Links for 04/23/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 04/23/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: One thing is certain, if the Clinton Foundation book is written or funded by one of the usual suspects it won't be fair or balanced.  I am certain the e-mails probably do concern it - most likely because once you are on a mailing list, it is impossible to get off.  Why keep her in the loop?  Last I checked, Bubba has heart condition.  She has to know at least a little about what is going on.  There are also probably e-mails about his health.  I am sure there are also e-mails about Chelsea - and they are extremely private about her.   If anyone wants to know anything about the Foundation, I am sure there are 1099's with more detail than you ever want to see.



Eve Tushnet's piece is a review by Wesley Hill, a gay man who accepts the Church's teaching on how he can't get married or even have sex.  How self loathing became a virtue is just sad. You can guess that I don't agree - of course the fact that the review was in The American Conservative was not a good sign. The real truth is that marriage is kind of a do it yourself institution - it is made by the parties themselves, priest optional (at least that is what they told us in marriage prep).  That society finds it vital is no surprise - as it is the mechanism by which one legally and morally puts away their siblings and parents and clings to their spouse. It is intimate. It involves sex and the exclusive rigtht thereto.  That gays and lesbians want it is a function of what happens when they don't have it - lots of executable legal paperwork that some institutions will ignore anyway, especially the Church.  Making it marriage and the Church cannot ignore the relationship, whether as client (especially patient) or employee.  Indeed, it won't be long before internal pressure will do away with all this nonsense on leaving gay marriage out of the spiritual life of the Church.



It seems that the Cardinal Newman Society dislikes NCR as much as MSW.  It is fascinating that they cite as an authority the recently deposed Bishop Finn.  Amazing.  I am not sure why MSW ever gives them ink - they seem to be entirely fringe and blissfully unaware that they are named after a saint who was quite arguably gay, who was buried with his lover, another priest and though because of this inconvenience the Church tried to separate the graves and found that they could not.  Ask CNS about this and I am sure they will put their fingers in their ears and stomp their feet.  Too sad.