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House Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing back against criticism from Pope Leo XIV over U.S. immigration enforcement, arguing that strong borders are not only lawful but rooted in scripture. Speaking with reporters after a House vote, Johnson responded to the pope’s earlier remarks, citing Matthew 25:35 — a passage in which Jesus speaks of welcoming…

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A detransitioner has won the first medical malpractice suit of its kind against the doctors who approved her “gender-affirming” care. Fox Varian was just 16 years old when she had an elective double mastectomy to remove perfectly healthy breasts to align more with her male gender identity. Yet, by 22, Varian no longer identified as…

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In a moment that blended politics with a public expression of faith, President Donald Trump paused during a campaign stop in Iowa to pray with a supporter, offering a snapshot of how faith continues to surface on the campaign trail as the nation looks toward the 2026 midterm elections. Trump was visiting the Machine Shed…

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The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation after a Catholic school in Southern California was broken into and heavily vandalized in what church leaders are calling one of the worst attacks they have ever seen. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that its Civil Rights Division would investigate the…

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Catholics are balking at a recent faculty assignment from the Catholic Notre Dame University. The university named Professor Susan Ostermann as director of Asian Studies. Ostermann has been an open advocate of abortion, writing op-eds against any attempt to illegalize it. She has called attempts to ban abortion “violence” and “white supremacy.” She has referred…

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Hillary Clinton blasted several prominent Christian conservatives in a recent op-ed for The Atlantic. Entitled “MAGA’s War on Empathy,” Clinton painted a picture of a bleak America squashed under the thumb of President Trump’s tyranny, with citizens like Renee Good and Alex Pretti being murdered in broad daylight. “This crisis also reveals a deeper moral…

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A judge declined to rule after hearing a motion requesting a new trial for Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan national convicted of killing 22-year-old nursing student, Laken Riley. Ibarra entered the United States illegally in 2022. On February 22, 2024, he allegedly came upon Riley, a student at Augusta University College of Nursing, while she was…

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The US Holocaust Museum offered a strongly worded rebuke to comments comparing immigration enforcement tactics to Anne Frank being turned over to a concentration camp. While the Museum did not specifically name Minnesota governor Tim Walz in its rebuke, the governor did draw criticism from others for comments he made at a press conference where…

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A course at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina is raising some eyebrows as it links theology and queerness. The course, entitled “From Baptismal Font to Queer Theology,” requests that its students posit questions like “Is queer driven by identity politics, an umbrella term for sexual identity, gender identity, antinormativity politics, social locations, or…

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A UK nurse who was suspended from her job after misgendering a pedophile has been reinstated. Jennifer Melle, a nurse at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, was called in to help treat a patient who was reportedly in prison for pedophilic offenses in May 2024. The patient, a man who identified as…
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