Links for 11/02/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Turns out from the Sunday talk shows that Ryan's Catholic problem is the same as Boehner's: immigration. The cuts he proposed before were mainly the standard libertarian attempt to make the states survive without federal aid, thus taking that money off the books. Its misguided federalism and misguided subsidiarity. I suspect he has gotten over that fetish, but that depends on the quality of his staff and whether he allows them to correct him when he is obviously mistaken.
Mark Silk and the theologians (like MSW) need to embrace that fact that the laity of the Church have as much right to offer theological opinions that correct them, provided that we judge what is said by its merits, not by the credentials of the author or speaker. Of course, that means that some of us deserve a little more ink than we are getting. Some, like Donohue, deserve considerably less than they get.
Second reminder for the Restorative Justice confab at Catholic University. I hope that someone talks about more than making victims whole. The perpetrators must also be restored for justice to occur.
Thursday and Friday, Notre Dame Law School is having a confab about Religious Liberty. Sadly, I don't see any explicit discussion on Religious Liberty v. Religious Power, which is they key distinction in seeing this issue clearly.
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