Another excellent article by Archbishop Chaput

Crisis magazine has an excellect article by Abp. Chaput titled "The King’s Good Servant: Some Thoughts at a Crossroad".

A couple of short excerpts:

First, democracy depends on good people working vigorously for their convictions in the political arena. Abortion is the worst kind of intimate violence. Being quiet about it in our politics out of a misguided sense of good manners is the worst kind of callousness and citizenship.

Second, if we choose to allow deliberate attacks against the innocent, we can’t wash our hands of the consequences of that violence. No violence is ever private. That includes abortion. If we choose to allow it, we choose to own it.

Third, the “seamless garment” doesn’t mean and never meant that all social issues are equal. Some issues have priority and some don’t. Abortion is separated from other important social issues like just wages and affordable housing by a difference in kind, not a difference in degree. Every abortion deliberately kills an unborn human life—every time. No matter what kind of mental gymnastics we use, elective killing has no excuse. We only implicate ourselves by trying to invent one. (emphasis added)

If I could post on the Catholics for Kerry list, I'd send them this article...but, regretably, they would probably ban him also...

Link here.