Miscellanea

Thanks very much, Patrick, for the correction about George Will.  I had thought for many years that he was Catholic.

An editorial in the September 26th issue of Commonweal will interest many MOJ readers.  Here's how the editorial begins, followed by a link to the entire editorial:

Bishops & the Election

Correcting prochoice Catholic pols

The Editors

It is hard to know what is more exasperating, the ill-informed statements of Catholic prochoice politicians about the church’s teaching on abortion, or the response of certain bishops, whose criticism of politicians sometimes seems designed to be exploited for partisan purposes.

Here's the entire editorial.