Links for 06/11/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 06/11/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: It seems Cupich has a mess to clean up with the conduct of one of his auxiliaries.  Lets see if this bishop is held to account.



Salon reminds us that Santorum is not the only Catholic in the GOP race or the only one putting party before Church, especially regarding capitalism and the death penalty.  Of course, I am not so sure that the teaching on life has been perfected.  Abortions and executions are not about guilt or innocence but about danger.  If the offender is dangerous, both within as well as outside the prison, death is appropriate.  Equally, if a pregnancy poses a mortal danger to the mother (and the child has nope hope of survival either), then this belief that we are somehow playing God and that God will strike back must be changed.  Of course, the conclusion requires thinking without fear, and that is just not found in the GOP at all and not so much in Rome either.



Lovely remarks by Francis at the General Audience, but the wondering on marriage and exended families was all MSW.  Exteneded families are mostly crushed by distance - they were most effective when people lived close to each other.  My family relied on going to relatives in Minnesota when my dad lost his job as the Viet Nam war and defense spending wound down - its how we know our cousins so well - and they came down in force when each of our parents passed.  My mother's family was not so close, given that my grandfather married twice. While my brother used to see the Uncle from the marriage in his restaurant, he is now in a care center and none of us has contact with his daughter, whom we have never met.  Will the Synod on Families help that or hurt that?  I think that anything that eases hurt feelings ultimately will help, although not necessarily by example.  My mother-in-law divorced her husband and that pattern has passed to the next generation, including the break-up of my marriage.  Will an annulment or the Synod help?  Maybe. Lets hope so.



William Bole's piece is well timed, but I see no new ground and neither does he.  Of course, he did not metion the possibility of repudiation of capitalism and did not mention the work on the environment that Benedict did in Caritas in Veritate (and if I missed it it was because it was too short).  This is largely part of a feedback loop from what was published by Paul Allen - so this is a fourth generation comment about what might appearl.  My bet is on attacking capitalism.