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A reader has sent me a link to this female Episcopal priest who does not take the usual liberal line that abortion should be \u2018safe, legal and rare.\u2019 Instead she preaches that abortion is a blessing.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the quote:\u201cAnd when a woman becomes pregnant within a loving, supportive, respectful relationship; has every option open to her; decides she does not wish to bear a child; and has access to a safe, affordable abortion \u2013 there is not a tragedy in sight \u2014 only blessing. The ability to enjoy God\u2019s good gift of sexuality without compromising one\u2019s education, life\u2019s work, or ability to put to use God\u2019s gifts and call is simply blessing.These are the two things I want you, please, to remember \u2013 abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Let me hear you say it: abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the whole sermon<\/a>. Is there any sense at all in which the Catholic Church should be in \u2018ecumenical dialogue\u2019 with such people? Let\u2019s call it straight. What fellowship has light with darkness?<\/p>\n

At least the Rev Ragsdale would agree with me on that much. She and her kind would spit at the Catholic Church. They are just the sort I wrote about some time ago as representative of the \u2018new anti-Catholicism.\u2019<\/p>\n

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PS: This is really nothing new in Anglicanism. I remember my horror and disbelief when I was an Anglican priest in the early 90s. A parishioner came to me distraught because her daughter was being\u00a0counseled\u00a0to abort her child who the doctors suspected might have Downs\u2019 Syndrome. The worst part was the Anglican hospital chaplain who encouraged the pregnant woman to have an abortion because, \u201cJesus said, \u2018Let the little children come unto me.'\u201d<\/div>\n
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