The Fruit of the Catholic Church's 30+ Year Romance of Social Conservative Politics
This needs to be said. Not all Catholics are celebrating the end of Roe v. Wade. While most US Catholic bishop, priests, and Catholic media are celebrating the Supreme Court’s overturning of Row v. Wade, there are a lot of Catholics who are not celebrating. For more than thirty years, abortion has been the dominant issue--almost the only issue--the Catholic Bishops and Catholic media talk about in the American public square. It has been preached from the pulpits, the TV, and the radio, that banning abortion is the panacea to all perceived woes. And it has overshadowed issues such as racism, sexism, economic disparity, access to healthcare, housing, childcare and living wages, the problem of gun violence, the disease of addiction... Catholic politicians could and did promote the death penalty; they closed polling places in minority districts; were as hawkish on warfare as they could be, and railed against immigrants and still received by-and-large a big stamp of approval fro...