Links for 03/09/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Bravo to Pope Francis for is letter home to people he appointed to do what he said regarding mercy. This is a dog bites man story - although it does offer a look at the future of the Church under Francis - which is why the right wingers should be very much afraid, as what Francis is talking about makes Authoritarianism in the Church impossible - and the right wingers use Authoritarianism as their moral and sometimes financial meal ticket.
The DHS vote tells us little that we did not garner from the January 2, 2013 ATRA vote. This is yet another instance where the Hastert Rule was trashed to get an obviously reasonable bill passed. The problem is that the folks in the Republican Study Group would not know what obviously resonable was if it bit them in their tender parts.
On Cloutier's article - the sample group was not New York Times Readers, it was a New York Times article publishing a survey on second graders. It is of no concern at all. Children don't have the neural connections at that age to go between fact and opinion - indeed they don't know the word opinion. As for relativism, its everywhere. We can say we believe in absolute truth, but the problem is that such truth is in God's mind, not ours and certainly not the Roman hierarchy - no matter how much they insist upon it. The insistence that they know is actually creating truth for the group - which is the height of relativism. Let us end this stupid debate - because all knowledge exists in language and group - which means it is relative, even if we are speaking of absolutes. Sometimes in the past absolute meant something they would kill for and we have had enough of that already.
Oh, BTW, it is absolutely true that MSW got the article wrong. A correction is in order on these pages.
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