Links for 12/28/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The Provincial gave a good sermon, especially the tie of the incarnation to salvation. Unless it is linked back to the Cross and the empty tomb, the Nativity story is just a nice myth. I feel it when I sing Adeste Fideles, which my father loved. With he and my mother both gone the empty tomb implications hit me like they never did when I sang that song before their deaths. Christmas as Catharsis is something every homily should address, as many our age are dealing with such feelings.
The government should do a lot more for Puerto Rico, but in the interim, the Commonwealth should miss every single debt payment and beg immediate aid from Congress. Only that will force reform plus a much needed control board.
Bishop Barron is likely up for some appointment and he is flashing his bona fides at the Congregation for Bishops in hopes Burke will notice. His point is a very bad one, although I can see why he makes it. Its because he and the Church are in error on the nature of abortion law in the United States. Unless Congress says otherwise, no one is a legal person until birth - and non-legal people cannot have a state interest until Congress acts. Roe is correct, even though Barron does not like it. Having no dialogue is insisting on vincible ignorance - on ignoring facts that might change how the Church deals with this issue - and how it has become a GOP tool as well.
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