A Catholic Take

Guests:

1. Paul Holub – Website
   • The 10 U.S. Cities Where Sellers Are Slashing Home Prices the Most—and the Least
2. Robert Spencer – Jihad Watch
   • US military strikes Iran-backed groups in Syria after American contractor dies in drone attack

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• SpiritusTV – A Catholic YouTube

The News:

• Transgender Female Shooter Kills At Least 6, Including 3 Kids In Nashville Christian School Shooting
• 70-Car Train Derails in North Dakota Causing Another Hazardous Waste Leak
• Possible eucharistic miracle at Connecticut church
• House to advance nationwide TikTok ban
• Rand Paul staffer stabbed in brutal attack in Washington, DC
• Biden vows to tank GOP effort to boost energy production
• Massachusetts diocese issues law banning hookup apps

Saint of the Day:

• St. John of Capistrano (St. John Capistran) – Confessor

Gospel of the Day:

John 8:21-30

Jesus said to the Pharisees: “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.” So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning. I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world.” They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father. So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.” Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.

Guests:

1. Michael Hichborn – Lepanto Institute
   • Statement on Fr. James Connell
   • Former Vice-Chancellor for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Attacks the Seal of Confession [UPDATE]
   • Previous ACT Interview
2. Joe Pojman, Ph.D. – Texas Alliance for Life
   • Nancy Pelosi Criticizes the US Catholic Bishops During Georgetown Panel Discussion
   • Pelosi attacks Abp. Cordileone over opposition to abortion, same-sex ‘marriage,’ calls for women priests
   • States’ divisions on abortion widen after Roe overturned

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• SpiritusTV – A Catholic YouTube

The News:

• First Citizens to buy large chunk of failed Silicon Valley Bank
• Passenger at LAX Detained For Allegedly Triggering Emergency Slide
• Trump Claims DA’s Office Has “Dropped” The Case Against Him
• New York nears deal creating first ban in the country on gas stoves for new homes
• University Caught Storing Bags of Aborted Babies and Aborted Baby Parts
• Daunting recovery underway in tornado-devastated Mississippi
• Philadelphia residents advised to drink bottled water after chemical spill into Delaware River

Saint of the Day:

• St. John of Damascus (St. John Damascene) – Confessor & Doctor

Gospel of the Day:

John 8:1-11

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. They said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger. But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he bent down and wrote on the ground. And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So he was left alone with the woman before him. Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She replied, “No one, sir.” Then Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”

Guests:

1. Charles D. Fraune – Slaying Dragons – Twitter
   • THE RISE OF THE OCCULT: WHAT EXORCISTS AND FORMER OCCULTISTS WANT YOU TO KNOW
2. Fr. Basil Cole, O.P. – Dominican House of Studies
   • Angelic Virtues and Demonic Vices: Aquinas’s Practical Principles for Reaching Heaven and Avoiding Hell

Other Links:

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• SpiritusTV – A Catholic YouTube

The News:

• Disney World in Orlando to Host Conference on Gay and Transgender Rights in the Workplace
• Secretary of State says approximately 175 Americans remain detained by Taliban in Afghanistan
• AZ Supreme Court Gives Kari Lake Huge Victory After She Exposes Signature Verification Issues
• Biden DOJ sued for allegedly hiding info on attacks of churches, pro-life groups
• TikTok CEO Refuses To Say Whether Officials At Chinese Parent Company Helped Him Prepare For Hearing
• Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs law banning ‘gender transitions’ for children, males in female bathrooms

Saint of the Day:

• St. Gabriel – Archangel – Patron of messengers and telecommunications

Gospel of the Day:

John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

Jesus moved about within Galilee; he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret. Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill? And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ? But we know where he is from. When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from.” So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, “You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” So they tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.

Guests:

1. Edward Pentin – National Catholic Register – Website – Twitter
   • Pope Francis’ Revealing Decade

Other Links:

• French bishop moves to end Traditional Latin Mass standoff
• The new Mayan rite of Mass encouraged by Pope Francis is replete with pagan idolatry and symbolism
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• SpiritusTV – A Catholic YouTube

The News:

• Manhattan Grand Jury Didn’t Meet Wednesday, Potential Trump Indictment Delayed
• Fed raises interest rates by a quarter point amid high inflation and now bank collapses
• Biden adviser attacks Uganda’s anti-sodomy bill: LGBT ‘rights’ are a ‘core part of our foreign policy’
• Florida Bill to Ban Abortions Would Give $25 Million to Pregnancy Centers That Help Women
• CDC Warns of Dangerous Fungal Infection Spreading Through US at ‘Alarming Rate’
• High school football coach fired for praying with players rehired, awarded nearly $2 million

Saint of the Day:

• Bl. Peter O’Higgins – Martyr (d. 1642) – one of the Irish Martyrs

Gospel of the Day:

John 5:31-47

Jesus said to the Jews: “If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true. But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true. You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth. I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light. But I have testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form, and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. But you do not want to come to me to have life. I do not accept human praise; moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Guests:

1. Michael Hichborn – Founder & President, Lepanto Institute
   • Former Vice-Chancellor for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Attacks the Seal of Confession

Other Links:

• Reason No. 777 why I have “Chosen” to NOT watch “The Chosen” TV show
• Letter of St. Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans
• GET THE ICR MAGNET HERE
• SpiritusTV – A Catholic YouTube

The News:

• Former president is expected to be indicted tomorrow and Secret Service will make plans for his surrender and appearance in New York court NEXT WEEK
• Georgia legislature BANS child sex changes
• Oklahoma Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Ban, Says There’s No Right to Abortion
• New York pro-life pregnancy center vandalized for second time in a year by pro-abortion extremists
• US unveils new Iran sanctions
• Rasmussen Poll: 58 Percent Say US on Wrong Track

Saint of the Day:

• Bl. Bronisław Komorowski – Martyr (d. 1940) – one of the 108 Polish Martyrs of World War II

Gospel of the Day:

John 5:17-30

Jesus answered the Jews: “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.” For this reason they tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God. Jesus answered and said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for what he does, the Son will do also. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes. Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life. Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son the possession of life in himself. And he gave him power to exercise judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation. I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.”

Guests:

1. Kurt Zindulka – Breitbart – Twitter
   • Macron Proclaims to ‘Regret Nothing’ as Fiery Protests Spread Across France Despite Police Ban
   • Macron Govt in Jeopardy as Opposition Parties File Motions of No Confidence
   • Paris Burns: Hundreds Arrested as Rioters Set Trash Fires, Clash with Cops After Macron Tries to Pass Pension Reform Without a Vote
2. Robert Spencer – JihadWatch.org
   • Hold Everything: Now Trump Will Likely NOT Be Arrested, at Least on Tuesday
   • Dershowitz: Manhattan DA Using ‘Made-Up Laws’ in Trump Case
   • NYPD Mobilizes 700 Riot Cops, Puts Up Steel Barricades Ahead of Potential Trump Arrest

Other Links:

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• SpiritusTV – A Catholic YouTube

The News:

• Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Signs Bill to Create Memorial Mourning Babies Killed in Abortions
• U.S. Bishops’ Doctrine Committee Issues Guidance to Catholic Health Care Institutions on Respecting the Fundamental Order of the Human Body
• Biden Signs Legislation to Declassify Coronavirus Origins, Overturn D.C. Crime Bill
• D.C. Residents Shred Fauci, The Door-To-Door COVID Vax Salesman, In 2021
• Xi’s Meeting With Putin Covertly Aims to Prolong Ukraine War, Weaken US
• Cardinal Müller and Cardinal Burke Rebuke German Bishops Over Same-Sex Union Blessings

Saint of the Day:

• St. Nicholas of Flüe – Confessor (d. 1487) – Patron of Switzerland and the Swiss Guards

Gospel of the Day:

John 5:1-16

There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be well?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.” Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your mat, and walk.” Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked. Now that day was a sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who was cured, “It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.” He answered them, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’” They asked him, “Who is the man who told you, ‘Take it up and walk’?” The man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there. After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him, “Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you.” The man went and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well. Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath.