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| THURSDAY, JUNE 21 |
| IMMIGRATION EXECUTIVE ORDER President Trump issued an executive order calling for an end to family separations at the border. The executive order would rely on modifying a court settlement from 1997. The action comes after several days of backlash over family separations at the border. READ |
| DEMOCRATS ATTACK TRUMP ORDER Democrats spent days attacking President Trump for splitting up families at the border. Now that President Trump has issued an executive order calling for an end to family separations, Senate Democrats are accusing him of detaining migrant families ‘indefinitely.’ Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, called the allegation “patently false.” READ |
| LA ARCHBISHOP WELCOMES TRUMP ORDER Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles said he “welcomed” President Trump’s executive order ending family separations, a practice that the archbishop called “cruel.” However, Archbishop Gomez said he was “disappointed” in the two GOP immigration bills that the House is expected to vote on today. READ |
| ALLEGATIONS AGAINST CARDINAL The Archdiocese of New York announced that it had conducted an investigation against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, stating that an allegation of sexual abuse from nearly 50 years ago was “credible and substantiated.” McCarrick was a priest in the New York archdiocese before becoming Archbishop of Newark, then later Archbishop of Washington. READ |
| YOUTH SYNOD The Youth synod’s working document uses the “LGBT” acronym used by the homosexual movement instead of “same-sex attraction” and appears to place heterosexual and homosexual couples on the same level. The document omits references to Church teaching that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.” READ |
| INTERNET MOB The ‘fact-checker’ for New Yorker magazine defamed a combat veteran. She has not yet apologized. READ |
| FLAKING ON JUDICIAL REFORM Sen. Jeff Flake, R-AZ, has been a frequent critic of President Trump. Now he’s using his perch on the Senate Judiciary Committee to block votes on the nominations of all of President Trump’s pending appellate court nominees unless he gets favorable action on travel to Cuba and issues related to tariffs. Republicans have a slim 11-10 advantage on the Senate Judiciary Committee. READ |
| REAGAN MOVIE Dennis Quaid set to star as Ronald Reagan in a new movie about the 40th president based on two biographies from author Paul Kengor. Former Attorney General Ed Meese, a close friend of Reagan’s, will be an advisor on the film. READ |
| ACTOR LOSES IT Actor Peter Fonda apologizes for saying the president’s son should be kidnapped and caged with pedophiles. A spokeswoman for the First Lady said that the Secret Service was notified about about the actor’s now-deleted tweet. READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Aloysius Gonzaga was a precocious child who had a spiritual awakening at the age of 7. As a young adult, and after a prolonged battle with his father, he entered the Jesuits where he had to learn to live and maneuver within community, and give up some of his independent ways of doing things. Aloysius helped nurse patients of the plague which he caught and from which he died. READ |
| DAILY MASS READINGS “Rejoice in the Lord, you just!” (Ps 97:12) READ |
| SPORTS Mike Sweeney was a five-time American League All-Star first baseman who served as the captain of the Kansas City Royals. A committed man of faith and a Knight of Columbus, he shares his powerful testimony of faith, character and the true meaning of fatherhood. WATCH |