2015: Stories To Keep Us Busy! | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: 2014 was the year of the Pope. I suspect that the Pope will make 2015 the year of the Sheep, especially in the consultations on the second Synod of the Family. While all the stops mentioned my occur, he may just gather some families - including the gay and divorced, and hear them out. He should get quite an earful. Should he go the the border? Yes, but Mass should be on the other side, with the Anglos receiving Communion through the fence, but from multiple sources (and not including the Pope). What is important is what is given, not who gives it. We forget that sometimes.
On assisted suicide, I don't think it will catch on, at least not for people with family support and good meds - and doctors hate to lose patients that way. Still, the right to have it may advance, even though few will use it, and it should never be used to save money on government health - indeed, families would blanch at such requirements that no one but a complete idiot would impose. The strawman will burn - along with the strawman of extreme libertarianism - Jeb Bush's likely burying of Rand Paul will make that easy.
The new thing in politics will be the necessary rise in Socialism with the candidacy of Bernie Sanders for President - and likely not as a Democrat either. This is likely his only chance so he will not just build a campaign - he may build a viable Socialist Party - or he may go Green. Also on the left, unless she self destructs, Hillary Clinton will win the nomination in a walk, although 2015 will just show inevitability (and 2016 is a long way off n politics).
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