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The Saturday Loop - March 7, 2026

TRUMP: IRAN MUST UNCONDITIONALLY SURRENDER

President Donald Trump said yesterday that the U.S. will not make a deal with Iran unless the country agrees to “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.” A day earlier, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the Middle Eastern country was not pursuing a ceasefire and would be ready for a potential U.S. ground invasion.

MAN PLEADS GUILTY OF PLANNING MASS KILLING AT RED MASS

A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to threatening to detonate more than 100 homemade explosive devices on the steps of a Catholic cathedral during the annual Red Mass attended by U.S. Supreme Court justices and senior government officials, federal prosecutors said.

MARCH FOR LIFE HEAD REVISITS OSTERMANN CLAIMS

The president of the March for Life, an alumna of the University of Notre Dame, recently wrote an op-ed debunking claims made by Associate Professor Susan Ostermann about pregnancy resource centers, which Ostermann has described as “anti-abortion rights propaganda sites."

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VATICAN: CHRISTIANS MOST PERSECUTED GROUP GLOBALLY

Archbishop Ettore Balestrero said during a United Nations event on Christian persecution that nearly 400 million — or one in seven — Christians around the world are targeted for their faith, making them “the most persecuted religious community in the world." In 2025 alone, he said, almost 5,000 Christians were killed, an average of 13 martyrdoms per day.

DOJ RELEASES SEX ABUSE ALLEGATION MADE AGAINST TRUMP

The Department of Justice released previously unseen documents from the Epstein files March 5 that included summaries of FBI interviews with a woman who alleged President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a young teenager after she was introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein.

MAN ARRESTED FOR SECOND ATTEMPT TO BURN CHURCH

A man who was charged a decade ago with arson at a Catholic church in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, was arrested March 3 after local police said he was again being charged with the same type of crime at the same location.

SAN FRANCISCO ARCHDIOCESE TO HOLD JEWISH INTERFAITH EVENT

The Archdiocese of San Francisco and the American Jewish Committee will hold an interfaith dialogue later this month in observance of the 60th anniversary of the promulgation of the Vatican II declaration “Nostra Aetate,” which states in part: "Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures."

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THE RISK OF THE RAT RACE

Fathers are usually the providers for their families, but what happens when work, instead of serving your family, starts to compete with them for your time and attention?

ENFRIJOLADAS!

This delicious meatless Mexican recipe is easy to make and requires just a few pantry staples.

SAINT OF THE DAY

Saints Perpetua and Felicity were young Christian mothers martyred around the year 203 during Roman persecution. Perpetua, a 22-year-old noblewoman, refused to renounce Christ even while imprisoned with her infant, while Felicity gave birth to her daughter just days before her execution. Their courage was recorded in one of the earliest firsthand accounts of Christian martyrdom, partly written by Perpetua herself.

SATURDAY'S PSALM

"The Lord is kind and merciful." (Psalm 103)

SATURDAY'S READINGS

Today's Mass readings.

SUNDAY'S PSALM

"If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts." (Psalm 95)

SUNDAY'S READINGS

Sunday's Mass readings.

ANSWER TO TRIVIA

True. St. Isidore of Seville is credited with introducing the standardized usage of the comma, the period, and the colon in writing.

THE DEEP

For over a century, the College Board has shaped who gets into college – and what “success” even means to American kids. In this episode of, Erika traces how a nonprofit testing company became a billion-dollar gatekeeper, why standards have quietly shifted, and why elite universities are now scrambling back to testing after going test-optional. Is the system ensuring merit – or masking its own decline? Let’s look at the data.