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| MONDAY, APRIL 30 |
| ALFIE EVANS Little Alfie Evans has died. The circumstances surrounding his case and death raises issues that must be addressed. Christopher Altieri writes: “At the very least, we want to be able to entrust our care and that of our loved ones to people who are not on the fence about whether life is a basic and irreducible good.” READ |
| HISTORY IN KOREA North and South Korea declare a new era of peace. National security experts, and even the South Korean foreign minister, are crediting President Trump for bringing North Korea to the table. READ |
| THE MEDIA’S “NERD PROM” Michelle Wolf, the comedian hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, was so crass and vulgar that even liberal journalists are conceding that it handed President Trump a huge victory. READ |
| TODAY’S MEDIA So here’s your example of the everyday bias from the mainstream media. The New York Times ran an editorial begging Justice Anthony Kennedy not to retire. READ |
| HOUSE CHAPLAIN LET GO Democrats are up in arms that House Speaker Paul Ryan has removed Fr. Pat Conroy, SJ, as chaplain for the House of Representatives. Democrats are suggesting that Rep. Mark Walker, R-NC, (who is also a Baptist minister) is anti-Catholic because he suggested that a chaplain should have a family. Walker told EWTN’s Jason Calvi that he isn’t anti-Catholic at all, and that his passing words about a chaplain having kids weren’t artful. “We’re looking for someone with familial experience — people who deal with families. That could be a priest. That could be a male or female.” WATCH |
| SENATE 2018 President Trump calls on Sen. Jon Tester, D-MT, to resign after leading the charge against Veterans Affairs Secretary nominee Ronny Jackson. “The great people of Montana will not stand for this kind of slander when talking of a great human being,” said the president. Tester’s report alleged that Jackson was drunk on duty, but the allegations couldn’t be verified. “The Secret Service has no such record of any incident,” the Secret Service said in a statement. Jackson withdrew himself from consideration rather than having to defend himself against false allegations. READ |
| POPULAR MUSIC Rap singer Kanye West shocked the Internet last week by posting a photo of himself wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. Now he’s got a new song which says: “That’s the problem with this damn nation, all blacks gotta be Democrats, man, we ain’t made it off the plantation.” READ |
| CHARITY RE-IMAGINED Catholic Charities has had success in fighting poverty in Texas. And it’s inspired House Speaker Paul Ryan to reform federal anti-poverty programs along a more Catholic vision. “The one-size-fits-all approach is not working,” said Ryan. “We’ve seen that for anti-poverty programs to be successful, they need to be customized and focused on empowering the individual.” READ |
| POPE MEETS VICTIMS The Holy Father began individual meetings with three survivors of clerical sexual abuse from Chile following a major apology earlier this month. READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY St. Pius V, who was born in 1504, joined the Dominicans at the age of fourteen; he was sixty-two when he was elected Pope. His reign, though short, was one of the most fruitful of the sixteenth century. To Protestantism, which had proclaimed the Reformation, St. Pius replied by applying the decrees of the Council of Trent for the reform of the Church. He played a great part in the return of the clergy to ecclesiastical discipline. READ |
| DAILY MASS READINGS “Not to us, O Lord, but to your name give the glory.” (Ps 115:1) READ |
| A HERO’S FAITH Waffle House hero went to Sunday Mass with his family just hours after stopping rampage. READ |