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| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 |
| KAVANAUGH HEARINGS Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh pledged to “keep and open mind in every case… I don’t decide cases based on personal or policy preferences.” Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee interrupted Republican senators over 40 times during the first day of hearings. Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX, said: “This is the first confirmation hearing subject to mob rule.” READ |
| AUDIENCE SCREAMS DURING HEARINGS On numerous occasions, visitors at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing interrupted the Committee meeting with outbursts and tirades. One person arrested was actress Piper Perabo. READ |
| CANCEL THE AUDIENCE? “Capitol Police shouldn’t have to wrestle with protesters every time a senator starts talking. They shouldn’t be asked to carry them out of the room by their hands and feet because this isn’t what democracy looks like,” writes Phillip Wegmann. READ |
| 3 TAKEAWAYS FROM HEARING Despite the frequent outbursts, there were three key insights from the first day of the Kavanaugh hearings. READ |
| WUERL IN ROME Cardinal Donald Wuerl visited Rome and spoke with the pope last week. Pope Francis told the Archbishop of Washington to talk with your priests. Cardinal Wuerl is under mounting pressure to resign after his actions regarding his predecessor Theodore McCarrick, as well as his time as Bishop of Pittsburgh after the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report on alleged clergy sexual abuse. READ |
| ATTACKING KIM DAVIS Some of Pope Francis’ closest advisers are attacking Kim Davis, who met with the Pope in 2015. Davis made international news when she refused to sign a marriage license to a same sex couple. “At the time, the Pope’s men denied this meeting ever took place and claimed that it was an ambush on a Pope entirely unawares. These men essentially called this brave and lovely woman a liar. And now we see these same men admit that the meeting actually took place,” writes Austin Ruse. READ |
| TWO PRIESTS ARRESTED IN MIAMI Two priests from the Archdiocese of Chicago were arrested Monday in Miami after police reported that the men engaged in a lewd act in a parked car. The Archdiocese of Chicago immediately removed both men from ministry in Chicago. READ |
| DIGNITY OF WORK A few media outlets posted pictures of a former Cosby Show actor who was found working at a Trader Joe’s. But people on social media didn’t mock the former actor, but rallied to him. The actor, Geoffrey Owens slammed the entertainment media: “They set out to exploit the thing in us, in the public, that wants to see stories about people who were once great or celebrated, now fallen.” He added that he hoped people would “start honoring the dignity of work and the dignity of the working person.” READ |
| QUOTE OF THE DAY “Kavanaugh’s opponents have it both ways: 1. They praise stare decisis, but want to erase Heller & Citizens United. 2. They say they can’t know Kavanaugh without still more documents, but they know he’s bad. 3. They hate 5-4 decisions but love Ruth Bader Ginsburg voting in lockstep with the left,” Adam White, George Mason Law |
| SAINT QUOTE “It is better that scandals arise than the truth be suppressed.” –Pope Saint Gregory the Great |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born in Albania, but is known for her work in India. A member of the Sisters of Loreto, she felt a call to live among the poor. While working with the poorest of the poor in India, she founded the Missionaries of Charity who continue her work. READ |
| DAILY READINGS “Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.” (Ps 145:17) READ |
| BEAUTIFUL An 88-year-old dad is reunited with his 53-year-old son who has Down Syndrome after spending a week apart for the first time ever. READ |