Links for 01/08/16 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 01/08/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I suspect Burke means that the documents are deception because he cannot believe they will ever be considered true - that doctrine is unchangeable.  Watch it change, Ray, watch it change.



Congratulations for being attacked by Lepanto.  When such scoundrels say bad things about you, your rewards in Heaven will be great.  They seem to conflate attacking the hierarchy to attacking the Church - which is in fact untrue.



Kaveny hits the nail on the head as far as the conundrum the pro-life movement exists in.  If they really believe that being fertilized makes you a person (rather than a fertilized seed), then the extreme actions taken by murderers for life must be just - yet it is not because we live in a country dominated by the rule of law.  If the justices say abortion is not unjust - indeed that restricting abortion is unjust to women - then that law must be enforced, even by Christian policemen going against a deluded pro-lifer.  Indeed, the so-called strategy for overturning Roe seems just as unjust - as it would end a rule of law tool of minorities who are otherwise at the mercy of majorities who would ban contraception, consider Latinos whites who can be discrimiated against legally (they often are anyway under the color of police power - but not explicitly), ban consensual private sodomy by both gays and heterosexuals,deny benefits to the children of undocumented aliens (including education), deny gay people the right to marry, and who would ban or supress the Catholic Church in the south because it is led by the anti-Christ . Now, the Church does not like some of these results - but the method we used to get there is beyond reproach and overturning Roe by denying federal supremacy in equal protection would be unjust indeed.  The fact that the Church benefits from such equal protection - and will eventually benefit when the Blaine Amendments are ruled unconstitutional should give it pause.  The sanctuary movement, by the way, is revolutionary and disobedient - not covered the same way under the rule of law.



I agree with Presidet Obama about the Queen of Soul performing Natural Woman.  I also cried.  Lets stipulate that this was an anthem of the sexual revolution and that maybe that was not a bad thing.  Also a good thing is that we have events that a President attends that are special in our national life.