Links for 03/07/17: Whoever handles the twitter feed for the Diocese of Syracue may have been tweeting put sweet nothings to President Trump this last weekend ("Please pray for wisdom and God's guidance for @POT...
MGB: Sadly, the local Churches have to many true believers who think the GOP and the Catholic Church are one and the same. At least the Bishop of Syracuse is not one of them. Like I said yesterday, Bishops and their staffs should not tweet.
At some point the people in the Administration that will be negotiating tax policy will have to also deal with Obamacare and a Democratic minority in the Senate that can stop any change. Four plus 48 is enough to stop Medicaid changes (I depend on Medicaid) so the cost savings piece of the bill is DOA, making it vulnerable to 60 vote point of order that the GOP cannot clear. This means that the elimination of the payroll surtaxes on the rich won't survive unless replaced by a more general Value Added Tax. Or it could mean nothing will happen.
Longnecker does not understand Modernism, the chief feature being that evolution and scripture scholarship radically change our understanding of the authority of the scriptures. The modernists won. The evolution of doctrine is as understandable using sociology and epistemology as it is theology and metaphysics. Our dogma on God is accepted as true not because of any revelation but because we decided to agree that it was so because people were killing each other over obscure doctrinal points. Natural law is not what Pius XI said it was and is, it is the province of every person who seeks truth through reason. There is no papal autonomy - that would be formalism, not reason. Can't have it both ways. Someone fire Longnecker's undergraduate professors.
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