Links for 05/08/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 05/08/15 | National Catholic Reporter by Michael Sean Winters of National Catholic Reporter on a few interesting topcs, none more than some idiot taking shots at Chicago Archbishop Blaise Cupich.  My response follows:



Our Sunday Visitor is taking on the ciritics of the Pope's new encyclical on global warming. These are strange days.  I still like what George Carlin said about the earth not needing saving - and that it needed humans to exist because it could not do plastic on its own.  Plastic is in abundance, so according to George, our days are numberred.  Funny and strange - but not as strange as Catholics challenging a sitting Pope in support of the coal industry.



Some Catholic wingnut whose name does not desrerve mention is equating the Archbishop of Chicago working with the Senate Minority leader on immigration with cooperation with abortion.  If that is the case, then almost the entire USCCB have become raving abortionsists. This kind of universal linkage of all issues on one's agenda is what is wrong with poltics, particularly on the Republican side.  It also equated promoting abortion with not criminalizing it.  Indeed, it is more important in stopping abortion to offer decent wages to families with childen - wages sensative to family size. Hardly anyone on the GOP, if anyone, supports that proposition - should they all be tagged as pro-aborts - who only use the issue of overturning Roe to keep the party faithful engaged?  Probably - but that would make everyone pro-abortion, which would explain why its still here  but not why the GOP is so deluded on linking the economics to the inicidence of what is a ghastly thing.  Maybe its because the anti-immigrant movement is funded not just by xenophobes, but be economic interests who like having Latino workers on the the cheap (as well as not wanting to pay for the subsidies required to end abortion in most cases).  In both cases, Capitalism has gone too far.



I am not sure why the Archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico has been harrrassed by the Curia, but it would not surprise me.  Happy Anniversary Roberto Gonzalez!  Keep up the fight!