CV NEWS FEED // Spain’s Socialist government announced this week that they will establish a state-run compensation program for sexual abuse victims, and will make the Catholic Church pay for it. In 2022, the Spanish government launched its own investigation into sexual abuse claims that concluded with an Ombudsman report published in 2023. The report only focused on sexual abuse victims of the Catholic church. On April 23, Spain’s Minister of the Presidency and Justice Félix Bolaños referred to that report in justifying the decision to have the Church pay for the compensations that will be se ..read more

CV NEWS FEED // According to a new Axios/Harris poll, a majority of Americans – including a stunning 42% of Democrats – support the mass deportation of migrants illegally in the country. The poll found that 51% – just over half – of the American general public supports mass deportations. While just over two-thirds (68%) of Republicans support this policy, significant minorities of independents (46%) and Democrats (42%) agree with it as well. Another surprising finding of the poll is that 45% of Latino respondents and 40% of black respondents indicated that they supported mass-deporting illega ..read more

CV NEWS FEED // Jesuit-affiliated Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH, appears to list abortion on its student health insurance plan. The university maintains that it does not cover abortion. “[Xavier’s] plan not only appears to cover abortion – it looks like the school specifically added it into the coverage, Hope College student William Hurley wrote in The College Fix Tuesday. “A ‘policy endorsement’ on the plan appeared to delete an ‘exclusion’ of abortion,” Hurley indicated: The plan lists abortion as a “Non-EHB [Essential Health Benefit] added to plan via additional endorsement.” It inc ..read more

CV NEWS FEED // Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed a bill Wednesday that would expand school choice to more of the state’s families. The Nebraska Examiner reported that the bill, LB 1402, “will devote $10 million to the state treasurer to distribute private K-12 scholarships to prospective students.” State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, R-Elkhorn, sponsored the bill. She told the Examiner that she is “very excited for a bunch of low-income kids who couldn’t access an education that best fits their needs” because“now they’ll be able to.” The Examiner added that the bill may nullify a referendum ..read more

CV NEWS FEED // Conservative scholar Christopher Rufo says he has uncovered alleged evidence which purports that new National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Katherine Maher had connections to radical revolutionaries in the Middle East. Rufo’s report in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal has received reactions from a presidential candidate and a member of Congress, among others.  The report’s alleged revelations have sparked rumors among observers that Maher might have been working with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “Katherine Maher helped advance Color Revolutions in the Middle East ..read more

CV NEWS FEED // The Republican-controlled Arizona House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal the state’s pro-life law which protects almost all unborn children. The repeal effort now heads to the state Senate – also controlled by Republicans – which can vote on it no earlier than Wednesday, May 1.  The pro-life law, originally passed in 1864, is set to go into effect on June 8. The Arizona Supreme Court upheld the law earlier this month – a move that was unexpectedly criticized by many Republicans including former President Donald Trump and U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, R-AZ ..read more

NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! Jim Thorpe had never run a competitive race in his life. Nor had he participated in any other track and field events. But that didn’t stop him from attempting the high jump one afternoon in 1907 and beating everyone on his school’s team. Thorpe jumped on a whim. He was walking past the team as they practiced and thought he could do better. When he proved himself right, the team’s coach, Glenn “Pop” Warner ..read more

NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! When Stephen Badin entered seminary in his native France, he didn’t know that revolution soon would come to his country and, along with it, a hatred for the Catholic Church. Nor did he know that in 1791, while still a seminarian, he would flee to America with two companions—-the Fathers (and future bishops) Joseph Flaget and J. B. David. And he most certainly didn’t know that on May 25, 1793, he would recei ..read more

NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! The bishops of the United States wanted a school, but not just any school. They wanted a research university, where both clergy and laity could pursue advanced studies in theology, philosophy, and other fields of knowledge that intersected with faith and morals. The bishops discussed the idea for such a university at the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1866. They approved the idea at the Third Plenar ..read more

NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! Stories—by the early 19th century, that’s all that remained of the early French Jesuits and their missions among the Iroquois. Some tribes hadn’t seen the men they called “Black Robes” for more than a century. But they still told stories about the priests and the God they proclaimed. In 1823, some of those Iroquois married into the Salish tribe and repeated the stories of the Black Robes to their new brothe ..read more