South Africans need to "acknowledge the link between race, power and privilege" and redress the economic inequalities brought about by past discriminatory laws and practices, the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference said in a March 7 pastoral letter.
"Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be president of the United States. His campaign has already driven our politics down to new levels of vulgarity," said the letter from two prominent Catholics, Robert George and George Weigel.
The phrase "undue burden" was the expression du jour March 2 and essentially the heart of the argument in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the challenge by Texas abortion clinics to a 2013 state law requiring them to comply with standards of ambulatory surgical centers.
The meeting of cardinals and promoters of the sainthood causes, also known as an "ordinary public consistory," formally ends the process of approving a new saint.
"It is a good time to remind ourselves what lives dedicated to genuine public service in politics look like. We find it in the lives of Vice President Biden and Speaker Boehner."