1.
You can’t build a party, or a majority, on the Trump constituency. But ignoring it is both politically stupid and actually wicked.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) February 2, 2016
2. 13 Mollie Hemingway takeaways from last night.
3. Encouraging: Prominent gay rights activist backs Christian bakers in cake row
4. Infuriating:
Our culture’s establishment seeks to debauch our kids, turning boys into cads & girls into whores. And we accept it. https://t.co/KeIXohd4e1
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) February 2, 2016
They deserve better.
5. Heartbreaking: 50 Years of Sex Changes, Mental Disorders, and Too Many Suicides
6.
Writing about religion, I get a lot of very passionate feedback. But no one is scarier than people calling or writing about grammar errors
— Michelle Boorstein (@mboorstein) February 2, 2016
7. Today is the last day of the elongated year of consecrated life. (Everything you need to know about and its relevance my friend Fr. Roger J. Landry has probably written about.) This is a Q&A I did early on in the year with Sr. Marie Bernadette Thompson, O.P. about it.
And this and this were about a highlight of the year I went to St. Louis for in the fall.
PLUS: Speaking of women religious: Here’s something from the foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor:
“If God is with us, it will be accomplished … God will help us; the work is his.” – St. Jeanne Jugan #LetThemServe#LSOP
— CMSWR (@WomenReligious) February 1, 2016
Seven Things that Caught My Eye Today (Feb 2, 2016)