The takeaway from the conversation is that Trump and the pro-life movement have given license to bigotry in all its forms, causing unity between people of good will in the Abrahamic religions to come together. License revoked.

The bishops have always been for foreign assistance (as long as the usual abortion language is attached on the Mexico City policy is included). Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Mid-East cannot do everything.

I don’t read CNA, including the link. Yogaphobes don’t understand the pagan allusions in yoga, which are all naturalistic, like paganism itself. Both yoga and Hinduism are about human self knowledge. This is no danger to Catholics (nor is Buddhism). If the CDF were to quit riding Catholic meditators so hard, perhaps they would not turn to other disciplines.