Links for 04/14/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Fr. Z's comments say as much about his audience as it does about him. That is tragic in a priest, as is his disobedience (or the possible disobedience of his bishop for not discipliing him or possibly agreeing with him). Calling the Exhortation Divorced Families would have brought more special attention to the problems of the divorced that are only made worse by bad Catholic proof texting.
Eugene Volokh is recording a win for his side, which I am willing to grant him if it will just shut him up. The reality is that all insurance plans, save self-insurance, have been required to provide contraception since December 2000. The religious freedom in contraception still remains with the insured women and girls. I suspect that the Catholic Church's goal was really to partially repeal Griswold v. Connecticut in a death by a thousand cuts. They did not even come close to doing so, which they tried to do with religiously biased employers and failed. They also failed to be kept separate from the process of governmentally managed coverage. Indeed, they could not have avoided it anyway. Mark Silk makes clear that their demand to do so was not met.
The RNS shows how much Christians don't like userous loans. The problem is that the loan makers give lots of money to legislatures, which is a lesson for the attempt to help Puerto Rico. Social Services will be reformed, but that will also mean improvement and more federal money. Of course, the best way to get rid of both payday lenders and vulture capitalists is to default and quit doing business with them.
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