In Case You Missed It – Thursday, May 29, 2025

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Federal Trade Court Blocks Trump from Imposing Sweeping Tariffs Under Emergency Powers Law

A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.

The ruling from a three-judge panel at the New York-based Court of International Trade came after several lawsuits arguing Trump has exceeded his authority, left U.S. trade policy dependent on his whims and unleashed economic chaos.

Read more at Breitbart

Four tools at the Trump administration’s disposal after a U.S. court blocks tariffs

U.S. President Donald Trump could still find a work-around after suffering a major blow to a core part of his economic agenda. ...

“This ruling represents a setback for the administration’s tariff plans and increases uncertainty but might not change the final outcome for most major US trading partners,” Goldman Sachs economists said in a research note.

“For now, we expect the Trump administration will find other ways to impose tariffs” ...

Read more at CNBC

Trump swears in Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. Attorney for DC

“Justice will be honored in the District of Columbia. ... My voice should be heard loud and clear. No more tolerance of hatred. No more mercy for criminals. Violence will be addressed directly with the appropriate punishment and this city again will become a shining city on a hill, in an America that President Trump has promised to make great again, and will make safe again," said Pirro.

Watch at Fox Business

Supreme Court refuses to hear case of student banned from wearing ‘only two genders’ shirt at school

The United States Supreme Court has chosen to allow a middle school’s banning of a student t-shirt stating “There are only two genders” to go unchallenged by the high court. 

At issue was a June 2024 ruling by Obama- and Biden-appointed federal court judges that said school administrators have leeway under the First Amendment to regulate content that might allegedly be “demeaning.”

Read more at Lifesite

Botched Abortions Put Thousands of Women in ERs, Wrongly Coded as Miscarriages

A new peer-reviewed study published by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) uncovered widespread miscoding of emergency room (ER) visits following drug-induced abortions, raising serious concerns about patient safety.

Using anonymized Medicaid claims data, researchers reviewed nearly 29,000 ER visits within 30 days of a surgical or drug-induced abortion. They then determined whether each visit was related to the abortion and whether it was accurately coded as abortion-related or misclassified as a miscarriage. Each case was also evaluated for acuity—which is a measure of the severity and complexity of each patient’s condition.

Read more at LifeNews 

Missouri Supreme Court Rules to Restore the State’s Abortion Laws

In another twist of events in the abortion wars in Missouri, that State’s Supreme Court ordered a judge in Jackson County to relinquish prior rulings that had blocked the state’s regulations to take effect ...

The state’s almost complete ban on abortion forbids abortions except in cases of medical emergencies. Nevertheless, during last year’s November elections voters chose to repeal the law and permit abortions until fetal viability, which is generally around the 24th week of pregnancy.

Read more at Catholics for Catholics

Biden failed to investigate 65,000 reports of immigrant children in possible danger: Grassley

Government employees and contractors who cared for unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody after they crossed the southern border flagged more than 65,000 instances of concern that went unaddressed by the Biden administration, according to newly released materials.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) documents obtained by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner revealed that the Trump administration identified a backlog of 65,000 reports filed by workers about children in custody or their sponsors who warranted concern.

Read more at the Washington Examiner 

Massacre in Nigeria follows bishop’s U.S. testimony on Christian persecution

A brutal attack by extremist Muslim herdsmen in Nigeria on Sunday left dozens dead and resulted in the kidnapping of a Catholic priest and several nuns.

Hundreds of Jihadist Fulani herdsmen gunned down nearly 40 people, more than half of them Christians, across several villages on Sunday, according to a report by Truth Nigeria, a humanitarian-aid nonprofit that seeks to document Nigeria’s struggles with corruption and crime.

Read more at Catholic News Agency

Charlotte priests urge bishop to reconsider decision to end traditional Latin Mass in parishes

The pastors of the four parishes where the traditional Latin Mass is celebrated in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, have asked Bishop Michael Martin, OFM Conv, to reconsider his plans to end the celebration of the extraordinary form in parishes.

“It is important to acknowledge that those attached to the traditional liturgy have, over the past five decades, often felt marginalized and discriminated against,” the priests wrote in their letter, released on May 27 ... “Consequently, their trust in Church leadership has, understandably, been weakened over time.”

Read more at Catholic Culture

Sources: Charlotte bishop shelves Mass manifesto, for now

The Bishop of Charlotte, North Carolina is expected to release new policies governing the ordinary celebration of the Mass in his diocese, local sources say, but a recently leaked draft policy text has already been spiked internally in the diocese, after widespread pushback against the bishop’s plans.

The leaked text follows widespread controversy last week over new restrictions on older liturgical forms in the Charlotte diocese.

Read more at The Pillar

MIT scraps DEI office, ends programs amid Trump’s fight with Harvard

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shut down its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office last week, The Post can exclusively reveal.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth officially closed the Community and Equity Office after earlier prohibiting the use of diversity statements in faculty hiring or student admissions, a university official confirmed.

A senior administrative position at the office will also be eliminated as part of a return to a merit-based focus kicked off by Kornbluth in January 2024.

Read more at the New York Post

Commentary: Harvard is so screwed…

The house of cards is collapsing at Harvard, and this time, it’s not just conservative media sounding the alarm. Even The New York Times is reporting that Harvard has quietly admitted it’s in “a major, major, major crisis.” And that’s their words, not ours.

Federal funding is drying up, legal heat is rising, and the university’s once-bulletproof prestige is now being shredded like a block of cheese. So, what happened? Well, it’s the same thing that’s unraveling elite institutions across the country: woke ideology, DEI fanaticism, and a toxic obsession with politics over principle.

Read more at revolver

Washington bishops sue over seal of confession

The bishops of Washington filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a new state law that requires priests to violate the seal of confession if they suspect the abuse of minors.

The May 29 lawsuit argues that the new law violates First Amendment religious freedom protections, as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and the Washington constitution.

“Confession offers the faithful a confidential space to seek God’s mercy and guidance. This trust is sacred, and any law that jeopardizes it risks discouraging those who recognize the harm they have caused from seeking moral guidance,” said Jean Hill, executive director of the Washington Catholic Conference, in a statement.

Read more at The Pillar 

Pope Leo XIV Picks Priest Who Supports Assisted Suicide to Head Papal Pro-Life Academy

A senior priest who dissents from Catholic beliefs on assisted suicide and contraception has been named the new head of the distinguished Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) by Pope Leo XIV.

Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro, a bioethicist who earned a medical degree before beginning his training for the priesthood, will succeed Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia, who submitted his resignation to the pontiff after he turned 80 on April 21.

Read more at The Stream

Even after pope’s election, number of Catholics continues to decrease in Peru

After Pope Leo XIV’s election on May 8, a new survey shows the percentage of Catholics continues to decrease in Peru. It was conducted by the Peruvian Studies Institute (known as IEP in Spanish), an independent social science think tank.

In its previous research, carried out in November of 2024, IEP had shown that 63.5 percent of the Peruvian people declared to be Catholic. Six months later – and after Cardinal Robert Prevost, a U.S.-born Peruvian national, was elected as the new pontiff – the percentage of Catholics fell to 60.2 percent.

Read more at Crux Magazine

Victor Orbán Opens CPAC Budapest with US National Anthem: “Donald Trump has Won and is Restoring Hope to the World”

The fourth CPAC Budapest opened today with speeches by director Matt Schlapp, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze. US speakers include Rep. Abe Hamedeh, New York Young Republicans head Gavin Wax, Trump attorney John Eastman and YouTubers Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Dave Rubin, and Jack Posobiec. ...

In his opening speech, organizer Miklos Szantho praised President Donald Trump for “having Hungary’s back” and criticized the “globalists in Brussels” ... Szantho announced the dawn of an “Age of Patriots,” the motto of this year’s CPAC Budapest.

Read more at the Gateway Pundit

China Aid Urges Vatican To End Secret Agreement With Communist China

ChinaAid expresses deep concern over the ongoing secrecy and consequences of the 2018 Vatican-China agreement. Since its signing, religious persecution in China, particularly against Catholics, has escalated, not diminished. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to tighten its control over religious life while the Vatican remains publicly silent.

At least ten bishops and priests are imprisoned or missing. Churches are still being destroyed. Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin vanished after being penalized for conducting Mass without state approval. Meanwhile, the Vatican’s silence has left China’s underground Catholics feeling betrayed.

Read more at ChinaAid.org

Greece and Orthodoxy Shocked by Egypt’s Decision to Seize the Ancient Sinai Monastery

In a move described as “unprecedented and unacceptable,” Egypt has ordered the closure of the Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai, the world’s oldest continuously functioning Christian monastery. This decision has sparked outrage from religious leaders and surprise within the Greek government, despite recent high-level diplomatic assurances.

Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all Greece reacted with palpable anger, lamenting in a statement, “yet another historic Fall that Hellenism and Orthodoxy are experiencing.”

Read more at the Greek Reporter

A practical guide to obtaining an apostolic blessing from Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV is now granting apostolic blessings to the faithful around the world, a spiritual gesture that can be officially requested through the Vatican’s Apostolic Almoner’s Office.

These blessings, printed on parchment, are a well-established tradition in the Catholic Church and are available for significant moments in Christian life such as the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and marriage.

Read more at the Catholic News Agency

Pope Leo XIV to address youth by video at June 14 Chicago event

Those attending the June 14 celebration honoring Pope Leo XIV at Rate Field in Chicago will hear directly from the new pontiff.

The Archdiocese of Chicago announced that recently installed Pope Leo will deliver a “special video message” to the world’s youth at the event at the Chicago White Sox’s home stadium.

The celebration will also include a Mass, music, a film, and in-person testimonials about Pope Leo XIV, a South Side native and lifelong White Sox fan. 

Read more at Catholic News Agency 

Pope makes baseball fans proud by catching doll thrown from crowd

Pope Leo XIV has demonstrated his US roots as an ardent White Sox baseball fan after making a one-handed catch of a cloth doll thrown at him while on the move in the popemobile.

The impressive demonstration of hand-to-eye coordination, which has caused a stir on social media, occurred as the Pope departed on the popemobile after the weekly general audience at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican on 28 May.

The cloth doll appeared to be dressed in a way that represented the vestments the Pope wore when he first appeared on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica after being declared as Pope Leo XIV.

Read more at the Catholic Herald

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