From Katolik Shinja
Pro-life
‘Vegetable’ goes to university, writes book
Thank God they didn’t euthanise her, Joshua Snyder writes. The children you didn’t want are of value to him.

Eastern churches
Harbin
Now threatened by a slick of toxic waste, it was once a good-sized Russian (and thus Orthodox) community* exiled just across the border in China until the Communists took over. Joshua has linked one of the late Gerard Bugge’s pages showing in words and pictures the Russian Catholic Church (search the blog for more on it) as it was there.

*According to this article in Russian, Harbin was the see of a diocese with a church in just about every part of the city, a monastery and a convent.