Pope Leo XIV sends message to 2026 March for Life

 To the Participants in the 2026 March for Life

I send warm greetings to those of you participating in the 2026 March for Life. I likewise express heartfelt appreciation, and assure you of my spiritual closeness as you gather for this eloquent public witness to affirm that “the protection of the right to life constitutes the indispensable foundation of every other human right” (Address to Members of the Diplomatic Corps Accredited to the Holy See, 9 January 2026).

Indeed, “a society is healthy and truly progresses only when it safeguards the sanctity of human life and works actively to promote it” (ibid.). In this regard, I would encourage you, especially the young people, to continue striving to ensure that life is respected in all of its stages through appropriate efforts at every level of society, including dialogue with civil and political leaders.

May Jesus, who promised to be with us always (cf. Mt 28:20), accompany you today as you courageously and peacefully march on behalf of unborn children. By advocating for them, please know that you are fulfilling the Lord’s command to serve him in the least of our brothers and sisters (cf. Mt 25:31-46).

With these sentiments I entrust all of you, as well as those who support you with their prayers and sacrifices, to the intercession of Mary Immaculate, Patroness of the United States of America, and I gladly impart my Apostolic Blessing as a pledge of abundant heavenly graces.

From the Vatican, 17 January 2026

LEO PP. XIV

VP Vance at the March for Life

"In the ancient pagan world, discarding children was routine. From the skeletons in brothels to the child sacrifice of the Mayans, the mark of barbarism is that we treat babies like inconveniences to be discarded rather than the blessings to cherish that they are."

"The March For Life... is about whether we remain a civilization under God or we return to the paganism that dominated the past. The far left in this country tells our young people that marriage and children are obstacles... We know it's a lie."

President Trump to the March for Life: "For 53 years, students, families, patriots and believers have come to Washington from every corner of the country to defend the infinite worth and God-given dignity of every human life ... this is a battle that must be fought, must be won, not only in the corridors of power, but above all, in the hearts and souls of the people."

RFK Jr pushed back on vaccines and Fauci called him a liar. RFK Jr sued. What happened next:

 🚨 READ THIS CAREFULLY.

Anthony Fauci publicly called RFK Jr. a liar for saying that none of the 72 childhood vaccines were ever properly safety tested.

So RFK Jr. sued him.

After more than a year of delays and stonewalling, Fauci’s own legal team quietly admitted RFK Jr. was right.

Here’s what came out:

“There’s no downstream liability.

No front-end safety testing.

No marketing costs.

Because the federal government mandates these vaccines for 78 MILLION schoolchildren every year.”

Think about that.

A guaranteed market. Zero liability. Zero advertising.

RFK Jr. put it bluntly:

“What better product could you possibly have?”

That’s why, he says, there was a gold rush to cram more and more vaccines onto the childhood schedule.

Get on the list — and suddenly it’s a billion dollars a year for your company.

The result?

72 shots.

16 vaccines.

And starting around 1989, something else exploded too.

Chronic illness in kids.

ADHD.

Sleep disorders.

Language delays.

Autism spectrum disorders.

Tourette’s.

Tics.

Narcolepsy.

Then this stat hits like a brick:

Autism went from 1 in 10,000 in his generation

to 1 in 34 children today.

That’s not a coincidence people just “imagined.”

That’s a question nobody wanted asked.

Until now.

Source: @CharlieK_news  on Twitter/X.

Mislabeling survival as Christian “nationalism”

Let's be clear about something else: what you call "Christian nationalism" is, in Britain, nothing more than ordinary citizens asserting that their own history, faith, and culture should not be erased. That is not extremism. It is survival.

You smear fathers, mothers, pensioners and preachers on a stage in Whitehall as if they were plotting some theocratic coup. They weren't. They were saying out loud what millions feel in private – that Britain is a Christian country in heritage and law, and that this heritage should not be sneered at or dismantled by cultural engineers. To brand that conviction as "a threat to us all" tells us more about your own bias than it does about them.

The truth is this: Britain's freedom, its law, its democracy, its very sense of human dignity were all born from the Christian tradition you so casually pathologise. Habeas corpus. Trial by jury. Equality before the law. The idea that every individual has worth. None of these came from "secular humanism." They came from centuries of Christian thought, hammered into institutions by men and women of faith. To denounce that inheritance as dangerous while indulging ideologies that openly call for jihad on our streets is intellectual dishonesty of the highest order.

You talk of "outside influence" from America. Where is your outrage when Gulf states pour money into our universities, funding Islamist networks that demonise Jews and women? Where is your alarm when foreign-funded NGOs stage pro-Hamas rallies in London under the guise of "human rights"? That silence is telling. Imported grievance is tolerated. Imported radical Islam is excused. But imported Christian money or rhetoric? That you brand an existential "threat."

And let's talk about threats. Is it Christians who have run grooming gangs across our towns? Is it Christians who chant for jihad outside synagogues? Is it Christians who terrorise teachers for showing cartoons, or who knife women in the street for "dishonour"? No. Yet we are told that the menace comes not from radical Islamism or the progressive Left's culture war, but from a handful of Christians who dare to say Britain should stay Christian in character.

What you really fear isn't extremism – it's resistance. Resistance to your project of turning Britain into a deracinated, post-national, post-religious experiment where every identity is celebrated except the one that built the nation. You fear that ordinary people, rooted in their faith and traditions, will refuse to be passengers on your managed decline.

You can brand it "Christian nationalism" if it helps you sleep. But the reality is far simpler. This is Britain's majority culture asserting that it has a right to exist. And if you think that is a "threat to us all," then the problem isn't with the people – it's with the elites who despise them.

Christianity in Britain is not a threat. It is the faith that shaped our freedoms, our laws, and our culture.

Source: @JChimirie66677  on Twitter/X.

Austen Ivereigh. The attacks on the Pope by the Santa Marta hacks

(N.B. Pope Leo likes traditions. This is a Catholic sensibility. The low- life hack opportunists who falsely attributed moral value to the jettisoning of such during the late unpleasantness now find themselves on the outside and desperately cling to relevance by attacking the new man for not apeing his predecessor in mindless lockstep.)

Rome - The criticism levelled this morning by Austen Ivereigh at Pope Leo XIV says nothing about the Pope’s gesture. It says a great deal, instead, about the method – and the standard – of a certain brand of journalism that for years built careers, reputations and income around the figure of Pope Francis, and that now, suddenly cut off from access, is trying to stay relevant by attacking the new Pontiff with false claims and ideological distortions.

As is well known, this morning Leo XIV received monks and nuns who, according to an ancient and well-documented tradition, brought with them the lambs blessed on the feast of St Agnes. Lambs that are not killed, not mistreated, not paraded as props: they are raised, shorn, and their wool is later used to make the pallia for metropolitan archbishops. This is an ecclesial, symbolic act, deeply rooted in the tradition of the Church.

It is a tradition that was observed in the early years of Francis’s pontificate and later set aside. Not for ethical reasons – because there is no ethical issue in that rite – but simply because these things did not interest Francis. Signs, rituals and liturgical tradition were not central to his vision of governance. What mattered to him was personal loyalty. And when that loyalty failed, bishops were removed with little hesitation, canon law included.

It is worth restating this, since some today pretend to be discovering it for the first time: the lambs are shorn with full respect for the animal; shearing is a relief, not a source of suffering. Because they are very small, they are presented to the Pope lying in a basket. The videos released show calm, serene animals, certainly not “terrified” as Ivereigh claims. This is not a matter of opinion: it is a simply false statement.

More: https://x.com/silerenonpossum/status/2014058913348411532?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

Virginia Catholic Bishops blast ‘extreme abortion amendment’ after General Assembly passage

CV News Feed on January 18, 2026

The Catholic bishops of Virginia issued a forceful rebuke this week after the Democratic-controlled General Assembly advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would enshrine broad abortion rights into the state constitution.

In a statement published Jan. 16, Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington and Bishop Barry Knestout of Richmond described the legislation as an “extreme and deadly ‘fundamental right’ to abortion” that will now go before voters in a statewide referendum later this year.

“This amendment would go far beyond even what Roe v. Wade previously allowed,” the bishops said, noting that lawmakers fast-tracked the measure through both chambers in just the opening three days of the 60-day legislative session – a pace the bishops called “truly shocking to the conscience.” 

Under the proposal approved by the state House and Senate, the Virginia Constitution would guarantee a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom,” including the ability to obtain an abortion at any stage of pregnancy without age restrictions. 

Bishop Burbidge and Bishop Knestout warned that the amendment would “severely jeopardize Virginia’s parental consent law, health and safety standards for women, conscience protections for health care providers, and restrictions on taxpayer-funded abortions.” 

“Most tragically of all,” they added, “the extreme abortion amendment provides no protections whatsoever for preborn children.” 

“No one should ever be forced to pay for or participate in an abortion,” the statement said, urging that “health and safety should be enhanced, not diminished.”

More: https://catholicvote.org/virginia-catholic-bishops-blast-extreme-abortion-amendment-after-general-assembly-passage/

Josh Shapiro should stop his lawfare against nuns

 By Washington Examiner

December 18, 2025 9:00 am

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) really doesn’t like it when people accuse him of suing nuns. The solution here is simple: He should stop fighting nuns in court.

The Little Sisters of the Poor, nine years after defeating the Obama administration in the Supreme Court over the contraception mandate, eight years after President Donald Trump issued an executive order codifying a religious and conscience exemption, are still in court over the mandate.

The reason: One activist liberal federal judge, and one Pennsylvania governor who tries to pose as a moderate Democrat.

On Monday, the Sisters appealed a federal court ruling against the Trump administration’s rule creating a religious and conscience exemption from President Barack Obama’s rule requiring nearly all employers, including orders of nuns, to arrange for their workers’ contraception and sterilization coverage.

Shapiro, along with the governor of New Jersey, is the opposing party in this case. Shapiro and the Democrats in Trenton could end this case if they wanted, and then nuns, Mennonite business owners, and religious minorities across America wouldn’t have to fight in court anymore for their conscience rights.

More: https://x.com/tpcarney/status/2002036267996115086?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w