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Article: Catholic identity and the abortion debate.
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- Conscience
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion Daniel A. Dombrowski & Robert Deltete (University of Illinois Press, 2000, 158pp)
WHEN POPE JOHN XXIII opened the second Vatican Council in 1962 he was seeking renewal of his ancient church, hoping that like the renovation of a historic building, the process would remove unnecessary accretions and disfiguring ornaments, returning the edifice to a condition of pristine beauty. But such expectations await the mercy or cruelty of circumstances and, from the vantage point of a new century, it is clear that the process of renewal has had surprising, confusing and often ambiguous consequences. The renovations have presented ...