[B Knotts]

We probably could use some backlash, to wake some people up from their slumber.

The Church must teach.

The political effects cannot be allowed to stop that teaching.

For too long, much like the abuse scandal, this situation was allowed to fester. There will be some pain in resolving it.

[sinkspur]

For too long, much like the abuse scandal, this situation was allowed to fester. There will be some pain in resolving it.

Well, the "pain" will be the risk of electing more pro-abortion politicians through a very clumsy process of each bishop making his own policy, in his own diocese.