Pope says AI puts humanity at ‘crossroads’; Judge blocks Trump’s birthright order after Supreme Court ruling; Majority support deporting illegal migrants to country of origin; Mamdani’s Skeletons coming out of the closet; New study suggests praying the Rosary boosts mental health; Spanish archbishop encourages Christians to read Rule of St. Benedict; and more —
Artificial Intelligence is putting humanity at a crossroads, says Pope Leo
Humanity is at a crossroads, and facing the immense potential generated by the digital revolution driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to a message from Pope Leo XIV.
In a letter sent on the pontiff’s behalf by the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin Secretary of State, Leo said the impact of the AI revolution “is far-reaching, transforming areas such as education, work, art, healthcare, governance, the military, and communication.”
Read more at Crux
‘Operational Failure’: Secret Service Suspended Six Agents After Trump Assassination Attempt
Six Secret Service agents were suspended without pay due to security failures during the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly a year ago.
Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn told CBS News on Wednesday that the suspensions ranged from 10 to 42 days, and the personnel were placed on restricted duty with reduced responsibilities upon their return to work. Quinn’s revelation came just days before the one-year anniversary of the July 13 Butler attack, when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired off eight rounds at Trump, striking him in the ear, killing one rallygoer, and injuring two others.
Read more at The Daily Wire
Judge blocks Trump’s birthright order after Supreme Court ruling
A US judge has once again blocked President Donald Trump from implementing an executive order ending birthright citizenship for some US residents as a legal challenge moves forward.
A New Hampshire judge approved a class action lawsuit against Trump’s executive order, and temporarily stopped the president’s order from taking effect.
The class action lawsuit was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of immigrant parents and their infants.
Read more at BBC News
FBI seek Antifa gunman allegedly involved in attempted murder ambush outside ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas
A major FBI manhunt is underway for the Antifa member linked to the ambush shooting attack outside the ICE building on the Fourth of July by a North Texas Antifa cell.
Benjamin Hanil Song (b. March 22, 1993) is wanted for attempted murder and is “considered armed and dangerous,” according to the FBI.
Police and federal agents were lured to the area outside the ICE building in Alvarado, Texas, and found themselves fired upon by a group of heavily armed militants dressed in black. One officer was shot in the neck, but survived.
Read more at Ngo Comment
ICE agents, protesters clash during raid at Ventura County cannabis farm
Multiple agents arrived at Glass House Farms, a licensed cannabis facility, on Laguna Road and Las Posas Road in Camarillo around 11 a.m. Another raid also occurred at another Glass House Farm in Carpinteria.
Video from the scene in Camarillo showed multiple people confronting agents on the road near the field. Throughout the day, the protest continued to grow. Tear gas and smoke bombs were thrown into the crowd multiple times throughout the day. Federal personnel used gas to push back protesters who arrived on scene after getting word of a raid.
Read more at Fox News
‘They were taking our jobs’: US employment skyrockets as ICE crackdown continues
Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon discusses US President Donald Trump’s whopping creation of 147,000 new jobs across the country in June. “It turns out, they actually were taking our jobs,” Ms. Ungar-Sargon told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “For five years, I’ve been making this argument that illegal migrants are undercutting the wages of working-class Americans. “There’s this narrative on the left that they are taking the jobs Americans will not do, or don’t want to do and it’s absolute nonsense.”
Watch at Sky News Australia
Forgotten Northern Border
President Trump slammed the door on illegal immigration – and fentanyl trafficking – at our southern border, something never done before. The flipside is that northern states, like Maine, must be ready. Why? Bad guys find ways around – and the northern border is wide. A wave is coming, and leadership is needed.
Data is revealing, a warning for northern states and leaders to be proactive, not complacent. Maine is vulnerable, and why forward-leaning leadership is vital.
The chance that Maine, with a 611-mile border with Quebec, a 270-mile border with New Brunswick, and 3,500 coastline, is of growing interest to traffickers is high.
Read more at Amac
Poll: Majority Support Deporting Illegal Migrants to Their Country of Origin
A majority of likely general-election voters support deporting illegal migrants to their country of origin, a July survey from Cygnal found.
The survey asked respondents, “Do you support or oppose deporting those illegally in the United States back to their country of origin?”
Read more at Breitbart
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Reveals If He Will Retire
It occurs every July, but especially when a new presidential administration takes office. Those in the orbit of the United States Supreme Court wonder, “Will a justice retire at the end of the term?”
When President Donald Trump won the election to recapture the White House last year, such discussions began immediately. It instantly focused on the court’s two oldest members: Clarence Thomas, who will be 77 next week and has served for 33 years, and Samuel Alito, who was 75 in April and has served for 19 years.
Read more at Conservative Brief
Victor Davis Hanson: Zohran Mamdani’s Skeletons Are Coming Out of the Closet
As New York City’s Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani gains momentum, a troubling record is beginning to emerge—one that raises serious questions about his judgment, ideology, and honesty. With no record of holding a real job outside activism, music, and campaigning, Mamdani has built his political identity on class warfare, racial rhetoric, and far-Left ideology. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the latest on Mamdani in today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
Watch at The Daily Signal
McDonald’s employee stabs co-worker to death before customer intervenes
One worker stabbed another to death at an Eastpointe [Detroit] McDonald’s during at tragic series of circumstances Thursday morning.
Watch at Fox 2 Detroit; see alleged perpetrator on social media before the attack @Rain Drops Media on X
Third of all pregnancies in England and Wales end in abortion, figures reveal
Almost a third of all conceptions in England and Wales now end in abortion, official figures have revealed.
In 2022, 29.69 per cent of all conceptions in England and Wales ended in abortion, up from 26.54 per cent a year earlier, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics.
The figures represent a huge increase in abortion over the space of a decade, with 20.84 percent of conceptions – a fifth of all pregnancies – ending in abortion in 2012.
Read more at the Catholic Herald
Sex and the City Star Cynthia Nixon Thinks Killing Babies is “Great”
Cynthia Nixon recently posted a photo of herself lounging on a boat in a red baseball cap, a smirk in place, and the words “Make Abortion Great Again” stitched in white across her forehead. It’s not a parody. It’s not satire. Its performance, vacant and glib, is designed for some likes and an approving nod from her ideological echo chamber. …
There’s an odd dissonance in Nixon’s political aesthetic. She wraps herself in the language of social struggle while sipping Chardonnay on the water. She champions the working class from the deck of a pleasure vessel. And she pushes abortion absolutism while supporting Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist (communist).
Read more at LifeNews
Qatari Cash Turns Top Catholic University into Hotbed of Radical Islam
A leading Catholic university, which has pocketed more than $1 billion from Qatar and other Arab nations, has become America’s “ground zero” for radical Islamist foreign influence, according to a bombshell report published by the Middle East Forum (MEF).
The July 8 report, Beachhead: Georgetown University (GU), reveals how the Jesuit school partnered with “malign foreign influence actors” from Qatar, Turkey, and Malaysia to brainwash academics, diplomats, and thousands of students with the ideology of extremist Islam.
Read more at The Stream
Priests of West Bank’s only remaining all-Christian town issue urgent appeal against Israeli settler violence
The three priests of Taybeh in the West Bank issued an urgent appeal for justice this week after Israeli settlers reportedly escalated their acts of violence and intimidation against Christians in the region’s only remaining all-Christian town.
“We, the priests of the three churches of Taybeh — the Greek Orthodox Church, the Latin Church, and the Melkite Greek Catholic Church — raise our voices on behalf of the people of our town and our parishioners to strongly condemn the ongoing and grave series of attacks targeting Taybeh,” the three pastors wrote in a letter.
Read more at Catholic Vote
Filipino bishops demand online gambling ban
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has appealed to the Marcos government to ban all forms of online gambling, which bishops called “a deep and widespread moral crisis” plaguing the Christian country.
In a statement issued at the end of their 130th plenary assembly, the CBCP said it is “gravely concerned” because of the “new plague or virus that is destroying individuals, families, and society.”
They said this moral ill “is quietly spreading and causing widespread slavery.”
Read more at the Catholic Herald
Hungarian Man Beaten to Death by Ukrainian Army Recruiters
Ukraine’s ambassador to Budapest has been summoned after Ukrainian recruiting officers beat a Hungarian man so badly during forced conscription in Transcarpathia (Western Ukraine) that he later died of his injuries, Levente Magyar, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said on Thursday.
It was “outrageous and unacceptable to beat someone to death, a Hungarian man at that, just because he did not want to go to war and did not want to take part in senseless killing,” his Facebook entry says.
Read more at Hungary Today
Colombian Arrested for Murder in Poland: Foreign Worker, Polish Victim, German Profits?
A 29-year-old Colombia man has been arrested and charged with the murder of a Polish man … He has pleaded guilty and … faces life imprisonment.
One observer notes: “The alleged perpetrator works for a German holding company in Poland, does not employ Poles, does not pay taxes, employs Colombians who murder Poles in the city and on top of that it receives public aid from the state.”
Mass immigration primarily benefits large [foreign] companies and corporations that employ these people, do not pay taxes in Poland, report losses, and thus earn huge amounts of money.
Watch at Poland Daily Live
Who Is Afraid of Catholic Saints? A Strange Campaign Against Carlo Acutis
Pope Leo XIV has officially announced the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a teenager who passed away from leukemia at the age of 15 in 2006. The ceremony is now scheduled for September 7, 2025. …
The announcement was met with significant enthusiasm in Italy, where Acutis is quite popular. However, a campaign against his canonization has emerged, covered by both domestic and international media. This campaign began in March 2025, initiated by “The Economist,” a magazine that is not particularly sympathetic to the Roman Catholic Church.
Read more at Zenit
Will the Rosary be a new wellness trend? Research says it should be
What if a way to boost your mental health costs nothing, requires no app subscription, and has been hiding in plain sight for centuries? And helps you grow in love for God? A groundbreaking new study suggests it might be praying the Rosary.
If you’ve ever felt a spirit of calm and happiness wash over you when you pray the Rosary, you won’t be surprised to see these results.
Read more at Aleteia
Thoughts About the Mass for Care of Creation
The Vatican, on July 3, approved a new votive Mass “for care of creation” which Pope Leo XIV celebrated for the first time on July 9. A follow-on from the Francis pontificate promulgated to mark the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’, the new votive Mass has elicited a variety of contradictory responses.
I’ll weigh in: I think it is balanced in the middle, and in medio stat virtus. It’s in the middle because it avoids two extremes: the Scylla of secular environmentalism and the Charybdis of disregard for the inherent good of the temporal world. Let’s examine both. …
Read more at Crisis Magazine
Relearning the liturgy to combat the problem of formation
For many years now, people have been speaking about the decline of the Catholic liturgy and of Catholic sacred music. And there are strong reasons to discuss the matter in these terms.
In far too many of our churches and basilicas, the liturgy is celebrated in a careless and disrespectful manner, unworthy of the majesty of God. Everyone knows this problem exists, yet there seems to be little will to do anything to remedy the situation.
Read more at Per Mariam
Spanish archbishop encourages Christians to read Rule of St. Benedict
Archbishop Enrique Benavent Vidal of Valencia in Spain encouraged the faithful to take advantage of summer vacation to read and delve deeper into the Rule of St. Benedict, as it contains “insights that are useful” for the daily life of all Christians.
In his July 5 weekly letter, the prelate observed that on Friday, July 11, the Catholic Church will celebrate the feast of St. Benedict, the patron saint of Europe who lived between the fifth and sixth centuries.
Read more at Catholic News Agency
