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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on June 24, 2016.

eNewsletter Subject: Episcopal conflict, in public

As Phil Lawler points out today, it is both good and remarkable that Archbishop Wenski of Miami has publicly taken Bishop Lynch of St. Petersburg to task for blaming the Catholic Faith for the Orlando massacre in a gay bar: Archbishop Wenski delivers a deserved rebuke to a fellow bishop.

Phil also explains why the California case requiring Catholic institutions to provide abortion coverage was predictable. Even the bishops have not treated the universities central to the suit as if they were Catholic. See Catholic institutions cleared the path for the latest assault on religious freedom.

And we can also learn something important from the Orthodox efforts at their current council. Phil explains this, too, in What Catholics can learn from Orthodox disputes.

Controversy continues to haunt the question of whether large numbers of Catholic marriages really are not marriages at all. So I've decided to look at what we need to keep in mind before we give up on marriage altogether: Is marriage a trap? Our preoccupation with nullity.

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