In Case You Missed It – Friday, May 23, 2025

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RFK Jr. warns of national health crisis in MAHA report

Human and Health Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released a long-awaited report Thursday, warning of a national health crisis affecting American children, citing surging rates of chronic illness linked to diet, chemicals, prescription drugs and sedentary lifestyles.

The findings, read aloud by President Donald Trump, reveal that over 40% of US children now suffer from at least one chronic illness – a threat Kennedy said extends to national defense, with 74% of young Americans deemed unfit for military service.

Read more at CatholicVote

Harvard University Loses Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certification for Pro-Terrorist Conduct

[On Thursday] Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered DHS to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.

This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status.

Harvard’s leadership has created an unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise obstruct its once-venerable learning environment. Many of these agitators are foreign students. Harvard’s leadership further facilitated, and engaged in coordinated activity with the CCP, including hosting and training members of a CCP paramilitary group complicit in the Uyghur genocide.

Read more at Homeland Security.gov.

HARVARD SUES TRUMP ADMIN OVER INTERNATIONAL ENROLLMENT BLOCK

Harvard sued the Trump administration Friday morning and filed a temporary restraining order shortly to stop the Department of Homeland Security from revoking its certification to enroll international students.

In the 72-page suit, Harvard accused the DHS of carrying out an “unprecedented and retaliatory” act that threatens to upend the lives of thousands of students just days before graduation. More than 7,000 students study at Harvard on a visa.

Read more at The Harvard Crimson 

Former Harvard Morgue Manager Pleads Guilty To Trafficking Stolen Human Remains

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Cedric Lodge, age 57, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pled guilty yesterday before Chief United States District Judge Matthew W. Brann to interstate transport of stolen human remains. 

According to Acting United States Attorney John Gurganus, Lodge admitted that, from 2018 through at least March 2020, he participated in the sale and interstate transport of human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School morgue, located in Boston, Massachusetts. Lodge, who was then employed as the manager of the Harvard Medical School Morgue, removed human remains, including organs, brains, skin, hands, faces, dissected heads, and other parts, from donated cadavers ...

Read more at US Attorney's Office (PA)

Pope Leo XIV appoints Auxiliary Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday appointed Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of the Diocese of San Diego. He will rise from the position of auxiliary bishop there and succeed Cardinal Robert McElroy as head of the diocese.

Having received his episcopal consecration in September 2023, the 58-year-old Vietnam-born bishop has also served as titular bishop of Cercina. He was appointed the San Diego Diocese’s temporary administrator after McElroy was installed as bishop of Washington in March.

Read more at the Catholic News Agency

Pope appoints Sr. Tiziana Merletti as Secretary of Dicastery for Consecrated Life

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sister Tiziana Merletti, former Superior General of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor, as Secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. ...

As Secretary, Sr Merletti will serve under Sr Simona Brambilla, who was appointed to lead the Dicastery in January—becoming the first woman ever to lead a Vatican department.

Read more at Vatican News

Cardinal Kasper says Pope Benedict, Cardinal Sarah blocked change on celibacy

Cardinal Walter Kasper has suggested that Pope Francis was prepared to ease the discipline of priestly celibacy, but decided against the move after a book published by Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah rallied opposition to the change.

"My assessment is that Francis wanted to change something, but the Emeritus Pope Benedict successfully intervened with Cardinal Robert Sarah at the time," said the German cardinal, in an interview ...

Read more at Catholic Culture

Departure of Archbishop Paglia Marks End of Turbulent Chapter at John Paul II Institute

Pope Leo XIV’s appointment this week of Cardinal Baldassare Reina, 54, the vicar general of Rome as grand chancellor of the institute is being welcomed as a partial restoration of the institute’s original order almost a decade after Pope Francis controversially upended the academic body.

Read more at the National Catholic Register

Man charged with hate crime for alleged vandalism, attack on Marysville [MI] Catholic priest

A Marysville man has been charged with a hate crime after he allegedly vandalized a Catholic church and assaulted the priest earlier this month.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Robert Beaton, 33, went to St. Christopher Catholic Church in Marysville around 1:41 p.m. on May 4 and threw a rock through a window from the outside while a baptism was underway in the church.

Read more at the Times Herald

Another Catholic Priest Killed in Kenya

Father Allois Cheruiyot Bett of St. Matthias Mulumba Tot Parish was on Thursday, May 22 shot and killed following an attack.

Elgeyo Marakwet County Police Commander Peter Mulinge confirmed that the priest was killed by unknown people suspected to be bandits in Kerio Valley.

Mulinge said the priest was on his way to a church service when the incident occurred and indicated that further investigations are ongoing to track down the attackers.

Read more at The Kenya Times; see also here, here and here

Secretary of Defense pushes back against flak for prayer service 

Pete Hegseth is standing his ground after people criticized his attendance at a prayer service: "We said it very publicly, we said it very proudly. Appealing to Heaven, to God, is a long-standing tradition in our military."

View at Gunther Eagleman on X

Zorro spotted in Poland heckling Obama-supported globalist presidential candidate

ZORRO SPOTTED IN POLAND! Poland's Presidential race is PEAK!! As Polish leftist hopeful, Rafał Trzaskowski, was delivering a speech in the town square, a familiar figure was spotted setting up a banner which reads "Just not Rafał." He immediately disappeared without a trace leaving police pleading for help with the manhunt.

Watch at Hektik Hektor on X

Government’s removal of religion grades from student averages unconstitutional, rules Polish top court

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal (TK) has ruled that the government’s decision to remove marks obtained in Catholic catechism classes from school grade averages is unconstitutional. It says that the education ministry should have first reached an agreement with the Catholic church on the changes. ...

[T]he chief justice of the TK has warned school principals and teachers that, if they do not take account of the ruling, they may be “participating in possible criminal actions”.

Read more at Notes from Poland

24-Year-Old Illegal Immigrant from Venezuela Busted After Pretending to Be a Teen Student at Ohio High School

A 24-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela was arrested this week after fraudulently enrolling at an Ohio high school by posing as a 16-year-old student – and shockingly, he managed to live with unsuspecting guardians, obtain a driver’s license, play on school sports teams, and infiltrate the school system for months.

Anthony Emmanuel Labrador Sierra, an adult male with an expired visa, was arrested Monday by police in Perrysburg, Ohio after it was revealed he had been masquerading as a minor for nearly five months.

Read more at the Gateway Pundit

Delaware governor signs bill legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill patients

Delaware Democrat Gov. Matt Meyer signed HB 140 into law Tuesday, legalizing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, framing it as a compassionate decision while pro-lifers warn it devalues human life.

Starting in January at the latest, the bill will permit patients diagnosed as having less than six months to live “to request and self-administer medication to end the individual’s life” as long as two medical professionals (meaning advanced practice registered nurses as well as doctors) sign off on it.

Read more at Lifesite

Rep. Mary Miller: We Need a Separate Bill for Trump’s Social Security Tax Cut

On Thursday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) argued that eliminating taxes on Social Security should be brought up as a separate bill.

Miller said that due to issues with Senate rules, eliminating Social Security taxes in the reconciliation bill apparently isn’t doable, but “we’re double and triple-taxed as Americans.”

Read/hear more at Breitbart 

‘Dilbert’ creator reveals call with President Trump after cancer diagnosis: ‘Did I just send the president to voicemail?’

“Dilbert” creator and online pundit Scott Adams received not one, but two phone calls — and a voicemail — from President Trump following the beloved cartoonist’s shocking cancer announcement. ...

Days after the announcement, Adams received a call from a “number from Florida” that he didn’t recognize and sent straight to voicemail, he revealed in a video shared on X Thursday.

Read more at the New York Post

Trump Refuses To Live By South Africa Lies 

President Donald Trump is a world-historical bad ass. What else can one say after his stunning performance in the White House yesterday, in defense of the persecuted white farmers of South Africa? I’ve cued this long clip of the entire meeting between Trump and South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday to the point where they began talking about the attacks in South Africa on white farmers. Note that it all started when a reporter asked Trump what it will take for him to be convinced that there is no such thing as “white genocide” in South Africa. Ramaphosa jumped in and said, “I will answer for President Trump.” Bad mistake …

Read more at Rod Dreher’s Diary

Katie Hopkins 2018 documentary on South African farm killings receiving renewed interest on social media

Plaasmoorde: The Killing Fields is a world-first — a documentary that goes well beyond polite interviews in safe places and deep into uncomfortable places, where the heart of the truth lives. Included in this groundbreaking work are interviews with active farm attackers and serving police officers who confirm corrupt police are complicit in the mass-slaughter of South Africa’s whites.

View @PaulyRubino

South Africa Proposes to Amend Racial Quotas Blocking Starlink in Country

The South African government published a draft regulation Friday allowing foreign companies to meet a 30% quota of black ownership through “equivalents” such as investing in projects aimed at economic equality.

The proposal is widely viewed as an attempt to remove a key hurdle that has prevented Elon Musk and his Starlink satellite Internet company from entering the South African market because of Musk’s white race.

Read more at Breitbart

Essay: President Rahm Emanuel? He Thinks So.

At a time when Democratic insiders have never been more distrusted, the ultimate Democratic insider thinks he can be president in 2028.

We had just sat down in our booth at Pizzeria Portofino, an upscale restaurant on the riverfront he revitalized as mayor, when I asked Rahm Emanuel how he was doing.

“I don’t have prostate cancer,” he quipped.

There it was. Sharp, funny, a little nasty, a little glib—and aimed directly at the proverbial elephant in the room. Classic Rahm Emanuel.

Read more at The Free Press 

Essay: Welcome to the Global Intifada

Last night, outside of the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., a gunman opened fire and murdered two young people because he thought they were Jews and because they were gathered in a Jewish place for an event hosted by a Jewish organization.

Before I tell you about their alleged killer and the culture of lies that created the climate for his murderous rampage, I want to tell you about the people he cut down. Because I promise you: There will be no campaigns or hashtags or celebrities’ videos urging all of us to say their names.

Read more at The Free Press

Remembering Our Heroes this Memorial Day

by Ambassador Callista L. Gingrich and Speaker Newt Gingrich 

On Memorial Day, we honor the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect and defend our freedoms. These American heroes courageously fought against the evils of tyranny, terrorism, slavery, and religious persecution.

Memorial Day was first observed as Decoration Day at Arlington National Cemetery in 1868. The holiday paid tribute to the Union and Confederate soldiers who died during the Civil War. Memorial Day was later declared a national holiday by Congress in 1971. Now, the holiday is observed to honor the more than 1 million Americans who have laid down their lives in combat since the founding of our nation. ...

Read more at gingrich360.com

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