Morning Briefing

Here is what's new on NCRonline today: 
 

• Analysis: Battling adjunct unions fails legal and moral tests
• Fr. Edward Hays, writer of more than 30 spiritual books, dies
• Appreciation: Fr. Ed Hays taught us to live, not just say, prayers
• Soul Seeing: Mercy is a child named Jaden
• Church leaders call for Zuma to do 'honorable thing' after court ruling

Don't miss these stories on Global Sisters Report:

• America's prisons pt. 1: Working to change mass incarceration and the racism behind it
• America's prisons pt. 2: 'Throwaway people' and the sisters who care for them
• Q & A with Sr. Mary Owusu Frimpong, bringing health care to the margins
• Detention centers' applications for child care licenses worry immigrant advocates
• Column: Politics, Teilhard, and the world's future

News from around the web: 

• Mississippi lawmakers approve religion bill amid gay-rights protests
• Czechs to return Iraqi Christians who tried to move to Germany, interior minister says
• Federal prosecutors to file racketeering lawsuit against Pennsylvania diocese 
• Archdiocese disavows flier saying archbishop backs candidate