Links for 02/18/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Justice Scalia brought the Federalist Society agenda to the Court. He believed that state legislators were a better source of law than federally enforced equal protection principles. Its a very conservative, rather than a democratic, view because local legislatures are often dominated by the local elites, like the Church, for example.
Archbishop Scicluna gets it right - as the problem was not just the cover-up but the muscular denials and legal muscle. Thank Heaven Cardinal O'Malley has sent the lawyers packing, although they are still involved in the ham handed cases to deny their workers contraception. They never learn. When the lawyers and authoritarian bishops act together, no good can come of it, including for the bishops,.
There is a trailer for the Acton Institute's movie, if you want to see how low Catholic conservatives can go on economic issues. I did not preview it, because my eyes would burn in my head.
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