Well, it's been a hell of a ride, laying rubber all over the road for the past decade. But it's time to call it a day and park the Rogue in the garage. Effective today, I am shutting down my blog to focus my attention on other endeavours. My thanks to the more than 2.7 million people who regularly joined me on these sojourns through news stories over the years that dealt with the places with issues of religion and faith intersecting with public affairs. May God bless you with a continuing desire to learn about and help disseminate the issues of faith throughout the public square. Happy trails in your continuing travels! Fr. Tim Moyle, p.p. Diocese of Pembroke
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
I find Catholic bioethics blinkered by absolutism that can lead to horrible consequences. Stories like this one lead to the public, and many Catholics included, dismissing the entire ethical system. Fortunately the woman described in this situation didn't die, unlike that hear breaking story of the woman in Ireland a few years ago. And after it's argued that they didn't apply the Principle of Double Effect. But that is only afterwards. When the mothers live is at risk and the fetus has no chance at all of viability, they stick to their absolute ethics. It's my opinion that stories like this turn more people in favour of abortion on demand because the alternative is not a balanced weighing of the consequences but unchanging absolutes.
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