The scene in the video shared over Instagram is charged with confrontation -- bulletproof-vested and masked U.S. immigration agents, some of them with egg-spatter on them, are confronted by a silver-haired Catholic bishop on the steps of a Gothic-looking church.

Alessandro de Franciscis is anything but an ordinary doctor. For the past 17 years, the 70-year-old Italian American physician has headed the Office of Medical Observations at the Lourdes Sanctuary in France. As he retired on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on Feb. 11, the entire congregation -- including bishops -- burst into applause at Mass for the feast day.

President Donald Trump threatened a "whole civilization will die tonight" if Iran does not make a deal by 7 p.m. CDT on April 7 -- a statement that drew a stark rebuke within hours from the leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops, who invoked Pope Leo XIV's recent appeals for peace as he called on the president "to step back from the precipice."

It's the landmark court decision some are calling Big Tech's "tobacco industry moment": a verdict that -- just like the misrepresentation that cigarettes are safe -- indicates social media companies may have a lot to answer for to the public.

Pope Leo XIV offered Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square Sunday proclaiming that with Christ's resurrection "death has been conquered forever” and "no longer has power over us."