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From: Who’s minding the store at the Catholic bishops’ shop?
by David Brandao
What is it about the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops bureaucracy that permits such apparent indifference to clear-cut Church teachings on abortion?
I have long asked (and have not been provided a satisfactory answer to) the question, “Why is it that abortion is not considered a ‘social justice’ matter by the institutional Catholic Church in America? What greater injustice is there?”
In other words, if racism is an injustice, if discrimination against women is an injustice, if low pay is an injustice, if poor health care is an injustice, if an unfairly applied death penalty is an injustice, then why isn’t abortion an injustice?
One possibility is that the USCCB’s institutional structure permits it to be that way.
It is good that pro-life matters have a single USCCB office devoted to those concerns — and only those concerns. It shows that the “seamless garment” argument (that there are many “life issues” of equal magnitude) doesn’t hold water and that abortion is not on the same plane as hunger and homelessness. Hunger and homelessness, of course, are important concerns and are issues every Christian must confront. However, food and shelter are irrelevant if you’re killed even before you’re born…"
renewamerica.us/columns/brandao/050923
by David Brandao
What is it about the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops bureaucracy that permits such apparent indifference to clear-cut Church teachings on abortion?
I have long asked (and have not been provided a satisfactory answer to) the question, “Why is it that abortion is not considered a ‘social justice’ matter by the institutional Catholic Church in America? What greater injustice is there?”
In other words, if racism is an injustice, if discrimination against women is an injustice, if low pay is an injustice, if poor health care is an injustice, if an unfairly applied death penalty is an injustice, then why isn’t abortion an injustice?
One possibility is that the USCCB’s institutional structure permits it to be that way.
It is good that pro-life matters have a single USCCB office devoted to those concerns — and only those concerns. It shows that the “seamless garment” argument (that there are many “life issues” of equal magnitude) doesn’t hold water and that abortion is not on the same plane as hunger and homelessness. Hunger and homelessness, of course, are important concerns and are issues every Christian must confront. However, food and shelter are irrelevant if you’re killed even before you’re born…"
renewamerica.us/columns/brandao/050923