[dsc]

Was that "Catholic Lite?"

"Yet alone and ashamed, the perception of canonical censures only further drives these women away from the Church in many instances. This compounds the problem...He invited her to repentance and forgiveness."

So, the Church is not supposed to censure an act that requires repentance and forgiveness?

Telling someone they've done wrong is not the same thing as casting them into the outer darkness forever.

[Theosis]

I suggest you read the entire piece. As Vere notes, the women know that abortion is wrong. Removing the censure is not the same thing as saying abortion is not a grave sin, a position of the Church that Vere supports. On the other hand, censures and penalties should be directed where they will be most effective. In this case, excommunicating the politicians and doctors who make abortion possible would do much more good than excommunicating the women who procure them.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Before returning to active Catholicism, Pete Vere and his girlfriend obtained an abortion to correct (or rather destroy) the result of one of their errors in judgement, their unborn child.

This arguement of sympathy for the criminal is made partially from his own experience as an excommunicate, and needs to be read in that light.

The excommunication of those who procure abortions has been on the law books of the Church for 2000 years.

Abortion is ex cathedra defined as a grave sin in "Evangelium Vitae". "Catholic" politicians who support the availability of abortions are heretics. They should be condemned by name forthwith as heretics and tossed from the Church. We don't need them. They need us.