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| PROTECT LIFE RULE The Trump administration will immediately enforce the rule prohibiting recipients of Title X family planning grants from making referrals for abortions. Last week, a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the rule to be implemented while the legal challenge to the rule proceeds. READ |
| PP CEO OUSTEDDr. Leana Wen was forced out as president of Planned Parenthood of America, citing “philosophical differences over the direction and future” of the organization. Wen said: “The new Board leadership has determined that the priority of Planned Parenthood moving forward is to double down on abortion rights advocacy.” READ |
| PELOSI PUNISHED House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer ruled against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying her comments were not in order. Pelosi had called President Trump’s tweets “racist.” But House Democrats voted to un-ban Pelosi from the House floor. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy slammed the Democrats. “How can Democrats expect the American people to trust their ability to govern if they can’t even get a simple legislative proposal on the floor without their Leadership devolving into pandemonium and lawlessness?” READ |
| JUSTICE STEVENS, RIP Retired Justice John Paul Stevens died at age 99. Appointed by President Gerald Ford, Stevens became a reliable liberal vote on the Supreme Court and retired during President Obama’s first term. READ |
| GOOGLE UNDER INVESTIGATION President Trump said his administration will investigate the claims made by billionaire Peter Theil that Google has been compromised or infiltrated by Chinese intelligence. Theil claimed that Google is working with China to avoid having its intellectual property stolen by the Chinese. READ |
| THE PLEDGE IS BACK The city council of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, agreed to reinstate the Pledge of Allegiance at meetings just weeks after removing it. “I’ve concluded that I made a mistake and I’m sorry and I’m asking for forgiveness,” city council member Steve Hallifan said. READ |
| AMERICAN DREAM IN DECLINE Author J.D. Vance said that the conservative movement needs to move “beyond libertarianism.” At the National Conservatism conference, Vance said: “If you think children killing themselves are problems, if you think people not having families, not being married, feeling more isolated are problems, then you need to be willing to use political power when it’s appropriate to solve those problems.” READ |
| COLLEGE EDUCATION CRISIS A new proposal from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, would require universities to pay off 50% of the debt incurred by their students facing default. Also, Hawley has authored legislation to allow Pell Grants to be used for employer-based apprenticeships and job training. “American students and workers need more pathways into the middle class, more opportunities to get good work and build bright futures. And they shouldn’t have to further enrich colleges by taking on a mountain of debt or mortgage their lives to get a good-paying job,” said Hawley. READ |
| CONFIRMING JUDGES The Republican-led Senate confirmed Judge Peter Phipps to the 3rd Circuit, President Trump’s 43rd circuit court nominees to be confirmed. Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network noted that the Senate rejected “liberal attempts to smear him for – of all things – his membership in the Knights of Columbus.” READ |
| BISHOPS ON ASYLUM Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference condemned the Trump administration’s new asylum policy for the U.S.-Mexico border. READ |
| AMAZON “FALSE TEACHING” A working document for October’s Synod of Bishops calls the Amazon region a source of revelation. Cardinal Gerhard Mueller called “false teaching.” He said: “For 2,000 years, the Catholic Church had infallibly taught that Holy Scripture and Apostolic Tradition are the only sources of Revelation and that no further Revelation can be added in the course of history.” READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Francis Solano asked to be sent to Africa as a missionary. Instead he was sent to South America, where he spent the rest of his life working. After years of ministering in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay, he died in the city of Lima, Peru. READ |
| DAILY READINGS “The Lord is kind and merciful.” (Ps 103:1) READ |
| APOLLO 11 The Air and Space Museum projects Apollo 11 launch onto the Washington Monument. READ |
