Lego has unveiled a massive new model of Barcelona&#8217;s iconic Sagrada Familia basilica, a release timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the death of its chief architect, Antoni Gaudí. 
The set contains 12,060 pieces, making it the largest Lego set ever released, according to the company.
“The new set captures the evolving story of Barcelona’s most iconic landmark, with the building steps mirroring the basilica’s actual construction sequence,” Lego <a href="https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2026/june/lego-architecture-sagrada-fam-lia-set-unveiled">said</a> in the statement. 
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“The build begins with the foundational Apse and Crypt, moves through Gaudí’s original Nativity façade and the dramatic Passion façade, before rising into the grand naves, Western Sacristy and six iconic towers. The final stage brings the model together with the Eastern Sacristy and the Glory façade.”
The release comes as the real Sagrada Familia approaches a major milestone of its own.
Construction on the basilica began more than 140 years ago and has continued ever since. According to <a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/04/gaudis-sagrada-familia-finally-shakes-off-its-incompletable-tag-as-pope-prepares-to-inaugurate-tallest-and-final-tower">The Art Newspape</a>r, Pope Leo XIV is expected to bless the newly completed Tower of Jesus on June 10, the centennial of Gaudí&#8217;s death.
&#8220;The inauguration marks the symbolic completion of the church, though work is expected to continue for another decade,” according to the outlet.
The Sagrada Familia is the latest religious landmark to receive the Lego treatment. In 2024, the company released a model of Notre-Dame Cathedral, one of the world&#8217;s most renowned Catholic landmarks, during the reconstruction of the famous Paris church. The move signaled a willingness to create sets based on prominent religious sites.
The new set was designed by Rok Žgalin Kobe, who has also worked on Lego versions of the Eiffel Tower, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Trevi Fountain, and other architectural icons. 

The Sagrada Familia Lego set is available for preorder for $799.99 and is scheduled for release on November 1.
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The Knicks have Timothée Chalamet, Kylie Jenner, Spike Lee … you get the picture.
There is no shortage of star power in Madison Square Garden. But tonight, the NBA Finals start in San Antonio, and the Spurs have something in Frost Bank Center that has captured the eyes and hearts of fans across the country — &#8220;The Spurs Nuns.&#8221;
The group of Catholic sisters has gone viral during the Spurs&#8217; 2026 NBA Playoff run for praying for the players and cheering their hearts out as the Spurs went on a Western Conference tear to make it to the Finals.
The Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco in San Antonio show up to home games decked out in Spurs jerseys over their habits. They cheer when Spurs star Victor Wembanyama nails a dunk typically only seen in video games. They sigh when the opposing team makes a three-pointer. They even take the time to bless the players, most recently backup center Luke Kornet, during pre-game warm-ups.
When they’re not in the arena watching basketball, they’re showing off their own basketball skills at the Catholic school where they use their Spurs knowledge to enhance their ministry with the children they serve.
&#8220;Our ministry is with young people, and we need to be able to converse with them and talk to them,&#8221; Sister Bernadette Mota told the <a href="https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/san-antonio-spurs-fans-nuns-salesian-22242330.php">San Antonio Express-News</a> in May. &#8220;I can talk basketball with the kids and it&#8217;s something that I&#8217;ve really enjoyed watching.&#8221;
The enjoyment is a two-way street with Spurs fans often taking pictures with the sisters before games, and when the group chose to stay in San Antonio instead of traveling to Oklahoma City for Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, Thunder fans playfully dressed up as &#8220;Spurs Nuns.&#8221;
While it’s easy to get caught up in the spectacle of nuns sitting courtside at an NBA game, the sisters take their Catholic practice seriously.
&#8220;Pre-game, we’re praying the rosary for peace (in communion with the Church and Pope Leo),&#8221; Mota told the San Antonio Express-News. &#8220;And we’ll add a special intention for the Spurs. God bless and Go Spurs Go!&#8221;
In a world of bandwagon fans, the Salesian Sisters have been die-hard for decades. Sister Mota says 20 years ago, there were elder sisters in their convent who would watch every Spurs game on TV. When those sisters passed, others in the convent carried on the tradition of being devoted fans of their hometown team, per <a href="https://sojo.net/articles/culture-interview/san-antonio-nuns-chanting-go-spurs-go-and-god-bless">Sojourners</a>.
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Ahead of Wednesday’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals, the sisters posted a 30-second video of kids from their ministry wearing Spurs gear and waving foam fingers as they cheered alongside the nuns. The short clip shows the world that what the sisters want more than social media lore is to share the love of Christ through basketball.
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&#8220;Our Salesian mission comes to life in beautiful moments like this!&#8221; the video caption states. &#8220;These precious moments remind us why presence matters, why Christ matters, and why our mission matters.&#8221;
&#8220;As we kick off Game 1 of the Finals tonight, we&#8217;re soaking in every moment together. Go, Spurs Go, and God bless!&#8221;

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Catholicism is having a moment, and now the church is getting even more good press.
On Saturday, beauty brand founder Scott-Vincent Borba, 52, will give up his former life of fame and fortune to begin life as an ordained Catholic priest in his hometown of Visalia, California. 
&#8220;I have never been happier in my life,&#8221; Borba <a href="https://abc7news.com/post/former-elf-beauty-founder-scott-vincent-borba-preparing-become-catholic-priest/19083729/">told</a> ABC 7 of his massive life change. &#8220;Once I started to reorient myself, recalibrate myself with God&#8217;s help to the focus to Him, the joy started coming.&#8221;
Borba co-founded the makeup brand e.l.f. Cosmetics (“eyes, lips, face”) in 2004 with Joseph Shamah. The brand became a huge success in the mid-2010s thanks to clever marketing campaigns and affordable prices. Per <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2026/02/22/management-without-managers-elfs-influencer-driven-beauty-revolution/">Forbes</a>, it reached $100 million in sales in 2014, and Borba was living a lifestyle to match his newfound success.
&#8220;We ran around with the likes of Paris Hilton and partying with Kardashians and just doing up the Hollywood life,&#8221; the brand founder told ABC 7. &#8220;I was a poster boy for luxury living. I was not in any which way humble. I was very prideful,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;I was vapid. I had a perverse life,&#8221; Borba <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moo80FP9M_Q">told</a> CBS 47 during another interview. &#8220;I went to L.A., I got sucked into the Hollywood lifestyle — it was almost to a point where I was trying to sell my soul, right, for all of the riches of the world, which is not what we&#8217;re supposed to be … I was living for myself.&#8221;
Borba is currently living as a deacon and, because he’s becoming a priest so late in life, is in the minority. But what makes his story so remarkable is how he lived with such success and turned away after realizing the money never delivered true joy.
Instead of turning to sex, drugs, and alcohol or chasing more success, Borba gave away all his earthly possessions and tried something radically different. 
&#8220;I asked our Lord to help me be the man that he created me to be. And upon that instance, I had this massive flood of love and mercy that came into my life,” Borba told ABC. “It was a very mystical experience.”
&#8220;I live in a little tiny room with &#8230; it&#8217;s sparse, nothing in it,&#8221; Borba said of his current seminary life. &#8220;I have a few bits of clothes and a few pairs of shoes. And my life has been culled down to the bare minimum.&#8221;
The e.l.f. brand founder said he always felt called to become a priest but ignored it until a few years ago, which is when he finally discovered that the treasures of the world would never fill the void in his soul.
This story couldn’t come at a more critical moment for the Catholic Church. While there has been a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-americans-are-finding-faith-but-social-media-is-changing-what-that-looks-like">massive uptick in converts</a> to Catholicism, including among young adults who have a particular interest in the traditional Latin Mass, there is also a huge shortage of priests. Parishes are merging and closing even as the number of interested congregants continues to grow.
According to the Church’s statistical yearbook, the number of priests worldwide fell to 406,996 in 2023, representing a multi-year decline that doesn’t appear to be changing. Older priests are retiring or dying, and not enough young men are coming to replace them, despite the massive number of Catholic converts.
Dan Monastra, a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, said he has a theory about this. 
&#8220;One reason is the overall lack of desire in our culture to commit oneself to something permanent, especially among younger generations. We see this not only with the priesthood but with marriage as well. Another reason is that the priesthood is antithetical to what modern culture offers: namely, comfort,&#8221; he told Fox Business during an <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/revival-pews-crisis-altar-why-churches-closing-amid-catholic-comeback">interview</a> on the topic last month.
That explains why the global Catholic population has surpassed 1.4 billion, but there is still a critical shortage of men willing to step up and join the priesthood. People in Borba’s position are even rarer. According to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the average age for new priests is 33. Only 3% of current seminarians are over 50, according to Zach Flanagin, a professor of theology and religious studies at Saint Mary&#8217;s College of California.
&#8220;We are entering into a different time with new challenges. The world is constantly changing, and it is up to the Church to find ways to bear witness to Christ in the midst of these changes while still upholding the ancient faith,&#8221; Monastra said of the new reality.
With stories like Borba’s being reported, it could inspire more men who feel the call to change their lives to consider entering the priesthood, even if it’s a second act.
&#8220;I think that a story like his is a great opportunity to inspire people,&#8221; theology and religious studies professor Zach Flanagin told ABC 7 of Borba’s journey. &#8220;And certainly, his call, I hope it&#8217;s genuinely successful because if it is, then he will hopefully bring in people to know Christ.&#8221;

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Daily Wire host Michael Knowles took the stage at Villanova University, Pope Leo’s alma mater, on Tuesday night and addressed the ongoing feud between the president and the pontiff.
Knowles acknowledged that the fight between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo has placed “MAGA Catholics” such as himself in a &#8220;tricky position.&#8221; Trump ripped Pope Leo earlier this week after the pope condemned the president’s immigration policies and the war in Iran.
Knowles warned that any lasting division between Trump and the pope would affect the whole country, not just American Catholics, and benefit the &#8220;dark forces&#8221; that oppose Christianity and conservative political principles.
Even in America’s modern society dominated by secularism, there are moral and spiritual authorities competing for influence over politics, Knowles argued. The Daily Wire host highlighted leftist organizations that act as religious authorities, such as Planned Parenthood and LGBTQ activist centers.
“We will have rulers and we will have priests of one sort or the other,” Knowles said. “In an age of intensifying political and spiritual struggle, the president and the pope need to work together to illumine the earthly sphere because the alternative is that they work against one another to the sole benefit of the many dark forces that oppose us all.”
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For Trump and the pope, there are far more issues that bring them together than divide them, the Daily Wire host told students at the Catholic university near Philadelphia. Besides the pope&#8217;s more Left-leaning position on immigration, the pontiff&#8217;s views on nearly every social issue are to the Right of many Republicans, Knowles continued.
He pointed out that America remains the most religious country in the West, and its Catholic presence is only growing.
Knowles said that even if there wasn’t a Catholic influence in the United States, there would still be “a tension between the spiritual and the temporal authority, between the president and whatever pastor, preacher, or layman stood in inevitably to make spiritual claims.”
Even in the middle of a spat between the White House and the Vatican, conservative Catholic Americans can balance support for President Trump’s policies with respect for Pope Leo, Knowles said, citing a passage from Dante, who revered the papacy but was a political enemy of Pope Boniface VIII.
“You might say, in fact, that Dante found himself in exactly the same tricky position that MAGA Catholics find ourselves in this week,” Knowles said. “And with characteristic subtlety and sophistication, Dante offers us an example of how to deal with this dilemma in the very last lines of ‘Monarchia.”
In that passage, Dante wrote, &#8220;Let Caesar honor Peter as a first-born son should honor his father, so that, refulgent with the light of paternal grace, he may illumine with greater radiance the earthly sphere over which he has been set by Him who alone is Ruler of all things spiritual and temporal.&#8221;

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As we approach the holiest day of the year for the Catholic Church, tens of millions will prepare to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Americans across the country are preparing to join the faith I have belonged to since birth.
Converts to the faith have played a crucial role over the last two millennia, from St. Paul’s journey to Damascus, to St. Augustine&#8217;s departure from a life of debauchery that would make Hugh Hefner blush, to G.K. Chesterton, whose writings still speak to millions nearly a century later, to St. Elizabeth Seton, the first American-born saint.
I firmly believe the Catholic Church is the greatest civil institution ever created. Since its founding, the Church has clothed the naked, educated the young, fed the hungry, tended to the sick, and through divine mercy provided the path to salvation for billions of people.
During the darkest times in human history, the Catholic Church was the only institution that separated the West from barbarism. The very fabric of Western civilization is tied to the history of the Church.
While it’s easy for me to wax poetic about a church I have repeatedly fallen in love with over the years — even with all of its shortcomings — other high-profile converts appear to be using their newfound membership in the Catholic faith as nothing more than a political prop.
It is true, the vast majority of new converts join for all the right reasons. But a small, vocal cadre of political influencers are using their catholicism to build social media platforms, feigning purity as an E-girl or, even worse, promoting antisemitism. It is people doing the latter who pose the most credible threat to the integrity of all Catholics and create a widespread erroneous belief that Catholicism has an issue with Jews.
Unlike many branches of Christianity, the Catholic Church does not demand that the faithful be committed Zionists to receive God’s blessing. Many prominent members of the Church have spoken out about the plight of civilians in Gaza. It seems recent converts to the faith understand those teachings but somehow forget that the Church also rejects any form of antisemitism, condemns hostility toward Jews, and upholds the enduring covenant with the Jewish people as God’s chosen people. They have already become cafeteria Catholics, picking and choosing which parts of the teachings they prefer.
Holding nuanced opinions about sensitive subjects in the Middle East, like America&#8217;s relationship with Israel, can be a tough balancing act for anyone. For the Catholic, however, it is completely possible to be a critic of Middle Eastern affairs without being expressly antisemitic. And your new membership in the Catholic faith should not serve as your call to action against the State of Israel.
Yet for some political influencers, their call to the faith doesn&#8217;t seem rooted in deep devotion or hope for eternal salvation. Rather, their main mission seems to be in &#8220;otherizing&#8221; of those who don’t fall into their particular bubble.
Perhaps the gravest sin in all of this is using Christ and the Church as a political prop. Using a phrase like “Christ is King” — not to celebrate the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross, the salvation of souls from hell, and His resurrection — but to otherize those of different faiths is no different than taking the Lord’s name in vain.
The phrase “Christ is King” should not be followed by &#8220;Netanyahu should be on trial for war crimes.&#8221;
For those just joining the Church, it is worth remembering that Catholics in this country were long treated as outsiders — feared, condemned, and accused of harboring foreign allegiances. Most cradle Catholics of the Ellis Island stock have a better understanding of that shared history.
Those looking to use the Church as a platform to dictate foreign policy or dismiss the life of other faiths are no less cringeworthy than when priests from the Boomer generation host climate change events or demand that the United States change its immigration laws.
It seems transparent that your membership in this church is one more platform, like a social media account where views and followers are all that matter, not devotion.
These are uneasy times, but it’s in moments of darkness that we as Catholics should look to the saints who have come before us and truly offer our lives to Christ and build the church – not use it for self-advancement.
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Ryan James Girdusky is an author, podcaster, political consultant, and writer whose work has been featured in the Washington Examiner, The American Conservative Magazine, The Week, Human Events, and The Daily Caller. He is the host of “It’s A Numbers Game with Ryan Girdusky” podcast. Follow him on X: @RyanGirdusky
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WASHINGTON—The mood at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast was reverent, polished, and familiar: suits and ties, rosaries tucked into jacket pockets, speeches invoking faith and public life. But just beneath the surface, a different conversation was unfolding.
As bleary-eyed folks chatted at tables before the early-morning event, a growing divide within the conservative Catholic movement came into focus, one shaped by generational change, foreign policy, and competing visions of what the faith demands in public life.
“When I post apologetics on Instagram, I get one of two camps,” Jessica Newell, a Gen Z pro-life operative, told The Daily Wire. “One group who’s skeptical of Israel and brings it to that or the other that is very curious.” Newell described what many younger Catholics at the event see as a widening divide.
“There’s the Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens side of the conservative Catholics and the Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles side,” she said. “And it boils down to transient politics versus eternal values and value judgments.”
At the Prayer Breakfast, the divisions were not visible from the podium. The language there remained unified around faith, life, service, and country.
Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, who delivered the keynote address, took the event as an historic fulfillment. Speaking ahead of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Knowles traced the arc of Catholicism in America from marginalization to prominence.
He noted that early American Catholics faced legal discrimination in several states and hostility from movements like the Know-Nothing Party, yet argued that the American system ultimately proved uniquely suited for the faith to take root and flourish. “Here we find ourselves, a quarter millennium later, a people and a place so improbably and perfectly suited for each other that not only can a Catholic become president, but an American can even be the pope,” Knowles said.
Highlighting the increasing presence of Catholics in public life, he pointed to the growing number of Catholic figures in Congress, the judiciary, and the executive branch. “If you count vice presidents and first ladies, we have now had baptized Catholics in the White House for 17 consecutive years,” he added.
In a letter delivered to attendees, Pope Leo XIV offered his “cordial greetings and good wishes,” emphasizing the longstanding Christian tradition of praying for one’s nation. Citing St. Paul, the Holy Father&#8217;s message underscored the power of intercession, reminding attendees that prayer for political leaders is both a biblical mandate and a continuing responsibility. “You have gathered for fellowship as well as to pray for the United States,” the message read, adding that such prayer, “united to that of Christ,” remains “powerful and effective.”
A message from President Donald Trump, read by White House Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley, struck a similarly affirming tone. The president reiterated his administration’s commitment to religious liberty, writing in a letter to the attendees at the event, “My administration remains firmly committed to defending the right of every Catholic to worship God freely and without fear,” while also marking the celebration of the feast of St. Joseph.
Other speakers reinforced the centrality of faith in both personal and national life. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) reflected on surviving the 2017 congressional baseball shooting, describing how prayer sustained him in the face of possible death. “Prayer is such a powerful thing because it’s a direct conversation with God, and God is listening,” he said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) defended the role of religion in the public square, pushing back on modern interpretations of “separation of church and state.” Referencing Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, Johnson argued the founders intended to protect religious practice from government interference, not to exclude faith from public life altogether. “A free society and a healthy republic depend upon religious and moral virtue,” he said.
Other moments throughout the event pointed to the global and cultural reach of the Catholic community. Claire Lai, daughter of imprisoned Hong Kong publisher and free speech advocate Jimmy Lai, appealed for continued American support for her father’s release. Actor Jonathan Roumie spoke about portraying Christ in &#8220;The Chosen&#8221; as a deeply spiritual responsibility. And the founders of the Hallow app were honored for their work in expanding digital evangelization.
Taken together, the official program projected unity: a vision of Catholicism as deeply embedded in the American experiment, increasingly influential, and sustained by prayer.
But on the ground, among the next generation of activists, the fault lines are already clear. As the debate sharpens and the coalition pulls apart and collides, the question facing conservative Catholics is no longer whether a divide exists, but what will come of it.
Surveys from <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/02/younger-americans-stand-out-in-their-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pew Research Center</a> show younger conservatives diverging from older Republicans on foreign policy, particularly on questions of intervention and international alliances. Nowhere is that divide more visible than on Israel.
“We definitely see a lot more people willing to be anti-Israel because the pro-life movement is a bit edgier, more anti-establishment,” said Kristin Dorsey, another Gen Z pro-life advocate.
That shift comes in the wake of frustration following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade. While the ruling was a major victory for pro-life activists, many younger organizers say Republican politicians failed to seize the moment.
Coverage from <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/15/abortion-opponents-revamp-their-midterms-plans-as-rift-with-trump-widens-00729224" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/politics/trump-asks-court-pause-lawsuit-abortion-pill-access#:~:text=Pro%2Dlife%20Americans%20are%20growing%20increasingly,general%20counsel%20for%20AUL%2C%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> has documented similar frustrations among pro-life leaders, who argue the movement has received little in the way of sustained legislative follow-through.
At the same time, Catholic teaching itself does not mandate political support for any nation-state, including Israel. The Catechism of the Catholic Church emphasizes just war principles, the preservation of human dignity, and prudence in foreign policy. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has consistently called for <a href="https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/middle-east/archbishop-coakley-calls-for-restraint-diplomacy-and-peace-as-hostilities-escalate-in-middle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peace and restraint in Middle East conflicts</a>.
That tension has increasingly spilled into conservative politics. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ted-cruz-catholic-church-evangelical-christians/2026/03/16/id/1249691/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently criticized</a> for what was described as an attack on Catholics for not embracing Christian Zionism — which, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-ted-cruz-is-wrong-about-christian-zionism?author=Matt+Fradd&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Why+Ted+Cruz+Is+Wrong+About+Christian+Zionism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Fradd recently explained</a>, is contrary to Catholic doctrine. Younger attendees at the breakfast expressed skepticism about the country&#8217;s latest foreign entanglement.
“I think it was misguided. I think we lost a lot of steam,” one Zoomer attendee said of U.S. involvement in Iran, declining to give his name but identifying himself as a convert to Catholicism. Reporting from <a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-maga-media-trump-carlson-megyn-kelly-cb283ae306f172cea02f25ddc44dd56f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Associated Press</a> has noted similar debates within conservative circles following escalations involving Iran and Israel.
“I feel like we’re at an inflection point,” said Jack, another Gen Z attendee. “Young men are tired of being put last &#8230; and we’re willing to speak out about it, loudly if we have to.”
Despite sharp disagreements on foreign policy and political strategy, there was one issue where attendees showed notable alignment: immigration. “Look, this is a Christian nation,” said Gregory, a millennial convert. “We are going to be just and merciful, but we’re going to enforce our laws.”
While some differed on the scale and method of deportations, none of the attendees interviewed rejected strong border enforcement outright. That consensus exists in tension with broader Church teaching, which emphasizes the dignity of migrants while also recognizing the right of nations to enforce their laws — a balance highlighted in a November 2025 statement from the <a href="https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States Conference of Catholic Bishops</a>.
For older Catholics, the rising intensity among younger activists is both encouraging and concerning. “They’re going to learn that what they want isn’t as simple as they say it is,” said Pat, a longtime pro-life advocate. “Having principles and being loud is really good — that’s what youth is for. But sometimes discretion is the better part of valor.” Pat also dismissed the centrality of Israel in the debate: “I think they obsess over Israel. I think it’s a non-issue. They’re an allied nation like any other.”
Even among clergy, there is recognition that something is shifting. “The youth and the converts are the future,” one priest said, requesting anonymity. “They’re on fire. I think it’d be wise for the clergy to realize that and try to guide them and help them,” he added.
“They’re the ones who are going to be getting the big political wins when it comes to abortion, same-sex marriage, and everything else going into the future.”

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There are two basic ways to critique any belief system. You can critique it externally, by judging it according to standards it doesn’t accept, or you can judge it internally, by judging it according to standards it does accept.
Therefore, an external critique of Islam will judge it according to standards that come from outside its own sources, whether philosophical, historical, or theological, whereas an internal critique will begin from the Quran itself and ask whether Islam can stand on its own terms. 
The Islamic Dilemma is this kind of argument. It doesn’t impose Christian assumptions onto Islam. Instead, it begins with what the Quran itself says and follows those claims to their logical conclusion.
One of the strongest internal critiques of Islam is what’s commonly called the Islamic Dilemma. When followed carefully, it presents Muslims with a serious problem that can’t be resolved without undermining the authority of Islam itself.
The Quran repeatedly affirms that God revealed genuine Scripture before Muhammad, specifically the Torah and the Gospel. It speaks of these writings as guidance and light, given by Allah to earlier prophets. Just as importantly, the Quran commands Jews and Christians to judge by what God revealed in those Scriptures. Nowhere does the Quran clearly or explicitly teach that the Torah or the Gospel were lost, corrupted, or unreliable at the time of Muhammad.
The Quran doesn’t merely acknowledge earlier Scripture in passing. Instead, it repeatedly speaks of the Torah and the Gospel as real, authoritative revelations from God that were present and functioning in the world of Muhammad.
For example, Surah 5:44 states that “the Torah, in which was guidance and light,” was revealed by Allah and used for judgment. 
Likewise, Surah 5:46 affirms that Jesus was given the Gospel, “wherein is guidance and light,” confirming what came before it. 
These verses describe living Scriptures that guide God’s people, not lost or corrupted texts.
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More striking still, the Quran commands Jews and Christians to judge by these very writings. 
Surah 5:47 instructs Christians to “judge by what Allah has revealed in the Gospel.” 
Surah 5:68 tells both Jews and Christians that they have no firm standing unless they uphold the Torah and the Gospel. 
These commands only make sense if those Scriptures were accessible and trustworthy in the seventh century — when the Quran was written.
Finally, Surah 10:94 tells Muhammad himself that if he’s in doubt, he should ask those who read the Scripture before him. That appeal would be meaningless if those Scriptures were already corrupted or unreliable.
Taken together, these passages show that the Quran affirms the Torah and the Gospel as genuine revelation, present, readable, and authoritative at the time of Muhammad.
This creates a dilemma — with only two possible and mutually exclusive options.
Option one: The Torah and Gospel available in the seventh century were trustworthy.
If that’s true, then Islam faces a decisive contradiction. The Gospel preached in Muhammad’s time proclaims core Christian doctrines that Islam explicitly denies. It teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, that He was crucified, and that He rose from the dead. The Quran denies all three. So if the Gospel is trustworthy, then the Quran contradicts God’s prior revelation. That would mean the Quran can’t be from God.
Option two: The Torah and Gospel were corrupted before Muhammad.
This option also collapses Islam. If the Scriptures were corrupted, then Allah either failed to preserve his earlier revelation or allowed his followers to be misled for centuries. Worse still, the Quran commands Christians to judge by the Gospel they possess and appeals to those Scriptures as confirmation of Muhammad’s message. If those texts were already unreliable, then that doesn’t make sense. In that case, the Quran would be affirming and appealing to corrupted documents, which undermines its claim to divine wisdom.
Either way, Islam is trapped. It can’t affirm the Bible without contradicting itself, and it can’t deny the Bible without undermining its own authority.
Muslims often try to escape this dilemma by claiming that the original Torah and Gospel were pure but later altered. Yet that claim is historically unsupported. We possess New Testament manuscripts that predate Muhammad by hundreds of years, and they teach the same doctrines Christianity teaches today. There’s no evidence of a lost, non-Trinitarian, non-crucified version of the Gospel that Islam could appeal to. That so-called “original Gospel” exists only as a theological escape hatch.
The dilemma is therefore decisive. If the Bible is true, Islam is false. And if the Bible is false, then the Quran is false for affirming it. Islam depends on earlier revelation that it can’t consistently affirm or deny.
Christianity, by contrast, welcomes scrutiny of its historical claims. It stands or falls on events in history, especially the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. If Christ didn’t rise from the dead, then Christianity is false. Islam avoids history by rewriting it centuries later, but in doing so, it contradicts the very Scriptures it claims to respect.
The Islamic Dilemma doesn’t merely challenge Islam from the outside. Instead, it exposes an internal incoherence at the heart of its theology. And a revelation that contradicts itself can’t come from God.

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A University of Notre Dame professor, with a long public record of supporting abortion, has stepped down from a senior leadership role at the Catholic university following weeks of pressure from students, faculty, and Catholic leaders nationwide.
Susan Ostermann, an associate professor in Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, will no longer assume the role of director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, <a href="https://www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2026/02/breaking-ostermann-declines-liu-institute-directorship-following-backlash-over-abortion-advocacy">according</a> to a February 26 email from Keough Dean Mary Gallagher. Ostermann had been slated to take the position on July 1.
Gallagher said Ostermann “decided not to move forward” with the appointment and thanked her for her “willingness to serve.” Ostermann will remain on the faculty in her prior role as associate professor.
The decision follows widespread backlash after Notre Dame announced Ostermann’s appointment in January. Critics pointed to her extensive public advocacy for abortion, including multiple articles in which she described restrictions on abortion as “violence” and rejected the claim that abortion ends human life.
The controversy quickly escalated beyond campus. Two faculty members resigned from their roles at the Liu Institute in protest, and students organized prayer events and demonstrations calling on the university to uphold its Catholic identity.
Notre Dame <a href="https://meca.nd.edu/our-catholic-mission/">describes</a> itself as an institution where “Catholic character” informs all it does, a claim critics said was incompatible with elevating an outspoken abortion advocate to a leadership role.
The news of Ostermann’s withdrawal from the leadership role was met with positive reactions from pro-life advocates, though some said it did not go far enough. Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, called the move “a good start,” but argued that Ostermann’s continued presence on the faculty remains incompatible with Notre Dame’s Catholic mission.
“It’s clear from her aggressively pro-abortion body of work, including her association with the Population Council, that she needs to be terminated,” Hawkins said in a statement obtained by The Daily Wire. “The premier Catholic school in America should not allow professors to blatantly oppose central teachings on the value of all human life, including babies in the womb. Her elevation was extremely troubling, but stepping down is not enough. She needs to go.”
Pressure intensified earlier this month when Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, whose diocese includes Notre Dame, <a href="https://diocesefwsb.org/statement-of-most-reverend-kevin-c-rhoades-on-appointment-of-new-director-of-the-liu-institute-at-the-university-of-notre-dame/">issued</a> a public statement condemning the appointment. Rhoades said he had “strong opposition” to the decision and warned it was “causing scandal to the faithful of our diocese and beyond.”
Ostermann’s “extensive public advocacy of abortion” and her “disparaging and inflammatory remarks about those who uphold the dignity of human life from the moment of conception to natural death,” Rhoades said, directly conflicted with a core principle of Notre Dame’s mission.
Catholic lay-leaders framed Ostermann’s withdrawal as a necessary step to preserve the university’s identity and credibility. Mary FioRito, a senior fellow at The Catholic Association, said the decision was a “win for consistency, clarity, and common sense” at the University of Notre Dame.
“As an explicitly Catholic university, Notre Dame owes its students and faculty truth in advertising,” FioRito said in a statement obtained by The Daily Wire, arguing that “Ostermann’s public advocacy of legal abortion would have overshadowed the good work of the Liu Center and significantly hampered its ability to form students.” FioRito also credited alumni, students, faculty, and staff who raised concerns through prayer and public advocacy, as well as Bishop Rhoades and other bishops who issued statements opposing the appointment.
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On Tuesday, Rhoades <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/cna/bishop-rhoades-leads-rosary-for-notre-dame-s-catholic-identity">joined</a> students, faculty, and staff at the university’s Marian grotto for a public rosary “for the cause of life.”
In a statement included with Gallagher’s email, Ostermann said her acceptance of the directorship was motivated solely by a desire to serve the institute’s faculty and students. She added that the ongoing controversy risked overshadowing the institute’s work and said there was “work to do at Notre Dame to build a community where a variety of voices can flourish.”
The Catholic Church teaches that human life is sacred from conception to natural death and that direct abortion is a grave moral evil. In recent remarks honoring Mother Teresa, Pope Leo XIV <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-01/pope-leo-political-innovation-hackathon-one-humanity-one-planet.html">described</a> abortion as “the greatest destroyer of peace.”
Church teaching on Catholic higher education is laid out in St. John Paul II’s apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae, which calls on Catholic universities to safeguard their identity while exercising academic freedom within the bounds of faith and reason.
Student organizers say demonstrations and prayer events will continue, framing Ostermann’s withdrawal not as an endpoint, but as evidence that sustained, faithful pressure can produce results.

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The following is an edited transcript from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1891-the-real-reason-trump-plans-to-conquer-greenland?elementPosition=10&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.
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The Left can’t let the transgender issue go away.
They were clobbered on it last November. They’ve been losing on it for years. Conservatives won the argument, decisively — and yet the Left keeps dragging it back into the spotlight. Now they’re pushing cases all the way to the Supreme Court under the guise of “defending girls’ sports,” even as the Court is actively weighing a major transgender-related case.
That context matters, because it’s why a recent Senate hearing landed the way it did.
During a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) hearing focused on abortion drugs, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), one of the best to ever do it, grilled Democrat witness Dr. Nisha Verma, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, on the question that has dominated American politics for the past five years.
The exchange, which quickly went viral, revolved around a simple inquiry: “Can men get pregnant?”
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Hawley is so good at this.
This question is just another version of “What is a Woman?” It’s another way of asking whether men can become women. It should be a layup for the Left. All they have to say is: “No, men cannot become pregnant.”
They could even try to weasel out of it. They could say something about “trans men” or redefine terms in the usual bureaucratic way. Any halfway competent liberal operative would recognize that this issue is pure political poison and dodge it immediately. 
But they can’t.
The transgender issue may be the single biggest loser for the Left in my lifetime — possibly even more damaging than their insistence on flooding the country with foreign criminals. And yet they refuse to abandon it. Not because it’s culturally edgy or titillating, but because it represents the inescapable conclusion of their entire political project.
Conservatives sometimes understate what’s actually going on here. We describe transgenderism as a natural outgrowth of gay marriage, gay rights, or feminism — movements that insist men and women are fundamentally the same. That’s part of the story, but it doesn’t go deep enough.
The reason Republicans and conservatives keep hammering this issue — and the reason the Left cannot give it up — is because it strikes at the core of liberalism itself.
At its heart, liberalism is about maximizing individual autonomy. That idea goes back centuries. The seed of liberalism says: I am primarily an individual, and I will control everything. I will control my destiny, my traditions, my morality, my religion, my history, and even my country. And eventually, I will liberate myself from my own body.
That is the culmination.
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It took centuries to get here. First, we had to liberate ourselves from the king. Then from the Church. Then from the family, through the liberalization of divorce. Then from history, through radical revisionism. Then from the nation, through the collapse of patriotism. Then from the moral order, especially in matters of sex.
And finally, liberation from biological reality itself.
Liberalism is not complete until the body is treated as irrelevant.
Which brings us, inevitably, to St. Thomas Aquinas.
Aquinas identified the idea underlying transgenderism — that the body has nothing to do with who we really are — as one of the oldest and most dangerous heresies. The belief that I am born male but am really female, and therefore my body is wrong or bad, is not new. It appears in ancient heresies like Gnosticism and Docetism, which treated matter as corrupt and the physical world as a mistake.
Aquinas argued that these were the worst heresies of all, because they directly deny the central truth of Christianity: the Incarnation — that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
So it should not surprise us that modern liberalism, which often functions as an inversion of Christianity, would culminate in precisely this heresy. A political philosophy built on autonomy over reality eventually arrives at the rejection of the body itself.
That’s why the Left can’t walk away from this issue, no matter how badly it hurts them politically.
It isn’t just another policy debate.
It’s the logical endpoint of their worldview.

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Washington, D.C., police on Sunday arrested a man with hundreds of explosive devices outside a church holding a Mass in honor of the Supreme Court. The man had a manifesto that suggested he was targeting the Supreme Court and Catholics, according to court papers obtained by The Daily Wire.
Louis Geri, a 41-year-old from Arizona and New Jersey, was apprehended outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on October 5, the same day the church held its annual &#8220;Red Mass&#8221; in which a cardinal prays for the high court as it embarks on a new term, and which is historically attended by justices.
Geri was occupying a green tent on the steps of the church when police attempted to clear the area in preparation for the Supreme Court event. He told police, &#8220;You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives,&#8221; according to an affidavit.
A member of the Metropolitan Police Department&#8217;s Bomb Squad then told him he needed to move because of a special event. He replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m aware of that (referring to the Red Mass),&#8221; police wrote, and threatened to throw a bomb into the street as a demonstration, adding, &#8220;I have a hundred plus of them.&#8221;
Police said they would remove him against his will, and he replied, &#8220;Several of your people are gonna die from one of these.&#8221; With a lighter in one hand, he handed them nine pieces of paper that amounted to a manifesto entitled, &#8220;Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives.&#8221;
The manifesto &#8220;revealed his significant animosity towards the Catholic church, members of the Jewish faith, members of SCOTUS and ICE/ ICE facilities,&#8221; police wrote, indicating that the incident may be the latest in a string of left-wing domestic terrorism.
Geri &#8220;then shifted his right thumb over top of the butane lighter to initiate the lighting action and stated, &#8216;You better have these people step away or there&#8217;s going to be deaths.'&#8221;
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Geri then left the tent to urinate on a tree and was apprehended by three officers, at which point he said he had a device in his pocket. A bomb squad technician located in his pocket &#8220;a vial with a white cap, which contained yellow liquid inside, with an M-device taped to the exterior.&#8221;
After he was arrested, the bomb squad located &#8220;a large cache of handmade destructive devices&#8221; in the tent, police said. He was charged with: Unlawful Entry, Manufacture, Transfer, Use, Possession or Transportation of Molotov Cocktails, or other Explosives for Unlawful purposes, Threats to Kidnap or Injure a person, Assault on Police Officer x 2, Possession of Destructive Device, Manufacture or Possession of Weapon of Mass Destruction (Hate Crime) and Resisting Arrest.
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On Monday, after reviewing the bombs more carefully, police filed an affidavit from a bomb technician saying &#8220;there were over 200 devices recovered from D-1&#8217;s tent. There was a strong smell of acetone emitting from some of the vials. Some of the liquid was determined to be Nitro Methane. The liquid appeared to be multiple chemicals mixed together, none in original containers &#8230; the devices appeared to be fully functional.&#8221;
Police said that in a jailhouse interview, Geri &#8220;described his devices as grenades and explosives containing Nitro Methane with a rubber band securing a fuse to be used for detonation. [He] also stated he planned to use the modified bottle rockets with the aluminum foil heads attached and treated in a Thermite solution to allow for his detonation of the devices from a distance.&#8221;
He is being held in jail without bond.
No justices attended the mass this year because of security concerns, according to the <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/supreme-court-justices-do-not-attend-annual-red-mass-due-security-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Catholic Reporter</a> – concerns which appear to have been justified. Last year, three justices, all conservative, attended: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. In 2018, leftists were photographed protesting the mass with signs that said &#8220;Stop Kavanaugh,&#8221; and referring to the false smear peddled by Democrat senators that Kavanaugh was a gang-rapist.
<div id="attachment_982569" style="width: 2570px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-982569" class="size-full wp-image-982569" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1044957376-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1707" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1044957376-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1044957376-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1044957376-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1044957376-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1044957376-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1044957376-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1044957376-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1044957376-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes=" (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" />Protesters yell &#8220;I believe Christine Ford&#8221; in front of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle at the 66th annual Red Mass on September 30, 2018. (Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)</div>
The potential assassination of a large number of justices came just two days after a Joe Biden-appointed judge issued a lenient sentence to Nicholas Roske, who attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022. In that case, Judge Deborah Boardman departed from sentencing guidelines by 22 years, sentencing Roske to just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-man-who-planned-to-assassinate-brett-kavanaugh-gets-off-easy-will-serve-just-8-years">eight years</a> instead of the 30 years-to-life called for by sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors had warned that a stiffer sentence was needed to deter others from attempting to assassinate justices, and this new incident could add to calls from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to impeach Judge Boardman.
According to public records reviewed by The Daily Wire, Geri was from Vineland, New Jersey, but had been living in a motel in Mesa, Arizona, for the last several years. In 2021, an Arizona jury found him guilty of indecent exposure. He was admitted to state prison in August 2022 and released in May 2023, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.
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