POTUS declares fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction; Marco Rubio calls on Beijing to free Jimmy Lai; Brown University slammed for handling of fatal attack; Heroic Australians fought back against Bondi attack; Oversight Committee confirms DC police chief rigged crime data; Bp. Barron: Christians must stand up and fight against assisted suicide, decries new Illinois law; Pope warns of proliferation of marriage annulments in US; and more —
Joe Concha calls for censure of Chris Murphy for blaming Brown University shooting on Trump
Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha suggested Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) should be “censured” for implying that President Donald Trump is on a “campaign to increase violence.”
Murphy appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday in the hours after a gunman opened fire on Brown University’s campus, killing two and injuring nine others. According to Murphy, this latest mass shooting event was “not shocking.”
“Over the last year, President Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country,” Murphy said. “He is restoring gun rights to felons and people who have lost their ability to buy guns. He has stopped funding mental health grants and community anti-gun violence grants that Republicans and Democrats supported in that 2022 bill.”
“So he’s engaged in a deliberate campaign to make violence more likely in this country, and I think you’re unfortunately going to see the results on the streets of America,” Murphy added.
Read more at the Washington Examiner
Victims who died in the Brown University attack
See @VivekGRamaswamy
Jesse Watters slams Brown University’s handling of Sunday’s fatal attack
Watch @JesseBWatters
Australia terror attack update: What we know so far
Australian authorities are investigating what police have declared a terrorist attack after two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Dec. 14, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens more. Islamic state flags were found in the attackers’ vehicle, according to senior officials.
New South Wales Police said at least 42 people were taken to the hospital, with six reported to be in critical condition. …
Read more at CatholicVote
Updates: Heroic Australians who fought back against the attack
Read/watch @MarioNawfal
US Army identifies 2 soldiers killed in ambush in Syria
Read @ChiefNGB
House Oversight Report Accuses DC Police Chief of Rigging Crime Data
Watch @RepJamesComer
President declares fentanyl ‘weapon of mass destruction’
Watch @WhiteHouse
LA Fentanyl Impact: The Crisis Driving Thousands Into Homelessness – Documentary
Watch @Daily Homeless News
U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan to receive “Protector of America Award” from Catholics for Catholics
Everyone’s talking about immigration – it’s a hot topic in today’s political discourse. Catholics for Catholics wants to recognize a seriously underreported aspect of the immigration issue: the good work that many members of our law enforcement are doing to make our communities safer and most importantly, rescue kids.
Did you know since President Trump took office this year, more than 62,000 migrant children have been rescued from forced labor and sex trafficking? Most of the media including Church leaders simply won’t talk about this. “Over half a million children were smuggled into this country under Joe Biden,” US Border Czar Tom Homan said in a recent interview. “Four years this has happened: sex trafficking historic highs, children crossing the border historic highs, migrant deaths crossing the border historic highs.”
Read more at Catholics for Catholics
US Bishops’ New Immigration Chairman Responds to Critiques From Catholics – Bishop Brendan Cahill engaged with criticisms and says he hopes Catholics will ‘move beyond talking past one another’ on the contentious issue
Immigration is a divisive issue, including within the Catholic Church.
Despite the U.S. bishops’ concerted opposition to elements of President Donald Trump’s immigration-enforcement campaign, especially mass deportation, the president’s approach has the support of a majority of American Catholics — including the most sacramentally active.
According to a just-released EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research poll, 54% of Catholic voters say they support “the detention and deportation of unauthorized immigrants on a broad scale.” The level of support is even higher — 58% — among Catholics who attend Mass at least weekly.
Read at the National Catholic Register
Trump admin launches Christmas website to highlight 12 days of federal gifts
The Trump administration launched a new website Sunday that celebrates Christmas and highlights 12 ways the federal government has historically helped build the United States.
The first post highlighted the Works Progress Administration’s poster program, which was launched during the Great Depression, and was used to cultivate uplifting messages for America during a period of hardship for the nation.
The second post, which was uploaded Monday, highlights the Great Seal of the United States. The Great Seal was adopted by Congress in 1782 and features an eagle and shield.
Read more at Just the News
American bishop speaks out against legalization of assisted suicide in Illinois
Watch @BishopBarron
Canadian Woman Approved for Euthanasia Instead of Surgery May Head to US
Joe Warmington reported for the Toronto Sun on December 10, 2025 that Jolene Van Alstine, who lives in Regina Canada, was approved for euthanasia rather than surgery medical treatment for her condition, has been offered by Glenn Beck, an American political commentator, to cover the cost of her medical treatment in America.
Kelsi Sheren, recently reported in her article: Surgery Denied – Death Approved, that: Van Alstine, who suffers from a rare but treatable parathyroid disease, has applied for MAiD not because she is dying, but because she can’t access the surgery that would let her live.
Read more at LifeNews
Jimmy Lai convicted in sham trial
See @Catholic Arena; read more at Human Rights Watch
Marco Rubio on Jimmy Lai guilty verdict
Read @USAinHKMacau
Tina Peters pardoned but still imprisoned
Watch @Bannons_WarRoom
Trump on Tina Peters’ continued incarceration
Watch @EricLDaugh
West Virginia lawmaker’s ‘heart breaking’ trip to Nigeria
Watch @RepRileyMoore
Displaced Christian Nigerians slaughtered while attempting to go home
Read @SeanADFIntl
Priests, laypeople, Poor Clare nun among 124 20th-century martyrs beatified in Spain
The Diocese of Jaén in Spain will celebrate on Dec. 13 the beatification of 109 priests, 14 laypeople, and one Poor Clare nun martyred during the Spanish Civil War.
With the addition of these 124 new blesseds, the number of 20th-century martyrs in Spain recognized by the Catholic Church rises to 2,254, 11 of whom have been canonized.
The beatification ceremony will be presided over by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, and will take place in Assumption Cathedral in Jaén, where some of the new blesseds spent their last days before being murdered out of hatred for the faith.
Read more at the Catholic News Agency
French Catholics killed during the Nazi occupation of France beatified
Watch @CatholicSat
Pope Leo Highlights Divorce Crisis In U.S. Roman Catholic Churches
In addition to the sexual abuse scandal that has plagued the Roman Catholic Church, there’s another threatening the very foundation of Catholic beliefs on marriage and family: an annulment process that often violates church teaching. The crisis is particularly acute in the United States, where marriage annulments have proliferated.
On Nov. 21, Pope Leo XIV delivered a speech to the Rota, the church’s “supreme court,” warning that “human judgment on the nullity of marriage cannot…be manipulated by false mercy.” He indicated that compassion for those going through annulment proceedings should “never [come] at the expense of truth.” The only question in marriage annulment proceedings, he said, is whether a valid marriage existed at the time of the wedding “despite any relational failure.”
Read more at The Federalist
Nativity scene unveiled at the Vatican
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