Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (May 15, 2018)
1.Remember the Coptic martyrs of 2015? Associated Press: Libya hands over bodies of beheaded Christians to Egypt
2. Well-deserved: The Atlantic Council honors George W. Bush for his PEPFAR work in Africa
3. The sainthood cause for Father Ragheed Ganni, and Iraqi priest and his deacon companions killed in 2007, has been opened. See here and more here.
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More than 1M children in the U.S. now live with grandparents, primarily because of their parents’ addiction to opioids and other drugs. Tonight, Bill Whitaker meets with children raised in the wreckage of the opioid crisis, getting a chance at normalcy.https://t.co/8PBB5c7bZM pic.twitter.com/uUD6lN5JRh
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 13, 2018
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5. How I Found My Worth As A Mother In The Midst Of Raising A Child With Special Needs
6. ‘These Bombs Led Me to Christ’
7. New York Times: Blood Donations From ‘Man With the Golden Arm’ Saved Millions of Australian Babies
8. Follow @xan_desanctis for the latest on the fight to keep Women’s Care Center open in South Bend. The euphemism pro-choice should be on its last legs as advocates of legal abortion doubledown on a seeming preference for abortion.
9. An Atlantic piece on fewer mothers in America.
1o.
I think there’s just something almost literally diabolically seductive in the worst possible way for men to be able to choose women for jobs as though they’re choosing a piece of fruit at Fairway.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 11, 2018
PLUS: My syndicated column on the Met Gala and things.
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