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Links for 10/08/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: There was no way Jerry Brown was not going to sign that Law.  It would not pass in most places, but all it takes is for one court case seeking the right under privacy to have it go national.  There are two possibilities with suicide, either there is life after death or there is not.  If there is not and if life is suffering, people wills suicide.  If there is life after death, which we Catholics believe in, we either have a compassionate God or an Ogre.  Only in the last case is assisted suicide a bad thing.  We don't preserve life just because we can, or else Jesus would have hung on the cross for days on end, he was strong enough to not die.  What the Trads fear most is most likely - that the Supreme Court will find a right to die and in a decade or so Modernist Catholics will embrace it, if not sooner, and in a generation everyone will wonder what all the fuss was about.



The Bishop's travelogue is interesting, but will wait for any summary he offers.  The key fact is that the Synod is now the Pope, the Bishops and the Holy Spirit.  I suspect at least two of the three agree on what needs to be done.  The question is the bishops. Lets hope the moral priggishness of Chaput and his like do not make progress impossible.