True enough?

Assumption College Professor Michael True has an As I See It editorial in Today’s Worcester Telegram, which waxes nostalgic for the 1960’s, apparently a purer time when the promise of Vatican II and Liberation Theology appeared poised to transform the world into a better place, while signaling a renaissance in the Church’s moral and religious leadership. True admits that perhaps in hindsight he may have been a bit naïve. Why? Because there are no women priests, homosexual behavior and artificial birth control are still sins, and the Pope expects Catholic Universities to actually teach Catholic doctrine. And “the institutional voices [of the Church] appear to define moral behavior principally as opposing birth control, abortion, and gay marriage.” Somehow I find it hard to believe, with 4000 abortions per day in the United States, and the worldwide figure of all abortions performed in the last 50 years approaching 1 billion, that anyone would argue that the Church is overemphasizing the abortion issue – actually this gigantic genocide does not receive enough attention.