It’s happening again: an election year, a Catholic politician taking an outrageous pro-abortion stand, an archbishop asked to excommunicate the culprit. How should Church leaders to exercise their disciplinary authority? There’s one step the archbishop could and should take right away.
Then, talking more generally, we discuss how important it is NOT to concede important principles in public debates.
Show Notes:
Governor Healey signs abortion bill (and here on the MA website).
John O’Sullivan reacts to Healey photo on X
The Massachusetts bishops’ polite collapse by Phil Lawler
Excommunication? Not gonna happen by Phil Lawler
Statement by Archbishop Henning of Boston (released after the bill was signed)
Bishop Barron’s statement (released after bill was signed)
McCarrick’s legacy in the Biden-Communion debate by Phil Lawler (August 2020)
The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture by Phil Lawler (affiliate link)
Ross Douthat and the founder of Orchid, a company to enable IVF users to use eugenics to choose embryos (see minute 1:03 for the clip)
Saying what you really think: freedom and friendship by Leila M. Lawler
Phil Lawler’s Substack
Leila’s other Substack: The School for Housewives
Leila’s blog: Like Mother, Like Daughter
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