The Specter of Christianity

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These pro-abortion maniacs. Yikes. I want our bishops were in reality and in deed as pro-daily life as the men and women who dislike the Catholic Church appear to be to consider they are. The Catholic Church is officially against abortion, of system — there is no circuitous Jesuitical workaround for “Thou shalt not get rid of” — but a great many senior figures in the American church are inclined to impersonate region-club Republicans circa 1992: “Sure, we are against abortion, but let us not make a total point about it.” Pope Francis may possibly be foolish about quite a few things — and perhaps an outright heretic if you want to get suggest about it — but he stays good on abortion: an “absolute evil,” he calls it. And the pews usually are not any additional reliably pro-daily life than the pulpit: Catholics have on average about the same mind-set toward abortion as other Americans, and the horrifying simple fact is that even a third of those people who go to Mass weekly determine by themselves as “pro-option.”

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