yet another ecclesiastical rant (I suppose that's what one should call it...)

Okay, so I'm a "recovering" Texas Southern Baptist (the "recovering" part has meant a great deal of grief from some parts, actually, as it means I left the Texas Southern Baptist church...). I married into a serious Roman Catholic family; my father-in-law, whom I adored, was a Texas Baptist who became a Roman Catholic, so this is all complicated...

HOWEVER, there are actually problems.

Longstanding. I love the liturgy, but have some problems with the Catholic hierarchy...

and yesterday, I heard a story on All Things Considered (that liberal Left-Wing Dem station...) about a Roman Catholic woman in Arizona. She is 24 or 25 or so, mother of four, pregnant with her fifth child, 11 weeks pregnant. Is admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital, a Roman Catholic hospital in Phoenix, AZ, seriously ill. She was desperately ill, with heart failure (cause(s) and symptoms not explicit, other than the consensus that she was dying), and all doctors involved were of the opinion that (a) she was dying and (b) she MIGHT survive if (IF) she had an abortion and (c) both she and the baby were going to die IF she didn't have an abortion. The Roman Catholic nun on the staff, also the liaison with the local diocese, at the hospital gave approval to her medical staff for her to have an abortion, as both would die otherwise. So she had an abortion, and is evidently on the road to recovery, so she can (we assume) now tend to her four live children...

The bishop got wind of this, and what did he do? Notwithstanding all the allegations/admissions/convictions of pedophilia, etc., few followed even by de-frocking, and NOT A SINGLE ONE followed by excommunication...what does he do? he EXCOMMUNICATES the Roman Catholic nun who approved the abortion...

And Rand Paul is now the Republican nominee for Jim Bunning's seat in the U.S. Senate...go figure. Rand Paul thoroughly thumped the McConnell-anointed successor to Bunning, Trey Greyson. Like I said, go figure...

Cheers, Lillie