Join me Wednesday night in lower Manhattan for a conversation with our Jonah Goldberg about his book Suicide of the West and other things. Details here.

1. Telegraph: Iran arrests more than 100 Christians in growing crackdown on minority

2. South China Morning Post: 100 Christians snatched in overnight raids on underground Chinese church


3. BBC: Algeria beatifications are first in a Muslim nation

4. Naomi Riley writes in the Wall Street Journal about some things the White House can do to help foster care and adoption — adapted from her contributions to a recent White House listening session some of us attended.


5. Chris Palusky from Bethany Christian Services in the Detroit News: Keep Children at the Border from Trauma

6. Brad Miner’s review of the film Instant Family

7. ‘Change your beliefs or stop serving children’

8. What Faith-Based Efforts Can Do to Help Prevent Veteran Suicide

9. Survey asks women what they needed instead of abortion

10. Peggy Noonan on President George H. W. Bush:

For those of us in the pews there was none of the sadness and anguish that accompanies the leaving of a soul gone too soon, or tragically. This was a full life happily lived, and we were there to applaud, to see each other and say, “Remember that time?”

11. Camille Paglia:

We’re back to the hypocrisy sweepstakes, where gestures of virtue are as formalized as kabuki. Humor has been assassinated. An off word at work or school will get you booted to the gallows. This is the graveyard of liberalism, whose once noble ideals have turned spectral and vampiric.

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13. Today: ICU Grandpas

14. Stephen White on Advent and reform

15. The Grinch Had an Extraordinary Spiritual Life



PLUS: On George H. W. Bush and dying days.

On decency

Mary and Christianity’s Jewish Roots (an interview with Brant Pitre)

Learning from Fulton Sheen (an interview with Alexis Walkenstein)

The passion of St. Bakhita