Links for 02/13/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Alabama and Cardinal Burke seem to lead those who believe in the imminent wrath of God for making changes to things they thought were certain. Seems the wrath has not come, however and that God is not the Ogre they think he is.
Camosy seems to be beating a strawman. It is easy to cherry pick statements on abortion by any Pope, although this begs the question of the moral v. legal analysis one finds in civil society - which is not and will never again be a question of canon law - and won't be because the Curia does not have the heft to concede the reality of that situation. I suspect that Cherry is talking about the bioethics directives regarding stem cell research and assisted fertilization. In this case the Curia and probably the Pope need to realize that practitioners are concious of their own medical ethics and are also much more informed about when a life must be respected and when it is potential. If the Church looked more closely at what these doctors say, it would be much more convincing on abortion. Also, if they ordained women, their voices would be much better carriers of a pro-life message.
Catherine Rampell is correct in her Swifitan analysis on who should be tested - however the point she raises earlier is probably closer to the case - that Scott Walker is tooting the usual Republican dog whistles in hopes of gettng the nomination. It looks to me like he thinks that surviving a recall makes him some kind of conservattive hero rather than a real jerk who got lucky. I never thought I would even say thank Heaven for Jeb Bush, although the irony is that the certain front-runner was a Republican Florida governor - although it was Rick Scott, who succeed Crist and Bush, who is now pushing a drug testing plan. Like that is the kind of sanity that any national candidate should emulate!
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