[ChurtleDawg]

personally I think, as a Catholic, if the little girl was at real medical risk here, then the Bishop shouldn’t have done this. If the girl wasn’t at risk, the technically the Bishop was correct but he really should have thought this through. This is strong ammo for the abortion zealots all over the world (if the story is true)-—excommunicating people for getting a raped child an abortion when her life was at risk. It makes pro-life people look completely unreasonable.

The Bishop should reserve this stuff for people who use abortion as birth control, not when there are legitimate medical emergencies.

So unless someone can show that the girl wasn’t in danger, the Bishop should have not interdicted.

[AustinBill]

This is the great divide of the modern age. The Bishop, to the extent that he believes and follows Catholic teaching, is not concerned with "medical risk" but rather "spiritual risk". But of course, to admit such a concept as being valid is to go against everything the modern secular world regards as legitimate. To admit that their are such things as spiritual realities which transcend the here-and-now facts of our physical lives is plainly incomprehensible (and more than a bit frightening) to most people, even among "believers".

The Bishop might say such is the nature of our fallen condition.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

an excellant analysis. i agree.