Previewing the USCCB meeting in Indianapolis: There isn't much on the agenda for the U.S. bishops' annual spring meeting. 2017 is far from typical for the U.S., and the bishops need to find their moral voice.
MGB: It is likely that most employers, including Catholic ones, will work out a deal that keeps them competitive in the marketplace, inside the EEOC ruling that makes actual coverage of contraception a requirement in insurance. That won't change. The question has always been copays. It is a make believe issue, as is the prospect of overturning the ACA. It takes 60 votes to overcome the Byrd rule, even in reconciliation and there is no outside reality test that trumps the need for those votes. The Paris Accords were a statement of principles. Again, symbolic. What was supposed to be symbolic was resisting picking up criminal migrant from jail. Now ICE gets them at their homes AND their families. Get them at the jail and the families go free. Oops.
The Church always has its divisions. That a Church of Immigrants now as old white moralistic xenophobes is not news. Nor is young Catholic hedonism a new thing. They've always read the banned books and heard the indent albums.
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