[marshmallow]

There's a huge irony in all of this which I hope has not gone unnoticed. Obama has actually done the Catholic Church a rather large favor.

As a result of this controversy, substantial numbers of Catholics will have heard, for the first time in 40 or 50 years, that their Church actually opposes artificial contraception and abortion.

Their priests and bishops keep silent on the issue and hoped it would go away but it took a Kenyan communist to bring it to their attention.

Whatever it takes.

God does indeed move in mysterious ways.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

—— As a result of this controversy, substantial numbers of Catholics will have heard, for the first time in 40 or 50 years, that their Church actually opposes artificial contraception and abortion.-—

Maybe abortion, but never contraception. It isn’t difficult to preach against, either. It’s just that no one has heard the argument.

[SuziQ]

As a result of this controversy, substantial numbers of Catholics will have heard, for the first time in 40 or 50 years, that their Church actually opposes artificial contraception and abortion.
God does indeed move in mysterious ways.

Indeed He does.