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Twenty Things That Caught My Eye Today: Catastrophic Attack on Mariupol, Chesterton & the Millennial Nun & More
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AP images of a pregnant woman being rushed to an ambulance after Russia bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol where she was meant to give birth shocked the world. @AP has learned that the woman and her baby have died.https://t.co/yZPZwgbLz8
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 14, 2022
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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My heart is bleeding for Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands are besieged without water, food, medicines, under constant bombardment. 2180 people are officially confirmed dead. Russia doesn't allow humanitarian aid to enter the city. It wants people to die there in pain
— Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) March 14, 2022
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A guy-wrenching bird’s eye view of the hell that Russian forces have unleashed on Mariupol, where more than 2,000 people have been killed. There’s no power, no heat, no running water. Food is running out. Video shared by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. pic.twitter.com/FQwkLnXjFC
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) March 14, 2022
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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14 years ago today the body of the 67-year-old Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of #Mosul Paulos Faraj Rahho was found in a shallow grave. He had been kidnapped after leading the Stations of the Cross at Mosul's Holy Spirit parish. Likely killed by AlQaeda in Iraq. pic.twitter.com/xoVBChIlw4
— Alberto Miguel Fernandez (@AlbertoMiguelF5) March 14, 2022
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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"There's no bright line that separates safe and not safe."
This is true of all life. If you're young/healthy/vaxxed but avoiding most everything for you & kids bc of COVID at this point, you shld talk to a therapist about strategies for moving forward.https://t.co/DQE93SwjyC
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) March 14, 2022
18. Maggie Garnett: Chesterton and the Millennial Nun
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Before leaving her apartment in Kiev she plays the piano for the last time.. pic.twitter.com/i1AmkGhKZX
— Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) March 13, 2022
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Justice Breyer looking at Tom Brady thoughtfully.
— Sean Marotta (@smmarotta) March 13, 2022