In Case You Missed It – Tuesday, May 13, 2025
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Trump, Saudis secure $600B investment deal to include billions in US defense weapons
President Trump on Tuesday secured a $600 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia to invest in the United States along with a multibillion-dollar defense partnership following a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh.
Read more at The Hill
Trump speaks in Saudi Arabia "Great day for the Middle East" (full speech)
President Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia to kickoff his Middle East trip. The President spoke to the US-Saudi investment forum just about an hour after signing a deal with Saudi Arabia's crown prince.
View at Live Now from Fox
Trump And MBS Shake Hands As Village People's 'YMCA' Plays At Saudi-US Investment Forum
At the conclusion of his remarks, President Trump was joined by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, as the Village People's "YMCA" played.
View at Forbes Breaking News
President Trump's Arrival in Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025
View at White House (4 minutes)
Saudi Arabia’s F-15’s jets providing an honorary escort for Trump on Air Force One
View at Dan Scavino on X
Epic flair for President Trump arriving in Saudi Arabia
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Markets ROAR After China Bows To Trump, Massive Trade Deal Locked | Globalists Panic as Media Scream
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'We Won't See Women Priests' Interview With Pope Leo's Brother Louis Prevost
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV – and, as the world’s first American-born Pope, many questions are arising surrounding his politics and whether he will get on with President Trump. And who better to give insight to such questions than his outspoken older brother, Louis Provost? He joins Piers Morgan to share his reaction to the news ...
View interview at Piers Morgan Uncensored
A history of popes called Leo and what Pope Leo XIV means for the Church today
Many have been wondering what direction this papacy will take. Pope Francis, for all his positives, has left the Church in a more divided state than he found it, and so there is apprehension as to whether our new pope might become a divisive Francis II-esque figure, if not in name, then in action.
However, for those fearing this, our new Pope has given two important signs to the contrary. Firstly, unlike Pope Francis, he appeared on the balcony in the full papal regalia. Secondly, he chose the longstanding papal name “Leo” – meaning “lion” – symbolising strength and bravery.
Read more at the Catholic Herald
RFK Jr. Dunks on AOC, Bernie Sanders: Trump Standing Up to ‘Oligarchs’ with Pharmaceuticals Executive Order
Calling it an “extraordinary day,” Kennedy said lowering the cost of prescription drugs is something every major Democrat party leader has promised to do, to no avail.
“This was the fulcrum of Bernie Sanders’ runs for presidency, that he was going to eliminate this discrepancy between Europe and the United States. As it turns out, none of them were doing it. It’s one of these promises that politicians make to their constituents, knowing that they’ll never have to do it,” Kennedy observed, noting that they never do it, in part, because “Congress is controlled in so many ways by the pharmaceutical industry.”
Read more at Breitbart
Zelenskyy invites Pope Leo XIV to Ukraine in ‘warm and substantive’ first call
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Monday he had spoken with Pope Leo XIV and invited him to visit Ukraine.
On Sunday, the pontiff said he carried “in my heart the sufferings of the beloved Ukrainian people.”
Read more at the Catholic Herald
Archbishop Georg Gänswein ecstatic with new Pope: "The season of arbitrariness is over. The confused past must be overcome" "The institutions of the Church are not a leprosy"
No more Pope at Casa Santa Marta? "I believe that Leo XIV will certainly go to live in the Apostolic Palace. That palace is intended to be the residence of the Popes. It is its historical function." ... I can only observe that I am pleased to think that in the evening, in the Apostolic Palace, the Pope will turn on the light and people will know that he is there."
Read more at cathcon.blogspot.com
Opinion: The ten “sins” of Pope Francis and his legacy'.
The sudden passing of Pope Francis, a charismatic figure who had ignited hopes and imagination well beyond the confines of the Catholic Church, leaves behind a complex legacy and an ecclesial community marked by palpable disorientation and fears about the future. Although the Church is intrinsically a living and moving body, capable of evolving and adapting, the pontificate that has just ended has triggered dynamics that for many generate more concern than renewal.
Read at Farodi Rome; English translation at cathcon.blogspot.com
Activists wearing religious regalia are seeking to shut down an ICE detention facility in Newark, NJ targeted last week by the mayor and other Dems
First white South Africans arrive in US as Trump claims they face discrimination
The Trump administration on May 12 welcomed 59 white South Africans it has granted refugee status in the US for being deemed victims of racial discrimination, a move that has drawn criticism from Democrats and stirred confusion in South Africa.
Read more at The Straits Times
The first set of White South Africans fleeing genocide have arrived in the United States. ... The Democrats are big MAD.
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Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government
In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Read more at Religion News
Editorial: Fetterman, Whitmer feel wrath of Dems for common-sense moves
“Never take sides against the family” — that’s the creed of the Corleone family in “The Godfather,” and the Democratic Party today. And Sen. John Fetterman is their Fredo.
Not because of incompetence on his part, but Fetterman is being blasted for betraying the “family” by his collegiality with President Trump.
Read more at the Boston Herald
Senate Democrats, worried about Fetterman, discussing ways to help
Democratic senators are having private conversations about how to help Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) in the wake of an explosive report that the first-term Pennsylvania senator is behaving erratically and in a way that may pose a danger to himself or others, according to sources ...
Read more at The Hill
Opinion: The Deep State’s Worst Nightmare
While President Donald Trump has made reining in the unelected federal bureaucracy a top priority of his second term, the Republican Congress has thus far largely failed to get in on the action. But that could be set to change with a new bill that strikes at the heart of the Deep State and runaway executive power.
Read more at Amac
Pope Leo XIV, Builder of Bridges
History has demonstrated once again that those who enter the Sistine Chapel as “future popes” often leave as cardinals. Although the man whom we will now know as Pope Leo XIV was included in some lists of papabile, he was considered by many a “dark horse” candidate owing to his American origins.
Read more at First Things
US Pride March Organizers Complain About Lack of Funding in the Trump Era
It seems that this Pride Month in the United States will not be as lavish as the ones before—and this comes straight from the horse’s, as in the organizers’, mouth. The Washington Post recently ran an article about the lack of funding compared to previous years for LGBT organizations putting on pride marches. Evidently, they chalk this up to ‘the Trump effect’.
Read more at the Hungarian Conservative
Unearthed video shows Pope Leo XIV discussing past tension with Francis
In 2023, then-Bishop Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, shared that he and Pope Francis previously had tension between them while the late pope was Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in Argentina.
Read more at Lifesite
Pope Leo XIV to media: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’ is a beatitude ‘particularly relevant to you’
Pope Leo XIV today in his first address to the media called for the release of journalists imprisoned for reporting on the truth and urged that communications efforts must be rooted in the pursuit of peace.
Read more at Catholic Vote
Pope Leo XIV's motto and coat of arms
Pope Leo XIV reveals his coat of arms and motto, which clearly reflect his Augustinian roots.
Read more at Vatican News
Trump lashes out at ‘ABC fake News’ over question about Qatari plane: ‘You should be embarrassed’
President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at ABC News reporter Rachel Scott after she questioned whether a $400 million luxury jet donated by Qatar’s royal family to the Pentagon could be perceived as a personal gift to him.
Read more at the New York Post
Inside the Qatari luxury jet on offer to President Donald Trump
View pics at Semafore
What Will Trump Find in the Middle East This Week?
President Trump’s return to the Middle East this week, the first since his first-term 2017 visit, will take place amidst great turmoil. It is a region that bears little resemblance to the Middle East of 2017 and it appears, at least from media reporting this past week, that the Trump Administration has some understanding of this reality. Syria has been over-run and is now controlled by the same al-Qaeda that the US government supposedly spent 20 years fighting in the “war on terror.”
Read more at Ron Paul Institute
The Left Discovered The New Pope Is Actually Catholic And They’re Horrified
Yesterday on the Matt Walsh Show, the media descends into panic at the thought that the pope might actually be catholic, God forbid.
View at the Matt Walsh Show (In: 1:40; Out: 15:00)
Before he was Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost had heard about 16-year-old Donal Walsh who was dying of cancer in the west of Ireland
Before he was Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost had heard about 16-year-old Donal Walsh who was dying of cancer in the west of Ireland. He was so impressed by Donal's deep [faith] that he wrote him a letter offering to make him an honorary Augustinian. And two days before he died, Donal was sworn in.
View the story of a teenager who inspired the future pope at Colm Flynn on X
Blog: Pope Leo XIV mentioned Our Lady of Pompeii. It’s the perfect devotion for our time
Many Catholics might not be familiar with this particular Marian feast and devotion, but it has recently become very dear to my little family, so much so that we visited last summer the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii in Pompeii, Italy. Therefore, I decided to share the history of this devotion with our dear readers, especially since I believe it to be a very effective and powerful devotion.
The story starts with a satanic “priest,” Bartolo Longo (b. 1841), who converted back to the faith with the help of a Catholic friar. ...
Read more at Lifesite.
Today, May 13 is the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima, honoring the anniversary of the first of six Marian apparitions to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal in 1917.
Read more at Father V on X
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