HHS SECRETARY OUT Tom Price screwed up big time. So Donald Trump fired him. Refreshing, isn’t it? http://cvote.it/2hIvkpK
TERRORISM IN CANADA A 30-year suspect is in custody for crashing a speeding U-Haul van into a crowd of people in Edmonton, Canada. Police confirmed that the suspect was a refugee from Somalia. An ISIS flag was found in the car. Four pedestrians were injured before the U-Haul rolled and the suspect was apprehended. http://cvote.it/2hFcdwI
VATICAN SURPRISE Pope Francis re-names Cardinal Raymond Burke to Vatican’s highest court, after a three-year absence. http://cvote.it/2hFToJF
PUERTO RICO No, Trump didn’t botch the Puerto Rican crisis. Bloomberg View has an informative Q&A with former Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix on the smart preparations made by the White House and Pentagon. http://cvote.it/2hGpBkf
THIS AGAIN? New York Times national religion reporter Laurie Goodstein excoriated Catholic judicial nominee Amy Barrett for her membership in a faith-based accountability group. John Zmirak replies: “Goodstein is shameless. She fights for a sacred cause — the creed of secular hedonism, whose sacrament is abortion.” http://cvote.it/2x8Hn1B
JUDGES, JUDGES, JUDGES President Trump just announced four more nominees for the federal bench, including Kyle Duncan — a tireless advocate for religious liberty. http://cvote.it/2x9bQwf
PROTESTS HURT NFL The NFL’s once-sterling “brand favorability” was nearly cut in half in just eight days. http://cvote.it/2hI0ygJ
GIMME A BREAK The media keeps hailing Hugh Hefner as a visionary. Ross Douthat sets the record straight: “The social liberalism he championed was the rotten and self-interested sort, a liberalism of male and upper-class privilege, in which the strong and beautiful and rich take their pleasure at the expense of the vulnerable and poor and not-yet-born.” http://cvote.it/2hFeCHK
LATIN SURGING The Latin Mass is thriving in southeastern Nigeria. http://cvote.it/2x8VaVT
DISSENT RETURNS Media-savvy Fr. James Martin recently told a young man, “I hope in 10 years you will be able to kiss your partner [in church] or, you know, soon to be husband.” Catholic theologian Janet Smith says it’s fairly clear that “Fr. Martin believes the Church does not present correctly God’s plan for sexuality.” http://cvote.it/2hH0T2Y
THE “NEW” PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT “But no one told the parish ministry fighting poverty in Haiti or the parish ministry fighting global warming that they were not allowed to work on their issue unless they were working on other issues too. This was a burden that was put on pro-lifers and no one else,” writes Peter Wolfgang. http://cvote.it/2hHXsJD
SAINT OF THE DAY Feast of the Guardian Angels – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS READINGS “The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.” (Ps 102:17) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
ILLUMINATING This room in the Vatican holds an amazingly ingenious secret. On the Spring Equinox at noon, the light that shines through one small hole in the wall is supposed to hit a symbol on the floor. In 1582, when the beam of light didn’t line up with symbol, it changed time and history forever. http://cvote.it/2hH4y0I