Michael Liccione on "Patching up the Seamless Garment"

a href="http://mliccione.blogspot.com/2009/06/patching-up-seamless-garment.html" target=_blank"Patching up the Seamless Garment"/a, by Michael Liccione (iSacramentum Vitae/i) June 12, 2009:blockquoteSince the late 1990s, the US bishops have on the whole been abandoning the seamless-garment approach. With increasing clarity, they have insisted on assigning greater weight to combating certain practices called "intrinsic evils" by the Magisterium, such as abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, and same-sex marriage, than on promoting certain social goods, such as universal health care and humane immigration policy, which reasonable Catholics can differ about how and how much to promote. That shift of emphasis is only logical given the clear content of Church teaching. But President Obama's having won the election with almost 54% of the Catholic vote has re-energized Catholic progressives to patch up a seamless garment that's become rather tattered. If only to vary my intellectual exercise routine, I had been hoping to hear fresh arguments from them. But the patching process exhibits precisely the same shoddy reasoning so long characteristic of the Catholic left. Herein I shall discuss two examples. ... [a href="http://mliccione.blogspot.com/2009/06/patching-up-seamless-garment.html" target=_blankMore/a]/blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9017636-8695721133992605719?l=thepublicsquare.blogspot.com'//div