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| WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 |
| IRAN DEAL IS DONE President Trump announced that his administration was putting an end to Barack Obama’s Iran deal. Most Americans admit they don’t know much about the deal. Here are several reasons why ending the Iran Deal was in the national interest. READ |
| QUOTE OF THE DAY “Today is a reminder that if you live by the Presidency, you die by the Presidency. We ought to be clear about this: Donald Trump isn’t ripping up a treaty; he’s walking away from Barack Obama’s personal pledge. Two and a half years ago, President Obama made a bad deal with Iran without support from Congress, and today President Trump is pulling out of President Obama’s personal commitment, and he doesn’t need Congress’s support to do so. American foreign policy makes lasting progress when it is led by the President, approved by Congress, and presented honestly to the American people.” -Sen. Ben Sasse, R-NE. |
| CIA NOMINEE Gina Haspel is expected to tell the Senate Intelligence Committee today that she “will not restart” the CIA’s interrogation program if she is confirmed to lead the agency. READ |
| MORE JUDGES The Senate is expected to vote on six more of President Trump’s judicial nominations. So far, 9 of the 15 appeals court vacancies Trump has filled have been on regional courts that already leaned conservative. With these nominations, Trump aims to fill vacancies in courts from states represented by Democratic senators. READ |
| PRIMARY ELECTIONS RESULTS Despite a last-minute push by several media outlets, convicted coal baron Don Blankenship got a distant third-place finish in the West Virginia Republican primary. GOP voters in Indiana chose businessman Mike Braun as their senate nominee over two sitting members of Congress. READ |
| PELOSI CALLS FOR HIGHER TAXES Jake Sherman of Politico asked House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi about a Republican ad which claimed that she wanted to institute a single-payer health care program and raise taxes. “Well, the second part is accurate,” conceded Pelosi. READ |
| FUNDING FOR TEXTBOOKS A Supreme Court decision last year has given new life to a proposal in New Mexico to pay for textbooks for students in non-public schools. “A science textbook is a science textbook no matter whose shelf it’s on,” said Eric Baxter of Becket Law. READ |
| MET GALA Hollywood disrespected Catholics at the Met Gala. But why did the Catholic Church cosponsor the Met Gala event? Watch Stephen Herreid’s interview of Amber Athey of the Daily Caller, who wonders why we haven’t heard from those who always worry about “cultural approbation.” WATCH |
| A PSALM BROUGHT HIM BACK Like so many, Thomas McDonald was raised Catholic. “Leaving was easy for someone nursed on the skim milk of 1970s American Catholicism, a machine purpose-built to squeeze all the majesty and mystery out of one of the most dazzling, sublime, and beautiful religions in human history.” But then years later, in an intensive care waiting room, he picked up the only reading material, a Bible. READ |
| HUMANAE VITAE AT 50 Professor Janet Smith has been a fearless defender of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae. READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Saint John of Avila had some pretty impressive friends—Saints Francis Borgia, Ignatius of Loyola, John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila–to name just a few. These saints, along with Saint John, were all part of a reform of the Church in Spain. READ |
| DAILY MASS READINGS “Heaven and earth are full of your glory.” (Ps 148:1) READ |
| BEAUTY Corpus Christi Basilica in Kraków, Poland. |