Although this newsletter is late, I have an excuse.  I spent 17 days touring Ireland.  Eat your heart out.

In this newsletter we have a message from the newly elected Faithful Navigator, Robert Barnard, and a final column from Past FN, Tony Arinnelli.

Bishop Barron sounds alarm over growing influence of socialism, communism in US politics
The Minnesota bishop warned that communism is fundamentally opposed to religion because faith stands in the way of total state control.

Champion Shrine to Honor American Saints for America’s 250th
The National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion in Champion, Wisconsin, will mark the nation’s 250th anniversary with a special Catholic Saints of America exhibit, held July 1–9, 2026. The shrine, known as the site of the only approved Marian apparition in the United States, is using the occasion of America’s semiquincentennial to invite Catholics to look at the nation’s history through the witness of holiness. The exhibit will highlight 76 American saints, blesseds, venerables, and servants of God, a number chosen to recall the year 1776 and the birth of the United States.