Reply #137: I think it is still the policy [View All]

though they keep quiet about it. I believe there's some woman being pushed for sainthood because she chose (strange, they use that word) to die taking a pregnancy to term rather than have an abortion - leaving her 3 other children without a mother.

Just as some here check on the Free Republic I've taken to lurking at catholic.com (though this is not an official website of the Catholic church) there are people over there who think Bush isn't prolife enough because he would permit abortions when the mother's life was at stake or in cases of rape or incest (most the people on that website have apparently not heard of Vatican II either - though there are some lonely liberal voices). The only time I've been tempted to come up with an id and post over there was when someone started a thread called "What made you leave the church?". I wanted to respond "This website made me realize, it's time to stop fooling myself, I've left and I'm not coming back."

One more thing about Grandma - in her late 80's she may have been considered a "cafeteria" Catholic by the folks on that website. - When my cousin divorced her abusive husband, Gram helped finance it and announced she had decided the Church was not "realistic" about divorce.