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Ebb Tide, appointing the abortion advocate to that panel for Life — I am too weary even to look up the correct name again — is exponentially worse than all the other egregious things this pope has done in the last four years put together. I am staggered that it has come to this. Every other member of that panel should resign, specifically stating that person's appointment as the cause of his or her resignation. Many people have made the point that this papacy is some kind of punishment for decades of rebellion by many or most Catholics. OK, God, we get it...or we don't get it. However, at this point, it seems the people being punished are the ones who already know right from wrong. (I don't mean to be self-righteous because I am aware I am a miserable sinner, as is everyone else. I am not talking about being good or acting well; I am talking about knowing what is good.) When will God act? Because, at this point, it really seems up to God and God alone. If the other members of this “Academy” remain members of it, if they confine their objections to this abortion advocate to, well, merely objecting to his views in the context of debates conducted by the Academy, it will be saying that abortion advocacy is one of several legitimate views on the issue. It now appears that, whatever the rules against abortion on the books of the Catholic Church, the Church is promoting a more “nuanced” view. How long, God? How long?