Links for 06/24/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I suspect that his All Holiness does not care what comes out of Grand Rapids one bit. I am sure that all who agree with Acton on papal infallibility would like them to get a new name, although in this case it does seem to fit their M.O. with Francis. That name is the same kind of Big Lie as the Susan B. Anthony Fund, as no feminist would ever be coopted by the pro-life movement, even a century ago.
I suspect the conference on Padre Serra's canonization points to the need to bring back the Devil's Advocate - although I suspect no CDF DA's would use forced conversion as a bar to sainthood, even now. It also points to lingering injustices and allows an examination of exactly who the Church is serving in Latin America and who it is ignoring and leaving to the Pentacostals. Are we for the poor or the capitalists? In a world where the Trans Pacific Pact is a major issue, perhaps this is the perfect time to ask such questions.
The House Democratic Leader's job is to pass the President's program, which is hard to do because she is no longer Speaker. She knows she ticked some folks off, like most of the Sanders supporters (apparantly Hillary likes TPP), but I don't think her seat is in danger - besides, her next job is to fight off the inevitable Constitutional Amendment to undo what the Supreme Court will do to traditional marriage this week - pull the plug. As for TPP, it is much more a shift of political authority than of economic reality, which happens anyway. It is visiting the worst features of NAFTA on the world, outside of China, anyway. Hopefully we don't become more like China in order to compete with them.
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