For many like me, the term "sports writer" conjures up the image of a high school athletics star who, after playing so-so in college and never making it to the pros, parleyed a certain facility with words into getting paid to watch other people (most of whom would never make it to the pros either) play games. What we never realized, it seems, was just how many sports writers apparently spend all their free time studying moral theology, canon law, and the history of religion in public life. Yet, just look at how many sports writers feel qualified to publish opinions applauding the abortionism that St. Louis University basketball Coach Rick Majerus is publically and defiantly maintaining against his Archbishop Raymond Burke.A sports writer at the Post Dispatch recently compared Majerus with MLK and Arthur Ashe for his courage in speaking out about his 'beliefs.' Of course, it oblivious to the sports writer that a professed Catholic who supports a woman's 'right to choose' to murder her unborn baby, is a rathger schizophrenic - at odds with the natural moral law as well as to the teachings of the Church to which the professed Catholic claims to belong.
Read more of Dr Peters' post here.
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