Greetings,

No. But outlawing it will reduce the most abortions and it is it what GOD and his Church thinks should happen. You know— the Logos— the Sensible One.

And nobody can tell another person that he is sinning save for informing him that he is transgressing some specific serious matter. The other two requirements that must be met for a person to sin are for him to have knowledge of the serious matter and for him to deliberately consent to do it anyway. You are welcome to the information.

We often fall short of the law of God but God does not change his law to reflect our weakness because he cannot change himself, as he is immutable.

Don't shot the Messenger.

Intrinsically evil matters do not yield to a moderate personal position regarding them because by their very nature they are always evil. Consequently, any moderation would be some cooperation with evil unless you are also simultaneously equally advocating for that which would reduce the most evil from occurring in the first place.

That is unless you actually believe that a society that will no longer allow women to abort 3000 babies a day will allow them to go unchecked to anywhere near that number covertly.

How is that for moderation?

Timothy+

Greetings,

We can’t come to eye to eye as Catholics because you think it is morally acceptable only to seek for a reduction of abortions, like them—and the only reason the secular left are even discussing reducing abortions in the first place is because of the unwavering position of the right— and the Church seeks to end the laws that say it is okay for society to kill even one life, as well.

This is the situation we are in.

You will always be a Catholic, however. The only way you could not be is if you were to officially apostatize.

Moreover, I certainly don’t condemn you nor could I. Only you could do that. Only you. That is how much I love you. I wonder, do you understand?

In any case, when are people going to start reaching out to the people on the right— to try to understand their motives without calling them rabid dogs?

Catholics can’t change hearts and minds—regarding the most serious issues— if Catholics give law degrees to those who do not interpret the law the way that Catholics do. If Catholics do, Catholics are effectively agreeing with the one being honored with the law degree. Catholics are never to be relative unto objective truth. We are to die for it—just like all those years ago. We are to always witness to it and never deny it in anyway—let alone condone it’s opposite by honoring a man who may be for reducing abortions but does not understand that a society has no right to authorize the taking of a life to begin with. Obama continues to foster the ideology that makes the laws possible. This is the scandal that those on the right are feeling so deeply. I wonder do you care? Do you feel what I feel?

Timothy+

Let me start by saying, the widespread acceptance in our society of abortion is a horrible and heartbreaking reality.  We must always remember this.

But on the other hand, this constant anti-Obama chant is overwhelmingly irritating and annoying, to say the least. 

I wonder if George W Bush were speaking at Notre Dame, if we would hear from these same protesters.  The evidence overwhelmingly indicates that Bush illegally invaded and occupied Iraq, and that this invasion and occupation was based on lies.  (For more info, just start by reading about the Downing Street Memos and the Niger Yellowcake forgery.)  As a result of this illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq by Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, hundreds of thousands of innocent people have died, and many more have suffered tremendously, all because of an economic agenda on the part of the US government and the corporate elite.

Note, I am not here equating capital punishment with abortion.  I am talking about **innocent** life in Iraq as well as innocent life in the womb.

It is obvious that many of those opposed to President Obama speaking at Notre Dame would never voice such opposition if George W Bush or Donald Rumsfeld were they to speak there.  On the contrary, many of these same people would probably proudly sport "Bush/Cheney" bumper stickers. 

So, this is really not about a consistent ethic of life for most of these protesters; it's about them rallying behind a political agenda.   I would be less apt to criticize such protests were a true and consistent ethic of life demonstrated.

I think your magazine takes a very Christian approach to the abortion debate, and your comments always seem to be spot-on -- on this issue and others.

Personally, I don't agree with abortion and I would love to see it end. But I don't identify myself as "pro-life" because I don't want to be associated with the radical and rabid individuals in that movement. Their intolerance, refusal to dialog, refusal to even attempt to understand what might motivate a woman to seek an abortion, refusal to do anything to help address those women's needs (or the child's needs, once it has been born), and their over-the-top hatred and spite for anyone who doesn't whole-heartedly agree with them has completely disgusted me and driven me away.

Keep up the good work and, please, don't take it personally when people say hateful things. I'm sure they are just having an emotional reaction and (I hope) are not that violent and spiteful most of the time.