[DoodleBob]

“I think he’s trying to follow what Francis is doing,” said Dr. Marianne Benkert Sipe, a psychiatrist and former nun who has studied church social and political movements. “He’s trying to make the church a bigger tent.”

McElroy was also returning to themes he explored in his 1993 biography of John Courtney Murray, “The Search for an American Public Theology.” A Jesuit priest, Murray wrote extensively on relations between church and state, especially in societies with numerous religious traditions.

Can communion be denied to Bp. McElroy?

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And while he called contraception “intrinsically evil ... it is a far greater moral evil for our country to abandon the Paris Climate Accord than to provide contraceptives in federal health centers.”
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Where did Bishop learn his moral theology? He did nt, and could not, acts like leaving the Paris climate agreement are intrinsically evil, because he would be
laughed at by Catholic high schoolers.

Intrinsically
evil acts are always and everywhere wrong. Non intrinsically evil acts are decisions guided by prudence.

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