BABY AT THE BORDER The Trump administration is trying to save an immigrant baby’s life. A leftist judge ordered the baby dead. http://cvote.it/2gtB7PF
HEALTH CARE President Trump announced that he does not support the health care bill crafted by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-TN, and Sen. Patty Murphy, D-WA, to “stabilize” the health insurance markets after he ended bailouts to these insurance companies. http://cvote.it/2gtAvt4
LET’S MAKE A DEAL But President Trump indicated that he would be willing to negotiate on health care legislation. He said any effort to shore up insurance markets must also include “relief” from the unpopular individual and employer mandates. http://cvote.it/2gtj4sE
IMMIGRATION Attorney General Jeff Sessions told senators that he’s open to compromise on immigration that includes DACA. “But it can’t just be one-sided,” he said. http://cvote.it/2gvYyYt
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY A network of wealthy donors want to restrict ‘inappropriate’ religious freedom to advance abortion and LGBT causes. http://cvote.it/2gtu1e1
THEY FEEL PAIN As the Senate considers the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (known as the 20-week abortion ban), Stacy Trasancos explores the pain unborn children feel. http://cvote.it/2grqwoa
FATHER MARTIN PARADIGM It’s one thing to embrace the “marginalized,” quite another to ignore their sins, as Fr. James Martin seems to do. http://cvote.it/2yzSODz
PRESIDENTIAL DONATION President George H. W. Bush donated the socks he wore at Super Bowl LI to the Diocese of Portland, Maine, for a fundraiser. http://cvote.it/2gw0iRv
VATICAN Pope Francis explains why he gives interviews. “I do not prepare for this,” he said. “For me, interviews are a dialogue, not a lesson.” http://cvote.it/2gtLnar
SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Isaac Jogues and the North American martyrs – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS READINGS “With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.” (Ps 130:7) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
1000 YEARS Benedictine Monks at Buckfast Abbey in England will celebrate the millennium year of their foundation next year. http://cvote.it/2gsK4ZC