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1. Turkey’s occupation of northern Syria includes population transfers
2. World is washing its hands of Lebanon, Maronite bishop warns
3. China’s war on whistleblowers
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Just finished a great, if sobering, conversation with Fordham professor @CCamosy about COVID-19, nursing home abuse, and having a consistent life ethic. Stay tuned for the audio podcast, or watch the whole thing now, here https://t.co/NP1udv6USS pic.twitter.com/iK1lAZS26t
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) May 8, 2020
5. Nearly 90 percent of the coronavirus deaths in Connecticut last week were nursing home patients
What’s especially alarming is how many there were before Coronavirus
8. Argentine president vows to legalize abortion, despite pandemic shutdown
9. Church/state deal means Mass will be back in Italy on May 18
10. Life Has Moved to Zoom. Can Prison Visitation Do the Same?
11. New York Priest Lifts Spirits of Nursing Home Shut-ins with a Special Dose of Culture
12. My friend Andrew Walther is headed to EWTN from the Knights of Columbus. He’s been a behind-the-scenes gift for persecuted Christians and other religious minorities, among others. Smart, well-read, faithful, and courageous. I’m looking forward to good, renewed things at a media enterprise established by a woman who we will likely one day celebrate as an official saint of the Church.
13. 2020 Gerber baby is first adopted baby chosen for campaign
14. Small Churches Are in Particularly Big Trouble Right Now
15. Tim Alberta talks to a restaurant owner in a small town in Michigan
16. In Rejecting the Zoom Seder, What Did Orthodox Jews Affirm?
17. I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be.
18. Peggy Nooon’s latest, if you haven’t read it yet:
I want to get back to the national morale. All these dreadful economic numbers—you can’t let people sink into defeatism. You can’t let them think there is no hope, or that things in the future are just going to be bad. They are Americans, they know how to suffer—even the ones who’ve never suffered a day in their lives, it’s still in their genes. But they’re like the pioneers, they have to be able to believe while they’re on the long trek that there’s some fertile area around the next bend, or the one after that. They have to know there’s a safe place where they can finally settle.
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Seventy-five years ago today Nazi Germany surrendered. Immense gratitude to my beloved father (now 94) and the other heroes of all allied nations who fought and sacrificed to destroy Hitler’s war machine. pic.twitter.com/BNCRIP1DgI
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) May 8, 2020
20. Anthony, Our Angel in Disguise Holy Week, 2020
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