Oddly -— very oddly -— Wills has written a book on the Rosary, three of whose Mysteries center upon a figure presumably classified by Wills as a “subperson”:
The Annunication (which involves Jesus the Zygote)
The Visitation (Jesus the Embryo, called “my Lord” by Elizabeth, pregnant with John the Fetus)
The Nativity (Jesus the Neonate)
Wills evidently not only doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he also doesn’t know what he’s praying about.
I’d say he represents the Catholic Faith about as well as the Rev. Fred Phelps represents the Baptist Faith -— except the comparison might be unfairly insulting to Phelps.
It was like reading 20-year-old blatherings from Mario Cuomo—talking about “ensoulment,” Aristotle, and Aquinas and other total irrelevancies. I don’t think Wills made a single point that wasn’t refuted definitively in the Declaration on Procured Abortion (1974) from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
What have the unborn ever done to people like Wills, Cuomo, McBrien, et al., that they so often, spontaneously, unasked, put out this kind of hate screed?