Another bishop has announced, with full episcopal authority, that abortion is intrinsically evil. He apparently thinks the word "intrinsic" will give abortion the gravitas of an absolute. There is some political and moral collateral damage to raising abortion to the level of an absolute. Absolutes tend not to have a context. God, my favorite absolute, has no context.
When we focus all our attention on abortion, we seldom talk about poverty, the widespread abuse of young women (rape, incest, prostitution and patriarchy) and a culture that uses violence as a solution to our problems. War, capital punishment, violent movies and games -- these suffer no scolding from our bishops. But these are the prelude to abortion.
We have watched as Hurricane Sandy and a subsequent storm devastated the east coast. Have we heard anything about climate change from our bishops?
Denial of climate change is intrinsically evil. Rendering the planet unable to sustain human life does not seem to have any redeeming quality. I don't think we should have the choice to destroy our species. Abortion can kill one at a time. Climate change will kill millions. But the bishops are silent. Abortion consumes all their attention.
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