HEALTH CARE // Apparently still reeling from the defeat of the House Republican health care plan, President Trump went on a warpath against the conservative House Freedom Caucus. http://cvote.it/2of94Fo
PRO-LIFE // Vice President Mike Pence broke a Senate tie to approve legislation overturning an Obama administration rule that prevents states from blocking federal grants to abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood. While almost every GOP Senator is pro-life, two are definitely not. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who are both pro-abortion while claiming to be Catholic, voted against the bill. But let’s not forget that Sens. Joe Manchin, D-WV, and Joe Donnelly, D-IN, have tried to suggest that they are pro-life, but both voted in favor of keeping the Obama policy in place. http://cvote.it/2ofhNY0
SUPREME COURT // Two Democratic Senators have announced that they are bucking their party and voting to confirm Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-WV, and Heidi Heitkamp, D-ND, released statements pledging to vote to confirm Gorsuch. Both are up for reelection next year in states where Donald Trump won by massive margins. http://cvote.it/2ofgN6f
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY // President Donald Trump appointed Roger Severino to lead the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR), in a move that could give the agency a significant shift in how it treats religious freedom and life issues. http://cvote.it/2ofpc9R
MARRIAGE // The Liberals went into a frenzy when they discovered that Vice President Mike Pence doesn’t dine alone with women who aren’t his wife. But even if every couple doesn’t adopt this standard, we shouldn’t mock the Pences. We should commend them for protecting their marriage. http://cvote.it/2ofl2yU
FRIDAY FUNNY // “Ted Kennedy drives a woman off a bridge: Senate Democrat hero for decades. Mike Pence respects his wife: Eww strange religious nut.” @CounterMoonbat
ABORTION // Former President Jimmy Carter urged the Democratic Party to abandon their pro-abortion position. http://cvote.it/2of9sUe
PP SCANDAL // Wow. Even the L.A. Times thinks the Democratic Attorney General in California went overboard by bringing felony charges against the pro-life investigators. http://cvote.it/2ofeP6d
CATHOLIC // Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, issued a statement opposed to President Trump’s executive order on climate change. http://cvote.it/2of90FO
CATHOLIC // This man’s ear was miraculously healed, thanks to St. Katharine Drexel. http://cvote.it/2ofqt0B
SAINT // Saint Stephen of Mar Saba – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS // “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.” (Ps 34:19) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
TRUTH //