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| GOP DIVIDED House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, told President Trump he disagreed with the Trump administration’s attempt to get the entire Obamacare law thrown out in court. READ |
| HEALTHCARE PLAN The Trump administration claims that they will soon have a healthcare plan in the event that Obamacare gets overturned in court. Marc Short, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, told MSNBC: “The administration will continue to come forward with more free-market reforms that we think will continue to lower the price of healthcare.” READ |
| ASSISTED SUICIDE A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide was defeated in the Maryland Senate in a dramatic 23-23 tie. READ |
| A SECOND TERM? Two years into his presidency, Trump’s re-elect numbers are very close to his three predecessors who won second terms. READ |
| COURT STRIKES PRO-LIFE LAW A federal judge has struck down North Carolina’s 1973 law, which limited abortions to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. The law hasn’t been enforced for decades because it was superceded by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. “But if Plaintiffs are reasonably deterred from providing these abortions by the mere presence of the ban, they have suffered a potential constitutional injury,” said Judge William Osteen, who was appointed by George W. Bush. READ |
| IMMIGRATION “Both the nativist Know-Nothing Party and the Ku Klux Klan actively opposed this first wave of Catholic immigration. As a result, there is a natural solidarity among Catholics, as among Jews, for refugees or people emigrating from other countries. Yet at the same time, recent polls show that many lay Catholics are as concerned as their fellow citizens at the sheer scale of recent immigration, both in the U.S. and in Europe,” writes Robert Hutchinson at the CV Blog. READ |
| MISGENDERING CatholicVote interviewed Caroline Farrow, the Catholic writer from Britain who was interrogated by police for using the “wrong pronoun’ in reference to an activist’s “transgender child.” She said: “When this broke, several Christian friends told me that they felt God was calling me throughout this and that I needed to be brave and strong and show resoluteness and leadership, so that’s what I have endeavored to do.” READ |
| CATHOLIC QUARTERBACK It’s a girl! Los Angeles Chargers QB Philip Rivers and his wife welcomed the birth of their ninth child, Anna Rivers. READ |
| DEFENDING A PRIESTA random man attacked a priest in Edmonton, Canada. Then a group of elderly women came to the priest’s rescue. “They were older women so they’re not the kind of people who would whip out a cellphone and take a video or call 911. They did what they could and they had canes. They started striking the guy with their canes,” said a spokeswoman with the Diocese of Edmonton. The suspect fled the scene and Fr. Marcin Mironiuk has fully recovered. READ |
| PAPAL TRIPSPope Francis will visit the African countries of Mozambique, Madagascar, and Mauritius in September. READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY The obscurity of the Poor Clare life seems somewhat expected, yet Saint Catharine of Bologna was well known for her holiness. Even in the quiet Poor Clare life, nuns can be examples for the whole Church. READ |
| DAILY READINGS “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” (Ps 95:1) READ |
| CVTV According to Robert Mueller, the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia to steal the 2016 election. But judging from the way establishment media have operated in the past two years, the “Russiagate” story will continue to have far-reaching effects. SHARE |