[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Related to this article? You're ashamed of the Pope ....for calling post-abortion women to repentance and reconciliation via the merciful forgiveness of God?

Unfortunately it is the standard Free Republic response to anything the Pope says. Or to anything anyone says about the Pope. Expect to see fewer Catholics bothering with FR. I don't really blame them.

[Mrs. Don-o]

In the interests of full disclosure, let me say I am a Trad (I sing at the Latin Mass and love that Hermeneutic of Continuity thing); I gladly hang out with Trads in my parish. At the same time, all my in-laws and prolife allies here in Upper East Tennessee are Baptists and Non-denoms. And I have come to expect good sense and good will from all of these diverse people, Trads and Prods, and they have never disappointed me.

At FR, however (ahem) at FR, I notice that the Tabloid Trads and the, um, Pugnacious Prods join forces to make up a Consolidated Anti-Papist Front. A thrilling display of ecumenical unity ("No Pope For Us!")from individuals who would never be caught dead being ecumenical in any other way.

"Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, although they hads been enemies formerly." (Luke 21:12)