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Welcome to Tuesday. Amy McGrath, the Catholic challenger to Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell, sits down with NCR. The Chicago Archdiocese measures its use of
energy. Longtime NCR columnist Jamie Manson says goodbye.
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Catholic challenger to Mitch McConnell is inspired by her faith [[link removed]]
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The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg - and Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to move forward with a confirmation hearing within
weeks of the national election - has brought renewed attention to the Senate race
in Kentucky, where McConnell is being challenged by Libertarian Brad Barron and
moderate Democrat Amy McGrath.
McGrath is a former Marine Corps fighter pilot, mother of three and a Catholic.
First seen as a long shot, she has been gaining on McConnell, with the most recent
polls [[link removed]]
showing her down by seven points, 41% to McConnell's 48%.
She told NCR freelancer Melinda Henneberger that she sees her campaign as about
corruption in Washington, not about abortion politics or the Supreme Court nominee.
"Sen. McConnell sees this as a chance to play politics again because he is the ultimate
partisan," McGrath told NCR. "He sees this as an opportunity to divide us yet again.
Justice Ginsburg was confirmed 96-3 in an era when Mitch McConnell wasn't the leader.
He has built a system and a Congress - he has built it! - that is so polarized that
the Supreme Court is now a weapon, [which] is so against what we should be doing
and what has worked in our country for the last 200 years."
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More background:

* In June, NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters called out Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell [[link removed]]
for not doing more to help state and local governments cope with the pandemic.
* Melinda Henneberger tries to answer the question: Do Democrats and Republicans
worship the same God [[link removed]]?
* All of NCR's 2020 election coverage can be found here [[link removed]].
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Tracking energy use in the Chicago Archdiocese, one meter at a time [[link removed]]
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In summer 2015, the Chicago Archdiocese announced an ambitious goal of benchmarking
the energy use of all 2,700 buildings and properties under its purview.
The announcement came a month after Pope Francis issued his social encyclical "Laudato
Si', on Care for Our Common Home."
Benchmarking refers to measuring a building's energy use over time and in comparison
to other properties of similar size and location, and then using that information
to assess performance, identify improvements and quantify potential and real savings.
Five years after announcing its goal, the archdiocese continues to work toward benchmarking
energy at all of its properties. It first emphasized quantity, by trying to benchmark
the largest possible number of buildings. Now it's focused on quality, data that
is more useful to its parishes, schools and organizations as they evaluate how
they can use energy best.
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More headlines

* Twelve years ago, Jamie Manson wrote her first column in NCR. She is moving on
to a new position in activism [[link removed]],
but is grateful for her devoted readers through those years.
* President Donald Trump is a threat to the republic and its democratic institutions
on multiple levels, writes former NCR editor Tom Roberts [[link removed]].
*
At Global Sisters Report, St. Joseph Sr. Barbara Lum, who tended to John Lewis on
Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, talks about the Black Lives Matter movement
[[link removed]]
and what she would say to young activists today.
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Final thoughts
Since rumors started swirling of the now confirmed nomination of Amy Coney Barrett
to the Supreme Court, NCR executive editor Heidi Schlumpf has been busy talking
about her past reporting [[link removed]]
on Barrett's involvement in People of Praise [[link removed]].
You can watch Schlumpf's interview on Democracy Now here [[link removed]].
Her segment begins around the 19:40 mark.
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Until Wednesday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Twitter: @ncrSLY [[link removed]]
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