HEROES
TFP Student Action
Members of the organization TFP Student Action peacefully prayed the rosary on the campus of Loyola University in Chicago as an act of reparation for a drag show the Catholic university hosted earlier this year. The TFP members are to be commended not just for their act of reparation but for their resilience in the face of hostile opposition from students who objected to their presence.
Archbishop Samuel Aquila, Denver, CO
Bishop Stephen Berg, Pueblo, CO
Bishop James Golka, Colorado Springs, CO
Auxiliary Bishop Jorge Rodriguez, Denver, CO
Colorado’s four Catholic bishops urged their flocks to support three initiatives on the 2026 Colorado ballot that protect minors from gender mutilation and sex trafficking. In a letter, they explained that the initiatives combat recently passed legislation that stifles the free speech and religious freedom of individuals and groups who oppose the LGBT movement’s controversial aims.
Governor Kelly Ayotte, R-New Hampshire
The Catholic Republican Governor of New Hampshire appeared in this space as a Zero last month for vetoing a bill that would have helped concerned parents keep inappropriate material out of New Hampshire’s public schools and libraries. This month, we salute her for signing two bills protecting children from so-called “gender-affirming” medical interventions. Whether she saw the light or did it out of expediency in the face of unrelenting legislative champions of the bill, we’re happy to see kids being protected.
ZEROES
University of Scranton, Pennsylvania
This private, Catholic university in Pennsylvania has hired Bob Casey Jr., the former pro-abortion U.S. senator from the state, as a public service mentor to students at its Center for Ethics and Excellence in Public Service. We find it strange that an institution that stopped covering elective abortions in its employee health plans considers a man of Casey’s pro-abortion views a proper role model for students seeking to move forward as catholics in the public sphere.
Various Students, Loyola University, Chicago
When members of the organization TFP Student Action prayed a rosary on the campus of Catholic Loyola University in reparation for a drag show the school hosted, they were met with hostile protest from many students. That students of a Catholic university should harbor such resentment toward a group standing up for Catholic values is sad; that they should show such an inability to engage with people of an opposing worldview calls into question the quality of education they are receiving.
Governor Gavin Newsom, California
When White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt objected online to a predecessor’s critique of prayer in response to the Annunciation school shooting in Minnesota, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom chimed in unhelpfully with, “These children were literally praying as they got shot at.” Responding to hardship with prayer is a core tenet of Christianity and the supposedly Catholic Newsom should acknowledge that fact rather than minimize the actions of the millions who prayed for both the victims of the shooting and the soul of their disturbed murderer.
