Links for 04/14/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 04/14/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: While on the civil rights angle of so many sexual issues, the libertarian impulse must be honored, the case for moral liberatarianism takes a different tack. It must be a moral code that makes us the most free - as in lacking in moral habits that become compulsions - and not just in the sexual realm. A little moral libertarianism might be good for some of the princes of the Church, who revel in self-importance to such an extent that their ability to exercise moral freedom is suspect.  This is another way of repeating what the Master said about his gentleness and humility of heart, his yoke is easy and his burden light.  Moral libertarianism strives, or should strive, to make use of natural law - not the relativistic kind you find in the Curia and their Infallible Magisterium - but the kind we reason out for yourselves.



I am sure the Crossroads event will be bittersweet for those who loved the Monsignor. I am sure that remembering the good times will crowd out the self-pity that is such a danger in grief.



Jeb Bush as Mr. Catholic will cause some serious soul searching on whether the Capitalist impulse is inconsistent with Catholic teaching.  Would that it also leads to an examination of the pro-life movement as to whether it is a political fiction or what it is advertised as.  The Governor who kept a dead woman away from her reward may not be the person we want as President Catholic.  Still, the debate will be wonderful if we are bold enough to ask the tough questions of both Bush and ourselves.  Of course, this will likely lead to four more years of Democratic rule.