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| SPECIAL OLYMPICS President Trump has overruled Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who had proposed a cut in funding to the Special Olympics. “I just authorized a funding of the Special Olympics. … I have overridden my people, we’re funding the Special Olympics,” said President Trump. READ |
| QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I do find it ironic that Dems and the media are upset about the Special Olympics funding cuts but are perfectly fine murdering future Special Olympians in the womb because they’re deemed inconvenient and undesirable (see Iceland + Down Syndrome).” – Curtis Houck, News Busters. |
| TRUMP HEALTH REFORM NIXED A federal judge threw out a Trump administration rule which would have allowed individuals to pool together to buy health insurance through an association. READ |
| #3 SPOT AT DOJ Jessie Liu has withdrawn her name from consideration as associate attorney general, the third-highest office in the Justice Department. Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT, has developed a keen eye on nominations. He objected to her nomination when he discovered that Liu had served as vice president for the pro-abortion National Association of Women Lawyers. READ |
| NOMINATION LOGJAM Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell denounced “unprecedented obstruction” from Democrats over even noncontroversial nominees. McConnell’s speech was seen as moving a step closer to having the Senate using the so-called “nuclear option” to change the rules to reduce the number of hours on lower level judicial and executive nominations. READ |
| SUPREME COURT & EXECUTION The Supreme Court ordered the State of Texas to allow a Buddhist priest to be in the same room as an inmate as he is executed. Texas currently only allows a Christian or Muslim religious adviser to be in the death chamber with the condemned inmate. “As this court has repeatedly held, governmental discrimination against religion — in particular, discrimination against religious persons, religious organizations, and religious speech — violates the Constitution,” said Justice Brett Kavanaugh. READ |
| ANTI CHICK-FIL-A San Antonio has kicked the chicken restaurant out of the city’s airport. Now the Texas attorney general is investigating if the city violated any constitutional rights by boycotting the restaurant because of the conservative and Christian views of the company’s founder. READ |
| +GREGORY TO DC? Catholic News Agency is reporting that Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory has been asked to lead the Archdiocese of Washington, DC. READ |
| FLASHBACKArchbishop Wilton Gregory invited pro-gay Fr. James Martin, SJ, to speak in Atlanta last September. READ |
| CHURCH SCANDALArchbishop Chaput at Pontifical College Josephinum in OH: “Not naming the real problem for what it is, a pattern of predatory homosexuality and a failure to weed that out from Church life, is an act of self-delusion.” READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY The first part of Saint Ludovico of Casoria’s life was somewhat “ordinary,” but not the second. Having had what he called a mystical experience, he began establishing institutions for all kinds of people in need. He even founded two religious communities. READ |
| DAILY READINGS “I am the Lord your God: hear my voice.” (Ps 81:6) READ |
| WITNESS The movie trailer for Unplanned already has over one million views. The movie tells the amazing story of Abby Johnson’s conversion from abortion clinic director to pro-life activist. The movie premieres tonight. SHARE |