I sat down at a dinner hosted by the University of Arizona’s School for Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership the other night after a panel with Ross Douthat and Amy Sullivan, and a professor said this occasional column does frequently sap some of his time away, in a good way. So apologies (or you’re welcome) for my failing to write this lately while I’ve been on the road.

Please come to our panel next week in D.C. if you can. And you can watch online, too. Information is here.

1. An Orthodox Jew was attacked over the weekend in New York as he was walking to prayer services

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3. Robert Nicholson is worth following on Twitter. Most recently for his tweets from Cairo on religious minorities there:

4. Challenging Saudi Arabia on human rights

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6. This is so many levels of disturbing: “Sex doll rental company will make a replica of your dead lover”

7. Faith-centered primary care clinic replaces a Planned Parenthood in Iowa

8. Mollie Hemingway: Washington Post’s Kermit Gosnell Denialism Is Out Of Control

9. In the New York Times earlier this week: Is It Possible to Be an Anti-Abortion Democrat? One Woman Tried to Find Out

10. Do you know about #postcardsforMacron? See here and here.

11. 10 percent of NYC schoolchildren are homeless?

12. Earlier in the week was Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. This comes from a prayer by Mother Angelica, the founder of EWTN, the Catholic network:

You see, the child lives. Instead of the wind he hears the sound of angels singing before My throne. Instead of the beauty that passes he sees everlasting Beauty—he sees My face. He was created and lived a short time so the image of his parents imprinted on his face may stand before Me as their personal intercessor. He knows secrets of heaven unknown to men on earth. He laughs with a special joy that only the innocent possess. My ways are not the ways of man. I create for My Kingdom and each creature fills a place in that Kingdom that could not be filled by another. He was created for My joy and his parents’ merits. He has never seen pain or sin. He has never felt hunger or pain. I breathed a soul into a seed, made it grow and called it forth.”

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14. Solzhenitsyn’s cathedrals

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