1. About foster care and adoption and our friend Darcy Olsen: I watched a child get loved back to health.
2. Federal Court Allows Challenge to Discriminatory Anti-Indian Law to Proceed
3. The Crisis in Nicaragua, Explained (A Daily Signal podcast)
The Reformation left a cleavage that persists to this day. And it is foolish to think the exposure of one of America’s highest-profile prelates nearly two decades after we were told the abuse problem had been dealt with can be treated as just another case of sexual misbehavior.
Matthew J. Franck in First Things:
Whatever was the condition of the cardinal’s soul, it was entirely irrelevant to the fact of Christ’s Presence. Whatever good the sacrament did me, the variables were on my side, not his. I could receive worthily or unworthily — but Christ was there for me.
And a homily that talks about today’s St. Ignatius Loyola memorial and the McCarrick scandal.
5. NPR: To Keep Women From Dying In Childbirth, Look To California
6. The Week: Why rejecting birth control can be an empowering feminist choice
7. In Christianity Today: The Church and Mental Health: What Do the Numbers Tell Us?
8. Christian Science Monitor: One woman’s plan to reform a bail system that disadvantages poor defendants
9. A Becket Fund video about Rabbi Ruvi New:
(He spoke at yesterday’s Department of Justice event where the new religious-liberty task force was announced.
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