LOOP: Trump presses Pfizer to release COVID vaccine data

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 TRUMP CALLS ON PFIZER TO RELEASE VAX DATA  President Donald Trump yesterday called on Pfizer to release its COVID-19 shot data to the CDC and the public. "I hope OPERATION WARP SPEED was as 'BRILLIANT' as many say it was," he wrote on Truth Social. "If not, we all want to know about it, and why???"  READ DOJ ASKS CITIZENS TO REPORT ON IMMIGRANT HIRING  The Justice Department is calling on members of the public to report on "discriminatory" hiring practices, arguing that job ads expressing a preference for H-1B workers over US-born laborers ought to be flagged and investigated.  READ TRUMP PRAISES DC MAYOR FOR COOPERATING WITH FEDS  Trump praised D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, for cooperating with his administration on National Guard crime reduction, contrasting her "positive" approach with Democratic governors he accused of excusing violence instead of addressing it.  READ AI ASSISTANT HANDLING 911 CALLS?  "Aurelian, an AI voice assistant startup, has raised $14 million in funding to help understaffed 911 call centers manage 'non-emergency' calls more efficiently," Breitbart reports.  READ RUDY GIULIANI TO RECEIVE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM Trump yesterday announced he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, praising the former New York City mayor as "the greatest" in the city's history and "an equally great American Patriot." READ 'DAD INSTINCTS' SAVE THE DAY AT HERSHEY PARK "A man who is being hailed as a hero after he rescued a missing child dangerously walking on the monorail tracks at Hersheypark said his 'dad instincts kicked in' and compelled him to jump into action," the New York Post reports. READ LAWMAKERS TO HOLD PRESSER WITH EPSTEIN VICTIMS Reps. Ro Khanna, D-CA, and Thomas Massie, R-KY, will hold a news conference with 10 victims of Jeffrey Epstein this Wednesday. "People are going to be outraged," Khanna said of what the event will reveal. READ AD: NEW – CARLO'S '8 HABITS' AND PIER GIORGIO'S '3 APOSTOLATES'  Did you know Carlo Acutis taught First Communion catechism classes 8 steps to become a saint? Did you know Pier Giorgio Frassati encouraged teens and young adults to share their faith through 3 Apostolates? You can get 2 NEW beautiful prayer cards from Holy Heroes with Carlo's 8 Habits to Sainthood and Pier Giorgio's 3 Apostolates to inspire young and old! Get enough for your parish, school, homeschool co-op, and everyone for the upcoming canonizations on Sept. 7!  ORDER NOW WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! HOW TO SPEAK TO LOVED ONES WHO LEAVE THE CHURCH  Seeing friends or family leave the Church can be extremely painful for faithful Catholics. But new guidelines released by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) offer comfort and guidance. The first thing to keep in mind? "No argument, no perfectly worded conversation, and no social media post can change hearts the way God's grace can," FOCUS's article states.  READ ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK INVITES YOUTH TO SEMINARY  The Archdiocese of New York is set to host two Catholic youth days for high-schoolers and middle-schoolers in September at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers. Here are the details.  READ TOLKIEN: WRITING AS DISCOVERY  "Much has already been written about the author of Lord of the Rings trilogy," writes J.C. Scharl, "but little on his creative process." If we want great works of this type to emerge from our culture today, we have to know how this sort of thing is born. A new book explains this creative process. Here are some of its insights.  READ CATHOLIC 101  It's a bad habit that many of us fall into without realizing it: comparing our marriages to others', usually only making us feel worse without leading to any self-improvement. Here's how one military wife overcame that habit.  READ SAINT OF THE DAY  Today, the Church honors the Martyrs of September, a group of 191 faithful Christians who were horrifically murdered by bloodthirsty mobs in the midst of the French Revolution on Sept. 2 and 3, 1792. READ DAILY PSALM  "I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living." (Psalm 27)  READ DAILY READINGS  Today's Mass readings.  READ THE ROAD TO ROME  By the early 1940s, Bob Hope was one of Hollywood's most bankable stars and also one of its most generous. Hope gave his time to America's soldiers — headlining 57 United Service Organization tours — and he magnanimously gave his money to the Catholic Church, from financing chapels to homeless ministries. Though a Presbyterian and infamous philanderer, Hope's 69-year marriage to his devout Catholic wife, Dolores, was enough to save his soul in the end when he finally converted in the last 10 years of his life.  READ Paid for by CatholicVote Civic Action, a 501(c)(4) organization. Update your email preferences or unsubscribe here. CATHOLICVOTE  |  PO Box 3310  |  Carmel, IN 46082  |  (317) 669-6127