the various celebratory balls began, five significant court cases slipped by the public’s notice. That number excludes the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in TikTok v. Garland, which upheld The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’s mandate that China divest from the popular social media platform.

Let’s Cover the Inauguration in Prayer, by Joseph D’Hippolito

By Joseph D’Hippolito, The Stream – The House Committee on Homeland Security reported that from Fiscal Year 2021 to Fiscal Year 2024, about 10.8 million migrants entered the United States illegally, including more than 8.72 million at the Mexican border… Among them are roughly 65,000 Chinese nationals, an increase of more than 1,000% from the three previous fiscal years. Some have connections to the Chinese Communist Party or the People’s Liberation Army, the committee reported… Middle Eastern terrorists also have exploited Biden’s open-border policies. Sarah Adams, a former CIA targeting officer, described how they gain entry.

The Great Man Returns, by J.B. Shurk

By J.B. Shurk. American Thinker – Sitting next to all those failures and frauds at Carter’s funeral, President Donald J. Trump stood out.  He’s faced the fire and pushed forward.  His enemies have thrown everything at him, and still he stands.  The Deep State allowed two separate assassins to threaten his life, and the man never stopped fighting.  Impeachments, Democrat-funded civil lawsuits, criminal trials, FBI raids, attempts to remove him from state ballots — the Establishment Class has done whatever it can to keep Trump from representing the American people.  Yet he returns to office with a huge political mandate… This presidency will break the mold.  History will be made.  Buckle up.  Get ready.  This is going to be great.

A Work of Special Providence, by Robert Royal

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing – This is a red-letter day for the United States of America. We come to the end of a deeply divided, often bad-tempered – someone might even say venomous – national contest. The Constitutional order held, the vote was clear, and today there will be yet another peaceful transfer of power between two parties, despite little love for one another… “Democracy,” in short, did not die.

America’s Bishops Should Heed Church on Sovereignty, by S.A. McCarthy

By S.A. McCarthy, The American Spectator – As Trump takes office, they should recall that the Church has long supported preserving the sovereignty and culture of nations. … Pope Leo XII wrote in 1885, “Nations have their own distinct character and genius, bestowed upon them by divine Providence, and it is the duty of the state to ensure that these unique identities are respected and fostered in the development of society.”

Biden Broke Federal Law by Funding Abortions in Africa With Taxpayer Dollars, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – New reports have surfaced showing that Joe Biden broke federal law by funding abortions in Africa with taxpayer dollars.
As Congressional sources inform LifeNews.com,  the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has violated the Helms Amendment by illegally using U.S. taxpayer dollars from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to pay for abortions in Mozambique. The Helms Amendment is federal law that makes it clear non foreign aid money can be used to directly fund abortions in other nations.

Dems’ Climate Agenda and DEI Virtue Signals Prove Devastating, by Thomas Gallatin

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – Case in point, Massachusetts Democrat Senator Ed Markey ranted not about the incompetence on display in California but about his opposition to Donald Trump’s pro-fossil fuel energy policies… ironically, the issue that Markey conveniently avoids is the fact that these fires are taking place in California, which, last time we checked, is virtually a one-party state controlled by Democrats. Indeed, the last time Republicans controlled the governorship and the legislature was back in 1970. Since then, Democrats have held a near continuous majority in the legislature and four out of the last seven governorships.

Blame Newsom, Not Climate Change, for Los Angeles Wildfires, by Ellie Gardey Holmes

By Ellie Gardey Holmes, American Spectator – On Newsom’s first full day in office as governor of California, on Jan. 8, 2019, Newsom held a press conference in which he declared war on the state’s wildfires and said that the state’s approach to combatting them “fundamentally has to change.” The following year, he signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Forest Service in which he pledged to “sustainably treat 500,000 acres” of forests and wildlands annually by 2025… The problem is that Newsom has wildly failed to reach that goal. Cal Fire, California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, claims that it treated 103,506 acres in fiscal year 2019-20, 116,668 acres in fiscal year 2020-21, 101,548 acres in fiscal year 2021-22, 91,601 acres in fiscal year 2022-2023, and 131,034 acres in fiscal year 2023-24. ….

Pharmacists Should Not Be Allowed to Prescribe Abortion Pills, by Rachel Roth Aldhizer

By Rachel Roth Aldhizer, First Things – At the end of 2024, Washington State implemented a month-long pilot program that allowed some pharmacists to prescribe mifepristone to patients via telehealth screening. Mifepristone is one component of the two-part drug regimen needed to end pregnancies up to ten weeks of gestation. (The second part, misoprostol, is widely available.) The program, Pharmacist Abortion Access Project, is spearheaded by Uplift International and aims to serve as a model for other interested states where abortion is legal. ….

Popes and POTUS, by Brad Miner

By Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing – John Paul was shot on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. When the Blessed Virgin spoke to the children in 1917, she warned about what would result from the Russian Revolution. Karol Wojtyla had faced communism’s rise in Poland, just as Reagan had in Hollywood… Throughout the West, post-war policy had been to contain communism. But this president and this pope had a different plan, which Reagan made public in a speech at Notre Dame just six weeks after he’d been shot: “The West won’t contain communism, it will transcend communism.” It will “dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.”

Britain’s Rape Gang Scandal Reveals a Nation Hypnotized by Wicked Post-Christian Ideology, by Gavin Ashenden

By Gavin Ashenden, The Stream – One of the greatest scandals since the second World War is currently unfolding in the United Kingdom: the systematic rape of some 250,000 working-class, mostly white girls at the hands of Muslim Pakistani gangs. It has been going on for more than a decade; our first reports date from 2011, but all were aggressively swept under the rug by politicians eager to hide the effects of mass immigration and Hoover up Muslim votes. Police offered no protection to these British citizens.  …

Sen. John Barrasso: No ‘Blank Check’ to California, Where Funds ‘Diverted’ From Fire Department to ‘Social Programs’, by Susan Berry

By Susan Berry, Ph.D., CatholicVote – GOP Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso of Wyoming stated clearly Sunday that while the situation in southern California during the wildfires is “heartbreaking” and devastating for people of all economic sectors, the federal government cannot provide a “blank check” in response to requests from state elected officials… “When you see what’s being shown on television, in addition to the tragedy on the ground, you’re also seeing gross mismanagement in California by elected officials, and it’s heartbreaking to hear the fire chief say that they’ve diverted all of this money away from the fire department to be used for social programs when they were already stretched too thin,”

Mel Gibson Condemns Abortion: “It’s Human Sacrifice”, by Jordan Estabrook

By Jordan Estabrook, LifeNews – As the fires in California consumed Mel Gibson’s house and the homes of others, proclaimed Catholic Mel Gibson talked with Joe Rogan and entered philosophical territory. For almost three hours, they discussed the mismanagement of California neglecting the benefit of people for tiny fish, how choosing woke criteria over competence makes bad leaders, an in-depth discussion about the return of Passion of the Christ, and most interestingly, the longstanding nature of child sacrifice and how it lives today through abortion.

SCOTUS to Review Whether Catholic Charities Provides Religion-Based Assistance in WI, by  Charles J. Russo 

By Charles J. Russo, Catholic World Report – On December 13, 2024, the Supreme Court accepted its first case involving religion in almost two years, Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission… At issue in Catholic Charities is “[w]hether a state violates the First Amendment’s religion clauses by denying a religious organization an otherwise-available tax exemption because the organization does not meet the state’s criteria for religious behavior.”

Muslim Rape Gangs As Religious Warfare, by Sarah Cain

By Sarah Cain, Crisis Magazine – Britain is back in the news for its mishandled child gang rape scandals. This is a continuation of a crisis that has been ongoing in the U.K. since at least the year 2000. While many believe these to be decade-old crimes that now only need to be investigated and closed, it is much more likely that they continue to occur. This is because the underlying motivation behind them still exists. First, some backstory for those unfamiliar.

Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California, by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness – Over 25,000 acres are ablaze in Los Angeles in the Pacific Palisades fire, a veritable living hell… Some 12,000-plus structures were incinerated. More than 250,000 souls have been evacuated and are in need of shelter… No one has really taken charge yet. And now even the woke culprits for the catastrophe are blame-gaming each other to determine who was the more incompetent, which in this case translates to the most woke.

Majority of Americans Say Biden Is Worst President Since Nixon, by Dan Hart

By Dan Hart, LifeNews – According to a newly released Gallup poll, Americans rate President Joe Biden as the second worst U.S. president since the 1960s, just barely above Richard Nixon… The survey, released Tuesday, asked respondents to rate how 10 presidents from the last 60 years will go down in history. The presidents included JFK, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump’s first term, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, and Richard Nixon.

Pro-Life Is As Much About the End As the Beginning, by Daniel B. Gallagher 

By Daniel B. Gallagher, Catholic World Report – As we in the pro-life movement look toward the future, we will greatly benefit from continued discussions on the end or telos of human existence and our noble call to eternal life… By now, it is clear that overturning of Roe v. Wade was not a terminable goal. The battle goes on, and it always will. The moment we believe a single political leader or party will definitively resolve the abortion issue and ensure that every human life is protected from conception to natural death is the mome

While California Burns, Gavin Newsom Begs Biden To Silence ‘Disinformation’, by Logan Washburn

By Logan Washburn, The Federalist – Never mind the actual winds that swept wildfires from the perimeter of Los Angeles to destroy suburban neighborhoods. Still, Newsom expressed concern that “misinformation” could harm Californians… “It infects real people that are out there,” Newsom told the president. “And they’re having conversations that are not the typical conversations you’d have at this time.”… Newsom apparently finds it unusual that people would discuss the possibility that government actions may have contributed to the spread of the wildfire when flames are engulfing their homes and livelihoods.

Fascism Lives Rent-Free in the Minds of the Left, by Taki Theodoracopulos

By Taki Theodoracopulos, Chronicles Magazine – The left always lies about fascism and ends up confusing itself. Kamala and her Fourth Estate acolytes insisted a victorious Trump would put his enemies in encampments. In reality, it was FDR who put American citizens into “relocation camps” during World War II, and today’s leftists who have imprisoned the Jan. 6 protestors for years without charges. Without any ideas about how to counter Trump’s popularity, the media reverted to slings and arrows, like spoilt children do when refused a second helping. Calling Trump a fascist made it easy; no brains needed.

3 Big Ways Biden Is Harming Democrats on His Way Out, by Tyler O’Neil 

By Tyler O’Neil, Daily Signal – President Joe Biden seems not to care about how his words and actions will impact his own party as he leaves the Oval Office… As Jan. 20 approaches, Biden has taken drastic actions that will likely harm the Democrats long-term. He has suggested that he was wrong to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, set ignominious precedents on pardons, and revealed how the woke elites call the shots on the Left… 1. Trashing Kamala Harris… 2. The Ignominious Pardon of Hunter… 3. Honoring George Soros

CatholicVote: LAFD Scrutinized for DEI Push Directly Preceding Widely Panned Response to Fires

By CatholicVote – A chorus of critics slammed the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) for prioritizing controversial political causes such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) just ahead of its widely panned response to a devastating series of wildfires currently ravaging the Los Angeles area… During a Thursday morning appearance on FOX & Friends First, Los Angeles business owner Paul Scrivano blasted LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley for her “mismanagement” of the fires… “She’s a coward,” Scrivano said. “She has mismanaged this department with her DEI initiative to the point where I think the LAFD is in an irrecoverable spin and will never be brought back.”

How Donald Trump Could Save My Church from Lavender Bishops Like McElroy … and Pope Francis, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Donald Trump’s Department of Justice could shut off this spigot off with the stroke of a pen. As I wrote here before, Trump’s attorney general must … Launch a RICO investigation of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Conduct the national investigation which my church’s bishops have so far dodged into 1) the systemic cover-up of clerical sex abuse and 2) the human trafficking conducted by church-controlled nonprofits of illegal immigrants.

CatholicVote: Federal Court Throws Out Biden’s Pro-LGBT Title IX Rule Nationwide: ‘Colossal Win for Women and Girls’

CatholicVote – A federal district court Thursday morning threw out the outgoing Biden administration’s pro-LGBTQ rewrite of Title IX, which critics say undermined women’s and girls’ sports. The ruling applies to the entire country… The U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Kentucky’s decision in the case Tennessee v. Cardona states that the administration’s “Final Rule and its corresponding regulations exceed the Department’s authority under Title IX.”

We Were Right About Immigration, by Peter Brimelow

By Peter Brimelow, Chronicles Magazine – Reviewing the situation now, it seems clear that the paleoconservatives at long last have won the argument over immigration within the right—and have even, in some sense, elected a president… Immigration is now being discussed. Whether this is enough to change the legal immigration influx, and reverse America’s drift to demographic destruction—and whether President Trump will be true to his deportation promises—remains to be seen.

Governor Ron DeSantis Will Headline National March for Life, by Alexandra Bedner

By Alexandra Bedner, LifeNews – This year’s theme, ‘Life: Why we March’ focuses on returning to our roots to acknowledge the humanity of each person, while also highlighting the need to protect and support both mother and child through the thousands of resources available to them. Our goal this year is to remind and reignite everyone — politicians, legislators, families, and women – in the truth that every life, unborn and born, has inherent dignity, meaning, and value, and as such is always worth fighting for.

Planned Parenthood Official Ousted From Texas Medical Board, by Ashlynn Lemos 

By Ashlynn Lemos, LifeNews – A Planned Parenthood director was put in charge of doctors’ medical licenses and discipline for the entire state of Texas for over 10 years. Yes, you read that correctly. With this authority, the anti-Life official could have given leeway to abortionists who illegally kill preborn babies in Texas… State Representatives Briscoe Cain and Brian Harrison sounded the alarm on this unsettling discovery and called for Dr. Robert Bredt’s removal from the board.

Behind Trump’s Expansionist Rhetoric, by Thomas Gallatin

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post – Donald Trump wants to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal, as well as to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. For good measure, he’s joked about making Canada the 51st state. Furthermore, he’s willing to use force to make it all happen — at least, that’s what the mainstream media reports… So, what is Trump really up to? Well, it’s a bit of typical Trumpian hyperbole mixed with actual intentions sprinkled with just the right amount of trolling to keep everyone flummoxed.

Biden Degrades Presidential Medal of Freedom by ‘Honoring’ George Soros, by Srdja Trifkovic

By Srdja Trifkovic, Chronicles Magazine – In the waning days of his final term, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, to 19 people at a White House ceremony. One of the recipients was Hillary Clinton, which was controversial enough. Even worse, the Hungarian-born “philanthropist” and Democratic megadonor George Soros, was another… It is understandable that Soros wants to call his support of such causes “philanthropy,” and it is unsurprising that Biden and the Democratic Party should accept such designation and honor him accordingly. Collectively, they all want to deconstruct and destroy the remaining basis of the good life—traditional values and attitudes—in America and all over the world. …

Here Are All The Ways DEI-Crazed Officials Made The LA Fire More Deadly, by Beth Brelje

By Beth Brelje, The Federalist – Los Angeles has lost sight of the reason fire departments exist… As relentless fires burn in Los Angeles, thousands of residents who fled their homes are just learning how poorly public officials prepared for such an event. Emergency response leaders following bad public policy have been too focused on sending firefighting equipment to Ukraine, keeping the homeless safe, protecting fish, and adopting green policies to focus on things like making sure there is enough water to feed fire hydrants and guaranteeing that the strongest, best-trained, most-skilled firefighters are leading operations. …

State Farm Canceled Hundreds of Pacific Palisades Homeowners’ Policies Before Devastating Wildfire Strikes, by Jim Hᴏft

By Jim Hᴏft, Gateway Pundit – As wildfires ravage Southern California, homeowners in Pacific Palisades find themselves grappling with an unbearable reality: their homes are burning, and their insurance policies—once their safety net—were canceled just months ago by State Farm… In a move justified by the company as a strategy to avoid “financial failure,” State Farm canceled over 72,000 homeowners’ policies statewide, with Pacific Palisades—a now-charred affluent neighborhood—bearing a significant brunt.

Texas Alliance for Life: Texas Abortions Drop to ZERO, Saving Up Thousands of Babies Per Month

By Texas Alliance for Life, LifeNews – The latest Induced Termination of Pregnancy (ITOP) report from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), released January 2, 2025, confirms that Texas’s pro-life laws are achieving their intended goal: protecting both women’s and unborn babies’ lives… During the first 26 months since the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Texas doctors have reported performing 132 medically necessary abortions to save women’s lives or health through August 2024 — an average of five per month — with elective abortions dropping to zero… No doctor has been prosecuted, sued, or sanctioned for any of those abortions. No woman has lost her life for lack of an exception in the law.

Pope Risks Exposing Church Skeletons by Standing Up to ‘Populist’ Tide, by Charles Collins

By Charles Collins, Crux, (Catholic Herald) – After the re-election of Donald Trump, pundits speculated on how Pope Francis would react this time round to a US president known to oppose the pontiff’s views on immigration and various conflicts happening in the world… For many, this question was soon answered by the recent appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new Archbishop of Washington, DC. McElory… one of the leading members of the liberal wing of the Catholic Church in the United States, who has often opposed Trump’s policies on immigration, while supporting LGBT-related issues in the Church.

The FBI: Secularism, Service, and Security, by John Cassara

By John Cassara, Crisis Magazine – According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s website, the initials of the FBI “might well be our motto, for those initials also represent the three things for which the Bureau and its representatives always stand: Fidelity – Bravery – Integrity.”… In recent years, that maxim has been turned on its head. Today’s FBI and its masters in the Department of Justice are increasingly seen as disloyal, cowardly, immoral, and not deserving of the public’s trust.

Elon Musk Loves to Solve Other People’s Problems … Not His Own, by Jason Scott Jones

By Jason Scott Jones, The Stream – But when it comes to the impact of immigration on society, Musk isn’t always consistent. He threatened to “go to war” over the issue of expanding H1B visas that tech companies use to extract cheap labor from indentured foreign workers. And here Musk profits directly. According to the National Memo and Electrek magazine: “Over the last few days, several current and former Tesla workers reached out to Electrek to reveal that Tesla ramped up its use of H-1B visas to replace US workers it let go during a wave of layoffs earlier this year,” according to a story by its editor-in-chief, Fred Lambert, that led the website on December 30… Last April, Electrek reported that Tesla dismissed about 15,000 US employees, mostly in Texas and California – but then the company moved to fill those same jobs with imported labor at lower cost.

Catholic President Showers Medals on Anti-Catholic Gay Marriage, Pro-Abortion Activists, by Jules Gomes

By Jules Gomes, The Stream – President Joe Biden, who proudly identifies as a rosary-wielding “devout Catholic,” has awarded top honors to anti-Catholic gay marriage and pro-abortion campaigners in the final days of his presidency before flying to visit Pope Francis at the Vatican later this week… Biden, considered one of Francis’s closest political allies, showered presidential medals on globalist oligarch George Soros; radical feminist and abortion advocate Eleanor Smeal; and Mary Bonauto and Evan Wolfson, who were pioneers of legalizing same-sex marriage.

Pro-Life Activist ARRESTED in Ohio for ‘Annoying’ Speech Outside Abortion Clinic, by Justine Brooke Murray

By Justine Brooke Murray, MRC TV – Who would’ve thought that in America, you could be arrested for “annoying” speech? That is what happened to the latest pro-life activist arrested for protesting outside an abortion clinic… “There’s hope in the Gospel of Jesus Christ for all of you. I want it for you but I can’t force you to take it and he won’t force you to take it,” Zack Knotts began preaching into a megaphone on a public sidewalk outside Northeast Ohio Women’s Clinic in Cuyahoga Falls on December 28.

CatholicVote: Cardinal Dolan to Lead Opening Prayer for Donald Trump’s Inauguration, Says ‘Faith is Stirring’

By McKenna Snowon, CatholicVote – Cardinal Timothy Dolan.. will be leading the opening prayer at the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump… “The president was kind enough to ask me to do the opening prayer,” Cardinal Dolan told news outlet Pix 11… Cardinal Dolan later noted that he thinks Trump’s faith may be growing again… “I believe President Trump, and I believe that faith is stirring,” Cardinal Dolan said. “I believe that he may have had a bit of a rekindling. Alleluia, because I don’t know how anyone could be president of the United States without a deep faith.”

The Legacy Of Jan. 6 Should Be Massive Reform Of The FBI And DOJ, by John Daniel Davidson

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist – Four years later, it’s clear that the federal government’s response to Jan. 6 is far worse than anything that happened that day… Monday marked the four-year anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021, when tens of thousands of peaceful Trump supporters demonstrated outside the U.S. Capitol and a small number of them clashed with police before entering the Capitol itself… For Democrats and the left, Jan. 6 is the events that vindicates their hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters. They would have us believe it was among the darkest days in our nation’s history, when democracy itself hung in the balance and violent insurrectionists nearly prevented the peaceful transfer of power. …

Did the Press Lie to the American Public About Joe Biden? Or Just About Everything? by David Marshall

By David Marshall, The Stream – The Wall Street Journal recently published an equally shocking report: It turns out (you might want to take a seat for this) that Joe Biden has been touch-and-go mentally for years… Furthermore, Kamala Harris, Jill Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and their friends in the media (so many friends) covered up the fact that the presidential library was missing a few volumes — and shouted down as partisan hacks anyone who refused to go along with that charade… What? You knew all that?

From Covid Fascism To Mass Migration, Justin Trudeau Leaves Behind A Legacy Of Ruin, by Shawn Fleetwood

By Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist – After nearly a decade in Canada’s highest office, far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday, leaving behind a legacy of ruin and chaos… “I intend to resign as party leader [and] as prime minister after the [Liberal Party] selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process,” Trudeau said during a Monday press conference. “This country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I’m having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election.”

Congress Certifies Trump’s Victory, Kamala Forced to Confirm He Won, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – Congressional lawmakers officially certified President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory on Monday in a subdued session that confirmed Trump as only the second president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms… The certification process, which took just over 30 minutes, solidified Trump’s place alongside President Grover Cleveland, who served non-consecutive terms in 1885 and 1893.

The Climate Agenda’s March Through the Institutions: Can It Be Stopped? by Tilak Doshi

By Tilak Doshi, The Daily Signal – A spate of stories in the media recently provides a remarkable illustration of how the globalist policy agenda of the climate-industrial complex has captured key international institutions and perverted their original organizational aims. From initially serving broad, laudable objectives for the welfare of their constituents, these institutions have been subverted over the years to serve the insistent pseudoscientific claims of climate alarmists… The corruption of global institutions has, in turn, led to significant opposition that is becoming apparent.

Nails and Other Instruments of Death, by Daniel Fitzpatrick

By Daniel Fitzpatrick, Crisis Magazine – It is January 1, 2025. Night has fallen, and the echoes of the revel are again cracking against the washed-out sky as the leftover fireworks shriek and bang into oblivion. Meanwhile, in the French Quarter, a few miles away in the warm maternal curve of the river, teams are sweeping the cobbled streets and wrought iron alleys, redolent with (urine) and pot and anise and bourbon, for IEDs. This morning, just after 3:00, the shadowland Golgotha where the dark night of the soul inveterately resides, Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented F-150 into a crowd on Bourbon Street, killing fifteen and injuring dozens more before dying in a shoot-out with police.

Failure to Communicate, by Roger Helle

By Roger Helle, Patriot Post – Yes, we won the 2024 election, but the battle for America’s soul continues. Thankfully, the church still has an opportunity to step up… From my simple grassroots perspective, I believe the majority of Americans no longer believe anything the mainstream media says. They don’t see Trump as Hitler. Trump wasn’t the one trying to “overthrow democracy.” January 6, 2021 — with the exception of those few who were violent — was a non-event. The media can no longer be trusted to tell the truth.

UK’s Migrant ‘Grooming Gangs’ and the Ensuing Outrage, by Emmy Griffin

By Emmy Griffin, Patriot Post – The United Kingdom has a grooming gang problem. While this has been known by authorities since at least the 1980s, little has been done to curb the horrid attacks on little girls in the country… What brought this conversation back into the spotlight was the recent release of court transcripts from the 2013 child rapes by Pakistani men in Oxford from 2002-2005. These documents are horrific and hard to read, but the bottom line is that these girls were chosen because they were from poor or broken homes with little to no support system around them.

America Voted Against Suicide, by Tom Piatak

By Tom Piatak, Chronicles – The morning after Americans elected as president a man regularly labeled a “Nazi,” a “fascist,” a “racist,” a “mortal threat to American democracy,” and the like by mainstream news outlets—even after he was nearly killed by one would-be assassin and seriously threatened by another—I received a succinct summary of what had just happened from a long- time friend whose political views are thoughtful, considered, and often surprising: “This election restored my faith in the intelligence of the average American voter.”

Republicans Re-Elect Pro-Life Speaker Mike Johnson on First Ballot, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – “Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement,” Trump stated, adding: “MAGA!!!”
Shortly after Trump posted his endorsement message, Johnson thanked him… “Together, we will quickly deliver on your America First agenda and usher in the new golden age of America,” Johnson told Trump in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “The American people demand and deserve that we waste no time. Let’s get to work!”

By Watering Down Citizenship, Democrats Invite More Terrorists On American Soil, by Logan Washburn

By Logan Washburn, The Federalist -When American citizen and Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar attacked his own country on New Year’s Day, the tragedy served as a reminder that globalist politicians are flooding the country with ideologies hostile to the country’s very existence… Despite the clear and present danger of radical Islam, which turned Jabbar — an Army veteran and lifelong citizen — to violence against his country, globalist politicians have been welcoming this ideology for years under a watered-down idea of citizenship. ….

Deep State and Big Pharma Ramp Up Bird Flu ‘Psychological Terrorism’, by Dr. Jules Gomes

By Dr. Jules Gomes, the Stream – Scientist warns of COVID-like psy-op being engineered to push testing, vaccines, masks, and lockdowns… A renowned scientist is sounding the alarm over a new move by the Deep State and Big Pharma to unleash a “pandemic” of avian flu “psychological terrorism” in order to once again manipulate the public into complying with testing, vaccines, masks, lockdowns, and quarantines… “Don’t believe the hype generated by ex-officials from the Biden and Trump administrations,” warns Dr. Robert Malone …

Rorate Caeli: Is Archbishop of San Antonio in Need of a Mental Health Checkup?

Rorate Caeli,  by Staff, (Complicit Clergy) – It is the only reasonable explanation for (Abp. Gustavo García-Siller’s) horrid tweet in reference to the terrorist Islamist attack that killed 15 in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the first hours of New Year’s Day. He essentially blamed Trump, and his supporters, without mentioning their names: “The killing today is the result of words and actions that leaders have demonstrated in our recent history . We should not blame others. We need to take responsibility. We need civil discourse and lots of humility and charity.” — Archbishop Gustavo (@ABishopGustavo) January 2, 2025

San Antonio Archbishop Rips ‘Tyrant’ Trump, Links Trump’s Words to Violent ‘Tragedies’

By Catholic World News – In a series of tweets on January 1 and January 2, the archbishop of San Antonio called for civil discourse and charity, described the terrorist attack in New Orleans as the “result of words and actions” of leaders in “our recent history,” characterized President-elect Donald Trump as a tyrant, and linked the president-elect’s words in recent years to violent “tragedies.”… The prelate then exclaimed, “Thanks be to God that trump [sic] is not God. Thanks be God for ever!”

Reelected Speaker Johnson Promises to End ‘Administrative State’ as ‘4th Branch’ of Government, by Craig Bannister

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – After narrowly winning reelection as House Speaker on Friday, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) pledged his allegiance to several traditional Republican agenda items in an address to his chamber colleagues… Johnson began his address by humbly expressing gratitude for the honor of being reelected and called for a moment of silence in honor of those from his state who were killed in a New Year’s Day terrorist attack… A major theme of Johnson’s speech was his plan to institute an “America First Agenda,” which he invoked throughout his address.

Is Vivek Right About America? by Colin Redemer

By Colin Redemer, First Things – On the second day of Christmas, Vivek Ramaswamy gave to America a diagnosis: We have a culture problem. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long,” Ramaswamy wrote on X. We need “More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less ‘chillin.’ … Ramaswamy, who will lead the new DOGE alongside Elon Musk, was also making a point about the—already roiling—debate over H-1B visas. If Americans don’t revere hard work enough, then immigrants do.

New Orleans Terror Suspect’s Mosque Instructs Members NOT to Speak With FBI, Media, by Justine Brooke Murray

By Justine Brooke Murray, MRC TV – The mosque reportedly attended by the suspect in Wednesday’s New Orleans terrorist attack is instructing its members not to speak with either the FBI or media… “I’m sure many of you have heard about the tragic events that took place in New Orleans this morning that are now being classified as an ‘act of terror’ by the FBI,” wrote the manager for Houston’s local Masjid Bilal in an “IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT” posted to social media… The terrorist attack, described as much by the mosque in quotations, left 15 victims dead and dozens more injured on New Year’s Day, after a man sporting an ISIS flag rammed his pickup truck into a crowd of celebrators on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

CatholicVote: Reports: Biden DOJ Poured Millions Into ‘Woke’ School Programs

CV News Feed – According to the results of a recent investigation, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the outgoing Biden administration poured over $100 million into pushing far-left causes such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in schools across much of the country… The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan reported on Thursday that over the four years President Joe Biden has been in office, his DOJ “awarded over $100,113,942” to the various “woke” initiatives “through 102 grants, throughout 36 states, impacting 946 school districts and upwards of 3 million K-12 students.”

What Elon And Vivek Get Wrong About H-1B Immigration And American Exceptionalism, by B.L. Hahn

B.L. Hahn, The Federalist – If the election didn’t make this clear, I’ll state it as plainly as possible: We want less immigration. That includes H-1B workers… If you managed to disconnect from politics and social media over Christmas, good for you, but for those who couldn’t pry themselves away, they witnessed a heated debate on X over H-1B visas. As the discussion unfolded, a myth was dispelled: H-1B visas are limited to supremely technical fields that require genius-level IQ. It turns out, H-1B applicants include wannabe 7-Eleven clerks, priests, plumbers, and architect interns, to name a handful.

War Room’s Steve Bannon and Raheem Kassam on Tech Oligarchs Censoring Speech Amid H-1B Visa Debate (VIDEO), by David Greyso

By David Greyson, Gateway Pundit – War Room founder Steve Bannon talked with Raheem Kassam on Friday about tech oligarchs and their quest to censor anti-immigration speech amid a debate about H-1B Visas… “What is really going on here?” Bannon asked Kassam regarding X’s censorship on anti-immigration speech… “There is absolutely nothing moral about what it does to American citizens whose parents, and grandparents and great-grandparents built the country, paid into the system, and are now getting a bum rap as a result of these new tech oligarchs,” Kassam said.

J6 ‘Political Prisoners’ Preparing $50 Billion Class Action Lawsuit to File Against Feds, by Bob Unruh

By Bob Unruh, WND – Already more than 100 plaintiffs have signed on to the legal action… While tens of thousands of fans of President Donald Trump rallied in Washington in January 2021 to support his doubts about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, an election evidence now confirms was skewed by a various of undue influences including the FBI’s interference, a few hundred rioted at the Capitol.

How We Christians Squandered Our Influence Over Politics Throughout the West, and Why That’s a Disaster for Church and State, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream – Francis’s docile bishops in the U.S. called for the commutation of hundreds of death sentences, which Joe Biden duly issued. Francis’s Vatican also issued a document claiming that any deportation from any country at all for any reason is intrinsically evil, akin to human trafficking or forced prostitution. U.S. bishops are already lining up to fight Trump’s effort to repatriate any of the 10 million or more illegal aliens Biden smuggled in. In fact, those bishops earned some $3 billion over 15 years in U.S. government contracts via their tame “nonprofits” such as the far-left, entirely secular Catholic Charities, which traffic illegal immigrants.

‘Trump Ran in an Untraditional Media Lane…We Will Continue That in the WH,’ Press Sec., by Craig Bannister 

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV – Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024 largely because he “ran in an unconventional media lane” – and he’ll continue to do so once he’s in office, the president-elect’s press secretary promises… (said) incoming press secretary Karoline Leavitt attributed Trump’s campaign success to how he utilized members of the New Media to get his message out the American public: “President Trump ran in an untraditional media lane on the campaign trail – it’s a big part of the reason he won: because he sat down with podcasters and social influencers and new voices that the American people are clearly listening to.”

New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Robert F. Kennedy as HHS Secretary, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews – President-elect Donald Trump nominated Kennedy last month, and if confirmed, he is expected to play a key role in advancing their shared goal of “making America healthy again.” Kennedy’s responsibilities include restoring the U.S. healthcare system to the “gold standard” of scientific research and addressing the “chronic disease epidemic.”

The Future Of The American Experiment Depends On Mothers With Large Families, by Ashley Bateman

By Ashley Bateman, The Federalist – Pakaluk opens with the story of Hannah, a woman from a Reformed Jewish background whose search for meaning led her ultimately to procreation and the proliferation of family through child-bearing, what she called “this key to infinity.” At the time of her interview, Hannah had seven children, and described her choice to have a large family as a “deliberate rejection of an autonomous, customized, self-regarding lifestyle in favor of a way of life intentionally limited by the demands of motherhood.”

What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election? by Victor Davis Hanson 

By Victor Davis Hanson, Patriot Post – In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35 and 40 percent… He would average only about 41% approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure… No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls well over 50% approval… His inauguration in a few weeks will likely not resemble Trump’s 2016 ceremony.

Biden Scraps Mandate That Would Force Christian Employers to Cover Abortion, Birth Control, by Nick Pope 

By Nick Pope, LifeNews – The Biden administration quietly withdrew a proposal to reduce the ability of employers to opt-out of covering birth control for employees on Monday… HHS published notice in the Federal Register on Monday that the agency is pulling back its proposed regulations to bar employers from being excused from the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraceptive mandate on the grounds of “non-religious moral objections.” …

‘There Are Only Two Genders,’ Trump Vows to Make Biological Truth an Official Policy, by Justine Brooke Murray 

By Justine Brooke Murray, MRC TV – “There are only 2 genders, male and female,” announced President-elect Donald Trump at Turning Point USA’s America Fest on Sunday… No kidding. But our society has fallen to the point where proclaiming it is a stunning revelation. That is why Trump introduced his plan to make basic biology the official policy of the United States.

Pope Francis Names Dallas’ Bishop Kelly as Bishop Strickland’s Successor in Tyler, Texas, by Michael Haynes, & Andreas Wailzer

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

Republicans Overwhelmingly Support RFK as HHS Secretary After He Promises to Implement Pro-Life Policies, by Steven Ertelt

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

CV News Feed: Trump Nominates CatholicVote President Brian Burch as Ambassador to the Holy See

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

The Crumbled Omnibus Carcass Is A Mess Of Speaker Johnson’s Own Making, by M.D. Kittle

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

96% of Liberal Media Coverage of Trump’s Nominees Has Been Negative, by Bill D’Agostino

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

Senator Mike Lee Exposes Schumer, McConnell, Johnson, and Jeffries for Secretly Crafting $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill Over 85 Days to Sneak Through Before the Holidays, by Jim Hᴏft

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

Trump Doubles Down on Using RFK Jr. to Study Possible Link Between Vaccines and Autism, by Stephen Kokx

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

A Tale of Two Christian Doctors: Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, by Jules Gomes

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

Dronomania, by Victor Davis Hanson

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

Trump Says He Is ‘Totally Against’ Bloated Omnibus Spending Bill: ‘Most Foolish And Inept Thing Ever’, by Jordan Boyd

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

RFK Jr. Says There Are ‘Too Many Abortions’ During Meeting With Republican Senators, by Matt Lamb, LifeSiteNews

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

Musk Mobilizes the Masses, by Rob Bluey

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

Congress Tries Giving Itself $69,000 Raise for Christmas; Pixar and Disney Retreat from Trans Indoctrination, by Al Perrotta

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

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Transition Launches ‘Road to 47’ Newsletter To Circumvent DC ‘Elites’, by Mary Margaret Olohan

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

Reports of Liberalism’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated, by Darrick Taylor

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

Time for Justice for Pro-Life Prisoners and the DC 5, by Jamie Dangers

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

Joe Biden Threatens African Country, Will Deny $480 Million in Aid if It Doesn’t Legalize Abortion, by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

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

U.S. Nuclear Reg. Commission Releases Report Confirming Radioactive Material Lost in Transit — Shipping Container Arrives Damaged and Empty in New Jersey, by Jim Hᴏft

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Commits to Restoring Key Pro-Life Policies, by Steven Ertelt

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

Mitch McConnell Is The Personification Of America In Decline, by Breccan F. Thies

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

Report: Vatican on the Brink of Bankruptcy Due to Dramatic Decline in Global Donations Under Pope Francis’ Leadership, by Jim Hᴏft

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

What Should Catholics Make of Elon Musk? by Peter Laffin

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

Correction Over Communion Can Be Complicated, but is Also Crucial, by Daniel B. Gallagher

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

Justin Trudeau is Considering Stepping Down Amid Cabinet Turmoil, Reports Indicate, by Anthony Murdoch

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

Islamist Vows ‘Islam Will Enter Every Household, Whether You Like It Or Not,’ Starting With Trump, by Justine Brooke Murray

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

Biden’s Final Monkey Wrenches, by Thomas Gallatin

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

Shocking Footage Shows Biden Admin Selling Off Southern Border Wall Before Trump Takes Office, by Wade Searle

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

The Last Ugly Biden Christmas, by Erik Root

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

Patriot Post: The Bill of Rights

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

Vatican Expected to Uphold Archbishop’s Ban on Pro-Abortion Nancy Pelosi Receiving Communion, by Steven Ertelt

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

Texas Sues New York Doctor for Illegally Trafficking Abortion Pills, by Steven Ertelt  

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

A Governing Majority, If You Can Keep It, by Ryan Girdusky

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

76 Abortion Businesses Have Closed Since Dobbs, Saving Countless Babies, by Dave Andrusko 

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

BREAKING: NATO Chief Says It’s ‘Time to Shift to a Wartime Mindset’, by Antonino Cambria

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

Score One for the Tin Hat Brigade: DOJ IG Admits Dozens of FBI Sources Were at Capitol J6. None Charged with Criminal Conduct, by Al Perrotta

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

EDITORIAL: Nancy Pelosi Is Half Right: Her Soul Is Her Bishop’s ‘Problem’

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

Biden Nullifies Crimes in Biggest Day of Clemency to Date, by Elise McCue

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

Satanic Display in New Hampshire Battered, Removed After Three Days, by Matt McDonald

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

WAKING UP! “500,000 Children… We Can’t Find!” – NYC Mayor Adams Stuns Room Full of Liberal Reporters After Meeting with Trump Border Czar (VIDEO)

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

Analysis: How Close Are We to World War III? by Bradley Devlin

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

As Americans’ Tolerance For Wokeness Dies, The Left’s Appetite For Violence Only Grows, by Nathanael Blake

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

Trump Admin Can Help Defund Planned Parenthood by Defunding Research With Aborted Baby Parts, by Brian Simboli

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

Pope Francis Prays to “Palestinian” Jesus Lying on Swaddling “Terrorism” Scarf, by Jules Gomes

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

Nativity Scene Will be Displayed at the US Capitol for the First Time in American History, by Grace Porto

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

Are We Doomed to Forever Wars? by Jason Jones

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

How DOGE Can Tackle The National Debt By Returning To Constitutional Spending, by John C. Eastman

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

WATCH: John Zmirak Joins Eric Metaxas to Talk About Trump’s Cabinet Battles

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

MRC President Brent Bozell Warns of Blumenthal’s ‘Trojan Horse’ for Censorship, by Tim Kilcullen

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

Daniel Penny’s Acquittal Is a Win for Civilization, by Helen Andrews

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

Nancy Pelosi Brags About Defying Her Bishop to Receive Communion, by Grace Porto

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

Pro-Life Women Comprise the Real Women’s Movement, by Jennifer Roback Morse 

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

Syria Falls to al Qaeda. What’s Next for Christians There? by Jason Jones & John Zmirak

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

Syrian Archbishop: ‘This Is the End of the Great History of Christians in Aleppo’, by Louis Knuffke

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

Justice Alito’s Slapdowns of Transgender Treatments for Minors Go Viral, by Craig Bannister

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

CDC Now Recommends Children Be Exposed to 36 Vaccine Doses by Age 2, by Nicolas Hulscher

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

Evil: ‘Catholics for Choice’ Use Virgin Mary to Push Abortion in Sickest Christmas Ad Ever Created

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

The Biden Crime Family Is Above the Law, by  David Harsanyi

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

Gay Pilgrims to Have Special Day During Jubilee, by Louis Knuffke

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

New Mexico Bishops Come Out Strongly Against Mass Deportations, by Jonah McKeown

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

Speaker Mike Johnson Blasts UK Vote to Legalize Assisted Suicide: “Life is a Gift From Our Creator”, by McKenna Snow 

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

The Numbers Show the Catholic Vote Still Matters, by George J. Marlin

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

Advocates Push for Finding the Lost Migrant Children, by Judy Roberts

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

American Medical Institutions Get Woke Infection, by Brian Mark Weber

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

New York Catholic Church Will Not Fight Deportation of Migrant Criminals, by John Lavenburg

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

U.S. Select Subcommittee Publishes COVID-19 Report Trashing Vaccines, Masking Protocols, by Jules Gomes

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

Supreme Court Weighs Gender Mutilation, Nate Jackson

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

Speaker Mike Johnson Confirms He Wants to Defund Planned Parenthood, by Steven Ertelt 

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

The Problem Is the Banana on the Wall, by John Horvat

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

The Case For Mass Deportation, by Kevin D. Roberts

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

Progressive Bishop Laments Catholic Voter Support for Donald Trump, by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

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

Christians Under Threat After Syria’s Second City Falls Into Islamist Hands, by Hélène de Lauzun

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

36 MPs Who Voted for British Assisted Suicide Bill May Change Their Minds and Defeat It, by Susan Berry

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

Central American Bishops Call for Dec. 8 as Day of Prayer for Nicaragua, by Grace Porto

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

Democratic Party Monopoly on the Black Vote Is Over, by Star Parker

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

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky: Safeguarding the Republican Right-to-Life Agenda

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

Is Bishop Strickland’s Appeal a Dead Letter or a Call to Action? by William Kilpatrick

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

9th Circuit: Local Authorities In Washington State Can’t Block Feds From Deporting Illegals, by Brianna Lyman

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

CatholicVote: Biden Set to Send More Military Aid to Ukraine Weeks Before Trump Takes Office

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

Disgraced U.S. Cardinal Incites Civil Disobedience to Trump’s Mass Deportations, by Jules Gomes

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

Federal Judge Pauses FACE Act Case Against Pro-Lifers Until Trump’s White House Return, by Katherine Hamilton

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

Radical Global Changes Ahead Could Be Destructive for the Cause of Persecuted Christians, Expert Alerts

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

Is RFK’s Nomination to HHS an Answer to Prayer? by Scott Ventureyra

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

Trump Nominates Kash Patel to Lead FBI, by Douglas Andrew

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

Joe Biden’s Pardon of Hunter Is a Creepy Inversion of Jesus’s Atonement, by John Zmirak

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

Planned Parenthood Literally Sold the Hearts of Aborted Babies to Scientists, by Sarah Holliday 

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

Joe Biden Tries To Justify Hunter Pardon By Peddling Another Round Of Lies, by Margot Cleveland

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

Can We Talk About J6? by Sheryl Collmer

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

Globalists Want to Usher in Totalitarian Digital IDs, by John-Henry Westen

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

How To Get Conservative Judges To Do Conservative Things, by Benjamin Ogilvie

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

Pride Goes Before the Fall, by Roger Helle 

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

Commentary: Disrupting the Health Agencies Will Save American Lives, by Betsy McCaughey

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

Donald Trump Needs to Promote Pro-Mother, Pro-Life Policies as President, by Chelsey Youman

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

President Biden Pardons Hunter, Claims Son Was ‘Singled Out’, by Daniel Chaitin

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

What Sort of Government Votes to Let Doctors Kill With Impunity? by Gavin Ashenden

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

Judge Halts Sentencing of 7 Pro-Life Americans Biden Wanted in Prison, Trump Could Pardon Them, by Steven Ertelt 

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

Francis Meets With Climate Change Activist Celeste Saulo from The World Meteorological Organization

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

Walmart Agrees to Drop DEI Policies, Remove Sexualized and Pro-Transgender Products for Children, by Calvin Freiburger

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

Texas Board of Education Approves Public School Curriculum That Includes Bible Passages, by Emily Mangiaracina

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

WINNING: Walmart Rolls Back DEI Programs, Cuts Back on ‘Pride’ Commitments, by Brittany M. Hughes

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

Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Has to Start in the Womb, RFK Must Stop Big Abortion, by Erika Ahern

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

Does DOGE Need Congress for Massive Budget Cutting? by Fred Lucas

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

Abolishing The Department Of Education Is Just The First Step In Fixing American Schools, by Auguste Meyrat

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

President Donald Trump Nominates Pro-Life Doctor Dave Weldon as CDC Director, by Steven Ertelt 

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

Tucker Carlson: Longtime Source Says Porn Sites Controlled by Intelligence Agencies for Blackmail, by Emily Mangiaracina

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

Trump v. the Bureaucrats, by Peter Van Buren

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

Report: Planned Parenthood Caught Selling ‘Viable’ Fetuses To University Of California San Diego, by Shawn Fleetwood

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

The Immorality of Illegal Immigration, by Victor Davis Hanson

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

OPINION: RFK Jr. Has Abortion Issues To Tackle At HHS, by Erika Ahern

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

The Deep State Is Trying to Start WWIII, by Jason Jones

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

The Curious Background of the Pope’s ‘Fixer’, by Phil Lawler

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

As Jimmy Lai Attracts Worldwide Support, Vatican Continues Policy of Silence, by Edward Pentin

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

132 Members of Congress Take First Step Towards Defunding Planned Parenthood, by Michael Finan 

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

The GOP Establishment Is A Greater Threat To Trump’s Agenda Than Democrats, by John Daniel Davidson

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

1,500-Person Migrant Caravan On Its Way to US Border From Mexico: Report, by Katie Daviscourt

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

The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity, by Victor Davis Hanson

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

NY Post: Biden, Mayorkas Race to Ensure More Migrant Damage After They Leave

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

Biden Is Sabotaging Trump’s Plan To Peacefully End The Russia-Ukraine War, by Shawn Fleetwood

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

How Should We Respond on the Precipice of War? by Constance T. Hull

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

Trump Picks Pro-Transgender, WEF-Linked Dr. Oz to Lead Medicare and Medicaid Services, by Matt Lamb

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

Complicit Clergy: Was a Catholic Charity Complicit in the Murder of Laken Riley? (3.3.2024)

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

ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, by Mason Letteau Stallings

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

The Biden Legacy: War With Russia? by Doug Bandow

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

Trump’s New Dept. of Justice Must Bankrupt the Deep Church, Which Fights Enforcement of America’s Just Immigration Laws, by John Zmirak

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

Prepare for Deportation, by Sean Fitzpatrick

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

BREAKING NEWS! Russia Reportedly Launches Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Against Ukraine — What We Know So Far, by Chris York

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

In Secret Joe Biden Gives Ex Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards Medal of Freedom in Secret Ceremony, by Steven Ertelt

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

SPLC Haters Target “Not the Bee” (Doxxes Writers), by Thomas Gallatin

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

Trump’s Musk-Led Government Efficiency Dept. Takes Aim at Planned Parenthood’s Taxpayer Funding

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

Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024, by Carl E. Olson

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

Is the Deep State Intentionally Risking Nuclear War to Save Its Criminals’ Skins? by Jason Jones & John Zmirak

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

UPDATE: Trump Picks Several Catholics for Cabinet: Kennedy, Rubio, Stefanik, Ratcliffe, Duffy, by Tyler Arnold

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

Speaker Mike Johnson’s Response To The Trans Bathroom Fracas In Congress Was Cowardly, by  John Daniel Davidson

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

CatholicVote: Russia Says Ukraine’s Use of American-Made Missiles Signal a ‘New Phase’ in War

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

Woke Ideology Is Not Dead and Buried, by Francis X. Maier

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

US Government Is ‘World’s Largest Child Sex Trafficking Organization,’ Former Border Patrol Agent Claims, by Virginia Allen

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

CatholicVote: Trump’s Border Czar, a Catholic, Outlines Plan for Ending Humanitarian Crisis, Have Over 300,000 Missing Children

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

Laken Riley’s Alleged Killer Arrived in Georgia on ‘Humanitarian Flight,’ Roommate Testifies, by Nicole Silverio

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

Bishop Strickland to Join Our Novena for President Trump Starting November 21

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

McCormick Wins: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Orders ‘Lawless’ Counties to Stop Counting Mail-In Ballots, by Susan Berry, Ph.D.

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

5 Ways to Right the Women’s Vote, by Carrie Gress

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

Donald Trump Should Defund Planned Parenthood, by Shawn Carney

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

Fr. Kevin Drew: The Meaning of Ceremony: The Soldier and the Priest

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

LifeSiteNews: Join Our Novena for President Trump Starting November 21

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

Trump Proved Rigged Elections Are Winnable. Now It’s Time To Un-Rig Them, by Elle Purnell

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

While Mexican Leader Was Congratulating Trump, What President-Elect Did During the Call May Explain His Entire Strategy

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

SCANDALOUS! Dioceses Will Take Up Collection for US Bishops’ Scandal-Plagued CCHD Program this Weekend

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

Judge Grants Injunction Against Louisiana Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Schools, by Rachel Quackenbush

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

Devout Catholic Worker Fired for Not Getting COVID Shot Wins Over $12M in Religious Discrimination Suit, by Nicholas McEntyre

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

Marco Rubio, Twice a Revert to Catholicism, to Become the Nation’s Top Diplomat, by Peter Laffin 

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

We Need To Take A Wrecking Ball To The DOJ. Matt Gaetz Is Just The Man For The Job, by John Daniel Davidson

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

John Thune: 900,000 Babies are Killed in Abortions Every Year, That’s Like Killing My State of South Dakota, by Sen. John Thune

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

The Catholic Herald: U.S.C.C.B Will Fight Mass Deportation of Migrants, Says Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso

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

Trump Nominates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services, by Calvin Freiburger

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

2024 Proves 2020 Was Stolen, by Austin Ruse

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

Democrat Governors, City Leaders Pledge to Shield Illegal Aliens from Trump, by Jason Hopkins

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

Trump And Vance Should Immediately Push A Populist, Family-Friendly Agenda, by Charles C. Camosy

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

Root-Cause Health Relief Ahead? by Michael Bedar

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

Trump Goes for the Deep State Jugular: Appoints Gaetz as AG and Gabbard for DNI, by Al Perrotta

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

Despite Victory and GOP Trifecta, Trump’s Fight Has Just Begun, by Bradley Devlin

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

Kamala Harris Campaigned on Abortions Up to Birth, But 40% of Gen Z Women Voted for Trump, by Sarah Holliday

By Sarah Holliday, LifeNews – Many assumed Vice President Kamala Harris, as a woman, would have secured the vote among young women in the 2024 presidential election. However, according to an