A Catholic Take

1. Jesse Romero – Website – YouTube
   • Catholic voters move left amid midterms’ Democratic wave
   • Democrats take control of the Senate after winning key midterm races
   • Abortion wins in 3 states amid major Democratic victories in U.S. midterms
   • Study: Fewer than a third of US Catholics believe in the Real Presence
2. Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. – The Catholic Current – Website – YouTube
   • Calling Catholics Back from the Cliff
   • VENITE AD ME
   • Cdl. Fernández admits transmission of faith document failed to inspire dioceses
   • Doctrinal Note on Marian titles: Mother of the faithful, not Co-redemptrix

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The News:

• Catholic priest kidnapped, tortured for three days before release
• Study: Fewer than a third of US Catholics believe in the Real Presence
• Blue wave breaks over males in girls’ sports, with Dem strongholds’ voters leaning toward bans

Saint of the Day:

• Sts. Elizabeth and Zachary

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 15:1-10

The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So Jesus addressed this parable to them. “What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance. “Or what woman having ten coins and losing one would not light a lamp and sweep the house, searching carefully until she finds it? And when she does find it, she calls together her friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost.’ In just the same way, I tell you, there will be rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

1. Nicholas Cavazos – The Traditional Thomist
   • Midterm Election Results (Live Updates): Democrats Sweep House And Senate, Some Races Still Too Close To Call
   • Democrats win Congress: How they did it, and what it means
   • President Trump’s 2024 Coalition Just Crumbled. The Exit Poll Numbers Are Stunning.
   • Fox News Voter Poll: 2026 midterm elections usher in a blue wave as Democrats win control of Congress
   • Religious Groups Differ Widely in Their 2026 Midterm Preferences
   • Abortion wins in 3 states amid major Democratic victories in U.S. midterms
   • Abortion Rights Score Three Wins in Midterm Elections
   • Abortion measure in Idaho defeated, but Nevada voters add abortion to state constitution
   • ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ and these charts prove it
   • Inside the Democrats’ Plans to Take On Trump
   • Hakeem Jeffries Says Impeachment and Getting Even Aren’t Priorities
   • Trump says he was ‘a little bit surprised’ after Democrats’ big win in midterms
   • Vance Blames Republican Midterm Losses On Iran War: ‘Everyone Knows Why We Lost’
   • Top US Senate Democrat says Iran war ‘must end’
   • Democrats Could Challenge Trump’s Iran War After Midterm Sweep. A Previous Senate Vote Failed By Just One Vote.
   • Middle East conflict: Trump warns of ‘heavy hit’ as Iran says Americans voted ‘no to war’

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The News:

• Democrats win control of House and Senate in rout that reorders Washington power balance
• Archbishop Hicks joins Catholic sisters’ lawsuit challenging New York assisted suicide mandate
• Oxford Oratory to restore high altar to its pre-Vatican II form

Saint of the Day:

• St. Charles Borromeo

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 14:25-33

Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. In the same way, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.”

1. Michael Haynes – Substack – X
   • Bishop Bätzing: Pope must admit ‘systemic abuse’ in Church
   • Unprecedented attack by a former president of the Episcopal Conference on the Pope
   • PAPAL PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE FLIGHT FROM METZ TO ROME
   • Head of German bishops: We want ‘full communion’ with the Pope
   • Bishop Bätzing challenges Pope Leo over sexual abuse remarks and defends German Synodal Path
2. Fr. Carlos Martins – Website – YouTube – The Exorcist Files
   • Netflix creates blasphemous new anti-Catholic series featuring satanic ritual
   • Netflix advertising post
   • Fr. Martins – Tour Schedule

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The News:

• Netflix creates blasphemous new anti-Catholic series featuring satanic ritual
• Nearly 100,000 signatures collected to challenge Massachusetts late-term abortion law
• Here are the races to watch in the battle for the Senate

Saint of the Day:

• St. Hubert

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 14:15-24

One of those at table with Jesus said to him, “Blessed is the one who will dine in the Kingdom of God.” He replied to him, “A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many. When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to say to those invited, ‘Come, everything is now ready.’ But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have purchased a field and must go to examine it; I ask you, consider me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have purchased five yoke of oxen and am on my way to evaluate them; I ask you, consider me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have just married a woman, and therefore I cannot come.’ The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house in a rage commanded his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in here the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ The servant reported, ‘Sir, your orders have been carried out and still there is room.’ The master then ordered the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled. For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.’”

1. Mike Koeniger – Former U.S. Coast Guard
   • Tucker Carlson warns of “impending” nuclear attack on Iran
   • Tucker Carlson: Netanyahu ‘cornered and desperate,’ pushing Trump for Iran attack
   • Fox News Power Rankings: Kansas moves to Toss-up, Nebraska moves to Lean R
   • Ohio election boss skewers polling as ‘habitutally bad,’ suggests surveys undersampling Republicans
2. Fr. John Brancich, FSSP – Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
   • Pilot of doomed Learjet heard praying the ‘Our Father’
   • Florida Jet Crash: In Final Seconds, a Voice Turned to the Lord’s Prayer
   • All Nine Aboard Killed as Learjet 60 Crashes Near Greenacres, Florida; NTSB Sends Go-Team

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The News:

• Globalist Polish prime minister attempts coup as police seize tribunal
• Georgia Martyrs declared Blessed during Mass in Savannah
• House control centers on about a dozen toss-up races, with GOP clinging to ones in NY, Pennsylvania

Saint of the Day:

• The Souls of the Faithful Departed

Gospel of the Day:

John 5:25-29

At that time, Jesus said to the multitudes of the Jews: Amen, amen I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to the Son also to have life in himself: and he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son of man. Wonder not at this; for the hour cometh, wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God. And they that have done good things, shall come forth unto the resurrection of life; but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.

1. Dr. Anthony Stine – Return to Tradition

• • Cardinal doubles down after saying Church should not ‘convert’ people
  • Bishop Barron rebukes cardinal who said Church should not ‘convert’ people
  • Vatican warns of ‘extremism’ in faithful who ‘raise issue of’ Communion in hand
  • Ad Limina Visit of the Episcopal Conference of Panama
  • Religion Remains Stable in the U.S., With Mixed Signals for Young Adults
  • Pew report challenges narrative on rising religiosity in U.S.

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The News:

• Vatican confirms Pope Leo XIV voted by mail in the U.S. midterm elections
• Catholic leaders decry USCCB lawyer’s ‘personhood’ comments on census count
• Days before midterms, ICE and DOJ announce new wave of noncitizen voting arrests

Saint of the Day:

• St. Marcellus the Centurion

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 14:1-6

On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy. Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking, “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not?” But they kept silent; so he took the man and, after he had healed him, dismissed him. Then he said to them, “Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a cistern, would not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?” But they were unable to answer his question.

1. Nicholas Cavazos – The Traditional Thomist
   • The 2026 midterms are just 5 days away. Which party has a better chance of winning? Here’s what the latest polls say
2. Fr. Gerald Murray – Archdiocese of New York
   • Cdl. Fernández admits Venite ad me “doesn’t arouse passions”
   • Cdl. Vesco: “not there to convert” — Bishop Barron fires back
   • Bishop Barron rebukes cardinal who said Church should not ‘convert’ people
   • Pope Leo at Assisi: “There is no such thing as a holy war: only peace is holy”

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The News:

• Catholic candidates’ take on pro-abortion Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan
• Seven arrested following break-in at Minneapolis basilica
• Kamala Harris urges Democrats not to try to impeach Trump if they win Congress

Saint of the Day:

• St. Narcissus of Jerusalem

Gospel of the Day:

Luke 13:31-35

Some Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Go away, leave this area because Herod wants to kill you.” He replied, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and I perform healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I accomplish my purpose. Yet I must continue on my way today, tomorrow, and the following day, for it is impossible that a prophet should die outside of Jerusalem.’ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling! Behold, your house will be abandoned. But I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”