The Denver Catholic Register...The Kerry challenge

George Weigel' column in the Denver Archdiocesan Newspaper.

The bishops of the United States must address this sorry misrepresentation of their teaching —soon, crisply, and preferably as a united body.

Leaving this distortion of the nature of the Church's pro-life position unchallenged would have several serious consequences. It would further corrupt the public debate, which would decay into a non-argument between mis-named "sectarians" and misguided "pluralists." The bishops have done the entire country a great service these past thirty years by using a vocabulary in defense of the dignity of life that everyone, irrespective of religious convictions, can understand. If that genuinely ecumenical, public approach is successfully labeled "sectarian" — and by a Catholic, no less — lasting damage will be done to our political culture.

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