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1. Mark Lambert – Catholic Unscripted
   • The FBI’s Catholic Problem Was Never About Extremism
   • FBI fires more agents involved in Biden memo targeting ‘radical traditionalist Catholics’
2. Michael Hichborn – Lepanto Institute
   • The Catholic Relief Services Scandal (2024)
   • CRS Receives More Than $240 Million from U.S. Department of State for Lifesaving Humanitarian Assistance
   • United States Announces More than $240 Million in Assistance to Catholic Relief Services to Address Global Humanitarian Needs
   • US State Dept announces first of a series of major humanitarian award

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• Senate Passes Trump’s $70 Billion Immigration Enforcement Package in Narrow Vote
• Iran Halts Military Operations After Trump Tells Both Sides to Stop Shooting — War’s 101st Day
• Pope Leo XIV Arrives in Barcelona to Inaugurate Sagrada Família Tower of Jesus Christ

Saint of the Day:

• St. Columba

Gospel of the Day:

Matthew 5:13-16

Jesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.”

1. Mike Koeniger – Former U.S. Coast Guard
   • Ben Sasse claims public schools were created to separate Catholic kids from parents, priests
   • The FBI’s Catholic Problem Was Never About Extremism
   • Protestantism, anti-Catholicism, and public education in the United States
   • Anti-Catholicism and the History of Catholic School Funding
2. Fr. Gerald Murray – Archdiocese of New York
   • Cardinals to Debate ‘Just War’, Not Liturgy, at Pope Leo XIV’s Next Extraordinary Consistory
   • Why is the President of the Pontifical Academy of Theology supporting the abolition of religion and God?

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The News:

• Archdiocese of Paris Approves Voodoo-Inspired “Art” Exhibits
• House Report: Walz and Ellison Knew About $9 Billion in COVID Fraud Since 2019
• Mozambique Bishop Fatally Shot at His Episcopal Residence

Saint of the Day:

• St. William of York

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 14:16-24

At that time, Jesus spoke to the Pharisees this parable: A certain man gave a great supper, and he invited many. And he sent his servant at supper time to tell those invited to come, for everything is now ready. And they all with one accord began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a farm, and I must go out and see it; I pray you hold me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am on my way to try them; I pray you hold me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ And the servant returned, and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house was angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and the crippled, and the blind, and the lame.’ And the servant said, ‘Sir, your order has been carried out, and still there is room.’ Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and make them come in, so that my house may be filled. For I tell you that none of those who were invited shall taste of my supper.’

1. Nicholas Cavazos – The Traditional Thomist
   • Bodycam footage fuels backlash after police handcuff dying stabbing victim
2. Dr. Anthony Stine – YouTube – Substack
   • Statement from Cardinal Robert McElroy on Monsignor Stephen Rossetti
   • Response from Msgr. Stephen J Rossetti
   • What was said
   • Cardinals to Debate ‘Just War’, Not Liturgy, at Pope Leo XIV’s Next Extraordinary Consistory

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The News:

• House Passes War Powers Resolution to Halt U.S. Military Action Against Iran in Bipartisan Rebuke of Trump
• Catholic Bishops Lead Broad Coalition Against Ruling That “Opens Floodgates” to Abortion Under Pregnancy Law
• Pope Leo XIV’s June Consistory Will Focus on ‘Just War’ Theory, AI Encyclical, and Synodality — Not the Latin Mass

Saint of the Day:

• St. Francis Caracciolo

Gospel of the Day:

John 6:56-59

At that time, Jesus said to the crowds of the Jews: My Flesh is food indeed, and My Blood is drink indeed. He who eats My Flesh, and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him. As the living Father has sent Me, and as I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me. This is the Bread that has come down from heaven; not as your fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this Bread shall live forever.

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The News:

• Head of Spanish bishops rejects spirit of Amoris Laetitia days before Pope’s visit
• Iranian Drone and Missile Strikes Hit Kuwait, Killing One at International Airport
• Most Priests Ordained in Charlotte This Year Came From Parishes That Had the Latin Mass or Altar Rails

Saint of the Day:

• St. Clotilde

Gospel of the Day:

Mark 12:18-27

Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and put this question to him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If someone’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants. So the second brother married her and died, leaving no descendants, and the third likewise. And the seven left no descendants. Last of all the woman also died. At the resurrection when they arise whose wife will she be? For all seven had been married to her.” Jesus said to them, “Are you not misled because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven. As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled.”

1. Ellen Holmes Steeves Leblanc – Select International Tours
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2. Alexandrya Pouliot – Substack – Vulnerable People Project
   • The Christians of the Middle East Are Washington’s Bridge to Peace
   • Cardinal Pizzaballa intervenes after Israeli authorities stop Marian festival in West Bank
   • Israeli Military Attempts to Halt Catholic Marian Festival in Christian Village of Taybeh

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The News:

• Pope Leo Names First Laywoman Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication
• Criminal Referrals Alleging Democrats Used Eight Nonprofit “Cutouts” to Route Billions
• Israel Bombs and Captures Historic 12th-Century Castle in Lebanon, Deepening Offensive Despite Ceasefire

Saint of the Day:

• St. Elmo

Gospel of the Day:

Mark 12:13-17

Some Pharisees and Herodians were sent to Jesus to ensnare him in his speech. They came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion. You do not regard a person’s status but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not? Should we pay or should we not pay?” Knowing their hypocrisy he said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius to look at.” They brought one to him and he said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” They replied to him, “Caesar’s.” So Jesus said to them, “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” They were utterly amazed at him.

1. Mike Koeniger – Former U.S. Coast Guard
   • Congress Quietly Moves To Intertwine US, Israeli Militaries On Formal Level
   • Washington Nationals business operations president apologizes for anti-Catholic scandal (Apology)
   • Washington Nationals business operations president apologizes for anti-Catholic scandal (Original Undercover Clip)
   • Washington Nationals business operations president apologizes for anti-Catholic scandal (The Story)
2. Brian McCall – Pelican Plus

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The News:

• CatholicVote Files DOJ Civil Rights Complaint Against Washington Nationals
• Canadian Man Who Ran Global Online Assisted-Suicide Network Pleads Guilty
• SPLC CEO to Testify June 9 After Federal Grand Jury Indicts Organization for Wire Fraud

Saint of the Day:

• St. John Baptist Scalabrini

Gospel of the Day:

Mark 12:1-12

Jesus began to speak to the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey. At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard. But they seized him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent them another servant. And that one they beat over the head and treated shamefully. He sent yet another whom they killed. So, too, many others; some they beat, others they killed. He had one other to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ So they seized him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, put the tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this Scripture passage: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes?” They were seeking to arrest him, but they feared the crowd, for they realized that he had addressed the parable to them. So they left him and went away.