Kathryn Lopez writes in today's Sacramento Bee of the resignation of Frances Kissling as head of the abortion rights lobby, Catholics for a Free Choice:
Frances Kissling, go-to gal for media quotes about all things Catholic, has stepped down as head of Catholics for a Free Choice.
Religion reporting just got a whole lot harder.
Catholics for a Free Choice is a Catholic group of abortion activists' dreams. If you hit the CFFC Web site, you'll read: "Ask Pope Benedict to Lift the Ban on Condoms!" And in a closing salvo in the group's magazine, "Conscience," Kissling asks, "Is abortion a morally neutral act? Is it, as some have said, an unambiguous moral good?"
Usually a group with the word "Catholic" in its name would be clear on those kinds of questions. But Catholics for a Free Choice is not a Catholic group; it's a "Catholic" group, one whose Catholic identity doesn't go much deeper than the name on its letterhead. In reality, it's something much closer to a liberal-Democratic group -- who it comes closest to speaking for -- than anything else.
"Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) was founded in 1973 to serve as a voice for Catholics who believe that the Catholic tradition supports a woman’s moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health. - From their "About Us" page.
Roughly translated, CFFC supoorts the "right," of a woman to place herself outside of the Church! The only reason groups like these bother with the name "Catholic," at all is so they can get unwarranted media coverage.
Posted by: Bob Gardner | March 13, 2007 at 07:33 PM
Agreed, Bob -- but actually CFFC stands for "Catholics Free From Conscience" and supports the "right" of heretics and apostates to attempt to destroy the Church from within.
Posted by: James A. Altena | March 14, 2007 at 02:58 AM