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CACG Must Reads - August 3, 2011

Steve Schneck, in a feature article at NCR, warns about the need for conscience protections in the new healthcare mandates:http://ncronline.org/news/justice/respecting-protecting-differences-conscience-strengthens-health-care


Archbishop Jose Gomez on immigration and the “American story”:
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/immigration-and-the-next-america-perspectives-from-our-history/

Ruth Marcus, at the Washington Post, warns the debt ceiling mess could happen again: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-carjacking-on-capitol-hill/2011/08/02/gIQAFxO9pI_story.html

Drew Christiansen, S.J. remembers Archbishop Pietro Sambi:
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=12968

Bold Faith Type, the blog at Faith in Public Life, reports on a court decision that found the health care law does not provide for taxpayer-funded abortions, and allows a case against the Susan B. Anthony List to proceed:
http://blog.faithinpubliclife.org/2011/08/federal_judge_rules_against_sb.html

David Greenberg, writing in the Washington Post’s Outlook section, reviews “The Age of Greed”:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-review-age-of-greed-by-jeff-madrick/2011/06/30/gIQAGo8mhI_story.html