“Right-wing” Catholic? To be Catholic IS to be conservative; to hold otherwise is to be NOT Catholic.
Liberal “Catholics” are not practicing the traditional Catholic Faith, they are practicing the heresy of Modernism. They are acting as “cafeteria” Catholics. Liberalism and the Catholic Faith are two diametrically opposed positions. One cannot lay claim to both and remain honest.
The Church’s position on abortion, and being an ACCESSORY to abortion, is quite clear. There is NO wiggle room on that point: Abortion is an intrinsic evil. The Churches position on homosexuality is also quite clear: Homosexual acts are an intrinsically disordered passion. The Church is also quite clear regarding property rights: Socialism and Marxism are anathema to that position. A Catholic in good standing CANNOT vote for a pro-abortion or pro-homosexual marriage politician; nor a Marxist or Socialist, without becoming and accomplice to the evil represented and propagated by those positions, period. More prudentially, to vote for a pro-abortion politician is to incur automatic excommunication.
Clear enough?
Exactly and precisely. No ifs, ands, or buts. There is NO excuse for what Kmiec did. All he can do now is pray for forgiveness.