MONTANA ELECTION // Greg Gianforte won a special election in Montana to fill the House seat vacated when Ryan Zinke was confirmed as Secretary of the Interior. Gianforte appears likely to win by at least 7 percentage points, despite allegations he assaulted a reporter less than 24 hours before election day. http://cvote.it/2qpMabv
“RELIGIOUS LIBERTY” // Three adults in a small Muslim sect are trying to use religious liberty to justify the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation. http://cvote.it/2qoH13w
PP SCANDAL // The Center for Medical Progress has released a new video in which exposes the grisly methods which abortionists buy and sell the body parts of children they have aborted. Warning: story is graphic in detail. http://cvote.it/2qoKtei
POPE AND PRESIDENT // We shouldn’t expect religious faith to replace the work of politics. The Beatitudes aren’t policy prescriptions, writes CV blogger Stephen P. White at the Washington Examiner. http://cvote.it/2qoSujv
JUDICIARY // The Senate confirms Trump’s conservative pick for Sixth Circuit Appeals court. This is the first Senate confirmation of a federal lower court judge since November 16, 2015 — a total of 556 days. After years of obstructing GOP judicial nominations, Democrat Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 and confirmed many Obama nominees. After the GOP won the Senate in 2014, they countered by refusing to confirm anymore Obama judicial nominations. http://cvote.it/2qV4kp1
BUREAUCRACY // Under President Trump’s budget, control of air traffic would be moved to a nonprofit organization spun off from the Federal Aviation Administration by 2021. http://cvote.it/2qoR8Fm
TRAVEL BAN // A federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., delivered yet another blow against President Trump’s effort to institute a travel ban targeting six majority-Muslim countries. A final showdown in the Supreme Court still remains likely, but may not occur for several months. http://cvote.it/2qp3MnQ
DECENCY // Five reasons Satan loves pornography – the 21st century’s mass media juggernaut. http://cvote.it/2qoyptw
CATHOLIC // Cardinal Sarah: “We never have silence in our lives, from the beginning to the last hours of the day. We listen to rumors, news, radio, the telephone. We need silence, anyway, to meet God and to have a very human life. Man needs to be silent.” http://cvote.it/2qoLhzR
CATHOLIC // Bishop Tobin of Providence lists his 10 reasons it’s cool to be Catholic. First on the list? Confession. http://cvote.it/2qoLSBJ
SAINT // Saint Philip Neri – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS // “God is king of all the earth.” (Ps 47:8) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
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