Dietrich von hildebrand biography of barack obama
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Should Abortion or Other Social Concerns Have Priority?
The moral gravity of abortion is not perceived by many "Catholics" and is so serious an issue that it tragically divides the sons and daughters of the Church. I am not referring to those who pride themselves on being "pro-choice" (that is, pro-murder of the innocents) and still call themselves Catholics even though they clearly reject some fundamental teachings of the Church. My concern is about those who while perceiving the intrinsic evil of abortion feel very strongly that, as Catholics, we should not limit our horizon to one grave moral evil: our decisions should be based on an evaluation of the whole scale of moral problems such as social injustice, immigration, universal medical coverage, etc. These are very important matters and should also be put in the balance when going to the polls, according to this viewpoint. They should not be ignored: one's exclusive "preoccupation" with abortion necessarily makes one "narrow-minded." We should "calculate" whether the evil of abortion is of such weight that it allows us to put in brackets these other grave concerns. Plain mathematics tells us that four is more than one, say these Catholics. Is a faithful Catholic t
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1One of the historical verities of growing up in the 1950’s was that Neville Chamberlain was a crass appeaser and Winston Churchill was the rock and savior of Western civilization. I do admit to holding that position to this very day, even though I would be hard pressed to defend it if challenged. Sometimes I come across an argument contradicting such putative verities of my core worldview, and if I were to accept Pat Buchanan’s thesis that Chamberlain was not an appeaser but a peacemaker and that Churchill was not a savior but a warmonger, that acceptance would constitute one such large reorientation.
2There is another alternative. Perhaps the very words peacemaker and appeaser do not refer to any real distinction whatsoever. Maybe these words are reducible to mere ideological labels we apply to those people we either like or dislike? Granted the cynicism of this idea, it is the impression I get from media people discussing both George Bush and Barack Obama. If the news media were suddenly to be blinded as to actual identity of these people and all they had to evaluate were their words and actions—or, in other words, if they only operated exclusively on the basis of principle and not personality—practically the whole media would become utterly paralyzed.
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