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| MONDAY, JANUARY 28 |
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| GOVERNMENT RE-OPENS President Trump warns that he’ll “obviously” declare a national emergency if talks with Congressional Democrats fail to result in funding for a border barrier. Trump signed a three-week funding bill Friday that will keep the federal government fully open until Feb. 15. READ |
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| BISHOP APOLOGIZES Bishop Roger Foys of the Diocese of Covington apologized for hastily rebuking the Catholic high school students involving in an incident at the National Mall. Bishop Foys said: “We should not have allowed ourselves to be bullied and pressured into making a statement prematurely, and we take full responsibility for it. I especially apologize to Nicholas Sandmann and his family as well as to all CovCath families who have felt abandoned during this ordeal. Nicholas unfortunately has become the face of these allegations based on video clips. This is not fair. It is not just.” READ |
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| PHILLIPPINE CATHEDRAL BOMBED Twenty people were killed in explosions during Mass in a cathedral on the southern Phillippine island of Jolo. There has long been a presence of Muslim Abu Sayyaf militants on the island. READ |
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| HILLARY 2020? CNN senior White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny claims that Hillary might make another run for the White House. “So Hillary Clinton is telling people that she’s not closing the doors to the idea of running in 2020,” said Zeleny. Three different people close to Clinton told Zeleny this week that she hasn’t yet ruled out 2020. READ |
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| SCIENCE A Utah bill would prohibit people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificate. State Rep. Merrill Nelson said the bill is based in science. ““[A]n individual’s sex is determined at conception by chromosomal make-up and is not subject to change or self-determination later in life,” he said. READ |
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| GROWTH IN TRADITION Not all women’s religious orders are shrinking. Some are growing very rapidly. READ |
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| FEMALE DEACONS? Two-thirds of U.S. bishops do not believe women should be ordained deacons. READ |
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| CENTENARIAN OF FAITH 100-year-old deacon still serves 8 Masses a week. READ |
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| SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Thomas Aquinas is well known for his writings, especially the “Summa Theologica.” But he was far more than a philosopher/theologian. He was a devout man who wrote beautiful prayers and hymns. Perhaps the best known is the “Pange Lingua.” He truly was able to combine human reason and revelation and show the fruits of the union. READ |
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| DAILY READINGS “Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds.” (Ps 98:1) READ |
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| WHAT DID THE MEDIA LEARN? After the whole ugly series of events, in which the mainstream media ran with a deceptively-edited video clip, and fueled a campaign of harassment and death threats against children, here’s the one lesson that journalists learned. WATCH |
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