Many today will pick off the terrorist event in France as the top news, but in the greater scheme of things, the big event is the interview by Cardinal Burke given a few days ago, and which forms a substantial amount of today's links. In it he decries the feminisation of the Church and sees it as responsible for the man-problem in the Church - few men attend Church and those that do often seem non-committal.
In " Cost and Risk Are No Object When Someone Else Is Paying The Tab ", we are told of how the commodification of children is enabled by the taxpayer - who uses IVF and conceives children without the father-, and how the buyer then complains that she has not had support.