1. The Washington Post on this week’s State Department religious-freedom gathering.
It unofficially kicked off at the Holocaust Museum this morning.
2. Human trafficking in developed countries more common than previously thought
3. One Train Passenger’s Tweet Saved 25 Girls From Human Trafficking
4. Jeff Jacoby: Why Democrats should hope Roe is overruled
5. Michael Wear in the Los Angeles Times: Democrats are entirely too focused on abortion
6. The new owner of the LA Times: “Kids today want to buy vinyl records. So you’ll have hipster kids wanting to see paper soon. I don’t think touching paper and reading will actually go away. There will be a need for leisurely reading and the tactile feel.”
7. Naomi Riley on foster care and kinship in Arizona in City Journal.
8. USA Today: Chuck Johnson from the National Council for Adoption on the State Department and intercountry adoption.
9. Fr. Thomas Berg in First Things: The Problem of Sexually Active Priests
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St. Basil the Great on how sexual abuse by priests should be punished: pic.twitter.com/oVWJVoKp4z
— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) July 23, 2018
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Yesterday at Mass, I prayed for all priests and bishops who haven’t betrayed their flocks; who live humble lives; who aren’t sophists or careerists; who are faithful to their vows; who are unafraid to defend the Faith; and who have dedicated their lives to the Lord.
— Samuel Gregg (@DrSamuelGregg) July 23, 2018
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Unexpected factoid: Like their elders, black millennials are pretty religious. https://t.co/8sCiilbiNy
— Kay Hymowitz (@KayHymowitz) July 20, 2018
13. Kay James on religion and American civil society.
14. How Sesame Street writer and son changed perceptions of Down syndrome
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From the archives, 7/23/1884: Oh, the scandal! Ralph Waldo Emerson eats pie for breakfast https://t.co/pAls7F7Vet pic.twitter.com/4R3SYFefzG
— New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) July 23, 2018
PLUS: About Mona Charen’s book, Sex Matters. And video of the NRI/Heritage event about the same last week.
Something about the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this week.
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