White House officials have dismissed the movement’s complaints as “blown out of proportion,” arguing that pro-life voters will continue to support Republicans as the only viable alternative.31 Total abortion numbers have actually increased since the fall of Roe, a fact that underscores the movement’s frustration with the administration’s approach.31

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Is Trump Pro-Life? His Shifting Stance on Abortion

Donald Trump’s position on abortion has undergone one of the most dramatic evolutions in modern American politics. Once a self-described pro-choice supporter, Trump became the president most directly responsible for ending the constitutional right to abortion in the United States by appointing three Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022. In his second term, which began in January 2025, Trump has pursued a complex strategy: signing executive orders to restrict federal funding for abortion while simultaneously distancing himself from calls for a national ban, insisting the issue belongs to the states. That balancing act has drawn sharp criticism from the very pro-life movement that helped elect him. From Pro-Choice to Pro-Life In a 1999 appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump declared, “I am very pro-choice,” adding he was “pro-choice in every respect in as far as it goes.”1NBC News. Trump’s Many Abortion Positions: A Timeline That changed publicly in …

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" Wherefore, when the soul knows herself, as we have said above, she finds humility and hatred of her own sensual passion, for she learns the perverse law, which is bound up in her members, and which ever fights against the spirit. And, therefore, arising with hatred of her own sensuality, crushing it under the heel of reason, with great earnestness, she discovers in herself the bounty of My goodness, through the many benefits which she has received from Me, all of which she considers again in herself. She attributes to Me, through humility, the knowledge which she has obtained of herself, knowing that, by My grace, I have drawn her out of darkness and lifted her up into the light of true knowledge."

Saint Catherine of Siena – ‘The Dialogue’ 1907; ~ ‘How virtues are accomplished by means of our neighbour’; pages 44-45

'About the Love of God and the Love of a Neighbor' ~ [Saint Catherine of Siena /Caterina di Benincasa/; XIV-XV Century AD; born: Siena, Republic of Siena/died: Rome, Papal States; aged 33; Spiritual Writer; Mystic; Virgin; Doctor of the Church]
How virtues are accomplished by means of our neighbour and how it is that virtues differ to such an extent in creatures.
" I have told thee how all sins are accomplished by means of thy neighbour
, through the principles which I exposed to thee, that is, because men are deprived of the affection of love, which gives light to every virtue. In the same way self-love, which destroys charity and affection towards the neighbour, is the principle and foundation of every evil. All scandals, hatred, cruelty, and every sort of trouble proceed from this perverse root of self-love, which has poisoned the entire world, and weakened the mystical body of the Holy Church, and the universal body of the believers in the Christian religion ; and, therefore, I said …More

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The Problem of the Four Brothers

– Folha de S. Paulo, February 26, 1969 –
by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
ONE of the themes of the Brotherhood Campaign invited all Brazilians to reflect upon the maxim: “We are all brothers, we are all equal.”
To such reflections, I dedicate my words of today which, regardless of their merit, at least have the distinction of being disseminated in a newspaper [Folha de S. Paulo] with a very large circulation.
From the outset, I knew the task would be difficult. By heartfelt sentiments that spring from the innermost being, by that special discernment — tacit though it may be — that senses the simple, sublime, great truths of life, and by the mark impressed on him by Christian tradition, the Brazilian is convinced we are all equal and brothers.
This is illustrated by the profound historical reality of [Brazil’s] miscegenation, which is based on the equality and fraternity of the races.
Undoubtedly, the mentors of the campaign realize this. Accordingly, their objective does not lie in repeating …More

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Prayer for the Church and Civil Authorities

The Prayer for the Church and Civil Authorities is a traditional American Catholic devotion composed by Archbishop John Carroll in the late 18th century, which has become a central part of the liturgical patrimony of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP).
The Prayer
We pray Thee, O Almighty and Eternal God, who through Jesus Christ hast revealed Thy glory to all nations, to preserve the works of Thy mercy; that Thy Church, being spread through the whole world, may continue, with unchanging faith, in the confession of Thy name.
We pray Thee, who alone art good and holy, to endow with heavenly knowledge, sincere zeal, and sanctity of life our chief bishop, Leo XIV, the Vicar of our Lord Jesus Christ in the government of His Church; our own Bishop, (or Archbishop,) N.; all other Bishops, Prelates, and Pastors of the Church; and especially those who are appointed to exercise among us the functions of the holy ministry, and conduct Thy people into the ways of salvation.
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Russia liberates Konstantinovka – Kremlin

President Vladimir Putin has been briefed on the development by top military commanders, Dmitry Peskov has said Russian troops have liberated the city of Konstantinovka, a longstanding major stronghold in the Ukrainian-controlled part of Donbass, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has announced. The city, located in the northwest of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), has seen intensive fighting over the past few weeks. The Russian forces have advanced into the city from multiple directions, effectively cutting it in half and surrounding a part of the disorganized Ukrainian garrison. Russian President Vladimir Putin was briefed on the development during a visit to an auxiliary command post alongside top military commanders and Defense Ministry officials, Peskov told reporters late on Friday. “Konstantinovka has been taken under full control. According to the president, it is the first, but very important, stage in the seizing of the entire important Slavyansk-Kramatorsk stronghold,”…

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Never thought that this would be how it would manifest. Conditional prophecies suggested that they would be the enemy but it is in fact the western leaders goading and provoking Russia constantly.

Instaurare Omnia in Christo

I meant to add that's my opinion about them stepping up their attacks in Russia. It's how I see it. Also some people were asked if they think Putin will start to attack other countries weapon factories. They all agreed not at all.
Putin tries to make peace. He wants nothing to do with war. I left a list of people I listen to awhile back. We can learn so much from them. History, what's going on etc.

"John and Peter poured some water on his hands, which he held over the plate on which the azymous loaves had been placed; then he took a little of the water which had been poured on his hands, in the spoon that he had taken out of the lower part of the chalice, and poured it on theirs. After this, the vase was passed round the table, and all the Apostles washed their hands in it. I do not remember whether this was the precise order in which these ceremonies were performed; all I know is, that they reminded me in a striking manner of the holy sacrifice of the Mass."

‘The Complete Visions of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich’ ~ ‘The bitter passion of our Lord Jesus Christ’ ~ MEDITATION VIII; ‘Institution of the Holy Eucharist..’; part I

[Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich; XVIII-XIX Century; born: 8 September 1774 Flamschen, Coesfeld, Prince-Bishopric of Münster, Holy Roman Empire/ died: 9 February 1824 (aged 49), Dülmen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation; mystic, Marian visionary and stigmatist; Roman Catholic Augustinian canoness]
MEDITATION VIII
‘Institution of the Holy Eucharist’
By command of our Lord,
the major-domo had again laid out the table, which he had raised a little; then, having placed it once more in the middle of the room, he stood one urn filled with wine, and another with water underneath it. Peter and John went into the part of the room near the hearth, to get the chalice which they had brought from Seraphia’s house, and which was still wrapped up in its covering. They carried it between them as if they had been carrying a tabernacle, and placed it on the table before Jesus. An oval plate stood there, with three fine white azymous loaves, placed on a piece of linen, by the side of the half loaf …More

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St. Augustine ~ He, after all, is enough for you; apart from Him, nothing is enough for you...

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"O Jerusalem, city of gold
decorated with the purple of the King,
O edifice of the highest good,
you are a light that has never been obscured,
decorated with the dawn, in the heat of the sun.
O blessed boyhood, reddening in the dawn,
and O blessed youth, burning in the sun."

‘SELECTED WRITINGS’ – Saint Hildegard of Bingen; Translated by Mark Atherton – ‘II. Songs for Saint Rupert’; pages 99-101

[Saint HILDEGARD OF BINGEN ~ XI-XII Century AD; born: Bermersheim, Holy Roman Empire/died: Bingen am Rhein, Holy Roman Empire, aged 81; Abbess, Polymath, Writer, Composer, Mystic, Visionary, Philosopher, Medical Writer and Practitioner, Composer of Sacred Monophony, Virgin, Founder, Doctor of the Church]
II. Songs for Saint Rupert
[According to the Life of Hildegard by Gottfried of Disibodenberg and Theoderich of Echternach, the call to Move from Disibodenberg came to Hildegard in a vision, accompanied by a bout of illness in which she remained until she consented to reveal what the vision had said to her. The place to which she felt called was the Rupertsberg, or Mount St Rupert, a site on a large hill overlooking what is now the modern town of Bingen in the Rhine Valley. At the time of Hildegard’s move in 1150, there was just an old ruined chapel dedicated to the eighth-century saint, while the rest of the area was cultivated as a vineyard. Rupert’s original monastery had been destroyed …More

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Gänswein: FSSPX "More Hardline Than Ever"; Leo XIV Should Ease Latin Mass Restrictions

On 2 July, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the Nuncio to the Baltic States, spoke to Corriere.it about the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X and the Mass in the Roman rite. Key quotes, slightly shortened
- The FSSPX has become even more hardline. It's unbelievable - truly sad.
- Their understanding of tradition is not tradition. They freeze Catholic tradition at Pius XII. After that, they see nothing but errors.
- Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of the four bishops as a father seeking peace. It was an outstretched hand they refused. The radical faction prevailed—they rejected reconciliation then and still do.
- They are like the Protestants of five centuries ago. Cardinal Müller is right.
- I am very disappointed. Grace can do anything over time, but for now I see even greater distance and deeper hardening than before.
"Leo XIV Should Allow the Traditional Roman Mass"
- There are faithful who celebrate the Latin rite—for example, the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter—and they do …More

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- On Traditionis Custodes: "I believe Pope Francis made a mistake, without realizing it." Pretty naive, archbishop.

Agatha James

I think they are staying the same. The Vatican has changes from live and let live to Search and Destroy for Catholics.

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St. Stanislaus Kostka ~ I want Eternity. I was born for the greater things!

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Stay Faithful While Many Fall Away
The focus of the church has shifted away from God and towards human desires, leading to a rejection of biblical teachings. Despite this, the faithful are encouraged to remain steadfast in their beliefs, trusting in God’s plan and the ultimate triumph of the Church. The current challenges are seen as a test of faith, urging believers to stay true to Jesus and not be swayed by false teachings.
Fr. Altier is a Priest at Holy Trinity Parish in South St. Paul: Home | Holy Trinity Parish
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