Let me ask a simple question. Then I will show how wrong you really are.
Is it more effective, to make public statements, through a media filter, or preach to people directly?
Now, let me ask you.,.how much Coverage does the March for Life get?
Zero,Zip,Nada,None.
We arent reaching anyone that way, and we arent saving lives.
If you get them inside the door, the filter is removed, and souls can be ministered to, and maybe lives can be saved.
I will however agree with you in part.
By making that proclamation, he needed to go one step further, and declare that the moneychangers would be thrown out of the temple. (e.g. Pro abort pols that trade on Carholic ethnicity would be tossed, publicly...there is according to Canon, a different standard for those people..which is to say they are on the level of false prophets)
nice in theory, i am skeptical of its practice.