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| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 |
| KAVANAUGH HEARINGS Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, said he was willing to be expelled from the Senate in order to ‘disclose’ so-called ‘secret’ documents — that Senate Republicans approved to be made public anyway. READ |
| SENATE 2018 President Trump campaigned in Montana on behalf of Senate candidate Matt Rosendale, a pro-life Catholic. “This election is a choice between Democrats who want to abolish ICE and Republicans who want to abolish MS-13,” said President Trump. READ |
| NJ / NY LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS New York’s attorney general issued subpoenas to all eight Catholic dioceses in the state and launched a civil investigation to determine how allegations of sexual abuse of minors were handled. READ |
| BUFFALO BISHOP WON’T RESIGN Bishop Richard Malone has rejected calls from local Catholic and public officials to step down after recently published confidential documents suggest that he mishandled allegations of sexual abuse. READ |
| DIGITAL BLACKLISTING Another poll shows that conservatives overwhelmingly think social media and tech companies are censoring them. The Axios poll showed that 67% of Republicans say Google Search is biased. READ |
| VANDALISM A GOP office in Laramie, Wyoming, was set on fire just days after it opened. This isn’t the only act of violence in recent months. Vandals threw a brick through the window of a local GOP office in Nebraska in July. They left behind a spray-painted message: “ABOLISH ICE.” READ |
| NAMES REMOVED Catholic schools throughout Pennsylvania are removing the names of bishops and priests from buildings in the wake of a grand jury report detailing abuse in six dioceses in the state. READ |
| LEGATUS WITHHOLDS FUNDS A national organization of Catholic businessmen and women has decided to withhold its annual $1 million tithe to the Vatican, and place the money in an escrow account. READ |
| UPCOMING MOVIE CatholicVote’s Stephen Herreid talks with screenwriter and producer Ann McElhinney about her film Gosnell: America’s Biggest Serial Killer. October 12th, this chilling real-crime drama hits theaters. WATCH |
| SAINT QUOTE “Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again: for forgiveness has risen from the grave!” –Saint John Chrysostom |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Blessed Frédéric Ozanam proved to be a leader who helped others help the poor. He also formed a newspaper to push the cause of justice. In 1833, he founded the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, which continues to the present day. READ |
| DAILY READINGS “The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.” (Ps 37:39) READ |
| DEVOTION Don’t forget this on Saturday… |