Dr. Fauci’s associate, David Morens, pleads guilty to conspiracy in a scheme to avoid FOIA requests; Sydney archbishop asks Australia news outlet to investigate its one-sided euthanasia coverage; CatholicVote president warns of growing alliance between radical left, Islamist movements; Detroit pastor on fire with the Holy Spirit at anti-Islam protest in Dearborn; Ceuta residents demand the Red Cross to leave their city after favoring illegal migrants over locals; Heritage Foundation sounding alarm on abortion drugs detected in drinking water; Please dear God, No!: Another deadly attack on Nigerian Christians; St. Bernadette relics are coming to America!; Catholics honor 17th-century French priest who spread devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary and who gave refuge to women seeking to escape prostitution; and a lot more —
David Morens, former NIAID adviser, pleads guilty in COVID-19 records scheme
A former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from a scheme to hide federal records during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under a deal reached with federal prosecutors in Maryland, David Morens, 78, agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit offenses and to defraud the United States. He faces up to five years in prison.
Morens, a senior adviser at NIAID’s Office of the Director from 2006 to 2022, was indicted in April and charged with five counts for what prosecutors said at the time was his role in a scheme to defraud the U.S. by shielding federal records related to the COVID-19 pandemic from the public.
Read more at CBS
Dr. Rand Paul asks if Morens’ guilty plea implicates Fauci
See @RandPaul
Key takeaways from action-packed primary election night in Florida
Rep. Byron Donalds secured the Republican nomination for governor Tuesday night in one of several major races that were on the ballot in Florida’s primary elections.
Results came in fast and furious in the Sunshine State, where one House incumbent was unseated, several others fended off insurgent primary challengers and a Democratic Senate hopeful was dealt a stunning defeat by a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Here are five takeaways from another action-packed primary night.
1. House incumbents from both parties survive redistricting and extremist opponents …
2. (Alleged) crime doesn’t pay …
3. The anti-Trump ‘resistance’ loses an icon …
4. Four Republicans set to take on Democrats in new, GOP-friendly districts …
5. Race to replace DeSantis set …
Read more at the New York Post
Trump suggests ‘DEAL’ reviving Keystone XL oil pipeline, could transport up to 830,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the US
See @WhiteHouse
Heritage Foundation sounding alarm on abortion drugs in drinking water
A July 2026 study reports detectable anti-progesterone activity, attributed to mifepristone, in tap and environmental water samples from three U.S. cities including Austin, Blacksburg, and Carbondale – Grok
Watch @Heritage
CatholicVote president warns of growing alliance between radical left, Islamist movements
CatholicVote President and CEO Kelsey Reinhardt argued that the ideologically opposed movements have formed a tactical coalition based on shared hostility toward the foundations of Western civilization.
CatholicVote President and CEO Kelsey Reinhardt warned Aug. 18 that radical left-wing groups and Islamist political movements are forming a growing alliance that she said seeks to weaken the foundations of Western civilization.
In a statement titled “The Unholy Alliance You Weren’t Supposed to Notice,” Reinhardt described the partnership as a “red-green alliance,” an informal coalition that she said has become increasingly visible on university campuses and in political organizing and Democratic primary campaigns.
“It is not a formal organization. It has no single headquarters,” Reinhardt wrote. “But it is real, it is growing, and its ambitions are not modest.”
Read more at Zeale
Leftists and Antifa confront anti-Islam protestors in Dearborn, Michigan
Watch @EricLDaugh; watch also @MrAndyNgo
Detroit pastor on fire with the Holy Spirit at anti-Islam Protest in Dearborn
Detroit pastor Lorenzo Sewell passionately addresses Dearborn City Council meeting on August 18, 2026, invokes the Holy Spirit, challenges Sharia law, and references historical racism tied to former mayor Orville Hubbard while claiming the city’s prosperity came at the expense of the Black community.
Watch @TheChadLeger
Mel Gibson working on a mini-series about Christian victory at the Siege of Malta (1565)
See @trad_west
Sydney archbishop asks Australia news outlet to investigate its euthanasia coverage
Archbishop Anthony Fisher says the national broadcaster gave a leading euthanasia campaigner four platforms in nine days without comparable access for those who oppose him.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP, of Sydney has demanded an investigation from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) over its coverage of calls to lift the federal ban on using telehealth and other carriage services for voluntary assisted dying (VAD), as euthanasia and assisted suicide are termed in Australian law.
The Australian reported that in a letter to the ABC ombudsman, Fiona Cameron, he claimed the national broadcaster had breached its own guidelines on impartiality.
He asked the ombudsman whether its platforms “operated to amplify one side of a contentious policy debate.”
VAD is legal throughout Australia apart from the Northern Territory, which is expected to pass enabling legislation soon.
Read more at EWTN NEWS
Chaos in Ceuta
Spanish mothers in Ceuta are in tears on live television. Hospitals are overflowing. Beaches and parks that once hosted families are now open-air camps of garbage, feces and makeshift shacks. And the Civil Guard has confirmed at least 15 rapes since the late-July mass migrant invasion – including a 10-year-old girl allegedly assaulted by three migrant brothers.
See @zerohedge; read more at Modernity News
Residents of Ceuta demand the expulsion of the Red Cross: They have no shame
Residents of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta demand that the Red Cross leave the city immediately. They criticize the organization for its “partial” activity during the recent wave of migration and for prioritising people who crossed the border illegally, at the expense of the local population struggling with a growing sense of danger.
Residents of the autonomous city of Ceuta are calling for the immediate departure of the Red Cross from their territory. They believe that the organisation was biased during the recent “migratory invasion”. Under the slogan “they have no shame”, local residents demand that the Red Cross leave the city and stop favoring people who crossed the border illegally.
The protests stem from residents’ allmark that the organization allocates large resources (food, clothing, blankets and medical aid) to newcomers, while the elderly, families with children and shopkeepers struggle with growing danger and lack of protection. Many residents of Ceuta complain that the daily effects of the crisis fall on them, and the same institution does not provide them with comparable support.
Read more Televizja Republika (Poland) – translation available
Päivi Räsänen Barred from UK over Christian Speech Conviction, ADF [Alliance Defending Freedom] Urges Action
Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen, convicted over citing a Bible passage on homosexuality, has been blocked from entering the United Kingdom, leaving her unable to attend a Northern Ireland conference where she was due to speak about freedom of speech. ADF CEO Kristen Waggoner urged Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to intervene, arguing that Britain should not uphold another country’s ‘heavy-handed censorship’.
Finnish Christian Democrat MP and former interior minister Päivi Räsänen has been barred from entering the United Kingdom, leaving her unable to appear in person at a religious liberty conference in Northern Ireland where she was due to speak about freedom of speech.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which represents Räsänen, said on Tuesday that her UK Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) had been cancelled following her March conviction by Finland’s Supreme Court for ‘agitation against a population group’. Her ETA was initially approved in June before being withdrawn in July. She subsequently applied for a full visitor visa and personally appealed to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, but was told she would not receive a decision in time for the conference.
The episode marks the second time in two months that the same travel restriction has prevented Räsänen from travelling through or to Britain. In July, she had to reroute a return journey from the United States to avoid transiting through Heathrow after her ETA was cancelled.
Read more at the Hungarian Conservative
Legal firm defending Päivi Räsänen’s religious freedom speaks out
See @ADFLegal
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem visits imperiled, last Christian-only village in the West Bank
See @CatholicArena
Local Christian women mourn another deadly attack in Nigeria
An overnight attack in Mangu, Plateau State, Nigeria, where at least 23 Christians were killed in Bin Mper community by armed assailants using machetes in house-to-house assaults, mostly targeting women and children. Independent sources including Reuters, International Christian Concern, and Amnesty International confirm 24-25 deaths on August 18, 2026, with gory details of families slaughtered and mass burials, amid security failures and delayed response. – Grok
Watch @ChristianEmerg1
St. Bernadette relics are coming to America!
See @cnalive; read more at EWTN NEWS
Today is the Feast of St. John Eudes – ‘Apostle of the Sacred Hearts‘
Read @father_rmv
