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| IRAN ALMOST ATTACKEDPresident Trump had ordered a military strike against Iran, but then called it off at the last minute. The proposed attack came in response to Iran shooting down a U.S. military drone. READ |
| PEACE CROSS STAYSThe Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that a cross-shaped war memorial on public land can stay, and doesn’t violate the Constitution. “Its removal or radical alteration at this date would be seen by many not as a neutral act but as the manifestation of ‘a hostility toward religion that has no place in our Establishment Clause traditions,’” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the Supreme Court majority. READ |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FUNDINGA federal appeals court panel gave the green light to the Trump administration’s spending restrictions against abortion providers in Title X funding. With the injunctions no longer in place, Planned Parenthood stands to lose approximately $60 million in funding. READ |
| CATHOLIC IDENTITY The Archbishop of Indianapolis said a Jesuit high school will no longer be recognized as Catholic. The Archdiocese requested that Brebeuf Jesuit Prep not renew a contract of a teacher who is in a same-sex “marriage.” The school rejected the Archdiocese’s request and have said they will continue to employ a teacher who is in a same-sex marriage. READ |
| RHODE ISLAND SCANDAL Gov. Gina Raimondo, D-RI, signed a bill that enshrines Roe v. Wade into state law. Raimondo claims to be “Catholic” and Rhode Island has the highest percentage of Catholics in the country. The Rhode Island Catholic Conference called it “a sad day for Rhode Island, and a tragedy for thousands of defenseless unborn.” READ |
| TRUMP STRATEGYThe Trump campaign said he might not focus on swing voters in his reelection bid. “People all think you have to change people’s minds. You have to get people to show up that believe in you,” said Brad Parscale, President Trump’s campaign manager. READ |
| SENATE 2020 Roy Moore announced that he’s running for the Senate again. Moore lost a 2017 Senate race in the very Republican state of Alabama after allegations of sexual misconduct with minors. READ |
| CHURCH SCANDAL One year after the scandal broke, disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick lives at a friary in rural Kansas. READ |
| CORPUS CHRISTI Lanciano is the most famous Eucharastic miracle, but there have been many over the centuries, including some recent ones. READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Aloysius Gonzaga was a precocious child who had a spiritual awakening at the age of 7. As a young adult, and after a prolonged battle with his father, he entered the Jesuits where he had to learn to live and maneuver within community, and give up some of his independent ways of doing things. Aloysius helped nurse patients of the plague which he caught and from which he died. READ |
| DAILY READINGS “From all their distress God rescues the just.” (Ps 34:2) READ |
| CVTV Should bishops ban some Catholic politicians from Communion? Here’s what happened when one archbishop tried it in 1962. SHARE |
