It turns out the USCCB has put together some very fine pamphlets…

on life issues. If your parish doesn’t have ’em (or if you don’t) you should invest in a few since they are handy presentations of the Church’s common sense teaching.

Warning to Death Penalty Enthusiasts: The American bishops do, in fact, accept the Church’s whole teaching, not only about things displeasing to damn libruls, but even about things unacceptable to American conservatives. This is not, contrary to popular conservative conspiracy theory, due to a plot by the ghost of Cardinal Bernardin to destroy the prolife movement, but is in fact part of the Catholic tendency to be catholic. Hence the bishops address the whole of human existence and do not simply confine their teaching and commentary to the theory that opposition to abortion, contraception and euthanasia (and gay “marriage”) are the only aspects of Catholic moral teaching to which we need pay any attention.