At the Commonweal blog, after Lisa Fullam posted a good piece on today's Supreme Court decision, the usual suspects representing the
Check out the thread and see what you think: turds or lemons? My vote goes for turds.
These same characters representing the
Let's see if that happens.
Churches that cannot live the good news towards people in pain, people struggling for their rights and recognition of their human dignity, cannot preach the good news of the gospel.
And few traits are more repulsive to many people who have sought good news in Christian communities and then left in disgust than the unwillingness and inability of people who have long enjoyed astonishing power and privilege — bought at the expense of demeaned others who are never invited into their conversations or defended against the injustices done to them by Christian institutions — to recognize, acknowledge, and, yes, apologize for that unmerited power and privilege and what bad use they have made of it.
Repulsive people, the folks who run the Commonweal show. And repulsive, what they've made of that once fine American Catholic journal.