SHOOTING // Rep. Steve Scalise was readmitted to the ICU and is currently in ‘serious’ condition over infection concerns. Scalise continues recovery since he was nearly assassinated on June 14 at a Congressional baseball practice. http://cvote.it/2tja9xw
MEDIA // Yeah, this is why Americans hate the media. CNN tracked down the anonymous person on the Internet who posted the video that shows President Trump bodyslamming someone with a CNN logo for a head. (Trump himself retweeted the video). CNN then made a thinly-veiled threat that they would release this internet user’s name and information if he ever again posts something CNN finds disturbing or offensive. People pounced on CNN for essentially blackmailing someone not to practice free speech. http://cvote.it/2sNFtB9
VATICAN SCANDAL // Vatican police allegedly found widespread drug use and homosexual activity after they raided a Vatican-owned apartment and arrested an aide of Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, a close adviser of Pope Francis. http://cvote.it/2sOxtQp
AMAZING // Amelia Earhart may have actually survived crash-landing, according to a newly-discovered photograph. http://cvote.it/2sOtW4I
TRAVEL BAN // Sixty percent of voters support President Trump’s travel order, while just 28% oppose. The poll found 56% of independents support the travel ban, while 84% of Republicans did. Democrats were closely-divided with 41% in support and 46% opposed. http://cvote.it/2sNxaFi
INFIDELITY // According to the past 30 years of the General Social Survey (GSS), three out of every four American adults consider extramarital sex to be always wrong. But since 2000, older Americans are cheating more, while younger Americans are cheating less. http://cvote.it/2tiLg5e
LETTER TO THE LOOP // We thought you would enjoy reading feedback from fellow Loopers. Here’s a letter from Donal M.: “One of the things I hope to see [in the Loop] as time progresses is an account of Cardinal Pell and the charges he faces in Australia. There are very few Catholic sources I would depend on for an accurate account and no secular sources. I have no opinion as to how the case should turn out but the case itself makes ‘marketing’ Catholicism or evangelizing more difficult than it already is. Where Pope Francis comes down in the middle of this is also of great interest.”
CATHOLIC // EWTN will air a new, one-hour special on the life of Michael Novak, the late Catholic author who wrote the groundbreaking book The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism. The show runs on Sunday, July 9 at 1:30 PM and 10:00 PM ET, Tuesday, July 11 at 1:00 PM ET, and Wednesday, July 12 at 4:00 PM. http://cvote.it/2tj0ur2
CATHOLIC // Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who spent 22 years as director of the Vatican press office, has died. He was 80. http://cvote.it/2sNtljq
CATHOLIC // Why traditional priestly cassocks are making a comeback. http://cvote.it/2tiOFkw
SAINT // Saint Maria Goretti – http://cvote.it/dailysaint
DAILY MASS // “I will walk in the presence of the Lord, in the land of the living.” (Ps 115:9) – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
WISDOM // “From time to time, in the years to come, I hope you are treated unfairly — so you will come to know the value of justice,” says Chief Justice John Roberts, at his son’s 9th grade commencement. This speech is worth your five minutes. http://cvote.it/2sP2inT