2. Mosquitoes Could Open The Door To A New Debate Over Abortion and Love in the Time of Zika
3. Pope Francis: human dignity from conception to natural death
4.
The prosecutor was a Planned Parenthood fundraiser and board member. Conflict of interest much, Texas? https://t.co/2cIoBB2uOd
— Chad Pecknold (@ccpecknold) January 26, 20165. The Pro-Life Movement’s Many Advances
6. Published by the New York Times:
I held Paul during his last hours, lying with him in his hospital bed, comforting and singing softly to him until he died. The last one in the room, I cupped his head in my hands and kissed him. It wasn’t until I closed the curtain that I suddenly began to keen.
7.
Plenty of single moms feel unwelcome and unworthy at church. So they don’t attend. @AmberDavidLapp@FamStudieshttps://t.co/bhLPN9pVLf
— W Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP) January 28, 20168. Cardinal welcomes Muslim conference’s declaration on religious minorities
9. President Obama’s Hypocrisy on Religious Freedom
10. Rod Dreher on Mary Eberstadt’s How the West Really Lost God.
(More on Eberstadt’s book here and here.)
11. What to make of these …
% think Trump would be good president: White evang 52% White mainline 39% Catholic 30% “Nones” 14% Black Prot 12% https://t.co/8MdKwC384o
— Greg Smith (@GregSmith_Polls) January 28, 201612. Phoenix bishop Thomas Olmsted on men and faith.
13. Are boys’ brains being starved?
14. I don’t know what to do with this:
Too bad “Dumb Ox” is taken as a nickname. I’d give it to @tedcruz if it wasn’t. #ThomasAquinas
— Pope Trump (@PopeTrump) January 28, 201615. The Challenger disaster was 30 years ago today. Ronald Reagan’s speech that night:
16. Peggy Noonan tells a story about that day for the first time over Twitter.
Had a memory this morning that’s lodged in my mind. Dont think I’ve ever spoken of it, though maybe I have. Small sidebar to #Challenger. /1
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016The Magee poem, High Flight, posed a challenge in the text. If the president quoted it w the preface , “As the poet JG Magee put it…” /2
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016The end of the speech would not have worked and done its job. Clunky, awkward, would take you from RR’s thought to “Who’s Magee?”
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016So I thought, it’s a famous enough poem that some will get the reference. I decided: put the Magee poem in quotes, without citation. /4
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016Speech went out within WH for comment. All busy, chaos, tension. Didn’t know if RR would use the poem, he would if he knew it, if not no./5
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016As a precaution I called the press office — if reporters ask about the end of the speech it quotes poem by JG Magee, Jr. All set. /6
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016Then an old friend I worked with at CBS called. Anything we should know about the speech? Stupidly, dumbly, I said yes. /8
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016I told her the president may quote a poem at the end. Told her name and author. Thinking maybe after the speech they can read poem aloud./9
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016The CBS person got the Magee poem and gave it to anchor Dan Rather. But wires got crossed. He read part of the poem before Reagan spoke./10
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016I watched, heart in mouth. Oh no! Then the president came on, gave his speech, used the quote. Relief. But I had to tell my boss. /11
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016An anchor knew part of what the President would say in advance. Break of protocol in those days. I told the boss and was chastised. /12?
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016But in the flurry of the day my CBS mistake was hardly noticed. Went home that night upset about it, and feeling the speech hadn’t scoured
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 2016Which was Lincoln’s word for what an effective speech does. Anyway, an awkward painful scattered day for all. Nice: Magee poem known again
— Peggy Noonan (@Peggynoonannyc) January 28, 201617. Escaping Iran, Fighting Lupus, and Relying on the Power of God’s Grace
18. Queens, N.Y. churches in the snow this past weekend.
19. An upcoming retreat in N.Y. for hope and healing with ImmaculeeIlibagiza.
20. An interactive X-Files episode map.
PLUS: Seeing U Mary in the Snow: Stuck on the Highway Returning from the March for Life
Twenty Things that Caught My Eye Today (Jan. 28, 2105)