Welcome to Free Republic. I have just read the 289th post. Back to the article...Catholics have a "duty to be morally coherent," the Doctrinal Note declares, and the Catholic fight on the life issues--abortion, euthanasia, and cloning--is not some merely prudential question, to be decided by political give and take. The Catholic Church doesn't take political positions--except when politics intrudes into something, like the right to life, that ought to be beyond the power of politicians.
I had been reading a separate post on how leaders in the Methodist Church have chastised Bush for the war in Iraq.
Here it is, Maundy Thursday, and the most active post is on a follower of Christ (the Bishop) demanding something of a "brother."
I was raised Catholic, married into the mMethodist Chrch and have run into a local Ultra Conservative Presbyterian Church to lick my wounds.
I think all Christians have a duty to be morally coherent. Christ said;"If you love me, you will keep my commandments"..."If you love me feed my sheep." So obedience is the outward sign of loving God. He also said, "We will know a good tree from a bad tree by the fruit it bears," and finally, He cautioned us against throwing out unproductive trees, adjuring us to trim them and "throw a little manure" on them to see what happens.
I think Tiny Tommy just got trimmed and fertilized.
My child, do not fear the dicipline of the Lord, for he chastises every child that he loves. Indeed if he did not chastise you you would be illegitimate..."