[Unam Sanctam]

The Catholic Church would have us obey the rules formulated by the Vatican, but Protestants believe that we are free by grace and justified by faith.

What an unjust caricature of the Catholic faith! At least understand and present fairly the Catholic claim even if you don't agree, i.e., that the Catholic faith is based on divine revelation taught by Jesus to the apostles and past down to us in the Church in Scripture and Tradition as authoritatively interpreted and expounded by the apostles' successors, the bishops, in union with the successor of Peter, the pope. To be fair, a lot of Catholics don't have this simple understanding of what the Catholic faith is.

[Carolina]

I was quoting from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice's website to show the absurdity of the "religious" rationale for the horror of abortion. Many of my friends who are still in the Episcopal Church were riled up and fuming over Gene Robinson, but they somehow can't get too worked up over abortion.

I don't know how true this is, but I read around the blogosphere that the following is being proposed for the new prayerbook:

“Heavenly Father, you are the Giver of Life and you share with us the care of the life that is given. Into your hands we commit in trust the developing life that we have cut short. Look in kindly judgment on the decision we have made and assure us in all our uncertainty that your love for us can never change. Amen”