[Polycarp IV]

Long planned, hard won, fiercely defended, abortion-on-demand is the Catholic gift to American public life, perhaps our Church's only enduring political achievement. Small wonder the bishops are terrified of communion-rail catechesis.

Wow. One of the most brutally honest examinations of Abortion and the Catholic Factor I've ever seen anuywhere!

[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[Cicero]

Robert Drinan; Richard McCormick; Charles Curran.

All famous names. Drinan was the public point man on abortion. McCormick and Curran were two of the most famous dissenters. I hadn't known about Joseph Fuchs, but evidently he was an emissary from the core of troublemakers in Rome.

Curran and McCormick were disciplined for their dissent from Humanae Vitae, but Rome leaned on the Archbishop of Washington to let them off the hook. That was the moment when the whole church went off the rails.

What's evident now, from articles like this, is that dissent didn't just happen. It was planned, and some of the planning took place among the inner circles in Rome. People like Cardinal Bugnani and this fellow Fuchs, evidently.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

Bump!

[cpforlife.org]

PING

[Mr. Silverback]

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[SuziQ]

I've know for a long time that it was the Jebbies, led by Drinan, who gave Catholic politicians the 'cover' they needed to push through and maintain pro-abortion legislation. Despicable, but true!

The politicians have continued to cling to these misguided ideas in opposition to what John Paul II has taught because they have the notion that the Jesuits have academic superiority which is translated as moral superiority! To Catholic politicians, that is the 'sophisticated' position rather than the Vatican one which they consider reactionary and fundamentalist.