Pope set to canonize new saints, Israel launches airstrikes, Appeals court lets Trump keep National Guard in Los Angeles – for now, USCCB under federal investigation, Americans becoming more pro-life, Trouble in Ireland, Something lost? Ask St. Anthony, and more …
Pope set to Canonize First New Saints of his Pontificate
Blessed Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati are set to be canonized together on Sept. 7 – two young men from different eras who led completely different lives, but united in their love for Christ and their ability to impart that love to those whose lives they touched.
Seven more blessed are set to be canonized in October, including martyred Armenian Catholic Archbishop Ignatius Shoukrallah Maloyan, who died in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire; and Peter To Rot, a lay catechist, who was martyred in 1945 for continuing his apostolate despite the ban imposed by the Japanese.
Read more at Vatican News
Israel launches air strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, killing top military officials: ‘If we don’t act now, there will not be another generation’
Israel launched air strikes inside Iran late Thursday in its latest effort to destroy Tehran’s nuclear program – an operation military leaders said they had “no choice” but to carry out.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Operation “Rising Lion” targeted several sites across the Iranian capital to dismantle the country’s nuclear infrastructure, ballistic missile factories and military – in a mission to “roll back” Iran’s threat to Israel’s “very survival.”
Though the extent of damage remains unclear, the attack reportedly killed a high-ranking general and nuclear scientists as explosions boomed across Tehran.
Read more at the New York Post
Kristi Noem speaks out after Dem senator interrupted event: ‘POLITICAL THEATER’
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) did not identify himself when he interrupted her press conference, shouting and lunging forward, so security removed him.
Noem said, “This man burst into the room, started lunging towards the podium, interrupting me and elevating his voice and was stopped, did not identify himself and was removed from the room. So as soon as he identified himself, appropriate actions were taken.”
She continued, “If he would have requested a meeting, I would have loved to have sat down and had a conversation with him. Coming into a press conference like this is political theater. …
Watch at Fox News
Senator Padilla Removed From Press Conference… As He Should Be!
Link Lauren gives a lively take on California Senator Alex Padilla’s being forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Noem’s press conference …
Check it out at Link Lauren YouTube
Latest: Appeals court lets Trump keep National Guard in Los Angeles
A federal appeals court has preserved President Donald Trump’s ability to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles, blocking for at least a few days a judge’s order that found the call-up illegal and unconstitutional.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer’s order just hours after he issued it, amid an urgent push from the Trump administration to vindicate Trump’s power as commander in chief.
Read more at Politico
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left is Selling Chaos. America Isn’t Buying
VDH: “While Los Angeles erupts in chaos, California leaders like Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass seem more interested in defending violent protesters than upholding federal immigration law. Despite relentless media attacks on Donald Trump—especially on the economy—polls show a 17-point edge for Trump over Democrats when it comes to economic leadership. Why? Because Americans aren’t buying the Left’s hysteria.”
Watch more at The Daily Signal
USCCB, Catholic Charities USA under federal investigation regarding immigration assistance
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities USA are among the more than 200 non-governmental organizations that congressmen are investigating in a probe of organizations that served “inadmissible aliens” during the Biden administration, according to a June 11 news release.
House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Dr. Mark E. Green, R-Tenn., and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., are reviewing whether the organizations used taxpayer dollars to “facilitate illegal activity, as the previous administration incentivized millions of inadmissible aliens to cross our borders …
Read more at Catholic Vote
Oversight Committee: Democrat Governors are Prioritizing the Protection of Criminal Illegal Aliens Over the Safety of American Citizens
[Thursday] House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) delivered opening remarks at “A Hearing with Sanctuary State Governors.”
In his opening statement, Chairman Comer declared that the American people overwhelmingly rejected the Biden Administration’s open-border agenda and now, under President Donald Trump’s leadership, that mandate is being fulfilled with decisive action to secure the border and enforce the immigration laws of the United States. …
Three sanctuary state governors from Minnesota (Walz), New York (Hochul) and Illinois (Pritzker) [testified] under oath about why they allow criminal illegal aliens to roam free in American communities.
Read more at Committee of Oversight and Government Reform website
Stefanik Goes Nuclear On Hochul Over Crimes Committed By Illegal Immigrants
At the House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) grills Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) over crimes committed against NY citizens including rape of children, burning a person alive in Hochul’s sanctuary state.
Watch at Forbes Breaking News
‘Changes are coming’: Trump acknowledges labor strain from deportation efforts
Signaling a potential shift in immigration and deportation policy, President Donald Trump said June 12 that changes are on the way in response to concerns from American farmers and hospitality leaders.
“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Read more at Catholic Vote
Obama Judge Blocks President Trump’s Executive Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Federal Elections
Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper issued a preliminary injunction blocking key provisions of President Trump’s executive order aimed at securing federal elections by requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to vote.
The executive order, officially titled Executive Order No. 14248, was intended to plug the gaping holes in America’s voter registration system, which currently allows individuals to vote in federal elections with nothing more than a signed statement affirming their citizenship — no ID, no birth certificate, no passport.
Read more at the Gateway Pundit
RFK Jr.: I’m Proud To Announce New Vaccine Advisory Committee
On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s scheduled June 25 meeting.
The slate includes highly credentialed scientists, leading public-health experts, and some of America’s most accomplished physicians. All of these individuals are committed to evidence-based medicine, gold-standard science, and common sense. …
Read more @SecKennedy on X
President Trump speaks at the White House Congressional Picnic
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted members of Congress and their families at the White House for a picnic Thursday. The president highlighted the importance of putting politics aside for the night to have both parties come together. …
Watch at Rightside Broadcasting
Breaking: President Signs Wildfire Executive Order To Consolidate Wildfire Agencies, Along With Other Priorities.
[On Thursday], the President signed an Executive Order asking the USDA and DOI to consolidate their wildfire programs into a single wildfire program.
The EO also asks Agencies to remove roadblocks to implementing prescribed fire, increase local wildfire preparedness and fuel reduction, increase the use of new technologies for wildfire response, declassify satellite data for the use of mapping and fire prediction (interesting one) …
Read more at thehotshotwakeup.substack.com
Denmark approves US military bases on Danish soil as Trump eyes Greenland
Denmark’s Parliament on Wednesday approved a bill to allow U.S. military bases on Danish soil, a move that comes as President Donald Trump seeks to take control of the kingdom’s semi-autonomous territory of Greenland.
Critics say the vote ceded Danish sovereignty to the U.S. The legislation widens a previous military agreement, made in 2023 with the Biden administration, where U.S. troops had broad access to Danish air bases in the Scandinavian country.
Read more at AP News
Bishops in Puerto Rico push back against ICE raids, deportations
As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) increases its raids and deportations in Puerto Rico, several of the island’s bishops have expressed alarm and reminded Catholics of their duty to welcome and protect those in need.
During a June 11 press conference at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Bishop Ángel Luis Ríos Matos of Mayagüez said he issued orders to parishes in his diocese not to provide information to federal agents “unless supported by a court order.”
Read more at the Catholic News Agency
German archdiocese issues sex ed guidelines encouraging homosexuality, transgenderism in children
The Archdiocese of Hamburg in Germany has published new guidelines for sexual education promoting homosexuality and transgenderism.
“With a new conceptual framework for sex education in Catholic schools, the Archdiocese of Hamburg is sending a clear signal in favor of contemporary, value-oriented, and scientifically sound sex education,” the archdiocese wrote in its press release.
Read more at Lifesite
US Catholic University Parades Sexual Perversions in Counselor Training Program
A graduate student at a prestigious Catholic university in California is blowing the whistle on the Jesuit school’s counseling program, in which students are required to view sadomasochistic films and submit a “comprehensive sexual autobiography” as a compulsory assignment.
Naomi Epps Best, a newly married, 26-year-old mother of one enrolled in Santa Clara University’s counseling program, said she and some Muslim students asked to be exempted from the requirements based on religious, ethical, and trauma-informed grounds, and submit alternative assignments instead. The university granted the Muslim women exemptions, but denied Best.
Read more at The Stream
Trouble in Ireland: An Irishman’s Report
What it looks like is that the Irish are about to have a revolution. The Irish are now at boiling point when it comes to mass migration. Just yesterday in Ballymena, Northern Ireland two foreign nationals were charged with sexual offenses. And when they appeared in court, they required an interpreter. Now naturally the Irish residents of were not too pleased about this, so they took to the streets. But very quickly they were targeting the houses of the alleged offenders …
Watch at British Landeur YouTube
Watch also Rebel Media’s report on recent events in Ireland.
(Ignored by mainstream media, Souls and Liberty will keep viewers posted on this developing story.)
Gravely wounded Colombian presidential hopeful improving; could be miracle, cardinal says
Cardinal Luis José Rueda, archbishop of Bogotá and primate of Colombia, said that with the slight improvement of Miguel Uribe Turbay, senator and presidential hopeful who barely survived a June 7 assassination attempt, “we could be looking at a miracle.”
“We could be looking at a miracle, and we’re hoping for one. And I praise and bless the Lord for these signs, and I believe there are many people praying, praying disinterestedly, from different parts of the country,” the cardinal said in an interview with W Radio when asked about Uribe’s fifth medical report.
Read more at Catholic News Agency
Three Years After Dobbs, Americans are Becoming More Pro-Life on Abortion
A new Gallup poll has revealed that the percentage of surveyed Americans who say they are pro-life has risen two points since last year to 43%, a number that is consistent with past survey results over the last two decades.
Experts say the numbers suggest that the efforts by the Democratic Party, pro-abortion activists, and the mainstream media to sway the American electorate towards widespread acceptance of abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision have been largely unsuccessful.
Read more at LifeNews.com
Can American pope bring US-style fundraising to fix Vatican finances?
As a bishop in Peru, Robert Prevost was often on the lookout for used cars that he could buy cheap and fix up himself for use in parishes around his diocese. With cars that were really broken down, he’d watch YouTube videos to learn how to fix them.
That kind of make-do-with-less, fix-it-yourself mentality could serve Pope Leo XIV well as he addresses one of the greatest challenges facing him as pope: The Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 million euro ($57-68 million) structural deficit, 1 billion euro ($1.14 billion) pension fund shortfall and declining donations that together pose something of an existential threat to the central government of the 1.4-billion strong Catholic Church.
Read more at Business Standard
In case you missed Trump’s Pentecost message …
The president vowed to protect religious freedom: “As we celebrate this glorious feast day, we also honor all Christians who, like the Apostles, have willingly endured persecution because of their faith. My Administration will always defend the right of every American to worship God freely and without fear. …
Under my leadership, we are protecting God in the public square and emboldening every believer to live their faith freely, openly, and without threat of persecution.”
Read more at WhiteHouse.gov
Today is the Feast of St. Anthony of Padua
St. Anthony of Padua is invoked as the patron saint of lost things due to a popular story from his life. A novice borrowed Anthony’s psalter (a book of Psalms) without permission and later lost it. Anthony prayed for its return, and the novice was compelled—some say by a vision or divine urging—to return the book.
This incident, combined with Anthony’s reputation for miracles and his preaching on repentance, led to his association with recovering lost items. By the 14th century, devotees began invoking him for lost objects, a tradition that spread widely, especially among Catholics.
See the short beloved prayer to St. Anthony @Father V on X
