Links for 10/05/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 10/05/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The DC Voucher program is dead and deserves to be dead, becaues it takes money out of the school system and thus hurts students who stay.  Instead, there are private charter schools made up of five parish schools that the Archdiocese was considering closing.  The historionics on this incident are pathetic.



Middle class parents see sports as a way to go to college on the cheap.  Its not the rich but the slightly upper middle class.  If we fix college costs and take parents out of the equation, having government and future employers fill the gap, things would be better and people would have more kids.  As for the building culture of excellence in sport - that is not a bad thing and no talented kid who is poor is going to be excluded - coaches want to win.  No more medals, however, for showing up.  The self-esteem movement needs to go away.



Salt & Light takes a very orthodox view of the takeaways - probably more orthodox than Francis.  The best takeaway is that Francis preaches the Gospel, especially the Gospel of the Day.  If only all priests did that and took away the same challenging message of justice for the workers and the poor.



I challenge Robert Christian and Democrats for Life to detail how they propose to protect innocent life.  Who is fined, who is jailed, what abortions go forward, how does the proposal affect miscarriages (if you make the aborted people, miscarriages are too), and how do all of these proposals measure up to equal protection law?  He does a good job in taking the right wing of the movement to task for its cozy relationship with the GOP and I frankly don't see how DFL is that welcome in the coalition - considering what the Susan B. Anthony Fund did to pro-life Democrats who supported Health Care Reform by lying about its funding of abortion. Its not enough to call out the bad guys, liberal right to lifers must seriously look at whether they are pawns in a political conspiracy to raise money while doing nothing short of GOP victory.