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 . . .
Blithe Spirit 
I am delighted that Tom Roeser is continuing to take on columnist/priest, Rev. Andrew Greeley. Rev. Greeley’s weekly commentaries in the Chicago Sun-Times never disappoint me. All cause instant vibes of discomfort and disbelief to course through my body. Rev. Greeley seems to have reduced to an art form the ability to twist and spin the Catholic doctrine to serve his own personal views. By both proclaiming that abortion is morally unacceptable to him and then later on in his 11/28 commentary expressing that it is not prudent for the Catholic Church to impose its views on society, Rev. Greeley is definitely trying to have it both ways. To me such a view is unacceptable, for religious leaders should promote what is moral and right in the eyes of God, remembering that Biblical truth never changes. Greeley also had the audacity to bring God into the equation on 11/28. Tom Roser so elequently stated: “Leave them to God’s care. Just as we do miners who are trapped in West Virginia, eh, Andy?” Good going, Tom!
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