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Links for 04/13/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: It is regrettable that Kate Andersen Brower failed to mention Dr. Jane Sanders, who is both a college President and a key advisor to her husband.  She is perhaps the most interesting of the bunch, including Bill Clinton, whom we have heard quite enough from.



Mark Silk is correct,"direct" religious employees should also get the same kind of coverage that non-profit Catholic agecies get - indeed, I suspect they do get it through EEOC rules anyway.  This has never been a question of religious liberty.  It is a question of religious power, but no one used those words, mostly because the Court desired compromise, in this case 8-0.  This issue is dead, but there will always be another where the terms moral scorn and religious power can be used to describe what the Bishops are insisting upon.  Neither implies religious freedom.



This is another case where Francis the pastor uses the reading of the day for good use on the topic of the day, which is his Apostolic Exhortation on Love and Mercy.  The visit to Lesbos was an add-on, but an essential one.  Whether this issue, which has everything to do with the war in Syria and poverty in North Africa, migrates to the U.S. is questionable.  I doubt the GOP members of the USCCB will mention it voluntarily in reference to the election.  These events actually have more to do with the Hatian, Vietnamese and Cuban waterborn escapes than trips to the U.S. where people overstay their visa.  In Greece, Francis identifies with both the refugees and the Greeks who are helping them.  On the Mexican border, Francis identfies with the migrant.  The U.S. has been almost entirely unwelcoming, so he has no one to sit in solidarity with here. Trump is just a caricature of current American policy.