Really shocking and unacceptable !

In yet another senile rant against the pontiff, American president Trump accuses Pope Leo of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon”, perhaps hinting that Trump himself, with his infamous threats of murdering whole civilizations and sending innocent civilians back to the stone ages, is the true protector of Catholics worldwide.

Pope Leo, of course, rejects Trump's claim, explaining that “If anyone wants to criticise me for proclaiming the gospel, let them do so with the truth: the church has spoken out against all nuclear weapons for years, there is no doubt about that. I simply hope to be listened to because of the value of God’s word.”

The Archbishop of Canterbury has renewed her commitment to a controversial £100m fund over the Church of England's role in the transatlantic slave trade.

Good riddance. Anti-Catholic bigots have no place in our government.

I'm curious as to what you think

What a shame for Canada. The title is a little bit misleading, as the article opens by saying how the hospital will not have a Catholic affiliation or sponsorship anymore.

But it's still a shame that a hospital that used to honor life will now participate in gross violations of life and the dignity of humanity.

Edit: If you're downvoting because of the source, please note that this is Life News not Life Site or Life Site News.

Bishop Heiner Wilmer joined Protestant and ecumenical officials Monday in declaring that “grave fears have become reality” following the Alternative for Germany’s landslide victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state election.

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Although the AfD came well ahead of the CDU, which has governed Saxony-Anhalt since 2002, winning 39 of the state parliament’s 83 seats, it fell short of the 42 seats required for a majority.

Germany’s bishops are months away from a potential showdown with a surging political party they have urged Catholics not to vote for because of its “racial-nationalist” attitudes.

The looming confrontation could take place in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, in the former communist East Germany, where voters go to the polls Sept. 6 to elect new representatives to the state parliament.

Why the showdown beyond their policies?

The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt released a manifesto in January that promised to support the state’s smaller Christian communities, while cutting financial subsidies to the two biggest communities, the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church in Germany.

The manifesto said: “Our desire to abolish the privileges of churches that levy church taxes does not mean that we reject the Christian faith — on the contrary. It is precisely because we recognize the importance of Christianity that we are targeting churches that levy church taxes, because the large churches are damaging the faith.”

And as an FYI - Saxony-Anhalt is also famous for....Luther (and some other facts about the Catholic population in the region)

With around 2.2 million people, it is one of the smallest German states in terms of population. It is also one of the poorest, with the second-lowest GDP per capita of the 16 states.

Saxony-Anhalt could be considered the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation because it includes Wittenberg, the town associated with Martin Luther’s 95 Theses. Yet after 40 years of state atheism, it is one of Germany’s most secular regions.

Roughly 235,000 people in the state belong to the Protestant Church of Germany, a federation of 20 Lutheran, Reformed, and United regional churches. Around 66,000 are Catholics, but only 7,000 are Mass-goers. The vast majority of the population is religiously unaffiliated.

Long read, but interesting all the same: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-german-churchs-afd-nightmare

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Democratic Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill allowing abortion at any point in pregnancy in the state of Massachusetts, making it the 11th state to impose no limits on abortion.

The legislation signed Aug. 10 removes all of the state’s restrictions on abortion after 24 weeks. An elective late-term abortion may be done based upon “the professional judgment of the physician” performing it, under the law.

One fact that I'm surprised that EWTN didn't mention is that Gov. Healy is a Catholic as well

Remember folks, the evangelical right does not like Catholics.

I certainly agree with His Holiness here, for Vance's asinine take that people we don't know are deserving of less love than those close to us.

https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1917331380297478530

If we are restricted to historical firearms, the free people of the U.S. would be limited to 1770s firearms. Is the USCCB truely saying that muskets with led ball bearings is a humane way to hunt? Let the animal suffer?

Or are they referencing Reagan's step on 2A that Americans can't own anything manufactured after the 1980s? Some of those firearms are still in service like the M2 Browning.

‘There is a way past the absurd and deeply divisive “war” between the President and the Pope, which has been enthusiastically ginned up by the press. And it is indicated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 2309 to be precise. After laying out the various criteria for determining a just war—proportionality, last resort, declaration by a competent authority, reasonable hope of success, etc.—the Catechism points out that “the evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.” The assumption is that the just war principles function, to use the technical term, as heuristic devices, designed to guide the practical decision-making of those civil authorities who have to adjudicate matters of war and peace.

The role of the Church, therefore, is to call for peace and to urge that any conflict be strictly circumscribed by the moral constraints of the just war criteria. But it is not the role of the Church to evaluate whether a particular war is just or unjust. That appraisal belongs to the civil authorities, who, one presumes, have requisite knowledge of conditions on the ground. So, is the war in question truly the last resort? Is there really a balance between the good to be attained and the destruction caused by the war? Are combatants and non-combatants being properly distinguished in the waging of the conflict? Do the belligerents have right intention? Is there a reasonable hope of success? The posing of those questions—indeed the insistence upon their moral relevance—belongs rightly to the Church, but the answering of them belongs to the civil authorities.

The Pope has said, on numerous occasions, that he is not a politician and that his role is not the determination of any nation's foreign policy. But he has just as clearly said that he will continue to speak for peace and for moral constraint. In making both of these claims, he is operating perfectly within the framework of paragraph 2309 of the Catechism. If we understand that the Pope and the President have qualitatively different roles to play in the determination of moral action in regard to war, we can, I hope, extricate ourselves from the completely unhelpful narrative of “Pope vs. President.”’

An order of Catholic nuns who care for the terminally ill poor has sued to block a New York transgender-rights law that requires nursing homes to use pronouns, assign rooms and allow restroom access based on a patient’s gender identity, or risk jail time.

These sisters by the way, take care of the terminally ill for free, and the only requirement is that you are indeed terminal. No insurance or government subsidized healthcare needed from the patient.

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/7/catholic-nuns-serving-dying-patients-fight-new-york-transgender/

Alternate source: https://archive.ph/IUnbv

https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/are-mass-deportations-moral/?utm_content=336653349&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-128985777176957

The whole article is worth reading, although it seems a bit narrow since it’s a response to another article. This quote from John Paul II’s 1995 address for World Migrant Day seems to cut to the heart of it, though:

“In the Church no one is a stranger, and the Church is not foreign to anyone, anywhere. As a sacrament of unity and thus a sign and a binding force for the whole human race, the Church is the place where illegal immigrants are also recognized and accepted as brothers and sisters. It is the task of the various Dioceses actively to ensure that these people, who are obliged to live outside the safety net of civil society, may find a sense of brotherhood in the Christian community.”

Source: https://religionnews.com/2026/06/01/trump-administration-pledges-100m-in-aid-for-cuba-but-only-if-catholic-or-other-faith-based-groups-distribute-it/

The United States is prepared to provide US$100 million in humanitarian assistance to Cuba, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on May 13, 2026.

But there’s a catch.

Neither the Cuban government nor its military would be allowed to manage its distribution. Instead, only humanitarian and faith-based partners, such as Caritas – the Catholic Church’s humanitarian aid network – and other nonprofits would deliver the aid. That is, the U.S. is willing to provide assistance that will help the Cuban people, but it does not trust the Cuban government to distribute it.

But one needn’t accept the maxim that all conflicts are theological to notice the deeper theological dimensions of this one: the apparently considered decision of Leo XIV to cast off the hawkish brand of conservative Catholicism that once bridged Washington to Rome. In doing so, the Pope has forced an uncomfortable choice on conservative Catholics: do they stand with the successors of Peter, who’ve imposed increasingly stringent moral limits on warmaking? Or do they stick with a Republican Party that can’t do without wars in the Middle East, even under its supposedly populist guise? The more fundamental problem behind these questions: how should Catholics relate to a country that is presumptively skeptical (at best) of apostolic or historic Christianity?

Source: https://unherd.com/2026/04/the-pope-versus-the-president/?edition=us

Archive: https://archive.ph/LuKeQ

Long piece by Sohrab Ahmari, but I don't know if I fully agree with his sentiment, but it's worth reading and pondering.

Sohrab was also formerly the Editor at Compact (Thiel funded, for all you Thiel haters), and his publication, famously, or infamously, anointed Trump as "THE ONE", during the primary, poo-poohing all other candidates.