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MONDAY, JULY 18
TRANS MANDATE ON HOLD A U.S. District Court in Tennessee on Friday temporarily barred the Biden administration from enforcing a policy that would require every state to allow biological males to compete in female sports and use women’s and girls’ restrooms. In 2021 the Education Department said it would add “gender identity” to Title IX anti-discrimination rules. Attorneys general from 20 states responded by suing the Biden administration. Friday’s court decision ruled in favor of the attorneys general. READ
BISHOP: HOLD BIDEN ACCOUNTABLE Bishop Michael D. Pfeifer, bishop emeritus of San Angelo, has written a pastoral statement calling on fellow bishops to hold pro-abortion political leaders accountable. “Our own president is considering declaring abortion a public health emergency. The Speaker of the House is trying to enshrine abortion on demand in federal law,” Pfeifer wrote. “We bishops and all pro-lifers must send an unmistakable message to these pro-abortion leaders that we will never let these horrible death plans be enacted.” READ
ANALYSIS: GREEN POLICIES STARVE PEOPLE From Sri Lanka to the Netherlands, progressive environmentalist policies have led to shortages, starvation, and civil unrest, writes Douglas Blair of the Daily Signal. Only seven months after the implementation of green policies in Sri Lanka, “the government was forced to revoke the program as crop yields plummeted and food prices skyrocketed. …Starving and unable to find relief, Sri Lankans began to rise up and revolt … thousands converged on the presidential residence and stormed the gates.” READ
MALE ‘WOMAN OF THE YEAR’? The University of Pennsylvania has nominated "transgender" swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male who identifies as a woman, for the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Woman of the Year award. The award recognizes “female student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in their community, in athletics and in academics throughout their college careers.” Thomas began competing in women’s sports in 2019 after ranking low among male swimmers. READ
‘TRANS’ PRISONER IMPREGNATES INMATES A “transgender” New Jersey inmate serving time for manslaughter has finally been removed from a women’s prison after impregnating two fellow convicts. “Demi Minor,” 27, is now complaining about the “punishment” of being moved from the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women to the Garden State Youth Correctional facility. Minor is serving a 30-year sentence and is not eligible for parole until 2037. READ
BIDEN COVID CZAR BACKS MASK MANDATES Los Angeles County is poised to reimpose its universal indoor mask mandate by the end of July, and Biden COVID czar Dr. Ashish Jha voiced his support for the move on Sunday. “[The] CDC recommendation is that when you're in a high zone, that sort of orange zone, as L.A. County is, you know, people wearing masks indoors is really important, and it really will make a difference,” Jha said. READ
PROMINENT ‘LEFTY’ ABANDONS THE LEFT POLITICO reports that “one of Washington’s most prominent left-leaning think-tank scholars, a fixture at the Center for American Progress since the liberal organization’s founding in 2003,” will join the conservative American Enterprise Institute on August 1. Ruy Teixeira, “whose role in the Beltway scrum often involved arguing against calls to move right on economic issues, insists his own policy views haven’t changed — but says the current cultural milieu of progressive organizations ‘sends me running screaming from the left.’” READ
PRO-LIFE EMPLOYEE WINS SUIT A flight attendant on Thursday was awarded $5.1 million by a jury who found that Southwest Airlines canned 20-year veteran Charlene Carter for her sincerely held religious beliefs, namely her pro-life views. “Today is a victory for freedom of speech and religious beliefs. Flight attendants should have a voice and nobody should be able to retaliate against a flight attendant for engaging in protected speech against her union,” said Carter. READ
UVALDE REPORT: ‘SYSTEMIC FAILURES’ A new report from a Texas House committee cites “systemic failures” in response to the mass murder of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers by a lone gunman at a school in Uvalde. A total of 376 law enforcement officers responded to the incident at Robb Elementary School on May 24. About 77 minutes passed between the gunman entering the school and an officer finally killing him. READ
CATHOLIC 101 Msgr. Charles Pope writes about misusing the phrase “Oh, my God!” The phrase could be a prayer, writes Msgr. Pope, but "it is not usually meant in this way. More commonly it uses the Divine name as a mere expression of surprise or exasperation. This is not a reverent or prayerful use of God’s name in most circumstances.” READ
SAINT OF THE DAY St. Camillus de Lellis (1150 - 1614) found himself impoverished and doing menial work for a group of Franciscans. When he sought to join the order, he was refused. He then traveled to Rome, where he worked in a hospice and received spiritual direction from St. Philip Neri. Camillus went on to become a priest and the founder of an order, originally called the "Fathers of a Good Death," which was dedicated to caring for the sick and dying. READ
DAILY PSALM “To the upright I will show the saving power of God.” (Psalm 50:23) READ
DAILY READINGS Today's Mass readings. READ
BEAUTY Mission San Xavier del Bac is called “The White Dove of the Desert.” The historic Spanish Catholic mission is located about 10 miles from Tucson, AZ. The first mission was founded in 1692, with this current mission built in the 1780s. SHARE
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