Source: @chrisbrunet
BREAKING: Parish priest Fr. Bayar Alraai was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the village of Al-Qlayya in southern Lebanon. Several others were also injured in the strike.
Monday, March 9, 2026
Canon lawyer explains why SSPX consecrations would not be ‘schismatic act’
With no intent to form a parallel hierarchy, and willing the supreme good, the SSPX consecrations would neither be sinful nor schismatic, canon lawyer Fr. Jaime Mercant Simó argued.
(LifeSiteNews) — A Spanish priest and canon law scholar has explained in a post on X that the upcoming SSPX episcopal consecrations would entail neither the crime nor the sin of schism.
On February 21, Father Jaime Mercant Simó, a diocesan priest and lecturer at a major theological studies center in Mallorca, Spain, published a post on X in which he addressed questions regarding the episcopal consecrations expected to be carried out in July 2026 by the Society of Saint Pius X
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Catholic military hero with deep faith in action
Catholic hero with powerful faith!
Eric Slover, the Chinook pilot who led the capture of Maduro. Shot 4 times in the leg and hip, he maintained control with faith and determination to save the lives of his team. Before carrying out the 'Operation Absolute Resolve', his wife Amy blessed his dog tags with holy water. Eric also carried his rosary, which could not be missing, to feel the presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary beside him, Mother and protector in battle. Holy water and the rosary are powerful sacramentals against the enemy, Satan and the demons. Eternal honor to this warrior of God!
Source: Diana_Margot on Twitter/X.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
BREAKING: USCCB clarifies after birthright citizenship brief stirs controversy
From Lepanto Insutute @LepantoInst:
“USCCB issues confusing clarification regarding its incoherent amicus brief on birthright citizenship. This clarifies nothing, changes nothing, and calls further into question what the USCCB was even attempting to accomplish here!”
The story via The Pillar:
"[T]he brief does not urge the Court to decide the case on the basis of Catholic doctrine."
The U.S. bishops’ conference told its members this week that a legal brief on birthright citizenship did not claim that “that every democratic polity must adopt” a birthright citizenship policy “to satisfy moral standards.”
The clarification came in a March 2 memo issued to bishops, after controversy over a February amicus brief filed by the USCCB in a lawsuit challenging a 2025 Trump executive order that would change the country’s birthright citizenship policies.
Critics argued that the brief had asked the Supreme Court to apply religious teaching in its decision, and had presented Catholic teaching in an incoherent manner.
But a memo to bishops from William Quinn, general counsel for the USCCB, said that the brief instead relies on natural law to “show the harmony between our constitutional tradition and a moral vision of civic belonging.”
“The Court is asked to do what it always does: interpret and apply the Constitution,” said the memo, which was obtained by The Pillar after it was issued to bishops.
500 Catholic Churches attacked in US since 2020
Since 2020, more than 500 Catholic churches in the United States have been vandalized, burned, desecrated, or had sacred statues destroyed.
Five hundred (500!).
If that number does not shock you, it should.
Anti-Catholic attacks continue across America, yet they remain some of the least-reported acts of religious hostility in the country. In a nation where Catholic voters represent one of the largest voting blocs and where faith communities are central to our civic life, the silence from many in the media and politics is deafening.
Where is the national outrage?
For more than 100 years, a defining aspect of every Marxist movement has been a violent attack on Catholicism. The pattern is not new. What is new is how casually it is dismissed.
Video: https://x.com/genflynn/status/2025203961041436956?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w
General Flynn @GenFlynn on Twitter/X.
Friday, March 6, 2026
Murder in Lyon
Quentin Deranque was twenty-three years old and a student in mathematics at the University of Lyon, France. A recent convert to Catholicism, he attended Saint-Georges, a church of the diocese of Lyon where Mass is usually said in the traditional Latin rite. Family, friends, and acquaintances described Quentin as devout and studious, someone whose day-to-day life centered on faith, reading, and doing well in school. One friend, “Vincent,” speaking on Radio Courtoisie, praised his “moral and spiritual virtues” and described him as a “bookworm” widely read in classical Christian theology, with a special interest in Thomas Aquinas and Augustine. Another friend, “Baptiste,” quoted by Le Monde, described him as deeply devout, intelligent, and curious, with a strong sense of justice.
On February 12, 2026, Quentin and two other men accompanied female activists from Collectif Némésis as they protested outside of Sciences Po Lyon, a far-left university. Collectif Némésis is a right-wing NGO comprised of young women opposed to the negative impact of mass immigration, Islamism, and left-wing ideology on the lives and rights of young women in France and Europe. The women of Némésis were there to unfurl a banner protesting an appearance on campus by Rima Hassan, a member of the European Parliament for the far-left party La France Insoumise (LFI). Hassan, who claims to be of Palestinian descent, is chiefly known for her full-throated support for Hamas in the wake of October 7.
An unremarkable set-piece of political theater should have ensued: A far-left figure speaks at a far-left university; right-wing activists protest peacefully outside. Instead, a horror unfolded.
Thanks to mobile phone video, an official autopsy report, and a preliminary report by Thierry Dran, chief prosecutor of the Judicial Tribunal of Lyon, we know what happened in detail. Contrary to initial media reports that described a “street brawl” between far-right and far-left activists, implying shared responsibility, it is now undeniable that a group of about twenty masked, hooded men encircled Quentin and the two other men and threw them to the ground and beat them. Quentin became isolated from his companions, and six men hurled him to the pavement and struck him repeatedly before dispersing.
The autopsy report shows that the assailants landed multiple blows to Quentin’s head, even after he was incapacitated. A breakdown of the video evidence counted at least eleven distinct blows. One man straddled Quentin and hit him repeatedly. Another appeared to strike him with a metal object.
According to the autopsy report, the damage to Quentin’s skull and brain was so deep and pervasive, including “major cranioencephalic trauma” and a “right temporal fracture,” that he had no chance of survival. This last fact is important, because minutes later Quentin regained consciousness, being described as visibly confused, and initially refused medical attention. The left-wing noise machine latched onto this fact to claim that Quentin had not been mortally wounded and that he only died as a result of his initial refusal to seek medical help. The autopsy report made it clear that even if Quentin had been immediately rushed to the hospital, he would still have died of his injuries.
It is important to get the facts right, which, again, are attested by multiple mobile phone videos, an official autopsy report, and an official report by the chief prosecutor of Lyon. There can be no reasonable doubt: Quentin was attacked and murdered by an organized, violent group. He did not seek, provoke, or initiate violence, and his attackers deliberately beat him and left him for dead.
The import of the event is clear. A French center-right commentator, Kevin Bossuet, put it simply in a television interview yesterday: “He is our Charlie Kirk.”
Quentin had nowhere near Charlie’s public profile, but he was a virtuous, talented, young Christian man who was gratuitously murdered by far-left extremists for doing nothing other than peacefully exercising his right to free speech.
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