These guys can quote ancient encyclicals and dress up in all the archaic costumes but the Holy Spirit of God has not penetrated a single cell of their stone cold hearts.

Classic. “I just want countries to have borders, what’s the big deal?”

Some right wing Catholics… Legal Abortion: “it may be law but that doesn’t justify murder.” Illegal Migration: “YAY!!! the law justifies murder!!”

I don’t think it’s the Gospel that grounds this right wing obsession with the “West”, “culture”, “civilization”, etc.

Here’s an idea: how about the pro-life movement shifts to actually reading Evangelium Vitae.

The American Solidarity Party is the concept of an idea of a political party for Catholic purity voters.

The translation of the pope’s words that is the most favorable to my uncharitable interpretation is what the pope ACTUALLY SAID!

The Trads would prefer the pope to read to children directly from Denzinger next time.

Pro-lifers’ response to the Thurman story will always be a red herring unless they address this from the ProPublica article:

Most moral issues are black and white in the abstract, but complicated messes in the concrete. The fallacy here is comparing one issue in abstraction with a host of issues concretely.

FYI if the abortion rate is X, then a policy that could reasonably be expected to lead to X-1 is a proportionate reason to vote for a pro-choice candidate with that policy. "Proportionate reasons" are not as hard to come by as some Catholics would have you believe.