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August 2018

August 28, 2018

Life imitates the Bee, Cardinal Cupich edition

In the Babylon Bee (an Onion-like evangelical parody site) two weeks ago: "Pope Says He...

August 27, 2018

Family income of $61,001? No U of I free tuition for you!

The University of Illinois is getting in on the "free tuition" game: as reported by...

August 25, 2018

What the **** is going on in the Vatican?

From the National Catholic Register: "Ex-Nuncio Accuses Pope Francis of Failing to Act on McCarrick’s...

August 25, 2018

Two proposals to respond to the abuse crisis

Two items from my twitter feed: First, The Anchoress, Elizabeth Scalia: "Dear Bishops: Don’t Wait...

August 24, 2018

In which I attend a naturalization ceremony

Longtime readers will know that my husband grew up in Germany; he came here for...

August 21, 2018

Private spaces on the internet?

Two items: First, have you read about the batty redefinitions of genitals? It's in the...

August 20, 2018

Why Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act Is, Indeed, “Bonkers”

Elizabeth Warren has introduced a new bill called the "Accountable Capitalism Act." Writing at Vox,...

August 20, 2018

A letter to Cardinal Cupich

Last week, I wrote about Cardinal Cupich's letter, which was woefully incomplete in addressing the...

August 17, 2018

Is Cardinal Cupich’s statement sufficient?

At last! Cardinal Cupich has released a statement: "Letter from Cardinal Blase J. Cupich to...

August 16, 2018

How stupid do the bishops think we are?

They've issued a statement now. It's as trite and useless as you'd expect from a...

August 15, 2018

How do you hold bishops accountable without destroying the church?

That's the question, isn't it? In the wake of the McCarrick scandal comes the grand...

August 14, 2018

Die, lice, die!

There ought to be a metaphor here somewhere . . . but let's start with...

August 13, 2018

Immigration and loyalty and Rashida Tlaib

Here's an AP report in the Sunday Chicago Tribune: "Palestinian-American candidate is source of West...

August 11, 2018

My beef with “institutional sin”

Regular readers will know that I have more ideas than I do patience for digging...

August 11, 2018

Are you a public charge?

The White House is, reportedly, based on the usual anonymous sources, about to publish, via...

August 10, 2018

When financial literacy training wheels disappear

Financial literacy -- that's the new watchword. How can we expect people to save --...

August 09, 2018

74 shootings. No answer in sight.

So in the past month-ish Chicago has had two high-profile protests: the first on the...

August 07, 2018

What’s next for anti-straw-ism?

You know, a while back I wrote about straws in a Forbes article, as an...

August 05, 2018

It’s all about the lye (no soda)

I've told you about pretzels before. Here's an update, with a bit of Actuary family...

August 04, 2018

In which I think about Sarah Jeong, racism, and privacy

First, to catch readers up on news that, to be honest, they're probably better off...

August 02, 2018

Can the Pope rewrite doctrine?

In today's news, the dramatic announcement that, as the New York Times phrases it in its...

August 01, 2018

Will the “Rent Relief Act” relieve renters?

In mid-July, Senator Kamala Harris of California introduced the "Rent Relief Act" and was immediately...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

What can the laity actually do, post-McCarrick?

So now Cardinal McCarrick is now just, well, I guess, Mr. McCarrick. The Washington Post,...

July 25, 2018

Cardinal McCarrick and the future of the church

Not long ago, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., was accused of...

July 20, 2018

Does God maybe not care so much whether we strive to be holy?

So I was doing some digging around on what our archbishop is up to, being...

July 19, 2018

Is a life sentence for child sexual abuse just?

From the Chicago Tribune, "Defrocked priest committed indefinitely to state facility for sex offenders." Arguably...

July 17, 2018

Do you want to talk about Trump?

Personally, I just want the whole thing to go away. Does Trump's refusal to condemn...

July 16, 2018

Tennessee “free pre-K” update: from no effects to worse effects

Some time ago, back in 2013, in fact, I linked to a report on a...

July 15, 2018

From the library, “To Change the Church,” by Ross Douthat

One thing is clear: Ross Douthat does not like Pope Francis. He believes that his...

July 12, 2018

Vacation Church Prizewinner: St. Cecilia’s, Wisconsin Dells

So per my last post, we spent a long weekend/short week up in Wisconsin, including...

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