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| MONDAY, MARCH 26 |
| GUN CONTROL MARCH Despite lavish media attention, the pro-gun-control March for Our Lives drew less than half their expected crowd. Organizers of the march were expecting 500,000 to 600,000 attendees, but the official count was closer to 200,000. READ |
| BUMP STOCK BAN Attorney General Jeff Sessions issues a new Justice Department rule that effectively bans the sale of bump stocks. The rule was announced the night before Saturday’s gun control march. READ |
| WELL-FUNDED Celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney pledged $500,000 for the gun-control rally. Businessman Eli Broad gave $1 million. Heavy.com details who gave what to this cause. (If only the annual March for Life could get this kind of help!) READ |
| CHINA’S WRATH An American worker at Marriott accidentally liked a tweet that offended the Communist Chinese government. China got Marriott to fire him. READ |
| SEX TRAFFICKING Craigslist has yanked its personal ads section in the wake of an anti-online sex trafficking bill that passed this week. READ |
| WHAT’S UP AT PROVIDENCE COLLEGE? A student at Providence College seemed to kick up a hornet’s nest just for defending Catholic teaching on marriage. READ |
| OPIOID CRISIS Sen. Tom Cotton, R-AR, has filed legislation to allow stricter prison terms for dealers of fentanyl, a substance he calls a “weapon of mass destruction.” The bill would significantly reduce the amount of fentanyl a person must have in their possession to trigger mandatory sentencing minimums for narcotics trafficking. READ |
| PRO-LIFER AT STATE DEPT Pro-life activists are excited by the nomination of stalwart pro-life Mike Pompeo to be Secretary of State. READ |
| AMERICAN LIFE Just a few years ago, all the hype was that “suburbs were dead” and that people were moving into big cities. But media stories aside, the data doesn’t lie. “Population growth in big cities slowed for the fifth-straight year in 2016, according to new census data, while population growth accelerated in the more sprawling counties that surround them,” writes Jed Kolko. READ |
| GROWING COMMUNITY Wow. The Norbertines break ground on new abbey on 327 acres in central Orange County, California. READ |
| ABOUT THOSE PALMS Where do all those palm leaves come from that we use on Palm Sunday? READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Saint Catherine of Genoa wanted to be a nun, but was rejected due to her youth. Instead she married, converted her husband to a life of virtue, and together they cared for the poor. The Lord sometimes has other—and better—plans for us. READ |
| DAILY MASS READINGS “The Lord is my light and my salvation.” (Ps 27:1) READ |
| SACRIFICE A police officer who died after taking the place of a hostage in France was a practicing Catholic who had “experienced a genuine conversion” in 2008. Arnaud Beltrame, pray for us! READ |