“Pro-Life” Has Always Been Their Misnomer. Integralism: What’s In the Trojan Horse ? Take 2, Part 4

Abortion and Vatican Optics, Who are the true Catholics? Bishops’ “spoon full of sugar” approach to neofascist incursion in secular government, perils of new evangelization/ Catholic “unity” fever…

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Supporting Legal Medical Abortion does not make a person less (Roman) Catholic.

I left off at the end of Part 3 pointing to the way the abortion issue has become “a calling card” for right wing secular politics. Peruse X / Twitter or any of the other social media platforms in in which Catholics discuss the condition of the Roman Catholic Church and one finds that many clerics, women religious, and lay Catholics are comfortable undoing the baptisms of fellow Catholics on the basis of the (former’s) belief that favoring legal medical abortion somehow disqualifies Catholics from being Catholic. Being pro-choice very much does not make a person un-Catholic or even less Catholic — at least, not according to their rules, by…