Links for 12/16/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 12/16/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: If there is controlling and specific legal precident,then it makes no sense to spit into to wind, as the NLRB has done. The only real demand an adjuncts union should make is tenure track, not higher wages.  A union would be effective to keep out scabs - although in that case, doctoral students would suddenly be teaching more.  Now that would be slave labor.



I am glad France dodged a bullet.  You can probably thank the Socialists for appealing to Franternetie for this outcome.  It is amazing Xenophobia is rising in a place where the middle class, and even the poor, have it pretty good.  I suspect that those low esteem voters always like to have someone below them, especially if they are Muslim.



While it is simply nasty to murder Downs Syndorme children before or after birth, there is a difference between allowing it to happen and mandating it that should be clear to anyone.  A Catholic solution to the unborn is for the Church to take point in helping the parents of these mostly joyful children.  All you can do about ISIL, like Hitler, is kill it.



Silk's piece addresses apocolyptic langauge.  Now that 2000 is safely past, maybe we can put that bit down.  In truth, such language is the language of persecution.  If no one is persecuting anyone else, such language becomes unnecessary.  Hopefully we have gotten to that point, but don't ask Michele Bachmann.