Links for 10/06/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 10/06/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Norman Vincent Peale's philosophy was essentially the Prosperity Gospel, which is only good news for the rich and powerful.  It's no shock that the up and coming rich like the Trumps flocked to it and it looks like the anti-Catholic xenophobia of Peale rubbed off on the Donald.  Sadly, some voters like that Reaganesque larger than life image the Trump projects, even though the informed observer is right to be alarmed that Trump may be suffering from something as light as Narcisism and maybe as serious as Bipolar Disorder.



Nothing is wrong with students who have been trudging through a museum to check their devices while they rest.  Its is judgmental to think that they did not look at the painting first - which to mean is grandiose and of little importance.  It reminds me of the Dead Protestants collection in the Dublin Portrait Gallery.



I don't see that the ACLU has a case against Catholic Hospitals, which are well protected against having to perform abortions or supply birth control.  Indeed, the suit will likely lead to clarifying language in federal law to make sure the suit will fail.  Of course, there is the ethical question that has nothing to do with either religious protection of hospitals or the religous power that allows the Church to dictate terms on this issue.  Is the Church's ban on abortion in their hospitals a just thing?  I cannot see how it is.  If the fetus is doomed and the woman is better off with an abortion now than a stillbirth later, then induce an end to pregnancy now.  This is better than sending women into the arms of planned parenthood - both because the woman might not safely travel and because Catholic hospitals will induce labor rather than chopping up the baby inside the womb.  They can then baptize the child and assure the woman it is in a better place.  Every time that the Church stands by its moral prigishness, a fetus is butchered instead and the blood is on the Bishop's hands.  Also, failure to administer Plan B contraception is not consistent with past Catholic practice where the older practice was correct and the contraception prevents a pregnancy at the stage where a blatocyst has not yet acquired the main component of personhood - genetic control by both parents. Any natural law that ignores this information is dicta, not reason and so is nothing of the kind.