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2. Ukrainian city of Mariupol ‘near to humanitarian catastrophe’ after bombardment

“The Ukrainian army is very brave and they will continue to defend the city but the style of the Russian army is like pirates – they do not fight with their army, they just destroy entire districts,” Mr Orlov said.

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5. Convent in western Ukraine housing refugees from war

6. ‘I wish this war would end’: Ukrainian refugees reach 2.8M

7. Expel ‘evil spirit of war’ from Ukraine with prayer and fasting, urges Catholic leader

8. Cut off from food, Ukrainians recall famine under Stalin, which killed 4 million of them

9. Cole Smith: I was a nuclear missile operator. There have been more near-misses than the world knows

As the war in Ukraine is reminding us, life with nuclear weapons is not safer or more peaceful. If you study nuclear warfare, you’ll learn about “megatons” and nuclear yields, stockpiles and budget expenditures. These numbers quantify the enormous danger of nuclear weapons but also, in rendering that danger abstract, obfuscate it.

10. War in Ukraine exposes surrogacy’s dehumanization and commodification of children

11. U.S. journalist killed in Ukraine was known for his ‘innate humanity and empathy’

12. Russia’s Unjust Attack and Ukraine’s Just War

13. Elizabeth Lev: In Ukraine, art is cultural memory

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15. Maureen Ferguson: Biden gave his blessing to radical abortion law. Both the president and the bill failed, The Senate vote and President Biden’s remarks are part of a campaign to frighten Americans about the prospect of Roe v. Wade being overturned.

Violence against the innocent is wrong, everywhere at every time, whether inflicted by aggressive dictators or abortion doctors. The same human dignity that makes abortion so heartbreaking also endows us, as citizens in a democracy, the right to decide for ourselves how abortion will be regulated in our laws.
Overturning Roe will give us back our voices to speak up for the voiceless, and the space to build a culture of life for mothers and children in need.

16. Woman considering euthanasia learns she had been misdiagnosed

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18. Maggie Garnett: Chesterton and the Millennial Nun

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