Copy Desk Daily, Sept. 27, 2019

by Mick Forgey

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Our team of copy editors reads and posts most of what you see on the websites for National Catholic Reporter and Global Sisters Report (the NCR project focusing on women religious). The Copy Desk Daily highlights recommended news and opinion articles that have crossed our desks on their way to you.

Your thoughts on impeachment and the Amazon: This week NCR ran two editorials, one about the value of impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump; and another about how the status quo won't save the planet or the church. Readers have responded via letters to the editor.

Michael Sean Winters believes impeachment is a horrible thing, but it's not the most horrible thing: The ethical corruption of our nation's highest office is worse than impeachment.

At university panel, DACA students challenge migration narrativeAt a panel discussion at Trinity Washington University, four undocumented student panelists shared their stories and challenged the tropes associated with immigrants.

Noted Irish theologian and ecumenist Gerard Mannion dies at 48: Theologians remember a colleague in the wake of his unexpected death. Gerard Mannion was "one of the most important Catholic theologians of our age," one says. From another: "I owe to Gerard some of my happiest memories of Catholic theological gatherings — and some of my worst hangovers."

A U.S. cardinal, the retired archbishop of San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, dies: U.S. Cardinal William Levada, former doctrinal head, dies in Rome.

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