Links for 04/06/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: On Faggioli's piece, I suspect he has caught the moods of both the conservatives and those who are open to change. I am interested in what he says (since I am in the middle of a divorce - and maybe an annulment - but as interested in how he says it. Is he going to proclaim truths or is he going to give administrative direction (changes to praxis) with some linkage to dogma, but not much of one? How is he going to handle the infallibilty of the Magisterium? Again, will he be proclaiming Truth or will he simply be giving instruction? My bet is that he will act with humility - and that will bother the conservatives to no end. I bet they would rather have an infallible answer that they disagree with than an answer which gives no consideration to infallibility at all. The best way to kill the pernicious trend to self-absorbed absolutism to simply stop mentioning it.
MSW leaves no doubt that he does not feel the Bern. I am certainly tired of Clinton - both this one and the last one. They are charismatic and they had their day in restoring glory to the Democrats, but given how stratified the society is, a fourth neo-liberal president is probably two too many. I had higher hopes for Obama, who staffed his Administration with too many of Clinton's Wall Street types. I don't want to give that crowd of financial consumerist free-traders another four years to torture the poor.
The annual bracketology of Church architecture is out. The link is provided, if that is your thing. I try to keep in mind how such Churches are funded, which gives me some pause. Of course, those who let you buy a brick, like the National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (the official name is unweildly), although the Fire Island Jesus (very buff) behind the back altar is a bit much. Of course, the 50s were a time when the U.S. was democratically socialist and did not know it.
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