VATICAN // Pope Francis said that the great majority of marriages today are not valid, because couples do not enter into them with a proper understanding of permanence and commitment. Pope Francis also commented on people living together outside of marriage: “I’ve seen a lot of fidelity in these cohabitations, and I am sure that this is a real marriage, they have the grace of a real marriage because of their fidelity, but there are local superstitions, etc.” http://cvote.it/1Qa581C
2016 // Rush Limbaugh, who has largely been sympathetic to Donald Trump, said that many of the Republican presumptive nominee’s supporters are “getting nervous” and losing confidence in the candidate. http://cvote.it/1Qa3du8
2016 // Senate Democrat laments due process as a “big problem” standing in the way of more gun control. http://cvote.it/1Qa8G47
CHURCH // Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s beatification cause could soon be moving forward, thanks to a petition by his family members weighing in on where he should be buried.. http://cvote.it/1Qa4gdp
SEXUALITY // “For more than half a century, at least since the invention of the birth-control pill, secularists and progressives collectively, if not always consciously, have been assembling a new, quasi-religious orthodoxy.” Read The First Church of Secularism and Its Sexual Sacraments by Mary Eberstadt. http://cvote.it/1Qa2E3u
ON THIS DAY // 1885 – Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor. http://cvote.it/1N08PBg
SAINT OF THE DAY // Saint Joseph Cafasso – http://cvote.it/Daily-Saint
DAILY READINGS // Today’s readings – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
FATHERS // Check out this Gillette ad which celebrates Dads. It tells teens not to use the Internet, but to go ask Dad. http://cvote.it/1Qa8Ecn