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Links for 05/04/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I am pleased that the four Republican bishops (and that is what they are) who are protesting about an issue that is not being raised (it will be raised instead by families of gay couples to gay priests who want a wedding blessed - very quietly and very sacramentally - and if you don't understand why its sacramantal, review the real theology of marriage) could not get anyone from Iowa to go along with them.  They surround the place, but I am sure the Archbishop of Dubuque told them to bugger off and leave his province alone.  What concerns me is that the opinion of these idiots, and they are idiots who have prostituted their office to the Republican Party, will not be honest conduits of the questions for their people.  That is sad - they need to join Finn in exile for such an egrecious misuse of power and authority. (was I too gentle?)



Christian Peppard misses why climate deniers are in business.  They don't care about the science - if they can make money fixing global warming, they would be on the dias with the Pope a check for good faith (knowing they would make it back).  They are concerned with a loss of wealth and that is it.  Note care about ZPG or the irony that American funds for that purpose go toward making the President's family less fecund and people like them.  It certainly has nothting to do with global distribution of consumerism, that will come when factories start getting built in empty places - and it will happen because nothing ignites consumerism like making stuff for other people.  The key is to make sure people don't drown in the process. The focus on that is what this enclical should be about.



I suspect the Kochs are looking silly by preaching freedom to people who came here to find it - although maybe they will be a bit more resulte in fighting the government on immigration with their new commitmetn to freedom.  Before taking any such money, they should fire back that the people protesting birth right citizenship should be muzzled by the Kochs.



Andrew Kim's story is delightful.  Were that it were true in those places where womens seek ordination, gays marriage rights - including as patients in Catholic hospitals (somewhoat true now), and theologians wish to speak their truth.  Sadly, the Republican Bishops and the lawyers have messed this one up.