LOOP ON THE ROAD We’re traveling through the Rust Belt this week and meeting with Catholic voters. Yesterday, we visited Uniontown, PA, hometown of American hero Gen. George C. Marshall. If you don’t know Marshall, read this quick bio: http://cvote.it/2hMBJ2Z
PREMEDITATED The Las Vegas killer placed cameras both in and outside his hotel room before his evil massacre. http://cvote.it/2hKlB1T
INSPIRING HEROISM Las Vegas shooting survivor says she was saved by a Marine she met just hours earlier. http://cvote.it/2hLF2aM
GUN DEBATE LIES Reporters resurrect lie alleging Republicans made it ‘easier’ for the mentally ill to buy guns. http://cvote.it/2hNZGH5
TRUMP IN PUERTO RICO President Trump says Puerto Rico’s debt will have to be wiped out. The president visited the devastated island to meet with Puerto Rico’s political leaders and emergency personnel. http://cvote.it/2hM5NvE
SURROGACY CASE The Supreme Court refused to hear the surrogacy case involving a mother who refused to abort one of the triplets in her womb. CatholicVote lawyers litigated the case on behalf of the mother. http://cvote.it/2hLCmtQ
STEVE BANNON Republican donors seek out Steve Bannon, after the defeat of Alabama Senator Luther Strange. “It seems like McConnell’s star is fading and Bannon’s is rising. I wanted to break bread with the guy and figure out his thinking,” said Dan Eberhart, a GOP donor from Phoenix. http://cvote.it/2hLFCFr
PRO-LIFE WIN As expected, the House passed the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. http://cvote.it/2hKwlgW
MIDEAST CHRISTIANS An Iraqi nun says that they pray for the barbaric ISIS militants who killed so many fellow Christians because it helps them to forgive. http://cvote.it/2hMvGeM
CATHOLIC ATHLETE Los Angeles Dodgers’ catcher loves the sacrament of reconciliation: “There’s an analogy in baseball, too, a game which has lots of failure in it. If you strike out or make an error, the worst thing you can do is get and angry and refuse to accept that it happened.” http://cvote.it/2hKppQE
SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Francis of Assisi – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS READINGS “Let my tongue be silenced if I ever forget you!” (Ps 137:6) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
BOUNCING BACK Five years ago he was fired for writing “chink in the armor” in a sports headline. It made international news because the story was about a Chinese athlete so “chink” was interpreted as a slur. Now Federico is about to become a Catholic priest. http://cvote.it/2hKtPac