In Case You Missed It – Thursday, May 15, 2025

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Vance to lead US delegation for Pope Leo’s inaugural [M]ass

Vice President Vance will lead the U.S. delegation to the inauguration mass of Pope Leo in Vatican City on Sunday, his office announced on Thursday.

The vice president will be joined by second lady Usha Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette Rubio, for the first American pope’s inauguration.

Read more at The Hill

Missouri Legislature Passes Pro-Life Bill to Protect Babies From Infanticide

A Missouri bill to support struggling parents and protect vulnerable newborns is now awaiting Gov. Mike Kehoe’s signature after passing both chambers with overwhelming bipartisan support.

Sponsored by Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, the legislation would expand the Safe Haven Baby Box program, raise tax credits for maternity homes and diaper banks, and establish a new “Zero-Cost Adoption Fund.”

Read more at LifeNews.com

Ted Cruz wants $1,000 investment accounts for every newborn American child

The idea is simple: we’re going to create an investment account for every newborn American child that the federal government will seed with $1,000.

View at Ted Cruz on X

HHS Sec. Kennedy pledges to review FDA approval of abortion drug

A new study on the chemical abortion drug shows 11% of women experience adverse effects serious enough to send them to the ER. Kennedy just pledged to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the drug -- and said the FDA label needs to change.

Watch at Josh Hawley on X

Minnesota bishop supports health care for undocumented immigrants: 'Fear takes over'

Healthcare coverage for undocumented immigrants is one of the last major disagreements weighing down the chances of a Minnesota budget agreement before the May 19 deadline. The Catholic Church is hoping to tip the scales.

Read/watch at Fox9.com

Beautiful address of Pope Leo XIV to Eastern Churches

“The contribution that the Christian East can offer us today is immense! We have great need to recover the sense of mystery that remains alive in your liturgies, liturgies that engage the human person in his or her entirety, that sing of the beauty of salvation and evoke a sense of wonder at how God’s majesty embraces our human frailty! ... It is vital, then, that you preserve your traditions without attenuating them, for the sake perhaps of practicality or convenience, lest they be corrupted by the mentality of consumerism and utilitarianism.”

View full address at the Vatican See

Vatican creates official Instagram account for Pope Leo XIV

The Vatican announced that Pope Leo XIV has decided to “maintain an active presence on social media through official papal accounts” on X @Pontifex and Instagram, creating a new one for the latter platform. ... the new pope’s account is called @Pontifex – Pope Leo XIV.

Read more at Catholic News Agency

TN Rep. Chuck Fleischmann sends bipartisan letter to the House inviting Pope Leo XIV to address Congress

In the letter, Fleischmann urges Congress leaders to invite Pope Leo XIV to address Congress, highlighting shared values and U.S.-Holy See ties.

Read more at wbir.com

Essay: The Most Important Speech of Trump’s Presidency

“We seek the end of tyranny in our world. Some dismiss that goal as misguided idealism. In reality, the future security of America depends on it.” That was George W. Bush in his 2006 State of the Union.

Here was Donald Trump yesterday in Riyadh: “The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called ‘nation-builders,’ ‘neocons,’ or ‘liberal nonprofits.’ Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves.”

Read more at The Free Press

Trump Receives Grand Reception as First U.S. President to Officially Visit Qatar

President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to officially visit Qatar on Wednesday, and he received a grand reception suited to the historic occasion.

Trump departed Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for Qatar, marking his embarkment on the second leg of his trip to the Middle East this week.

Read/watch more at Breitbart

Trump meets Syria’s al-Sharaa, eyes normalization of ties with Damascus

United States President Donald Trump says Washington is considering the normalisation of ties with Damascus after he met Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in the first such encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years.

Read more at Aljazeera

President Trump at the welcoming ceremony in the UAE

“What a beautiful city! I love it!”

See video at Benny Johnson on X

Putin to No-Show at Planned Ukraine War Talks in Turkey on Thursday, Says Kremlin

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky decried a Potemkin delegation sent by Russia to peace talks in Istanbul on Thursday after it transpired President Vladimir Putin won’t be attending after all.

Read more at Breitbart

Commentary: Forget Democracy in the Middle East. Trump Wants Deals

President Trump’s Middle East tour, the first foreign visit of his second presidency, got started with a bang. Breaking protocol, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greeted President Trump on the tarmac, and for the next 12 hours, the two joked and laughed as they greeted cabinet members and dignitaries. ... The two nations signed a $142 billion arms deal.

But more significant than the MBS-Trump bromance was the speech Trump delivered, which denounced the failed forever wars of Republican administrations past as well as the failed appeasement of the Democrats, laying out the president’s signature strategy: peace through strength and peace through commerce as the path of the future.

Read more at The Free Press

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) just introduced a bill to make all porn a federal crime

A new bill introduced by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, could make porn a crime in the United States.

The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act would add all pornography, including any depiction of sexual acts that “lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value,” to the definition of obscenity [and] make it illegal to distribute or consume porn, regardless of the material’s intent. Currently, only porn intended to “abuse, threaten, or harass” someone is illegal.

Read at NewsNation

US bishops highlight pornography’s grip on a lonely, digital society

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has released a ten-year anniversary preface to its document on the harms of pornography.

Create in Me a Pure Heart: A Pastoral Response to Pornography was originally issued in 2015 to counteract the growing prevalence of internet pornography. It offers guidance to those exploited by the pornography industry, those who exploit others through it, and also to parents, users, spouses, young people and clergy on how to respond to its widespread presence in contemporary culture.

Read more at the Catholic Herald

Broken by Design: How Elites Engineered the Collapse of the American Family

They told us independence was freedom. That marriage was outdated. That throwing your kids out at eighteen was strength. But behind the slogans was a decades-long agenda—engineered by elites, fueled by media, and enforced by law—to dismantle the family unit in America. In this powerful exposé, we pull back the curtain on the coordinated attack that replaced fathers with welfare, glamorized divorce, sexualized children, and left a generation lost. From Hollywood propaganda to broken homes, from government incentives to mental health crises—this is the raw, unapologetic truth they never wanted you to hear.

Watch at The Report

Media Claims Of 15,000 ‘Trans’ Troops In The Military Are Total Bunk

In the weeks surrounding President Trump’s inauguration, America’s propaganda press relentlessly cited leftist claims that 15,000 trans-identifying individuals would be booted from the military under the new commander-in-chief. The insinuation, of course, was that such a move would harm “military readiness” and the country’s national security.

Read more at The Federalist

Assisted suicide closer in Scotland after parliament backs bill in ‘seismic vote’

A bill facilitating assisted suicide through the NHS in Scotland has passed its first stage in the legislative process toward becoming law across the land.

MSPs (Members of the Scottish Parliament) voted in Holyrood by 70 to 56 to endorse the general principles of the bill in a wider margin than had been anticipated, reports The Times.

Read more at the Catholic Herald

Italian media: Young Peruvian priest set to become Pope Leo XIV’s personal secretary

Father Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga, a young parish priest from Peru, is being presented by Italian media as Pope Leo XIV’s personal secretary, a role he played when the Pope was prefect of the Dicastery of Bishops. 

Read more at Catholic Vote

Matt Schlapp on President Trump’s trip to the Middle East

"It’s critical that we strengthen ties with moderate Arab states so we can stop the more radical ones like Iran. And President Trump understands that because he’s a realist, and that realism is a whole new way of thinking about foreign policy."

Watch at Matt Schlapp on X

Andrzej Duda Receives George Simion, Winner of the First Round of the Romanian Elections, at the Presidential Palace

On Wednesday, President Andrzej Duda received George Simion, Vice-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, leader of the right-wing AUR party, and winner of the first round of the presidential elections in Romania, at the Presidential Palace. The primary topic of the meeting between the politicians was bilateral relations between Poland and Romania.

Read more at Poland Daily

A Right-Wing Government in Poland Soon? Kaczyński Outlines Upcoming Plans

It’s a foregone conclusion that Polish-American relations will only be truly strong if Karol Nawrocki becomes president, and later, after the elections, a government formed by Law and Justice (PiS) and possible allies comes to power. “Full mobilization,” announced PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński on social media today.

Read more in Poland Daily

Capitol Police remove Ben & Jerry's co-founder, protester who shouts 'RFK kills people with AIDS' during Senate hearing

Capitol Police removed several protesters from a Senate hearing on Wednesday after they disrupted testimony by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Among those protesters was Ben and Jerry cofounder Ben Cohen.

Read more at The Post Millennial

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