Pro-Life?

The line that comes to mind tonight is from Ghost Busters: "I'm a little fuzzy on this good-bad thing, Egon..." You see, I am in the Diocese of Providence (geographically, right now) where in the past few days the Bishop (Tobin) has made personal comments about our Congressional Rep., Patrick Kennedy. Specifically, he called Kennedy a "disappointment to the Church," in large part because Kennedy supports health care reform that doesn't have in it an absolute ban on funding for abortion (even though health care reform itself will likely save thousands of lives a year, and maybe even prevent a number of abortions in the process; and, under current law anyway, abortions can't be funded by federal monies...) So Kennedy is a disappointment... because too he had the nerve to say that the Church was wrong in not standing up for the justice of health care reform.

Moral consistency, the Bishop seems to be saying. Either you are for life or you aren't. If you don't say you are for life (and absolutely prohibit abortions under a bill that doesn't itself call for funding abortions) you can't be 'for life.'

Turn the page for a moment... on another page, the Diocese has just let its teachers and other employees know that it is dumping TIAA CREF as the investment fund for their retirement accounts. Instead they are going to put workers' personal retirement accounts into the Ave Maria Mutual Funds accounts. Top performers of those accounts? Haliburton, General Dynamics, Rockwell.... as Don Imus often says, "You can't MAKE this stuff up!!"

Egon, I'm a little fuzzy on this good-bad thing....