Nigerian seminarians kidnapped by terrorists; Mayor Bass offers cash assistance to illegals; Rand Paul releases report on security failures surrounding assassination attempt on Trump; Polish bishop says mercy does not mean ‘open doors to all illegal immigrants’; Pope Leo reveals his parents prayed the Rosary together; and more —
Chairman Rand Paul Releases Final Report Detailing Secret Service Failures in Attempted Assassination of President Donald J. Trump
[Sunday], U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released his final report detailing failures by the United States Secret Service (USSS) that allowed the July 13, 2024, attempted assassination of then-former President Donald J. Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, to nearly succeed. The report exposes a disturbing pattern of denials, mismanagement, and missed warning signs—some occurring just minutes before shots were fired.
On July 13, 2024, a gunman climbed onto the roof of the American Glass Research building near the Butler Farm Show rally and opened fire, striking four individuals, including President Trump, and killing firefighter Corey Comperatore. …
Read more at Homeland Security / Governmental Affairs
Before Butler shooting, Secret Service denied multiple requests to bolster Trump’s security detail during his 2024 campaign, report says
Ahead of the assassination attempt one year ago on President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Secret Service denied multiple requests from Mr. Trump’s Secret Service detail to bolster his security apparatus during his 2024 presidential campaign, according to a Senate report released Sunday.
The report from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs found that the Secret Service “denied or left unfulfilled at least 10 requests” from Mr. Trump’s detail for “additional resources,” including an enhanced counter drone system, counter assault team personnel and counter snipers.
Read more at CBS News
Trump Reveals Lingering Ear Pain from Assassination Attempt, Credits God for Survival [on] One-Year Anniversary
President Donald Trump has revealed that he still has pain in his ear and credits God for his survival as the one-year anniversary of the assassination attempt approaches.
The president said, “I have got this massive crowd of people, and all of a sudden you hear and you feel something that’s very unusual. And I got down quickly. And I was — people were screaming, get down, get down. It was a whole — the whole thing was just crazy. And it’s hard to believe a year is up.”
“And here we are. A lot of things have happened since then, including the presidency. So I have an obligation to do a good job, I feel, because I was really saved, I was really saved by somebody very special.”
Read more at the Gateway Pundit
Widow of killed fire chief [Helen Comperatore] not satisfied with Secret Service suspensions over Trump assassination attempt
Suspensions aren’t enough punishment for the US Secret Service agents who failed to secure President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally site ahead of the July 2024 assassination attempt on the then candidate, said the widow of a fire chief killed in the tragedy.
“Suspending them when my husband was killed? You know, that’s not punishment,” Helen Comperatore said as she held back tears in an emotional Saturday interview with “FOX & Friends Weekend.”
Read more at The New York Post
President Trump’s White House just released an ad praising God for saving Trump’s life
One year ago today, an assassin opened fire on President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The bullet hit—but by the grace of God, he stood up. Bloodied. Unbowed. And he fought harder. July 13th is a reminder: we fight, we win, AND WE NEVER SURRENDER.
Watch @White House on X
Trump’s American-born worker boom
Employment is up since President Donald Trump took office. But the surface numbers actually hide just how good the Trump economy has been for American workers.
Overall, the number of employed people in the United States has increased by 1.5 million since January of this year. But that topline number includes both foreign-born and American-born workers.
Read more at the Washington Examiner
LA Mayor Bass provides cash payments to illegals, issues order to thwart immigration enforcement
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive order Friday to bolster protocols and support immigrant neighborhoods, including offering cash assistance, in response to raids by the Trump administration targeting those living in the United States illegally.
The order is intended to help protect the city’s workforce and residents from the federal government during immigration enforcement operations. It also demands that federal agencies provide records of the raids, who was detained and for what reason and the cost to taxpayers, which will be part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Read more at Fox News
HHS Bans Illegal Aliens from Accessing its Taxpayer-Funded Programs
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a significant policy shift to restore compliance with federal law and ensure that taxpayer-funded program benefits intended for the American people are not diverted to subsidize illegal aliens.
HHS has formally rescinded a 1998 interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), issued during the Clinton Administration, which improperly extended certain federal public benefits to illegal aliens.
Read more at DHHS website
Victor Davis Hanson: John Brennan Has Himself to Blame for FBI Investigation
John Brennan, one of the main architects behind the 2016 Russian Collusion Hoax, and a contributor to the 2020 Hunter Biden “Laptop From Hell” Cover-up, has a storied history of being at the heart of the most significant scandals in American history of the last 50 years. And now it’s rightfully starting to catch up with him, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:”
Watch at The Daily Signal
Miranda Devine: Epstein drama is an unnecessary distraction for Trump admin – and plays into the hands of malign Dems
Uh oh. Democrat swamp rat Jamie Raskin has jumped on the Epstein conspiracy bandwagon, demanding AG Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino testify to Congress about the so-called Epstein files.
After five days of escalating hysteria and chest-beating, including ultimatums to the president to “fire Blondi,” MAGA “influencers” have found themselves on the same side as Raskin, which, needless to say, is the wrong side.
Read more at the New York Post
Dissident Catholic organization that advocated for married priests shuts down after 50 years
The Corps of Reserved Priests United for Service (CORPUS) announced this week that they disbanded late last year due to low membership after advocating for the Latin Church to allow married priests and other heretical reforms for over 50 years.
In a July 6 article first published in the National Catholic Reporter, CORPUS announced that it had closed in December 2024 due to the old age of many of its current members and a lack of new, younger members joining the organization. The heterodox apostolate, founded in 1974 and not recognized by the Catholic Church, had supported the ordination of married men to the priesthood, ordaining female “priests,” and allowing the faithful to use birth control.
Read more at LifeSite
Flight attendant fired over expressing Catholic beliefs can proceed with lawsuit
A Catholic flight attendant who says United Airlines fired him after he endorsed Catholic teachings on marriage and gender identity while talking with a co-worker can proceed with his lawsuit against his union for not standing up for him, a federal judge has ruled.
The flight attendant, Ruben Sanchez, of Anchorage, Alaska, claims the airline investigated his extensive social media posts only after receiving what he describes as “baseless accusations” arising from a red-eye flight conversation in May of 2023 — and that when the company came up with nothing that violated its social media policy, it terminated him anyway.
Read more at the Catholic News Agency
Transplant Facilities Greatly Expanded in Xinjiang—For More Organ Harvesting
On July 3, the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) raised alarms about a worrying trend: the potential increase in forced organ harvesting from Uyghurs. This concern follows a recent announcement by health officials in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region about plans to greatly expand their organ transplant facilities.
The official announcement details a new plan to build six more organ transplant hospitals in Xinjiang by the year 2030. Critics are worried that this expansion is excessive and lacks the necessary transparency, especially given China’s troubling history of forced organ harvesting.
Read more at Bitter Winter
Nigerian Bishop Anagbe: “A silent genocide against Christians, the Church does not abandon its people”
Msgr. Wilfred Anagbe, Bishop of Makurdi, denounces jihadist violence in Nigeria to SIR: “It is genocide. They want to Islamise the country. They kill even newborn babies, burn men and women alive. The Church remains alongside its people with Masses, confessions, aid, and emergency education for displaced children”
Read more at Agenzia S.I.R.; read more @Fr Edmond Nyoka on X
Poland leads Europe in priestly vocations as 208 set for Ordination in 2025
Poland is set to ordain 208 men to the sacred priesthood this year, the highest number of any European country.
A total of 141 men will be ordained for the diocesan priesthood. The Archdiocese of Warsaw, the country’s second largest by Catholic population, is set to ordain 12 men. However, the diocese with the largest number of new priests will be the Diocese of Tarnów, in the south of Poland, which will ordain 13 men.
Read more at the Catholic Herald
Bishop Długosz at Jasna Góra: We know what mercy is. This doesn’t mean we should open our doors to all illegal immigrants.
Bishop Antoni Długosz during the Jasna Góra Appeal on July 11, 2025 emphasized that accepting illegal migrants is not in Poland’s best interests and does not fit the order of mercy. The priest spoke of prayer for the defenders of Polish borders. …
Warning against unconditionally accepting all migrants, Bishop Długosz … cited the crucial words of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński:
“Mother of God, you know that Poles passed the test when it came to opening the doors to millions of fleeing Ukrainians. And in the name of love for their neighbor, they were willing to pay the ultimate price to help Jews” …
Read more at Polityce.pl
Spain in chaos as locals fight back after migrant gangs violently attack innocent people
The streets of Spain have devolved into chaos. Yes, the middle of summer should be heaven in Spain but not this year. Locals are being terrorised by migrant gangs with reports of random acts of violence towards innocent local members of the community.
Watch at Sky News Australia
Canadian doctors reveal regret over euthanizing patients who were simply obese or poor
Canada’s doctors are raising grave concerns about a rising trend in euthanizing people who are not terminally ill.
Newly-unearthed communications reveal many physicians charged with carrying out assisted dying have found the loosening of criteria ‘morally distressing.’
In 2021, Canada expanded its medical dying law to include people with incurable – but not terminal – illnesses, which led to a 30 percent increase in assisted deaths in 2022.
Read more at the Daily Mail
United Church of Christ Passes Resolution Claiming Killing Babies in Abortions is Health Care
A Protestant denomination that claims to follow Christ passed a pro-abortion resolution this week that describes aborting unborn babies as “health care” and pro-life laws as “sexual violence.”
The United Church of Christ General Synod overwhelmingly passed the resolution “Proclaiming Abortion as Healthcare” in a 611-24 vote, according to the denomination website.
Read more at LifeNews
Did Jesus Pack Heat?’ – Maine Community College Professor Attacks, Discriminates Against Christian Conservative Student for Views on Gun Control
A professor at Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) attacked and discriminated against a Christian conservative student for writing an essay about gun control with which the liberal professor disagreed.
The EMCC student, Katherine Parker, joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler Show on Wednesday to discuss the incident, which resulted from a rough draft for an essay she submitted for an English class at the college taught by the English department head Carol Lewandowski.
The assignment was meant to be a persuasive speech in response to an editorial, and Parker chose one written by columnist Douglas Rooks and published in the Portland Press Herald entitled, “Maine Legislature derelict in its duty on ‘red flag’.”
Read more at The Maine Wire; see also WMTV
The Bishops Will Dispense Illegals from Mass, But Not You from Traditionis Custodes – essay by Chris Jackson
They never used canon law to protect your access to the Latin Mass, but now they’ll bend it to excuse illegal immigrants from attending Mass altogether. …
Read more at Hiraeth in Exile
This Puerto Rican saint helped people fall in love with the Mass
During the first half of the 20th century, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Santiago began delving into the richness of the Mass, finding great beauty there that he wanted to show to others.
He was not a priest or a religious brother, but a simple layman from Puerto Rico who wanted to use his gifts and talents for the greater glory of God.
Read more at Aleteia
Pope Leo Reveals His Parents Prayed the Rosary Together ‘Their Whole Lives’
Pope Leo XIV revealed to newlyweds Cole and Anna Stevens that his parents, Louis and Mildred Prevost, prayed the rosary together “their whole lives.” The pope explained this to the couple following their papal marriage blessing on June 11, 2025.
He advised them to pray together and “find the style” that works for them.
Read more at ChurchPop
