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Daily links, Mon., May 21: While hunkered down in Chicago's Loop waiting for NATO to go home

Monday, May 21, 2012
By Bryan Cones
It's a beautiful day in Chicago, with only NATO, NATO protestors, and your faithful U.S. Catholic staff holding down the fort in the Loop. There has been one bit of Catholic NATO news: Our building's 8th Day Center for Justice's Sister Kathleen Desautels, who likes to think of herself as "the hostess of the protest" when she serves as a "peace guide," was profiled in the Chicago Tribune.
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The Catholic anti-Obama election year roll-out continues? Super-lawsuit filed by 43 dioceses, universities, and Our Sunday Visitor

Monday, May 21, 2012
By Bryan Cones
Back in the heady days of 2010 and the health-care reform debate, I wondered if there was a "Monday morning conference call" during which Catholic GOP activists got together to work out how to scuttle any reform deal. (Anyone remember Bart Stupak?
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Daily Links, May 18: NATO

Friday, May 18, 2012
By Meghan Murphy-Gill
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit gets underway this weekend, here in U.S. Catholic’s hometown of Chicago. As I write this, there is a single unmarked vehicle with tinted windows parked in a particularly advantageous position on the roof of the normally-full parking garage just below my window.
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Selective outrage over Catholic university commencement speakers

Friday, May 18, 2012
By Scott Alessi
Hardly a day has gone by in recent weeks without someone being upset about who is speaking at Catholic university graduation events.
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Daily Links, May 17: "Controversies," "minorities," and "traditional marriages"

Thursday, May 17, 2012
By Liz Lefebvre
The church, Georgetown, and Kathleen Sebelius are making many of the headlines today. The New York Times and CNN both examine the head-butting between some in the church and Georgetown's invitation to Sebelius to speak during commencement weekend (though not as the commencement speaker, and not coinciding with an honorary degree).
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Steubenville drops student health plan: Conscience or controversy?

Thursday, May 17, 2012
By Bryan Cones
With much fanfare, including an appearance on Fox News' On the Record, the Franciscan University fo Steubenville has decided to discontinue its student health plan, which covered just under 200 of its 2,500 students.
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Daily Links, May 16: God hates no one

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
By Meghan Murphy-Gill
My favorite story of today: A 9-year-old boy who stumbled upon the Westboro Baptist folks while on the campus of Washburn University in Topeka. Appalled at their sentiments (“God hates [homosexuals]”), Josef Miles went back to the car and made his own sign.
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Can you be sued for criticizing the church?

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
By Scott Alessi
This story comes from outside the Catholic sphere, but it caught my attention as something that just as easily could have taken place in the Catholic Church.The pastor of Beaverton Grace Bible Church in Beaverton, Oregon is suing a former member of his congregation for defamation.
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Can access to contraception be a matter of social justice?

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
By Meghan Murphy-Gill
Can access to contraception be a matter of social justice?
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