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1. Tom – Auxilium of The Holy Face
2. Kevin J. Symonds – Website
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• House Votes to Cut Off Foreign Aid to Nigeria Until It Stops Anti-Christian Violence
• Pro-Life Groups Say Judge Boasberg ‘Usurped the Jury’ by Tossing Their Discrimination Suit Twice
• Israel is building a miles-long earthen barrier inside Gaza, entrenching its division

Saint of the Day:

• St. Lawrence of Brindisi

Gospel of the Day:

Matthew 5:13-19

At that time Jesus said to His disciples: You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

1. Michael Haynes – Substack – X
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• Andy Burnham Becomes British Prime Minister After Meeting With King Charles III; Keir Starmer Resigns
• House Committee Approves Bill Allowing Victims of ‘Trans’ Drugs and Surgeries to Sue
• The Tate brothers are expected in a Miami court following their arrest

Saint of the Day:

• St. Margaret of Antioch

Gospel of the Day:

Matthew 12:38-42

Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. At the judgment, the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and there is something greater than Jonah here. At the judgment the queen of the south will arise with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and there is something greater than Solomon here.”

• Dr. Anthony Stine – Return to Tradition
  • Pope Leo Declares That His Job Is To Be Political
• Niwa Limbu – Ad Vaticanum – X
  • Archbishop Iannone says women bring “different sensitivities” to choosing bishops
  • Pope Leo XIV personally lobbied Macron over French euthanasia bill, sources say

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• Cardinal Sarah Tells the European Parliament That Gender Ideology and Islamic Fundamentalism Are “Apocalyptic Beasts”
• DHS Warns China’s Theft of 200 Million Voter Records Could Be Used to Alter Rolls and Steal Absentee Ballots
• Ireland Moves to Grant Five Days of Paid Leave After Abortion, Drawing Pro-Life Alarm

Saint of the Day:

• St. Jadwiga

Gospel of the Day:

Matthew 12:1-8

Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent? I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned these innocent men. For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.”

1. Nicholas Cavazos – The Traditional Thomist
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   • Leo poised to grant ‘generous’ exemptions to Traditionis custodes, UK bishops told

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• Cardinal Burke: The Latin Mass Is “Intimately Linked to the Very Identity” of the Catholic Church
• More Than 100 House Democrats Vote to End Aid to Israel
• Five Reported Miracles Could Be “Potential Leads” Toward the Canonization of Fulton Sheen

Saint of the Day:

• Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Gospel of the Day:

Matthew 11:28-30

Jesus said: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”

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• Iran War and Israel Provisions Sink $1.15 Trillion Defense Bill in the Senate
• Oil Tops $80 Per Barrel as Trump Threatens to Take Over the Strait of Hormuz
• Scottish School Sacks Catholic Teacher for Saying She Opposes Abortion

Saint of the Day:

• St. Henry II

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 12:35-40

At that time, Jesus said to His disciples, Let your loins be girt about and your lamps burning, and you yourselves like men waiting for their master’s return from the wedding; so that when he comes and knocks, they may straight-way open to him. Blessed are those servants whom the master, on his return, shall find watching. Amen I say to you, he will gird himself, and will make them recline at table, and will come and serve them. And if he comes in the second watch, and if in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! But of this be assured, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would certainly have watched, and not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, because at an hour that you do not expect, the Son of Man is coming.

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   • JUST IN: The SSPX has filed a “preliminary recourse” against the Vatican decree of excommunication
2. Steven Mosher – Population Research Institute
   • China Intensifying Crackdown on Underground Christians
   • Report details China’s intense crackdown on underground Catholics
   • The Devil and Communist China: From Mao Down to Xi

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The News:

• Murder of Catholic Pro-Life Politician Ann Widdecombe Now Investigated as Terrorism
• Sen. Jim Banks Introduces Bill to End Birthright Citizenship, Following Kavanaugh’s Roadmap
• Egypt’s soccer team recited anti-Christian prayer before World Cup match

Saint of the Day:

• St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Gospel of the Day:

Matthew 11:20-24

Jesus began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And as for you, Capernaum: Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the nether world. For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.