Links for 04/21/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The only consequential change in the abortion debate is to point out the extent to which the right to life movement is a scam to assist the Republican Party, with the knowing participation of the Catholic bishops.
Pope Franics is no Walter Murphy or any other fictional character who bumbles about with no sense of collegiality with this brother bishops. If only he would. There will be no pronouncements like Jesus made on his being the bread of life. Women will not suddenly be ordained. Indeed, only those bishops, like Burke, who have their own failures in collegiality, will feel any sting. He is a Vatican II era Jesuit that survived in Argentina, so he knows how to deal with mine fields. How he deals with those of the future is yet to be determined. I suspect Francis is a modernist but won't rub it in the face of traditionalists just yet.
The RFRA in Indiana when beyond the federal law, which essentially prohibited actions of the government to infringe over personal religious liberty - and maybe even group liberty. The problem with the Indiana law is that is blessed discrimination by individuals against other individuals, with state action being incidental. I could never have won - in Indiana or anywhere else. The Federal Civil Rights Act is more than enough weight to render such state law moot. A fear of cooperating with evil does not justify acts that are evil themselves.
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