Bewildered rage has greeted Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s announcement that abortion is a bad thing and that Catholics should be against it. He has been accused of using threatening and inflammatory language and of “punishing” pro-choice Catholic politicians by seeking to exclude them from the Church.
He has done no such thing.
In a sermon at St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, yesterday to mark the 40th anniversary of the Abortion Act, the leader of Scotland’s Roman Catholics urged medical schools to teach that all human life deserves protection, and called on hospitals to end tests designed to target and kill the weak and infirm. He said that we should be ‘unwilling to support’ politicians who are unwilling to oppose abortion, and reminded Catholics who co-operate in abortion that it creates a barrier to receiving communion.
What a kill-joy, eh?
It is true that the Cardinal described abortion as an ‘unspeakable crime’, and that’s certainly pretty ‘judgmental’.
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