HELPING HOUSTON // President Trump announced that he will donate $1 million of his own money to help victims of Hurricane Harvey. http://cvote.it/2vOAuS6
END OF THE DREAM (ERS)? // While it is not yet confirmed, President Trump is expected to end Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (known as DACA), a 2012 policy that gave a deportation reprieve to hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants. You can expect Congress to revisit this issue. http://cvote.it/2vOj9sD
ANOTHER ROLLBACK // Back in 2012, Obama tried to grant states waivers to loosen work requirements for welfare. Only one state even bothered to apply for such a waiver. Well, now the Trump administration has reversed Obama’s rule. http://cvote.it/2etCWeq
TRANSFORMATION // An abortion facility in northern Virginia shut down in 2015. Now in its place will soon be a health center for the uninsured called “Mother of Mercy Free Medical Clinic.” http://cvote.it/2etOUET
HOPE // Here are 23 powerful photos of Hurricane Harvey rescues from this week. http://cvote.it/2etJ9Hn
TEAM WARNS PLAYERS // In a program to educate baseball players of substance abuse, the Kansas City Royals also added “pornography and the effect of what that does to the minds of the players” to the list of potential harms to the team. http://cvote.it/2wWDLnv
BLAST FROM THE PAST // Remember what we told you about Mattress Mack, the Houston furniture store owner who’s opening up his showrooms to help hurricane victims? Well, back in 2009, Mattress Mack invited CatholicVote to launch one of our life-affirming ads at his Houston headquarters along with several members of the space program. “It was a thrill and an honor to meet three space flight legends…. And it is a pleasure to be associated with the fine people from CatholicVote.org and to help them in their efforts to get their videos on television.” http://cvote.it/2etX1Bt
MOTHER TERESA RELIC // Saint Mark’s Parish in the Archdiocese of Chicago will receive a first class relic of Saint Teresa of Calcutta for public veneration, which will then be permanently kept in the church. http://cvote.it/2etRgUa
SAINT // Saint Giles – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS // “Rejoice in the Lord, you just!” (Ps 97:1) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
WOW // Miracle statue of Mary survives Hurrican Harvey destruction, giving hope to family. http://cvote.it/2gnEZ0o