I haven't finished reading this yet, but thus far, much of it needs to be said by Catholics on the left and the right.
It's a shame that it has to come at a time when we are so polarized and politicized in the Church and in our culture.
It's a shame that it has to come at a time when we are so polarized and politicized in the Church and in our culture.
https://twitter.com/ArchCordileone/status/1388525086756462599
It is a shame that the Catholic voices of those who speak out most strongly on behalf of the unborn are typically the most Trumpified, Burkified, and Viganized in our Church, and have aligned themselves with schismatic conspiracy theorists against the Church and human dignity.
(And I'm only about halfway through, so I'm saying all this while acknowledging that it might get weird later on.)
I know it's in the midst of a controversial time in our country, and the reception and reaction will likely be a train wreck (I haven't looked, but I can imagine.) But I mean, come on, we can't totally ignore the unborn because political expediency demands it.
There's a lot of truth in the statement that’s uncontroversial.
THAT SAID, it's focused on the moral and legal aspects of abortion, and ignores the systemic. For one thing, it seems to equate "promoting" abortion exclusively to one’s political views on the legality of abortion.
THAT SAID, it's focused on the moral and legal aspects of abortion, and ignores the systemic. For one thing, it seems to equate "promoting" abortion exclusively to one’s political views on the legality of abortion.
A weakness of the doc was, coming in the wake of a US election where many Catholics voted for a pro-choice candidate for “proportionate reasons” for the 1st time in their lives, that Cordileone failed to sharply criticize those who support policies that increase abortion rates.
This omission comes across as an admonition to those faithful Catholics who could not vote for Donald Trump in good conscience. Yes, they wanted to support a candidate who promotes the dignity of all human life, but that wasn’t an option in 2020.
And so as long as you lobby for (or just give lip service to) even the most ineffectual legal restrictions on abortion, you’ll walk away from it feeling affirmed in your righteousness. Even if you have no serious intent to end abortion or can’t reduce it in any large-scale way.
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