There is only a struggle because there is confusion and the confusion is the result of not understanding that our faith begins with the Cross. Scandal is a word used to describe a feeling of being personally attacked. There is no attack against our faith at ND. Look at your verse in #6. Who are the little ones? When we limit our description of Obama to him being a baby killer then are we causing innocent people in our faith to sin by our restricted understanding of him? Do we then create a hostile relationship with those who we want to convert? Paul became all things to all people in order to convert them.
John Paul II said “…in the profound and magnificent mystery of the ‘Communion of Saints’…every soul that rises above itself raises up the world. To this ‘law of ascent’ there unfortunately corresponds the ‘law of descent’. Consequently on can speak of a ‘communion of sin’, whereby a soul that lowers itself through sin drags down with itself the Church and, in some way, the whole world. In other words there is no sin, not even the most intimate and secret one, that exclusively concerns the person committing it. With greater or lesser violence, with greater or lesser harm, every sin has repercussions on the entire ecclesial body and on the whole human family.”–Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, 2 December '84
The human response at ND is to cry scandal and this does nothing to help the unborn. It only causes the innocent to be angry and then it is labeled righteous anger. I do not think so.
