![]() What would we say about a school that said, “Kids don’t like math, so let’s just stop offering math”? Don’t we assume the school has a responsibility to teach its students things they might not “like”? Perhaps, then, we should admit the Church has an analogous responsibility: to teach and to do what is in the best interests of her members, even if they don’t always “like” it – and even if it doesn’t always make her “popular.”īut there is something deeper involved here as well because the Church’s opposition to abortion is based on divine revelation and the Church’s view of the human person as revealed in and through Jesus Christ. But consider another institution that needs and accepts money: a school. Yes, the Church accepts money because the Church needs money to keep its operations going. And the laity are not “consumers,” buying a product. That will seem laughably naive to some, but let’s just say, the Church, in its essence, is not a business. In business, you offer what attracts customers and avoid things that alienate them.Įxcept the Church isn’t a business. ![]() One reaction to this story would be to argue that, if the Church’s insistence on opposing abortion alienates people, perhaps it would be better to de-emphasize that teaching since it is no longer in harmony with “the spirit of our age.” If you run a store that sells a certain style of clothing, and no one likes that style anymore, you stop offering it. ![]() Wait till she gets to the Resurrection of the Body. I heard recently about a woman who went to an RCIA class who, upon being told that the Catholic Church taught abortion is wrong, promptly left, announcing: “I can’t believe the Church prohibits abortion.” One suspects there are other, more fundamental teachings she likely couldn’t “believe” either.
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