meet me half way

By Diogenes ( articles ) | May 24, 2004

When the Church urges that the lives of the guilty be spared, she's prophetic. When she urges that the lives of innocent be spared, she's partisan. Anna Q explains it all for you.

It was nearly 25 years ago that Robert Drinan, a member of Congress and an outspoken Jesuit (a redundancy if there ever was one), so enraged the Vatican with his defense of abortion rights that an order came down from Rome demanding priests withdraw from politics. It appears that someone has had a change of heart.

Or at least that's how it seems now that certain segments of the Roman Catholic hierarchy are behaving like wholly owned subsidiaries of the Republican Party, hellbent on a course that will weaken the church's moral authority and eventually deplete its membership. And all because of abortion, the issue the celibate male leadership is least equipped to personally understand.

Can't we, I mean, like, compromise? We'll convince the bishops to deny communion to pro-abort (and pro-gay) Republicans like Governor Schwartzenegger, and you convince pro-abort (and pro-gay) Democrats like Senator Kerry to change their counter-Catholic positions on the hot-button issues, and THEN the Church can no longer be accused of being partisan.

That's fair and even-handed enough, isn't it, Anna?

Anna...?