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| WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 |
| EUTHANASIA IN CALIFORNIA A Riverside County judge overturned California’s physician-assisted “suicide” law, stating that the End of Life Act “does not fall within the scope of access to healthcare services.” READ |
| TWO MORE JUDGES The Senate confirmed two more of President Donald Trump’s nominees to seats on the federal appellate courts. The Senate has now confirmed 21 federal appellate court judges in 480 days — 150 days faster than the last six presidents. One eighth of all the circuit judges in the United States have been appointed by President Trump. READ |
| KOREAN TALKS North Korea is threatening to pull out of the U.S. summit if they are ordered to give up nuclear weapons. READ |
| RELIGIOUS LIBERTY Family Research Council President Tony Perkins was appointed a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. READ |
| NEW HEALTH CARE PLANS COMING The Trump administration is cutting through red tape to expedite new association health plans to bolster small businesses. When one last bureaucratic hurdle is cleared, as many as 11 million people will be eligible to sign up for employer-sponsored benefits as an alternative to Obamacare’s individual marketplace. READ |
| TRIUMPH OF HOPE AND LOVE A priest’s powerful story about a newly married couple goes viral for all the right reasons. READ |
| CULTURE There are many reasons to never read Teen Vogue. But here’s another: They are praising Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto. READ |
| IRISH VOTE ON ABORTION Pro-life leaders are “cautiously optimistic” about the May 25 referendum on Ireland’s pro-life constitutional amendment. But as many as 18% of Ireland’s Catholic-majority population remain undecided. Pro-lifers held a final rally in Dublin on Saturday. READ |
| HUMANAE VITAE AT 50 Pope Paul said no. And he wasn’t alone. He had two millennia of Christian tradition, including his immediate predecessors, on his side. READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY In 1277, three years after her conversion, St. Margaret of Cortona became a Franciscan tertiary. Under the direction of her confessor, who sometimes had to order her to moderate her self-denial, she pursued a life of prayer and penance at Cortona. There she established a hospital and founded a congregation of tertiary sisters. READ |
| DAILY MASS READINGS “Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.” (Ps 68:33) READ |
| PRAY FOR IRELAND The Irish will vote on a referendum on whether to keep Ireland’s pro-life constitutional amendment nine days from now. So let’s all pray a novena to Our Lady of Knock that Ireland remains pro-life! (You can even sign up to get email reminders to pray the novena). READ |