anonymous representatives of Catholic Lite just don’t get it. They imagine that accusing the bishops of partisanship is going to spook them into acquiescence; they are wrong, because in this debate we are down to first principles.
It looks like Obama's moral relativism didn't see the line drawn in the sand.
I was actually quite surprised this weekend when I was out of town and went to mass at a big suburban church in the place I was visiting. The church was ugly, the music was horrible 1970’s “folk” and the bulletin was full of feel-good “social justice” stuff.
But then the young priest, who didn’t really seem the type, got up and gave a homily in which he talked about how the real issue here was not contraception in itself, but that the state was simply using this as an issue on which to demonstrate who was master here. He said we were being called to make a choice on who was going to be our master. Wow!