1. AP: Pakistani Christian girls trafficked to China as brides

2. Asia Bibi is reportedly on her way to Canada

3. I’m in Louisville for the next few days for the Christian Alliance for Orphans summit. Pray for these beautiful people and their work of love, if you come to think of it. I’ll pass along some of what I learn here to come and on Twitter @KathrynLopez.


4. This was on the cover of the New York Daily News yesterday and I just can’t get this precious child off my mind.

5. “Geraldine Chapman ‘raised her adopted children as her very own’ says Chief Donnie Morris”


Prayers for eternal rest and all the devastated families.

6. HBO’s ‘Foster’ is disturbingly accurate, but it’s missing one important thing: solutions

7. From Chicago: A stunning new three year performance audit of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services found that the system designed to protect the state’s vulnerable children had prior contact with 102 children who died during 2015 to 2017.

8. Jean Vanier, the founder of the L’Arche community for adults with mental disability died early Tuesday after time in palliative care. Ninety-years old, he has been described as a saint. The beauty of this Templeton Prize winner’s life was highlighted last year in the documentary Summer in the Forest.


Tributes by J. D. Flynn, and Sohrab Ahmari.

Carl Anderson from the Knights of Columbus.

Vanier talking about conscience:

(More about J. D. and his family here.)

9. What I’m most struck by, besides the obvious bullying nature of that video from the Pennsylvania state representative is that the woman is praying the Rosary. (Though I often pray the Divine Mercy chaplet whenever I’m outside an abortion clinic, which is pretty powerful, too, and you also can use Rosary beads to pray.) I’m grateful that he’s inspired a prayerful protest outside Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia this coming Friday and hope there are many Hail Marys and other prayers said. Contrary to the push backs in the media and by some politicians, it’s the most powerful thing we can do.


10. A schoolgirl explains what transgender sports means for her.

8th Place: A High School Girl’s Life After Transgender Students Joined Her Sport https://t.co/LxGHEt6q2W — The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) May 6, 2019

11. On CNN Monday night, as you’ve likely read by now, the former speaker of the New York City Council declared that “When a woman is pregnant, that is not a human being inside of her.” That came just two days after that rally sponsored by Focus on the Family in Times Square culminated in the heartbeat of an unborn baby being heard on screens in the crossroads of the world there. Denying reality won’t change it. But people do seem more insistent than ever.


12. Pope Francis answered a reporter’s question on women deacons on the plane ride back to Rome after his three day visit to Bulgaria and North Macedonia. He said the recent commission had not come to a consensus but had evaluated documents that seemed to make clear that women deacons in the early church were not ordained as male deacons are. Don’t expect any sudden changes on this front, in other words.

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Also just found out that his character from his best SNL skit, Matt Foley, is named after his college friend who became a priest. He was in the audience. 😭 https://t.co/9jSqEUagnY — Sr. Theresa Aletheia (@pursuedbytruth) May 8, 2019


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This drone footage of the Chernobyl area thirty years after the disaster is…something https://t.co/Hw0c77oOyQ — James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) May 8, 2019

15. On revisiting Peanuts in adulthood