Links for 01/30/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 01/30/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Jeffrey Sachs' piece is interesting and does reflect MSW's piece, with slighly different reasoning.  I still like what I said on the MSW piece more - that the real solution is to match taxation and debt with currency - meaning go EU wide with all of it.  The proper state of both Germany and Greece is in constituent parts of the EU, with a Hamiltonian debt consolidation leaving no nation superior.



Its sad that the same president of Duke who allowed the Palestinians to confer had to cave before his donors.  I think the difference is that Facebook and other Internet communications can be used to rally a bigger and noisier crowd - often without providing a way for the other side to demonstrate their feelings.  Of course, this is the same North Carolina that took so well to voter suppression over the last few years.  Can you say retrogression?



As to the possibility of Satanists at Trinity College, Satanism is simply more creative atheism.  As long as they behaved themselves, it might be interesting to provide the lesson.  If the voice of prophesy is surpressed in the Church, then God will let it lose among the likes of Daniel Dennett, the late Christopher Hitchens and Marilyn Manson.  Would they rather have them meet in a dorm?  Of course, full blown Satanism or Atheism is less likely at Trinity. Still, they are rather apt at pointing out the flaws of the Church.  Listening may be helpful and humble. Not listening, by the way, is a form of Triumphalism and does not please God.



Rocco's piece on Bishop Coyne is interesting.  He set the table on who Bishop Chris is, because while the bishop talked about things he had done or seen, he didn't talk about himself.  He talked about the Church and they are words everyone should hear.  One wonders if the remark about the young woman saying we mourn our Church might have something to do with the new translation (which went back to pre-Vatican II languaging, just in English).  The fact that we have become captive to certain political debates in service of the well being of one political party in particulare (rather than to the unborn), may also be what we mourn.  Sad. Of course, not even Chris could blog that without getting the attention that the Duke Chaplain got on the call to prayer.