Why Do You Harden Your Hearts? | National Catholic Reporter

Why Do You Harden Your Hearts? | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The attacks on the Pope are so strange,it is almost as if the Kochs were trying to set up strawmen.  Sadly, this is not the case. Heartland, Acton and Will really are that stupid. One hopes that the majority of Republican Catholics are more loyal to the Pope than to party.  It looks like the Kochs are betting otherwise.  While it is a legitimate position to say that a new industrial age makes people better off than their current life as peasant farmers, there is no iron law of the market that says that these new industrial workers have to be treated badly - which seems to be the rule in China, India and environs.  Every incident of bad treatment and every collapsed factory shows that Abp. Kupich is right about the need for expanding labor unions.  As for wanting Humanae Vitae looked at again - the science is pretty clear that it is wrong.  Defending HV is like denying climate change from that perspective and supporting women priests is both inward and outward looking.  It would increase conversions among the modern faithful and provide for a better voice to preach the Gospel of Life.