Daily links, Mon., April 23: Support for the sisters, bishops blunder on

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious finds new defenders everyday, with America's Jim Martin rallying the troops on Twitter. [1] Religion News Service's David Gibson analyzed the situation [2] on Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.

New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan is getting heat for his response to a request from the director of a shelter for youth, who invited the cardinal to meet with LGBT young people; Dolan's response triggered gay Catholic Joseph Amodeo to resign from New York Catholic Charities junior board. Amodeo explains at Religion Dispatches [3].

Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky is being pressured to resign from Notre Dame's Board of Fellows [4] by ND faculty because of his comparison of President Obama to Stalin and Hitler. Down in Miami, Archbishop Thomas Wenski suggests that the Obama administration's policies could be seen as reflecting "anti-Catholic sentiment" [5] and compared the bishops' current battle over religious liberty to the civil rights movement. When asked if he feared a backlash from the bishops' political activity, he responded: "That sort of sounds like during the civil rights era telling the black people to keep quiet rather than to press their rights." Careful with those analogies, archbishop.