1.”The opioid crisis hits home. Mine.”

2. Matthew Hennessey on St. Michael

3. The Church Will Endure

4. Karen Swallow Prior: Why You Can’t Name the Virtues

5. Los Angeles Times: Unprecedented mass denials from a U.S. asylum program leave Christians from Iran stranded in Vienna

6. Jennifer Bryson: Why Americans Should Care About the Uyghurs

7. Syrian prelate denounces “plan to oust Christians from the region”

8. Naomi Riley: Prioritizing the Value of Work in a Celebrity-Obsessed World

9. “No other family should be put through our heartbreak: Charlie Gard’s parents fight for ‘Charlie’s Law’ that would allow parents of sick children to move them to a different hospital if they disagree with doctors”

10. This upcoming movie on foster care could do a world of good:

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