(Part one of two)  In other words, at least for now in the debate over the Republican bills, health care for the poor trumps abortion for the U.S. bishops. Few in the media, and few bishops, have acknowledged this change in political tactics by the U.S. bishops.—Thomas Reese in truth

“His disciples came and took away the corpse (of current irrelevance) and buried him; and they went and told Jesus” (Matthew 14:12).  The movement away from the need to baptize human zygotes is only incremental, but that unacknowledged change is better than nothing.