A sad commentary of some in the Catholic Church today. ===== Say this for the liberal impulse in American Catholicism: In its day, it leavened the faith. Against the church’s tendencies to clericalism, it promoted the contributions of the laity. Against suspicions in Rome, it championed the American experiment. In particular, the liberal impulse advanced the idea of religious liberty for all... Read more
Archive for the ‘Abortion’ Category
Social Justice and Ryan the Heretic
August 21 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Party Politics, Religion, The Left
Unnatural Selection – War Against Girls
June 26 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Philosophy, Social EngineeringBook Review: Unnatural Selection – WSJ.com. By JONATHAN V. LAST Mara Hvistendahl is worried about girls. Not in any political, moral or cultural sense but as an existential matter. She is right to be. In China, India and numerous other countries (both developing and developed), there are many more men than women, the result of systematic campaigns against... Read more
Unnatural Selection
June 20 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Philosophy, Social EngineeringBook Review: Unnatural Selection – WSJ.com. “For if “choice” is the moral imperative guiding abortion, then there is no way to take a stand against “gendercide.” Aborting a baby because she is a girl is no different from aborting a baby because she has Down syndrome or because the mother’s “mental health” requires it. Choice is choice. …” ============ Mara Hvistendahl is worried... Read more
Rising Above Roe v Wade
January 24 | Posted by mrossol | AbortionHard to imagine anyone having an issue with this writer… ========== Are babies better than abortions? That’s not a question we are accustomed to hearing. For the most part, abortion—America’s most divisive issue—plays out as a question of competing rights. So it will be this weekend as pro-life and pro-choice legions each mark the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v.... Read more
