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| WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 |
| ABORTION AND SUPREME COURT The Supreme Court will not hear Planned Parenthood’s challenge to a 2015 Arkansas law requires doctors who administer abortion pills to have admitting privileges at a hospital. With the pro-life law allowed to take effect, Planned Parenthood stated that their two facilities in Arkansas will now no longer offer medical abortions. READ |
| ABC ENDS ROSEANNE Actress Roseanne Barr was fired from ABC after referring to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the “Planet of the Apes.” READ |
| PRIESTHOOD FOR MEN ONLY The teaching on the all-male priesthood is definitive, said Archbishop Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “Christ willed to confer this sacrament on the 12 apostles — all men — who, in turn, communicated it to other men. The church always has seen itself as bound to this decision of the Lord, which excludes that the ministerial priesthood can be conferred validly on women.” READ |
| OVERTURNING ELECTIONS? This is unreal. Italian President Sergio Mattarella barred a coalition of Euroskeptic parties from forming a government on Sunday after recent elections in March. It’s now clear that Italy’s experiment in populism is under unprecedented attack by elites in Italy who want to throw out the results of the election. But this heavy-handedness might backfire. READ |
| HHS: 1500 KIDS NOT “LOST” A federal agency in charge of caring for children of illegal immigrants is pushing back at claims that they ‘lost’ 1,500 children. “These children are not ‘lost’; their sponsors—who are usually parents or family members and in all cases have been vetted for criminality and ability to provide for them—simply did not respond or could not be reached when this voluntary call was made,” said HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan. “While there are many possible reasons for this, in many cases sponsors cannot be reached because they themselves are illegal aliens and do not want to be reached by federal authorities.” READ |
| MIGRANTS AT THE BORDER Rich Lowry explains the truth about separating kids at the U.S.-Mexico border. “For the longest time, illegal immigration was driven by single males from Mexico. Over the last decade, the flow has shifted to women, children, and family units from Central America. This poses challenges we haven’t confronted before and has made what once were relatively minor wrinkles in the law loom very large.” READ |
| MISSOURI GOVERNOR RESIGNS Embattled by sexual and legal scandals, Gov. Eric Greitens, R-MO, announced that he will resign June 1. Months of bad headlines about Greitens had threatened Republican chances of defeating pro-abortion Sen. Claire McCaskill, considered one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats up for reelection in 2018. READ |
| IMPEACHMENT CRUSADE Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer is on quite the quixotic adventure. Now he’s comparing his impeachment crusade to the fight against segregation. “So, if you look at the civil rights movement, the pushback was not, ‘You’re not telling the truth,’ the pushback was, ‘We’re dealing with it in time. You know, stand down so we can deal with it in time,’” said Steyer. READ |
| RELIGIOUS LIBERTY SUMMIT The federal government will host its first-ever ministerial meeting of government and religious leaders on the topic of advancing religious freedom. READ |
| CARDINAL SARAH UNLEASHES Speaking to 15,000 faithful Catholics in Chartes, France, Cardinal Sarah said: “The Western society, choosing to organize itself without God, has fallen into lies and selfishness.” He referred to the West as “a drunken boat in the night.” READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY From her earliest years Saint Joan of Arc was known for her obedience to her parents, religious fervor, goodness, unselfish generosity and kindness toward her neighbors. READ |
| DAILY MASS READINGS “Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.” (Ps 147:12) READ |
| BEAUTIFUL ‘First married couple with Down syndrome’ celebrates 28 years of marriage. God bless this beautiful couple! READ |