Links for 03/18/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Fr. John offers a perspective sometimes expressed in relation to cancer patients - about time to get your spiritual house in order. Of course, if your house is already in order, you no longer fear death - although running toward it with abandon is a bit crazy. I do not believe that we execute on an announced time in order for the condemned to confess their way into Righteouness - and what happens to such is for God to know. He did mention, however, how the concern that an inmate is dangerous must be factored in - indeed, I find it the only convincing variable. If some one makes a true confession and is no longer dangerous, then we don't need to kill them - unless they are lying and do kill again. At that point, get a needle and end our suffering - no announcement required or deserved.
Congratulations to Mary Schock on her new found freedom and likely pay raise. I hope she uses care in identifying any interests she represents.
I hope Jeb Bush, the not so recent convert, goes beyond the Republican social agenda in his Catholicism. He and the whole Gospel of Life movement really messed up Terri Schaivo - both on the sanctity of their marriage and the fact that she really was so horribly brain damaged as to be considered already dead - or only partially revived. Luckily, when our Mom died we knew she was never coming back - sadly the doctors and paramedics made too great, yet too incomplete an effort to bring her back. As for the rest of our Faith, we proclaim what we believe (which is why it is called a creed) - or rather what we agree that we believe. We believe but cannot know. That is why it is called Faith. Too much certainty, however, is not Faith, its group dyanamics and hubris - not something I want a politician clinging to. Especially not one who would be President.
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