Robert Barron, Harvard and Assited Suicide in CA

At Real Clear Religion, Bishop Robert Barron writes concerning two recent developments in the news. 

The first is the statistic about the religious background of incoming freshmen at Harvard.  The second is the passage of legislation permitting assisted suicide in California.  He writes:

Though it might seem strange to suggest as much, I believe that the make-up of the Harvard freshman class and the passing of the suicide law are related.

Kathryn Jean Lopez, Pope Francis, media headlines and abortion

Kathryn Jean Lopez writes at National Review:

This is a heartbreakingly misleading headline: “Pope to allow priests to forgive abortion.” You could go to St. Francis Assisi by Penn Station or St. Agnes by Grand Central in New York and throughout the United States yesterday, today, or tomorrow, and be forgiven for this or other sins you are sorry for.

She links to the letter from Pope Francis.  She quotes an associate professor of systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies in DC, and from Pope Francis.

In her second to last paragraph she writes:

Pope Francis is like a broken record pleading with people to know God’s mercy. He goes to Confession in the view of cameras and leads with his own identity as a sinner, loved by a merciful Father. He wants others to experience this.


You should read her post.