S1 Ep16: "This is a group of Catholics who are willing to stand in the gap." - a podcast by Nish Weiseth and Amy Sullivan

This week we took on a trio of stories from the Catholic world: the overwhelming united support for Dreamers among U.S. Catholics, including the group of sisters, priests, and laypeople who were arrested at the U.S. Capitol this week; Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki putting Sen. Dick Durbin on notice that he will be denied communion over his support for abortion rights; and Pope Francis' [fiery assertion](https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/world/pope-atheists-again/index.html) that it would be better for a bad Christian to be an atheist instead.

We also lamented a [recent report](https://www.npr.org/2018/02/27/589279411/anti-defamation-league-report-shows-anti-semitic-incidents-rose-from-2016-to-201) showing anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. at the highest levels in 40 years.

And Nish let Amy take over the "Three Minutes of Nish" to rant about the Southern Baptist Convention's attempt to bully the D.C. Baptist Convention into booting a local church that called a lesbian couple to be co-pastors. Not cool.

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