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CACG Must Reads - September 28, 2011

At National Catholic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters explores the questionable financial practices of the American Life League, the group that keeps attacking Catholic anti-poverty programs:

http://ncronline.org/news/politics/practices-questioned


At Faith in Public Life, John Gehring questions Justice Antonin Scalia’s sincerity when it comes to certain Church teachings:

http://blog.faithinpubliclife.org/2011/09/catholic_theologians_to_justic.html


The editors of America magazine call for progress on the jobs front now:

http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=13048


Commonweal’s Grant Gallicho on efforts to end the death penalty:

http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=15321


Lew Daly, at Democracy, offers a truly splendid essay on the relationship of organized labor and organized religion:

http://www.democracyjournal.org/22/the-church-of-labor.php?page=5


Veteran congressional analyst Norm Ornstein, at the New Republic, on congressional dysfunction and how the press covers it:

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/95331/washington-post-government-shutdown-eric-cantor