It is already happening, and it gives us a bad name. Hearing of the widespread denunciation among our bishops of President Trump\u2019s (now discarded) policy to separate children from their migrant parents at the Mexican border, a certain number of Catholics who read CatholicCulture.org are demanding to know where the bishops were when it came time to condemn abortion. Indeed, it seems this is the knee-jerk response of some people whenever their partisan feathers are ruffled.<\/p>\n
Please. The American bishops have never been unclear about their condemnation of abortion, nor about their desire to have American law changed to protect life in the womb. Following upon the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, the pro-life movement was initially led by Catholics with the full support of their bishops. The emphasis on the right to life both at the USCCB and in the vast majority of American dioceses has been uncompromising and unremitting. This remains true today.<\/p>\n
Nor is it a sea change that some bishops advocated canonical penalties for Federal officials who separated immigrant children from their families. There is\u00a0already<\/em>\u00a0a severe canonical penalty for those who participate in abortion, namely excommunication.<\/p>\nWhen Catholics raise such ignorant rhetorical questions in relationship to the bishops\u2019 condemnation of Donald Trump\u2019s recently-withdrawn border policy, they reveal an unacceptable political fervor which badly needs to be tempered by truth. The separation of children from parents\u2014without a particular judgment in each case that the parents are failing so badly as to require removal of the children for their own protection\u2014is, like abortion,\u00a0intrinsically immoral<\/em>. It is a grave evil which all persons of good will are obliged to condemn and resist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe use of the unborn as human shields to defend Christianist love of torturing the poor and the brown is the single most disgusting tactic of the Old Prolife Movement.<\/p>\n
Defend all human life from conception to natural death.\u00a0 Be more prolife, not less.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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