Trump announces Israel ‘violently lashed out,’ hit gas fields in Iran, claims US ‘KNEW NOTHING’ of attack; Iranian missile causes ‘extensive damage’ at liquid natural gas facility in Qatar; Vatican secretary of state to Trump, Israel: End the war as soon as possible; Republicans defeat resolution to halt US military strikes against Iran; Polls Show MAGA, GOP Overwhelmingly Back Trump’s Iran Op ‘Epic Fury’; CIA director responds to Joe Kent’s claim Iran posed no ‘imminent’ threat; Louisiana Senator’s pushes to pass the SAVE America Act; Renewed calls to free Tina Peters from Colorado prison; Vandal wreaks havoc inside iconic Milwaukee church; Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Solemnity of St. Joseph; and more —
Trump Announces Israel “Violently Lashed Out” and Hit Gas Fields in Iran, Claims US “KNEW NOTHING” of Attack and “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL”
President Trump on Wednesday announced on Truth Social that Israel hit a “major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran,” prompting Iran to launch retaliatory attacks on Qatar’s liquid natural gas facility at Ras Laffan Industrial City.
Qatari officials said Iran’s attacks caused “extensive damage” to the area of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas export facility, describing the move as “dangerous escalation, flagrant violation of state sovereignty, and a direct threat to its national security and regional stability.”
Trump’s statement confirms reports that Israel launched the initial attacks on the South Pars gas field.
Read more at the Gateway Pundit
Iranian Missile Causes ‘Extensive Damage’ at Qatar’s Ras Laffan
Iran intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors’ energy sites Thursday, hitting a Saudi refinery on the Red Sea and setting Qatari liquefied natural gas facilities and two Kuwaiti oil refineries ablaze as it struck back following an Israeli attack on its main natural gas field, a major escalation in the Mideast war that has sent global fuel prices soaring.
Brent crude oil, the international standard, spiked to as high as $118 a barrel, up more than 60% since Israel and the United States started the war Feb. 28 with strikes on Iran.
A ship was set ablaze off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and another was damaged off Qatar, underscoring the ever-present danger also facing vessels due to Iran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil is transported.
Read more at NEWSMAX
Cardinal Parolin to Trump, Israel: End the war as soon as possible
Responding to questions by journalists on the sidelines of a book presentation, Cardinal Pietro Parolin shares what he would say if face-to-face with U.S. President Trump: “Put an end to it as soon as possible because the real danger is that an escalation is just around the corner.”
On the sidelines of the presentation at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome of the book Leo XIV: Who Do You Say I Am? I Am a Son of Saint Augustine—published by Cantagalli and written by Vatican journalist Ignazio Ingrao and Augustinian Father Giuseppe Pagano—Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin responded to journalists’ questions about the international situation.
He shared what he would say if he were face to face with U.S. President Donald Trump. The cardinal would tell him “to put an end to it as soon as possible, because the real danger is that an escalation is just around the corner. I would say: leave Lebanon alone…”
The same message, the Secretary of State said, should also be “addressed to the Israelis,” so that they truly seek to “resolve any problems that may exist—or that they believe exist—through the peaceful paths of diplomacy and dialogue.”
Read more at Vatican News
Republicans defeat resolution to halt US military strikes against Iran
Watch @EricLDaugh; read ‘I Don’t Understand’: Fetterman Says His Support for Trump’s Iran Actions Has ‘Isolated’ Him at Breitbart
Press secretary pushes back on Joe Kent claims
Read @PressSec
CIA director responds to Joe Kent’s claim Iran posed no ‘imminent’ threat
Watch @EYakoby
Tulsi Gabbard testifies about worldwide threats
See @nypost
Polls Show MAGA, GOP Overwhelmingly Back Trump’s Iran Op ‘Epic Fury’
Watch @DrTurleyTalks; more information at Breitbart
Louisiana Senator’s push to pass the SAVE America Act
Watch @EricLDaugh
Support to free 73-year old Tina Peters from Colorado prison
See @nicksortor
Retired Minneapolis cop tells all: Somali fraud, stolen cars, and ‘the last straw’
Watch at Alpha News
Vandal wreaks havoc inside iconic Milwaukee church
Watch at WISN News
Catholic Church Under Siege by Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (ret)
I have spent a lifetime studying how nations maintain stability and how they unravel when the pillars that sustain them begin to erode. Contrary to popular imagination, societies rarely collapse in dramatic fashion, decline usually unfolds quietly. Institutions that once anchored moral order are gradually weakened while political leaders, media elites, and sometimes even the institutions themselves hesitate to acknowledge what is plainly occurring. I have watched this pattern emerge in fragile states abroad. Today, troubling indicators suggest that similar dynamics are beginning to emerge in the United States.
One of the clearest examples is the growing pattern of hostility directed at Catholic churches across our country. For those trained in national security and political warfare, the pattern is recognizable. It reflects a form of pressure often directed at longstanding moral institutions that shape civil society independent of government authority. When such institutions come under sustained attack without meaningful response from political leadership, law enforcement, or cultural institutions, the result is not simply vandalism. It is the gradual weakening of one of the moral guardrails that helps sustain a free sovereign nation.
Read more at General Flynn’s Substack
Catholic Substack writer warns IVF marks a worsening ‘doctor-God complex’
A Catholic Substack writer is raising concerns about in vitro fertilization (IVF), warning that the practice reflects a growing “doctor-God complex” in which human life is reduced to something engineered rather than a gift from God.
Reflecting on her own experience with infertility, Leigh Fitzpatrick Snead shared in a March 11 Substack post the moral and cultural implications of IVF as its use becomes increasingly widespread.
“Our doctor,” Snead wrote, “and all of those in the big-money business of IVF have crowned themselves the new creators of life, believing their own lie that the destruction of it is nothing to be worried about.”
In the post, Snead recalled an encounter with a physician who defended the practice, telling her and her husband, “I’m creating life back there, not destroying it!” — a moment she said prompted them to leave the clinic immediately.
Read more at Zeale
“Fetal heartbeat” abortion ban signed into law by Wyoming governor but court challenge likely
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon on Monday signed legislation banning abortions after embryotic cardiac activity can be detected, generally at about six weeks’ gestation and often before women know they’re pregnant.
The signing makes Wyoming the fifth state to bar abortions at that stage of pregnancy, along with Florida, Georgia, Iowa and South Carolina. Thirteen other states bar abortion at all stages of pregnancy, with some exceptions.
Gordon, a Republican, said in a letter to lawmakers Monday that he has some misgivings about the law he signed because it doesn’t include exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest. “Where the act does not align to my pro-life stance is in the concern for specific vulnerable populations,” he wrote.
Read more at CBS News
British House of Lords Votes for Abortions Up to Birth
Baroness Monckton’s amendment (424) to overturn the extreme abortion up to birth clause 208 was rejected by Peers who voted 185 to 148 against it; and Baroness Stroud’s amendment (425) to reinstate in-person consultations with a medical professional prior to an abortion taking place at home was also rejected by Peers who voted 191 to 119 against it.
Earlier this evening, Peers rejected amendment 424, which Baroness Monckton, along with other female Members of the House of Lords, tabled at Report Stage, that would have removed clause 208 from the Crime and Policing Bill.
The clause that amendment 424 was seeking to remove would result in one of the most significant changes to abortion legislation since 1967, when abortion was first made legal. As part of the Bill, the clause will make it more likely that healthy babies are aborted at home for any reason, up to birth.
Read more at LifeNews; read also ‘Over 1,000 Doctors and Nurses Oppose UK Measure for Abortions Up to Birth’ also at LifeNews
A prominent priest calls for a new Patron of the pro-life movement
See @benedict_kiely
Lenten Courage: Blessed Clemens von Galen, The Lion of Munster
‘Neither praise nor threats will distance me from God.’ – Blessed Clemens von Galen (1878-1946)
The Nazis hated and feared Clemens August Graf von Galen in life and no doubt they still hate and fear him, at least those now enjoying the amenities of some of the less fashionable pits of Hell. Going into Lent, I am strongly encouraged by the story of Blessed von Galen. I guess one could come up with a worse situation than being a Roman Catholic bishop in Nazi Germany in 1941, and confronting a merciless anti-Christian dictatorship that was diametrically opposed to the Truth of Christ, but that would certainly do for enough of a challenge for one lifetime for anyone. (Hitler privately denounced Christianity as a Jewish superstition and looked forward after the War to ”settling accounts”, as he put it, with Christianity in general and Roman Catholicism in particular.)
Priests who spoke out against the Third Reich were being rounded up and shipped off to concentration camps. What was a bishop to do in the face of such massive evil? Well, for the Bishop of Munster, Clemens von Galen, there could be only one answer.
Read more at the Catholic Stand (2014)
Today is the Feast of the Solemnity of St. Joseph
See @father_rmv
Cardinal Joseph Zen’s St. Joseph’s Prayer
Pray @CardJosephZen
WV lawmaker wishes all a Blessed Solemnity of St. Joseph
See @RepRileyMoore
