Seamless Garment
Apr 26th, 2004 at 8:55 am by Susan
Some Catholics are pushing the Church to ask why abortion is a bigger priority than the death penalty:
“I’m pro-life in all respects — for the unborn child and the criminal or the elderly person considering euthanasia,” McNeirney said. “I think the church is very consistent in saying that ending human life is something that should be up to God, not man.”The weekly National Catholic Reporter, a leading voice of liberal Catholics, took issue in an editorial last week with “those among the Catholic laity and hierarchy . . . who argue that abortion trumps all other issues in the upcoming election.”
The editorial reminded Catholics that there are “other issues — war and peace, immigration, tax cuts, housing, the death penalty, economic justice, welfare reform, the federal deficit, civil liberties, education, health care, crime, and on and on.”
“Are we permitted to consider these right-to-life issues?” the newspaper asked. “These issues — it seems strange to have to say it — matter too. In this election, in fact, they matter more than abortion, which is not on the table in any significant way.”
