“This is an hard saying; who can hear it? (John 6:60; emphasis added). Apparently, for many, this was the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back because, as John noted, “From that time many of his disciples. . . walked no more with him” (John 6:66).
I was browsing through the NY Times this morning and of course came across a couple of editorials castigating the Catholic Church over its treatment of women and denying them access to 'reproductive' choices. These zealots make it appear that the Catholic Church is mandating its doctrine be obeyed by all women and never mention that the issue concerns Catholic institutions and not every employer. It is one thing for an individual Catholic woman (and man) to choose to use artificial contraception or sterilization but it is completely another if you work for a Catholic institution to demand that it provide services that are counter to its definition of morality. If this bothers the individual Catholic then he or she should go work for a secular institution where contraception services are provided as part of the health coverage.
Instead the newspaper is trotting out the old horror stories about women being forced by the Church to have 13 children and ignoring the negative health outcomes or the cranky old priest from the past who told women that used birth control that they were no different than whores. It is also an occasion for the familiar suspects to vent their anti-Catholicism in a legitimate forum.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/whose-conscience/?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/opinion/collins-tales-from-the-kitchen-table.html?hp
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