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Willie Pep

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August 3, 2018

Death penalty declared inadmissable in the Catholic Catechism.

Mark Shea has two good blog posts on the recent changes to the language of the Catholic Catechism that declares the death penalty to be inadmissable. I am sure conservative Catholics will be freaking out over this.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2018/08/the-pope-has-just-declared-the-death-penalty-inadmissible-in-all-cases.html

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2018/08/here-is-the-new-language-of-the-catechism-on-the-death-penalty.html

August 3, 2018

More Americans are living in their vehicles due to lack of affordable housing.

I see this sometimes where I live in the Midwest but it looks like the problem is worse on the West Coast. My cousin just returned from Seattle and he said that he saw many people living out of their cars.

The number of people residing in campers and other vehicles surged 46 percent over the past year, a recent homeless census in Seattle's King County, Washington found. The problem is "exploding" in cities with expensive housing markets, including Los Angeles, Portland and San Francisco, according to Governing magazine.

Full article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-americans-are-living-in-their-vehicles-amid-high-housing-prices/

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