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Welcome to Wednesday. San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy says Joe Biden's Catholic
faith shouldn't be questioned due to his politics. Amy Coney Barrett should not
be held up as the next feminist icon because she is not a feminist says an NCR commentary
writer. An NCR columnist says that President Donald Trump's obsession with being
"manly" is literally toxic, as it has increased irresponsibility when exposing
others to coronavirus.
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Bishop laments questioning of Biden's faith due to abortion policies [[link removed]]
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In an address titled "Voting in Faith, Rebuilding in Hope," San Diego Bishop Robert
McElroy pushed back against those questioning Joe Biden's personal Catholic faith
based on his positions on abortion rights. McElroy said that when it comes to questions
of public policy, abortion legislation is a matter of prudential judgment.
"One very sad dimension of the election cycle we are witnessing," said McElroy,
is "the public denial of candidates' identity as Catholics because of a specific
policy position they have taken. Such denials are injurious because they reduce
Catholic social teaching to a single issue. But they are offensive because they
constitute an assault on the meaning of what it is to be Catholic."
On the question of abortion, he said that because Catholicism teaches that some
actions, including abortion, are "intrinsically evil," meaning that they are "always
and everywhere wrong," some church leaders have claimed that "candidates who seek
laws opposing intrinsically evil actions automatically have a primary claim to political
support in the Catholic conscience."
Read more about McElroy's talk here [[link removed]].
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More background:

* All of San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy's speech can be read here [[link removed]].

* McElroy's talk echoes many of the themes he explored in a February 2020 essay
published by NCR [[link removed]],
in which he argued that Catholics should remember that "in the end, it is the candidate
who is on the ballot, not a specific issue."

* A number of individual U.S. bishops are using the presidential election year t
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offer their own reflections on how Catholics should approach the ballot box [[link removed]],
often doubling down on emphasizing abortion via letters and columns.

* Other than hiding in the basement, what can parishioners ask their pastors to
do to keep their parishes from turning into partisan war zones this election season,
asks Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese [[link removed]].
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Amy Coney Barrett is not a feminist icon - she is not a feminist at all [[link removed]]
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It is not enough for a woman to claim a seat at the table of Supreme Court judges.
She needs to work, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, for other women to be given
places as well.
But Amy Coney Barrett has not done this, says Rebecca Bratten Weiss in a commentary
for NCR.
"Ginsburg, whether she wanted it or not, was an emblem of everything the religious
right hates and fears about feminism," writes Bratten Weiss. "And Barrett, also
whether she wants it or not, is now being invoked as the alternative to Ginsburg-style
feminism. In the eyes of a demographic routinely hostile to female leadership, Barrett
'passes' as an acceptable woman to wield influence in the public square."
You can read the rest of the commentary here [[link removed]].
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More background:

* The Supreme Court nominee will try to convince us that she is open-minded, when
the only reason her supporters are so excited is that they know her mind is made
up and it is reliably conservative, says NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters
[[link removed]].
* Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett presented her conservative approach to
the law [[link removed]]
at the start of fast-tracked confirmation hearings, while Democrats, powerless to
stop her, tried to cast her as a threat to Americans' health care coverage during
the coronavirus pandemic.
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More headlines

* President Donald Trump's obsession with being perceived as "manly" and "tough"
has increased erratic behaviors and irresponsibility that is literally toxic, since
it exposes others to a deadly disease, says NCR columnist Franciscan Fr. Daniel
Horan [[link removed]].
* NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters writes [[link removed]]
about the importance of non-presidential contests on November's ballot, such as
state legislative races, which could have an impact on redistricting.
* ICYMI: Even if the rest of the international community continues to prop up the
increasingly violent Jovenel Moise administration in Haiti, the Vatican should not
fall in line with them, writes Valerie Jean-Charles, communications strategist and
editor of [[link removed]]
Woy Magazine [[link removed]].
* ICYMI: The predominant global economic system is "unsustainable," particularly
in its impact on the environment, Pope Francis said as part of the global TEDx
Countdown on climate change [[link removed]].
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Final thoughts
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joining our community of NCR Forward members. Members have tons of benefits, such
as special events, member polls, question and answer sessions and more. You can
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for the latest news and events.
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Until Thursday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
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