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In Case You Missed It – Tuesday, June 4, 2025

How Catholicism Got Cool, Nationwide FBI Probe of Traditional Catholics exposed, CO Firebomber's family detained, Charlotte bishop delays TLM changes, and more —


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Biden Era FBI Probe of Traditional Catholics was a Nationwide Effort

The FBI under the Biden era was investigating traditional Catholics far more than it was previously revealed, according to new internecine documents.


According to The Washington Times, the newly revealed FBI files were acquired by Charles E. Grassley, Senate Judiciary Chairman. He shared them with The Washington Times.


According to The Times, the FBI under the Biden era cloaked the scope of its anti-Catholic operation, which then-FBI Director Christopher A. Wray told Congress was reduced to just one memo in 2023, according to newly revealed bureau documents.


Boulder firebombing suspect’s family detained by ICE

The wife and five children of Mohamed Soliman — the Egyptian national accused of firebombing a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado — have been taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed Tuesday.


“Today, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colorado, terrorist and illegal alien, Mohamed Soliman, into ICE custody,” Noem announced in a video statement. “We’re also investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific attack — if they had any knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it.”

Read more at CatholicVote


BOOM! Tom Homan Responds to Andrew McCabe's criticism to detain firebomber's family

After Andrew McCabe questioned the decision to apprehend and deport the family of Mohamed Soliman, @RealTomHoman came out SWINGING! "Andrew McCabe is an EMBARRASSMENT to the FBI," Homan says.

View at The Ingraham Angle via Gunther Eagleman on X

 

Trump Education Department Ditches Pride Month for “Title IX Month”

The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced Monday that it will officially recognize June as “Title IX Month” – ditching the Biden administration’s ostentatious embrace of “Pride Month” celebrations.


“The Department is recognizing June as ‘Title IX Month’ to honor women’s hard-earned civil rights and demonstrate the Trump Administration’s unwavering commitment to restoring them to the fullest extent of the law,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said. “Title IX provides women protections on the basis of sex in all educational activities, which include their rights to equal opportunity in sports and sex-segregated intimate spaces, including sororities and living accommodations.”

Read more at Amac


Flash floods claim Catholic priest and hundreds of other lives in Nigeria

Flash floods that swept through communities in Nigeria’s central Niger State have killed over 200 people with 500 more still missing. Authorities say there is next to no hope that any of the missing might still be found alive.


Father James Omeh, the parish priest of Saint Anthony’s Catholic Church in Gulu of Niger State, died on 25 May when his vehicle was swept away by floodwaters along the Lapai-Gulu road. A woman travelling with him was also killed. Omeh also served as the coordinator of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Niger State.

Read more at the Catholic Herald

 

Charlotte bishop delays TLM changes until October

The Bishop of Charlotte has delayed the implementation of new restrictions on the use and celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the liturgy in the diocese.


Bishop Michael Martin announced the decision in an email to pastors on June 3, subsequently reported by the Catholic News Herald, the local diocesan newspaper.

Read more at The Pillar


Pope Leo XIV Faces an Early Challenge: How to Deal With Pope Francis’ Restrictions on the Latin Mass

A significant early challenge for Pope Leo XIV will be how he chooses to handle the restrictions that Pope Francis placed on the traditional Latin Mass (TLM). 


Since Pope Francis issued his apostolic letter Traditionis Custodes (Guardians of Tradition) in July 2021, the freedom to celebrate the pre-1970 Mass has been curtailed — severely in some cases — with the long-term aim of allowing only the new Mass. 


Hegseth orders Navy to rename ship honoring gay rights activist Harvey Milk

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to strike the name of pioneering gay rights activist Harvey Milk from one of its ships, orchestrating the change as Pride month celebrations take place, according to sources. ...


Milk was one of the first openly gay men elected to public office in the United States after winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. He was assassinated a year later.

Read more at ABC News


Against the Errors of James Martin: A List

His best-selling book Building a Bridge, promoted by notorious prelates, includes many erroneous teachings which imperil souls:


He promotes his errors under a veil of compassion, but in reality these are acts of HATRED for wounded souls who need real charity. As such, he marginalizes those wounded souls by placating the “LGBT” ideology.


His central error destroys the spiritual nature of the struggle with unnatural lusts and provides a bridge to hell. Here is a Catholic who struggles with same-sex attraction (SSA) who writes against him: “You’re Hurting Me, James Martin” ...


Video commentary: Everything we were told about Matthew Shepard 'hate crime' was a LIE

The hate crime laws being used in Boulder today trace back to a very specific case: the killing of Matthew Shepard in 1998.

View more at Redacted on YouTube 


Illinois legislative session ends without vote on assisted suicide, but bill expected to return

Opponents of physician-assisted suicide legislation in Illinois are breathing a sigh of relief, but not for long because they say this is not the end of lawmakers’ push for hastened death for patients deemed terminally ill.


The last day of Illinois’ spring legislative session, May 31, ended without a vote on the “End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act,” an amendment inserted into Senate Bill 1950 on the sanitary regulation of prepared foods and ready-to-make meals kits.

Read more at Our Sunday Visitor


Trump administration revokes Biden-era abortion directive for emergency rooms

The Trump administration announced June 3 that it would revoke Biden-era guidance to the nation’s hospitals directing them to perform abortions in emergency circumstances even in states that banned the procedure.


In 2022, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the court’s previous precedent that held abortion as a constitutional right, the Biden administration issued the directive under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.

Read more at Our Sunday Visitor


FDA chief vows mifepristone probe

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) head Marty Makary vowed to review the abortion drug mifepristone after previously saying he had no plans to take action on the drug.


“As with all drugs, FDA continues to closely monitor the postmarketing safety data on mifepristone for the medical termination of an early pregnancy,” Makary wrote in a letter to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).  

 

“As the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, I am committed to conducting a review of mifepristone and working with professional career scientists at the Agency who review this data.”  

Read more at The Hill 


Popemobile converted into ambulance blocked from entering Gaza

Prior to his death, Pope Francis donated the popemobile he used during his visit to Bethlehem in May 2014 to be turned into a mobile clinic to assist children in the Gaza Strip.


The initiative was personally entrusted by the late pontiff to Caritas Jerusalem to respond to the grave humanitarian emergency in Gaza, where nearly 1 million displaced children live without access to food, clean water, or basic medical care amid the conflict with Israel.


Pope, Romanian bishops, and Jewish officials pay tribute to martyred WWII bishop

Blessed Iuliu Hossu, a Romanian Greek Catholic bishop, was named a Cardinal “in pectore” (i.e., secretly) by St. Paul VI in 1969.


The bishop, in a communist prison, never received his red hat. On Monday, Pope Leo XIV – with representatives of Romania’s Church and Jewish community – paid tribute to Hossu, who was arrested, imprisoned, and denied his freedom for decades after the Greek Catholic Church was outlawed by the communist government.


Leo also praised Hossu’s “courage and heroism before the communist takeover of Romania,” especially when he stood up for and saved thousands of Jews between 1940 and 1944. 

Read more at The Catholic Thing

 

Thousands gather at Namugongo Shrine to honour the Ugandan Martyrs

On Tuesday, 3 June 2025, thousands of Ugandan pilgrims and visitors from across Africa and beyond converged at the Namugongo Ugandan Martyrs Shrine to commemorate the feast of the 22 Catholics executed between 1885 and 1887 on the orders of Buganda King Mwanga II for refusing to renounce their faith.

Read more at Vatican News

 

Attack on Catholic martyrs’ shrine in Uganda ends in deaths of terrorists

An attempted terrorist attack at the Uganda Martyrs’ Basilica in Kampala failed [Tuesday].


According to the Ugandan Army, two armed terrorists approached the pilgrimage site in Munyonyo, Kampala, this morning, June 3, at 8:30 a.m. local time, but were killed by anti-terrorist personnel 500 meters from the church. Huge crowds were expected at the Basilica, also known as the Munyonyo Martyrs Shrine, as today is the Feast of the Ugandan Martyrs. ...


Every June 3, Christians in Africa commemorate the 23 Anglican and 22 Roman Catholic martyrs who were executed between 1885 and 1887 in Uganda. The Christians, known as the Ugandan Martyrs, were burned alive on the orders of Mwanga II, the homosexual Kabaka (king) of Buganda in central Uganda, for refusing to comply with his wishes to reject Jesus Christ and Christian doctrine concerning sexuality.

Read more at Lifesite


How Catholicism Got Cool

The candlelit church in Greenwich Village was packed. After months of study and preparation, 19 adults sat at the front, dressed in white, nervously awaiting their turn at the baptismal font. One by one, they stepped forward. After anointing them with chrism (holy oil), the priest poured water over their heads, baptizing them into the Catholic Church in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.


“It was almost as if the veil between heaven and earth had been lifted,” said Jane, one of the adults baptized into the Church that day. She left feeling “more receptive to the supernatural.”


That was Easter Sunday 2025, just over a month ago. And what happened in Greenwich Village happened across America. There was a boom in adult baptisms.

Read more at The Free Press ( subscription required for full article)


Spera in Deo: the Single Life Before Marriage

As a single Catholic who has unsuccessfully searched for a woman to wed for nearly a decade, there has been a strong temptation to abandon hope of ever finding “the One.” In times of despair, the Devil turns our unfulfilled desires against us by directing our attention, not to goodness, but to the world. In our technocratic age, social media is the most accessible and effective means by which the demons do their dirty work.


Commenting on the dangers of too much screen time, [Peter] Kwasniewski [author of Treasuring the Goods of Marriage in a Throwaway Society] urges us to “find ways to reduce the constant noise that surrounds us.” Often, Our Lord is shouting at us, but we are so preoccupied with our own obsessive lack of trust in His plan that we refuse to listen. For Catholics in search of a spouse, bitterness and resentment slowly start to creep in. ...

Read more at OnePeterFive


FILM REVIEW: ‘The Ritual’ Probes the True Story of an Exorcism in America

The exorcism ritual in the Catholic Church is strange ... it’s scary ... and it’s real. 


XYZ Films’ new release, The Ritual, proves that point: The supernatural horror story is a faithful report on the most infamous exorcism in U.S. history, the exorcism of Emma Schmidt. The Ritual will open in theaters on June 6.


Viewers may feel a sense of déjà vu watching The Ritual because of its strong parallel to William Friedkin’s classic 1973 film The Exorcist ...


Jonathan Roumie’s Next Movie? A Rom-Com With Kevin James

Angel Studios officially announced the release date of SOLO MIO, a film starring Kevin James, THE CHOSEN’s Jonathan Roumie, Alyson Hannigan and more.


SOLO MIO is expected to make its theatrical release on Feb. 6, 2026.


“Directed by Charles and Daniel Kinnane (HOME TEAM) and written by James, Patrick Kinnane (SOUND GUY) and John Kinnane (SOUND GUY), SOLO MIO follows Matt, a man whose dreams of a picturesque Italian wedding are shattered when his fiancée leaves him at the altar. Matt embarks on his planned honeymoon across Italy alone, immersing himself in the country’s vibrant culture, food, and beauty,” the press release reads.

Read more at Movie Guide

  

Church in Ohio to be fully restored after massive fire?

Great news: The beautiful 19th century Catholic church in Ohio that suffered a massive fire last week [in the town of Maria Stein] might be able to be restored! Pray that this might happen.

Read more at Eric Sammons on X


Ancient devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by the Carthusian Monks of the XIV-XVII centuries

Called "a little gem of a book," it includes daily meditations and prayers by Carthusian monks dating back centuries.


If you have or want to foster a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, then look no further. Heavenly meditations and prayers.

Free copy available at quies.org



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