Tom Roeser nails Andrew Greeley.  How shall we count the ways?

“I subscribe to the position that abortion, now mater how nearly universal in human history, is morally unacceptable…”

said Greeley in Sun-Times column 11/28.  He continued:

“But I wonder if it is proper or prudent to try to impose this Catholic moral view on a whole society that does not agree with us, especially when we cannot even persuade most of our own people.”

It’s as if Hubert Humphrey in 1948 wondered about the propriety or prudence of pushing civil rights when most Dems didn’t buy it, says Roeser.  Greeley continues until he comes up with this atrocious observation: 

“Perhaps for the time that it would take to persuade our own, we may leave the embryos to God’s loving care, the God who also must protect the vast number of embryos who spontaneously abort.”

Roeser:

Leave them to God’s care. Just as we do miners who are trapped in West Virginia, eh, Andy? We go to the utmost to save them; we search lakes and ponds for missing people. We don’t we leave them to God’s loving care?

Greeley doubts if bishops can “convert anyone” by “ukases,” being “tarnished . . . by the abuse scandal.”

To which Roeser:

But when it comes to Iraq where Andy has a partisan interest, yes-yes-YES the bishops must speak!

There’s more more more . . .