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This is today’s list — one or two of which I was going to steal for today’s “Caught My Eye” feature, but I decided to do this instead:
Love Them Both: 8 Ways to Help a Family Who is Adopting or Fostering a Child, by Ann McKinney at Live Action
Inside John Mellencamp’s (Very Catholic) Remote Montecito Home, by Elizabeth Quinn Brown at Architectural Digest
The Devil Offers No Mercy, Jesus Remedies This Through the Sacrament of Penance, by Marlon De La Torre at Knowing Is Doing
How to End Political Litmus Tests in Education, by Stanley Kurtz at NRO
The Absolute Best Way to Fry an Egg, According to 42 Tests, by Ella Quittner at Food52
Youthful Cynicism and Dostoevsky’s Case for Hope, by Katerina Levinson at Public Discourse
‘Royal Cousins, Rival Queens’: Exhibit Tells History in Their Own Words, by Jonathan Luxmoore at Crux/CNS
Church Renewal Can Only Emerge from Love, by Paul Melley at Church Life Journal
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