Links for 07/30/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 07/30/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: On Memphis, no mention at all of the teachers unions, which I suspect are not active in the Jubilee Schools, partly because the Church won't unionize its own workers and partly because the teachers unions have been historically pro-choice.

Private to MSW. The Post got the Cardinal's name right.

A good article by TCD, but I favor total open boarders and an end to right to starve for work laws as a way of controlling immigration.  Also, bishop is essentially political office, but until it is an elected one, perhaps TCD should not endorse candidates or use causes as a surrogate to do so, at least until a diocesean election committee of laity recommends the endorsement publicly.

Drudge is still an idiot, however the interesting thing is that Francis is obviously not Petrus Romano, the last pope, as mentioned by St. Malachy (Benedict lives), yet I cannot see one more prophetically significant.

Douthat is still emotionalizing the fetus (that kind of abortion does not happen to first trimester embryos, which are vacuumed out) when, unless it is a Downs Baby, the abortion was likely medically indicated - regardless of what the Magesterium and its Ogre God say about it.  If the Catholic Church would do these abortions via induction (early birth) instead of demolition and extraction it would be in control of fetal pain and the baptism of the infant (and its possible last minute adoption if it is a Downs child).