Links for 06/25/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Silk has a couple of good ones, although I have to say that once the federal troops left after the election of 1872, slavery was essentially back in business in sharecropping and peonage as well convict labor. Flying the Battle Flag anew was an attempt to unify those who would lose their position over blacks as a source of cheap labor and to make poor whites stay within the system as well. Nowadays, its the Latinos who are getting the business from the southern boot in their chests. As for the new encyclical, it is political, but it is also an economic manifesto. Viva Francisco!
Christiana Peppard of Fordham also echos the economic nature of the document and goes further back to Caritas in Veritate, which was also the continuation of the Church's economic teaching post St. John Paul II. The last two popes do not mince words on economic justice and Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio should not be splicing them. Perhaps the Jewish candidate on the left is the best suited to take up what is needed.
On the topic of struggle, there is a link to a CNN broadcast where my friend Donna Brazile talks about President Obama's interview the other day and puts it in the context of the overall struggle for dignity. Its a must see clip, which someone seemed to tape on their phone and post.
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