Links for 2/20/18

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MGB: The lawyers often write along the lines that the staff and chairs of a committee indicate.  Often, those people are such true believers in the Reactionary ideal that they do not reflect the rest of the bishops or the Church (save some of the hard-liners in the Curia).  That the Church has been ill-served by its lawyers is clear, whether the topic is religious freedom, abortion or child sexual abuse by priests.  Sometimes, it is more important to lose doing justice than get a victory for the client.  Good lawyers tell their clients when they have no case.  The Church often does not have good lawyers.

Connor Lamb seems to be able to pander with the best of him.  What he really believes is deliberately unclear, which is true of the entire pro-life movement.  One would hope that most members of Congress, at least those who went to law school, are educated enough to know why Roe won and that it is not going anywhere, nor should it.  Let us hope Lamb is an outlier in the movement and proposes what is really needed to reduce abortion, much higher child tax credits paid with wages and deducted from a high enough subtraction value added tax to do the job.

All you need to be on FoxNews is to look pretty and say exactly what they tell you.  Jocks can do that. So can Laura.

As usual, Cardinal Cupich brings less heat and more like to Amoris, as well as a humble spirit. The last is why the right-wing hates him so.

I was just talking with a friend last night about Senator Warren's heritage.  She does need to address the controversy head on, including the notion that all Indigenous people look the same way. I don't look Romany unless I grow the required mustache, but Romany I am (and if you call me a gypsy without permission I may slap you, just in case you think PC is out of date or some liberal invention).

At least it is not the Year of the Cat. The tweets and postings are even more insufferable. As for bishops having dogs, as long as they walk and clean up after them themselves.  That may be a bridge to far for some of their egos.

How do you Tweet Casti Connubii #120-122 in sufficient detail to call out right to lifers who are only pro-birth? I rarely Tweet. Real men rarely do. Enough said.