"... you have been for me and continue to be a real model of hope".
Fr. Thomas Rosica, addressing ex-priest, ex-communicant, Gregory Baum.
On December 31st, 2013, Salt and Light CEO, Fr. Thomas Rosica identified abortion (murder by any other name), as one of several "hot-topic moral" issues, that, so Fr. Rosica claims, the Pope does not want to reduce the Church to. Well, no one does: this is a straw man. I don't know of any person who reduces Catholicism to discussions of abortion (or, for that matter, any other grave sin).
Though, in an interview, the Pope did indeed speak of homosexuality in terms of "love the sinner, hate the sin", Fr. Rosica, for some unknown reason wished to toss contraception and same-sex "marriage" into the picture. Fr. Rosica suggests a campaign against abortion and poverty, whilst carefully leaving to one side contraception, same-sex "marriage", and what used to be traditionally known as "sodomy". Unfortunately, abortion and the exploitation of the worker are the end results of a culture of death. All sin must be opposed, everywhere and at all times. Clerical silence on the evils of contraception; knowing that the vast majority of Catholics use them, is a failure of priestly duty before God and Man. What more evil can a priest do, than turn a blind eye to sin? (more...)
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