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| TRUMP SLAMMED IMPEACHMENT CALLS From Japan, President Trump sent several tweets railing Democrats for pushing for impeachment. Trump claimed they are “getting nothing done in Congress” and want a “do-over” on the Mueller Report. Speaker Pelosi has tried to resist calls to begin impeachment proceedings. READ |
| PRO-LIFE PROTECTIONS A group of 25 senators signed a letter to keep pro-life and religious liberty protections as federal policy as Congress is set to begin discussion on appropriations bills. “As a member of the [Appropriations] Committee, I am committed to retaining long-standing pro-life and religious freedom protections in all funding bills,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL. READ |
| BORDER WALL A private group is building a half-mile section of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico. READ |
| GERRYMANDERING The Supreme Court agreed to stop a lower court ruling that had ordered Michigan and Ohio to redraw their congressional maps. The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling before the end of June on similar court cases from Maryland and North Carolina involving gerrymandering and redistricting. READ |
| PELOSI AND ABORTION President Trump blasted former Vice President Joe Biden for his support for the 1994 crime bill. Biden was a strong supporter of the bill and was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the law was passed. But now the 1994 crime bill is very controversial with Democratic voters. Trump sought to exploit this chasm by tweeting: “Anyone associated with the 1994 Crime Bill will not have a chance of being elected. In particular, African Americans will not be able to vote for you.” READ |
| CORPORATIONS DRIFT LEFTWARD Some people think that corporations are Republican, because the GOP supports free markets and tax cuts. But corporations actually have been drifting leftward for several decades. Now some conservative activists are copying the tactics of liberals and showing up at stockholder meetings in order to change corporate policies. READ |
| MEDIA IRRESPONSIBILITY Ian Bremmer, a columnist for Time magazine, posted a quote from Trump about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that went viral. Then, hours later, Bremmer admits it was fake. READ |
| FERTILITY A new study on progesterone in pregnancy supports decades of Catholic research from the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction. READ |
| A VOYAGE FOR COLUMBUS Peppperdine University decided two years ago to take down a statue of Christopher Columbus. Now the campus has given the statue to Thomas Aquinas College, a Catholic campus just 50 miles away. Thomas Aquinas College President Michael McLean said, “Columbus was both a great explorer and devoted to the Catholic faith. So we placed his statue next to the Albertus Magnus Science Building (that’s the explorer part), and it points toward the Chapel (that’s the Catholic faith part).” READ |
| LGBT MURAL A Catholic church instructed the Bergen Arts and Science Charter School to paint over a pro-LGBT mural in the church cafeteria that was painted by a 16-year-old charter school student. The charter school rents cafeteria space from Holy Trinity Church in Hackensack, NJ. READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Born in Haiti and brought to New York City as a slave, Venerable Pierre Toussaint lived an exemplary Catholic life both before and after gaining his freedom. Married and then widowed, Pierre continued his charitable works well into his elder years. He originally was buried outside St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, a church to which he was once refused entrance because of his race. READ |
| DAILY READINGS “Your right hand saves me, O Lord.” (Ps 138:1) READ |
| VOCATIONS Seven men in seven years have been ordained from St. Mary’s in Hudson, Ohio. What’s the “secret sauce” at this parish? SHARE |
