I'm rather peeved at our church. It's emphasizing the "unjust nature" of the iraq war and the DEATH PENATLY over abortion. There's going to be a peace & justice meeting next weekend at the church that has been promoted big time and I'm concerned that it's going to be biased anti-bush (as a few other meetings have been). I'd like to go and dispute their point of view, but as a cradle catholic who has only recently re-entered the church, I feel it isn't really my place to contradict the church workers... but I probably will anyhow.
Your church is misguided. Abortion is a threshhold issue that trumps war and the death penalty everytime. If a human being is denied the right to life, then none of the other issues matter. Destruction of the innocent is always wrong. Conversely, war and the death penalty do not target the innocent and a Catholic can morally be for or against them.
If my church starting pushing anti-war peace stuff, I'd leave.