Actually, they're taken very seriously in the Catholic Church, hobbes.
What the hell's the matter with you?
No, they are not.
My point, simply is this.
This is a pretty poor place to be putting their theological foot down, when they are still treading VERY GINGERLY on Politicians that Prostitute their Catholic ethnicity for Votes.
Then Consider this....
Already the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League has used this decision's expansion of the logic of Roe to attack congressional efforts to reaffirm that a child completely born alive is a legal person. Such a policy, said this group, is "in direct conflict with Roe," which "clearly states that women have the right to choose prior to fetal viability." The euphemism of "the right to choose," routinely used to avoid mentioning abortion, is now being used to justify killing outside the womb
that is a statement from USCCB in 2000, but now?
No Press release, no condemnation, nothing.....The simple fact of the matter is there is an Inherent Moral Duty for a Body Imbued with Power to Speak out, especially in Grave instances.
Maybe When they get done invalidating an 8 year olds communion, they can worry about the Moral Soul of the nation....