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The Wednesday Loop - September 17, 2025
ROBINSON MAY FACE DEATH PENALTY IN KIRK ASSASSINATION
Prosecutors charged 22-year-old Tyler Robinson with aggravated murder in Charlie Kirk’s assassination yesterday and said they will seek the death penalty. Officials also revealed that Robinson plotted the attack for over a week and later confessed, telling his roommate, "I had enough of his hate."
ISRAEL LAUNCHES GROUND ASSAULT INTO GAZA CITY
Israel launched a long-threatened ground offensive into Gaza City yesterday, declaring it will not stop until Hamas is defeated and hostages freed. The pastor of Gaza's Holy Family Catholic Church told the Pope that the parish continues to shelter about 450 people amid the violence.
TRUMP SUES NEW YORK TIMES FOR $15B
President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times late Monday night, accusing the Times and four of its reporters of defamation and libel. The paper is "one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual 'mouthpiece' for the Radical Left Democrat Party," he said.
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MANGIONE TERRORISM CHARGES DISMISSED
A New York judge dismissed state terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson yesterday. The 27-year-old still faces nine other state charges and federal charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty.
ST. CARLO'S MOTHER SENDS VOICEMAIL TO A YOUNG BOY WITH LEUKEMIA
An 8-year-old Michigan boy diagnosed with leukemia recently received a message of hope from an unexpected source: the mother of Saint Carlo Acutis, another young man who suffered from leukemia.
2 ARRESTED AFTER BOMB FOUND UNDER FOX NEWS VEHICLE
The FBI arrested two suspects this past weekend after an incendiary device that had been lit but “failed to function as designed” was found underneath a FOX News vehicle in Salt Lake City.
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LOU HOLTZ SHARES A MESSAGE!
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BISHOP BARRON: KIRK'S ASSASSINATION SIGNALS A CULTURAL CRISIS
Bishop Robert Barron reflected on the cultural weight of Charlie Kirk’s assassination this week, arguing that his death is significant not just for its tragedy, but because of how he died: with a microphone in his hand.
CATHOLIC LAWMAKER FIGHTS ASSISTED SUICIDE
A Catholic congressman is urging the Centers for Disease Control to investigate doctors prescribing assisted suicide for eating disorders. “Suicide is not healthcare,” Rep. Riley M. Moore, R-W.Va., said. “Counseling patients to pursue assisted suicide for eating disorders like anorexia is inhumane.”
NOT TO BE MISSED
Here are the stories we couldn’t fit in today’s LOOP: • Check out these Catholic memes for a dose of humor! • A pro-life mother in Ireland is challenging her judge's impartiality after learning of his pro-abortion stance. • For the first time since the Reformation, a reigning monarch formally attended a Catholic Mass in the UK.
MOTHER TERESA: LIVING SIMPLY
From backpacking in Italy and India to life back at home, here’s how Liz Homick learned a few lessons based on Mother Teresa’s words, “live simply so others may simply live.” How do we live this inspired life while being ordinary lay people?
CATHOLIC 101
Again and again and again, we struggle to ask for help when we need it. But Pope Leo reveals that this is such a worthy thing to do that Jesus Himself asked for help in His last words on the Cross. Here's how, according to the Holy Father, Christ shows us that asking is liberating.
SAINT OF THE DAY
Today the Church celebrates Saint Robert Bellarmine, the Italian cardinal and theologian born in 1542. Declared a Doctor of the Church, St. Robert is also honored as the patron of catechists.
DAILY PSALM
"How great are the works of the Lord!" (Psalm 111)
DAILY READINGS
Today's Mass readings.
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