Links for 04/21/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Petri's analysis is spot on on Syria, however one must as the question of when it is mandatory to go to war to stop a genocide? Syria has already bombed itself back to the stone age - and boots on the groud will help - but must they be American? What is needed is a boundary redrawing and the installation of King Abdullah of Lebanon into Damascus - however that will likely require a military solution and the withdrawl of Assad (and the destruction of Daesh/ISIL). Even the peace negotiated by Wesley Clark for Yugoslavia requred American and Russian military power.
The Solidarity Festival is a good start and a good example of boots on the ground activism. Of course, the ideal is worker ownership so that the abuses mentioned here do not occur at all.
When Vigano came to America, I was hoping he would very publicly go after the bishops who ignored the Dallas Accords and whose actions around denying politicians the Eucharist bordered on sedition (which could have led to demotion of the Nuncio to Apostalic Delegate). The evidence is that some bishops were removed, but not quickly enough and it is rumored that Vigano was protecting rather than removing them. At least the use of Communion as a political weapon has stopped. This Pope won't let it ever be restarted. As for attacks by the secularists against the Church, all Valarie Jarrett did was give the bishops an opportunity to make fools of themselves (and with the bishops,their Republican friends) - they are the ones who took the bait and ran with it. At least the latest Supreme Court action will end that bit of unnecessary controversy once and for all. The best thing for the next Nuncio to do is to get certain bishops out of bed with the Republican Party, if that is not too much to ask.
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