HEALTH CARE // Lacking the 50 votes need to pass health care, Senate Majority Leader delayed a vote on the GOP plan for a week. Senate Republicans then visited with President Trump at the White House where he warned them of the ‘cost of failure.’ http://cvote.it/2skdgl3
HEALTH CARE // A pro-Trump group decides to pull ads slamming a Republican Senator who attacked the Senate GOP health care plan. America First Policies claimed victory after Heller “came back to the table” and joined other Senate Republicans in a meeting with President Trump at the White House. http://cvote.it/2sjOCBl
HEALTH CARE // The U.S. Bishops said it was “simply unacceptable” that the Senate GOP health care plan — according to the Congressional Budget Office — would leave 22 million people without health insurance. But Ryan Ellis at the CatholicVote Blog reveals something critically important about that fact: “Fully 15 of the 22 million new uninsured arise under CBO’s model solely due to the repeal of the individual mandate–meaning people are choosing voluntarily to not buy a product when the government stops forcing them to.” http://cvote.it/2skOstk
HEALTH CARE // How some Catholics are dodging the Obamacare abortion mandate: Catholic health share organizations. http://cvote.it/2sk14AY
HELP FOR THE NEEDY // Too often we think compassion for the less fortunate requires government programs. But empowering churches and local organizations to tackle social problems allows more people to get involved and help out others. http://cvote.it/2sk41Bp
SOCIAL MEDIA // The powerful social media site Twitter approves lots of ads from Planned Parenthood’s political arm, but refuses to allow ads from the pro-life group Live Action. http://cvote.it/2skFmN3
SOCIAL MEDIA // Mark Zuckerberg thinks that Facebook can play the role that churches and Little League once filled. http://cvote.it/2skgtkS
LGBT // Daniel Mattson embraced homosexuality in his 30s but now has written a book called: Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual Reality and Found Peace. The book has received endorsements from Cardinal Sarah, Cardinal Dolan, Cardinal O’Malley, and Fr. Paul Scalia, Teresa Tomeo, and Al Kresta, among others. http://cvote.it/2sjKQru
CATHOLIC // “For decades, the majority of Catholics have embraced bourgeois values instead of Christian virtues, and the vacuum created by confused and ambiguous teaching is being filled with opportunistic falsehood,” writes Carl Olson about Fr. James Martin’s new book on LGBT. http://cvote.it/2sk5yaR
CATHOLIC // An Islamic terrorist group destroyed a Catholic chapel and desecrated consecrated Hosts and religious icons in the town of Malagakit in southern Philippines. http://cvote.it/2skN7Tc
SAINT // Saint Irenaeus – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS // “The Lord remembers his covenant forever.” (Ps 105:8) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
TRUTH //